Does the idea of the Army trying to predict who will become violent scare or reassure you?

Back in the day, LT (Join to see), majors used to be repository for institutional knowledge and common sense. They had enough experience to have accumulated a lot of knowledge (some of it even useful) but their intellect hadn't yet started to atrophy from the oxygen deficiency resulting from getting promoted to an Echelon Above Reality.

In other words - I miss the pre-2000 era military :)

Pre-1990s, LT (Join to see).
At least in the Army, the self-inflicted institutional lobotomy was a by-product of the post-Cold War reduction in force which was already underway when the First Gulf War blew up, and then resumed immediately afterward.

As an interesting historical aside, Desert Shield (and Desert Storm) would have played out very differently had Saddam Hussein conducted his debt renegotiation with the Kuwaitis a mere 6 months later, when a planned redeployment of VII Corps from Europe to CONUS would have been well underway.

Now you are going into history, I am just being nostalgic and conservative :)
I just want to go back to the times when a soldier was not outcasted for dipping, smoking, showing a tattoo or dropping an f-bomb here and there, the times of the BDUs that actually blent in with the environment, the times when we still valued the warrior spirit over the ability to appear metrosexual and "fight to win their hearts and minds".... something like that...