Are we talking one spurs? Or dementia?

Either way, they sound like they have leadership potential.

Should still count if you can be 'drafted' into an 'office job' right?

The book does address that, in that the federal service is universally available (and even the blind, deaf, or crippled would spend their time performing some job, even if it eas "counting the hairs on a caterpillar by feel".