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Im sorry, you seem to think that saying "look over there!" is an acceptable answer. It is not.
No, it puts it in perspective rather than dwelling on something that is not going to be fixed by simply complaining about it. It is the same thing that happens for a lot of things that deal with the military. One side or the other gets information, then blows it up and focuses on placing blame rather than finding out about the problem. I've complained about this very same thing happening when it comes to sexual assaults in the military. Yes, they happen, but not nearly as much as in the civilian world, yet when they happen in the military people concentrate on them with laser focus and want to make claims that our soldiers are all rapists and assholes who do nothing but hurt, even their fellow servicemembers. In reality, very few servicemembers ever sexually assault anyone when you look at the real data. And very little needs to be done, yet we still end up having to have additional "training" every time the media gets some report that says "xxx number of servicemembers have reported being sexually assaulted" or "xx% of women diagnosed by VA with PTSD from sexual assault".
That is the problem. While both sexual assault and the VA system are an issue, we know what caused the problem here, overloading of a system with rules that were unmeetable and instead of standing up to those passing down the rules, the people instead tried to work around them in a way that put people in danger (obviously). This is deeper than just those admins, but it speaks more about the people's unwillingness to force their congressmen to look into solving a problem rather than trying to react to a problem, resulting in little more than a "here's some Motrin and water" answer.