I should have said that I have eczema

The modern AVF Army has some serious institutional and infrastructural problems that will need to be rectified if we as a country intend to keep a premier fighting force. One of the significant issues that the Army, as a bureaucratic institution, has, is the inability to promote younger, mire flexible and more innovative officers to the upper ranks. To get to a point where you can effictively influence policy, you require a 30-40 year career. That means that our current general officer corps were commissioned in the late 70's to early 80's. So what does this have to do with eczema? Smallpox. During the cold war the US and USSR manufactured millions of tons of biological weapons to supplement a nuclear holocaust, for when irradiating everything simply isn't enough. There are only two labs in the world that still contain weaponized smallpox. One in the US and the other in Russia. Our leadership is still cold war paranoid that the Russians, who are no fans of Islamic fundamentalists (see: Chechnya) will give some to Al Quaeda or the Taliban to use on ISAF forces. So now all Army personnel going overseas must get vaccinated. This becomes a painful process including severe aches, fever and swollen lymph nodes which leads to an annoyed me. So, thanks in part to a leadership stuck in a cold war mentality, we must face a 4 in 1000 chance of cardiac arrest. Unless you have eczema...