The ones who suck at their job, but are "motivated" are revered. Sometimes even promoted based on said motivation.
Seems the rule in the military is that if you suck, but scream HOOAH while sucking, you're a good soldier.
QFT
True story:
My first EO complaint when I got out of the infantry and joined the reserves. I was made unit armorer/Weapons instructor/gun dude because I knew how to use a M2 headspace gauge without consulting a TM. OK cool I can do this while I reclass. I asked for the Master Weapons List and weapons cards so I can validate everyone's quals. (an LCU-2000 has two M2's on board) One of the M2 gunners on the roster was a female E5 that wasn't qualified on an M2. Not expired qual mind you, had never fired the weapon. OK, no prob. I train soldiers all the time and we aren't getting attacked in Tampa. I wait three months until we have a range scheduled, take her to the M2 range, giver her (and several others) PMI, set up a gun and proceed to start making noise. Until she gets up there.
Her to me: "SGT I need you to go ahead and load the gun for me."
Me to her: "Belt's right there, have at it."
Belt goes into feed pawls, then she stands up and looks at me.
Her: "OK SGT there you go"
Me:"......You gonna shoot?"
Her: (annoyed) "As soon as you charge the gun"
Me: "................Say what?"
Her: (still annoyed) " I cant pull that thing back. This happened last time I was at the range. You have to load it for me, then I'll shoot"
Me: (Last time? There was no record of a last time?) "Look fire the weapon or don't. I'm not loading it for you."
Pissed now, she stomps off. Whatever, more ammo for me.
When we get back to the unit I took her off the crew served and put her on a QRF team with an M16. *expletive deleted*it hits the Fan. I, her, My Plt SGT, My 1SG and my CO are at Bn the next month to answer for the it. She's been on an M2 for years and wants the bullet on her NCOER (yes, apparantly "runs big gun" is a bullet) I only took her off because I don't like girls. I explain that she failed to qual with the weapon. She said I failed to teach her. I say she told me she can't operate the gun. She said she doesn't have to load it to shoot it. I quit at "Sir, she can not, by her own admission phyiscally, operate the weapon to standard and is not qualified on it. She can't be assigned the weapon." I was ordered to put her back on the roster as the gunner, and train her A gunner to load and ready the weapon and clear any malfs she might have. I also had to attend extra training from the Bn EOR on not discriminating against female soldiers.
There will be quota's to meet and Cdr's will bend and break the rules to make sure whatever diversity metric they report up is met regardless of mission impact.
I saw weapons quals faked in 2003 on units being sent to Iraq because the unit needed to deploy and "they can't shoot" wasn't a valid reason to not deploy them. To WAR.