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We're already witnessing the consequences of this in the OER system. Our SF officers are generally top 10% of the Army. Because everyone (every MOS) must feel the pain of the drawdown equally, we are losing significant quantities of quality officers who - if they had stayed in their basic branch - would all be "promote ahead of peers". Because they're "average" SF officers, they get COMs and flat profiles don't get promoted - so they're forced out. Yet guys they went to SFAS with, who flunked out and returned to their basic branch are being promoted on time, and will most likely be retained/promoted to LTC and retire having completed a "successful" career. This new NCOER will do the same thing to the NCOs. Be prepared to see quality SF Soldiers thrown out because they "did their job" (to standards the rest of the Army can't meet) but they were "only average" when compared to their peers and they couldn't get promoted. (Yes - I'm disgruntled. I've got three quality officers in my office who are facing separation because they "only" have a COM profile, yet all three are stellar performers - they just failed to kiss the right asses to get an ACOM in their files.)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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