What is the stupidest thing you've ever had a senior leader (LTC/SGM or higher) say to you?

Heard a navy Captain (O-6 for you non-navy types) inform a navy petty officer in a very self-righteous tone of voice: "all enlisted personnel are stupid, ignorant fools that couldn't manage even the simplest tasks without officers to guide them" The Navy Captain received notification that he was not accepted to the War College the next week. The Navy petty officer had 2 masters degrees (one in languages), spoke 7 languages and had just returned from briefing the Secretary of the Navy.

Had an Air Force 3-Star tell me, get on that machine and show me where every MANPADS (Man Portable Air Defense System) in Bosnia was. I couldn't help myself, I pulled up a map of the entire country and said: "Here General." Indicating the entire country. (I was working with NATO at 5th Allied Tactical Air Force in Summer 1995. A French plane had just been shot down.)As his blood pressure was visibly rising I said, "General, its a two-meter long pipe on a guy's shoulder. I can't track it." He realized how dumb his statement was, thanked me, and walked away muttering to himself. Same General later became USAF Chief of Staff.

I took a wounded warrior to a promotion board and after the Soldier explained his plans were to become a radiologist the CSM belittled him and said exactly this; "Are you kidding me! Why would you want to do that? Haven't you seen Star Wars or Star Trek? They waive this funny machine over your body like a remote control or something and it goes beep beep and there you go. They have your diagnosis."