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Last I checked, a commander at an SMC had the ability to deny AD to any cadet they thought lacking the skills necessary for the job. If the cadets who can't lead an army out of a wet paper bag are getting past the commander, I suggest that either the commander is not getting adequate feedback up the food chain from his subordinates, or has a reason to boost the number of AD commissions that is not known to you nor I. I suspect the former. And that would be a leadership failure up and down the CoC, unfortunately.
Alternatively - I would suggest that a kid who has exactly one year of experience as a 4th class cadet isn't the best judge of who will be a good Lieutenant compared with the Colonel who as the PMS has the opportunity to look at the 1000 + Army cadets under him at the Citadel and just might have a little bit more experience under his belt to make a determination of who he should be commissioning. And Full Metal Bulldog- you should know that EOD is a tiny fraction of the Ordnance Corps- the main purpose of which is basically to be the Army's mechanics.