In 2009, then-USAF Colonel Don Bacon appears to be genuinely happy speaking to his Commander-in-Chief: upload.wikimedia.org

USAF General Don Bacon (Ret.) knows incompetence when he sees it. As a Republican congressman, he was charitable in his public denouncement of SECDEF Pete Hogsbreath. With certainty General Bacon had other language in his head about this sloppy drunk MNARNG Captain in charge of the Pentagon.