Oh MIL-DOT, you beautiful, noble, land octopus.
Let's go back to Cooldill's post, the one to which I was replying:
The USN seal teams are going to start using Gen 3 G19s.
I think that should end the argument right there.
To call it "the end of the argument" was, to my understanding, to imply very clear and wide endorsement across most or all cases as to which generation was superior.
From there, all I said about bean counters and politicians was that they tend to be within arms reach where government is concerned. Not that they took any particular action, let alone being the sole source of the selection of a USN pistol for the SEALs (who, despite the sexiness of what they do, ostensibly still have budgets and supply chains).
My apologies for being inarticulate and leading you to misunderstand.
What's particularly silly is that all this SEAL business that began last month was traced to a single internet post. I don't make it my task to closely track such news, but AFAIK it's not been corroborated beyond that. Certainly not worth anyone getting in a huff over.