I agree on the Marine philosophy. I don't feel like my DHs failed me when I wrote my own awards. I actually enjoyed working for the ones who had me do it as a random corollary. That being said I don't feel any pride in my EOTs because everyone gets them. When in my JO tour I got a NAM just the same as the dude who qualified TACCO but wasn't allowed to sit the seat and when told to route his own EOT I literally had to walk him through the routine process, I really don't care about the award I got. Same thing on shore duty when I got the same NCM as the dude who wasn't allowed to instruct because my he sucked so bad that all the squadrons hated him and then when he left I and another dude had to undue the damage he did with regard to readiness. Moral of the story, EOTs are bullshit. Simultaneously, I spent maybe 10 minutes writing each one, so I don't feel let down by my COC. I think it's more of an indictment of our whole system.