Yeah, I didn't get him and Ben Carson ordering/buying new office furniture, china patterns, going first class, etc. You know as a Trump appointee you have a giant bullseye on your back, and everything your do, no matter if everyone of predecessors did it, is going to blown up as "Trump Appointee eats orphans for breakfast, then uses Nuns as skeet targets in the evening".
They should have just pulled whatever old desk they had from the warehouse, put up some family pics and called it "good". Spending a buttload of taxpayer money to get your office redecorated...not cool.
The first field exercise (CARAVAN GUARD) that then MG Calvin Waller went on as Commander of 8ID, his first breakfast, the cooks pulled out the 8ID china on a table cloth covered table and prepared a rather elegant breakfast. He came out of his tent saw what was laid out before him and went nuts. He ordered that all that fancy *expletive deleted*it be taken back to garrison and that the staff go find a line unit chow hall to go eat at. (HHD, 8ID had it's own field mess for the rest of it's non-G level troops.)
MG Waller then ordered his driver to take him to the closest line unit, which happened to 1/39 Infantry. He then got in the4 chow line, refused all offers/attempts to get him to go to the front, held out his mess kit to get his food slopped into, like every troop, picked an MRE out of the case at random, like every other troop, for lunch (Rumour had it that he bitched about drawing the dehydrated Pork Patty, but accepted his choice), then paid for his meals. (Officers have to pay for our meals in the field since we get Separate Rations pay.) Then found a spot to eat with the enlisted while talking/listening to them. He would pick a different unit each day to go have breakfast/dinner with.
