Take the commanders and execute them. All half dozen of them. Shoot them in the legs and groin, with Army medics standing by. Then tell them, “oh, sorry, these bandages are only for soldiers” and walk away.
Sadly Drew - it is the essence of the problem today - Almost no one thinks for themselves and does the right thing - they just do as little as they can do to get by and ‘blindly follow the rules’ no matter how stupid, no matter how against common sense they go, no matter how badly things turn out.
We need to get rid of the corrupt and power mad tyrant wanna-bes in the governments and then totally take back education so that it is about the basics - reading, writing and arithmetic, civics and doing what is right.
Then we take away the entitlements - stand on your own or die on your knees. Because it will be that way for you under the next dictator, tyrant or the socialist/communist when they start running out of money.
You apparently can’t fix stupid - so maybe we should simply start by neutering it.