What is your opinion about military being run by civilians?

It's a Constitutional thing...some wouldn't understand.

I know this isn't the politically correct answer these days...but I am not a fan of all of these civilian jobs. As I have aged nothing has been more surprising then the utter incompetence of civilian government employees! Anytime someone suggests that a certain service be privatized I start to chuckle. I can't really point to anything the government does well. I for one would like them doing less and certainly not expanding into more military rolls.

Here's my take on it. Civilians aren't held to the same accountability standards as service members are. If we do not perform our jobs to standard things happen to motivate us to do better. When a civilian does poorly they do not get the same supervisory interaction, therefore not increasing the quality/quantity of their work.

I've argued this for a while and always get the, "we're here to support the community" response. There is not a single job on a military installation that does not have a MOS qualified Soldier that can fill it. Yet we pay million dollar contracts for random hero landscaping to butcher lawns in housing or not cut around barracks. That's what extra duty and the residents who lived there were for.
Soldiers are held accountable for their actions or inactions and civilians are not held to the same level. It grinds my gears.