So weird, because this seems like a great job for military pilots who separate or retire because of the BS but who love that type of flying. Sure, it's less than airline pay, but American won't let you do a split-s in their 737.
Even when I got my AFROTC gig, there was very little about instructional theory or how adults learn.
But we got to deliver a lesson from the AFROTC syllabus three times and get critiqued if you said "um" or "uh"...
It was pretty rare in B-1 land. I was an evaluator for six years and never gave a Q-3, and in a year at OGV only saw a single Q-3 come through the office.
Speaking from experience, they got rid of line numbers by time in grade and they are now by order of merit. So your line number tells you exactly where you ranked in your promotion group.
Because no other country will ever consider a US "security agreement" as worth the paper it's written on, which creates real challenges when you try to develop forward areas to operate from.
I think we'd respond militarily, but probably not with nukes. I don't see the US and NATO sitting back while Russia nukes their neighbors without a response.