Interestingly, my own father, a three star admiral who was head of the Navy’s R&D, was given a few days to change his verdict on some something to be manufactured in the state of a powerful Senator. He’d nixed it for reasons of reliability based on operational testing and evaluation. He refused to budge and was fired, ending service career he had loved.

I guess he got some of his own back, becoming an overpriced Beltway bandit.