Do you think we'll ever have a head of our armed forces who's seen some action?

Question

Do you think we'll ever have a head of our armed forces who's seen some action?

Answer 1

What the h**l does that mean?

Answer 2

Have you ever served in your armed forces ?

Answer 3

In the United States, most chairmen of the Joint Chiefs have been combat veterans - though Admiral Mullen, the current chair, doesn't appear to have served in direct combat, his predecessor General Pace was a Vietnam veteran.  So, too, were General Shelton, Shalikashvili, and Powell; earlier chairmen were Korean or World War 2 veterans.

If you mean Defense Secretaries, those have tended to be politicians rather than soldiers of late.  Those a number of them have some military service, the last I can find with actual combat experience is Caspar Weinberger, Reagan's first SecDef, who served in World War 2.