Those with talent are getting kicked out as the ranks are purged.
Those know where the gear is, how to use it, how to maintain it, and who has the keys to the ammo and lubricants, and even the headsets.
First Sergeant walks in wanting to yell about keeping off his grass, sentry tied to a pole and the whole artillery park is empty, ammo bunker empty, trucks are gone. Good thing Lt and above had to sign for all that stuff.
Funnier is an empty armor park. General will ruin Colonel's whole day. "You can't be an armored Division if you don't have any armor! Only those old M-113 Garvins were supposed to go to Ukraine! Where are my M-60s? Where are my M-1s? M-2 Bradleys, I see zero, do have them off to be repainted?"