Not Good

Not good at all. Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) are the ones who really make the military - officers may issue orders, but NCOs make it happen. With 8,000 chiefs being forcibly retired from the Navy and presumably an equal number from the other service branches, the military is losing muscle and institutional memory, not just excess personnel. Our country is crippling the military when it can least afford it. November, 2014 and 2016. 

www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/18/navy-chiefs-continuation-boards/14223129/