In the November 2022 issue of Proceedings, the U.S. Naval Institute magazine, previously the independent forum of the sea services, and lately a mouthpiece of the CCP and radical left, General David H. Berger, Commandant of the Marine Corps, apparently tries to explain the reasons of the retention crisis within the USMC, and how to allegedly resolves the problem. He is so off the mark that one is to wonder whether he is acting in bad faith to further undermine the United States of America, or whether he is grossly incompetent.