I absolutely detest inspections.
Especially within the military/government context.
Because the way it generally works is that you're given so much advance warning that it's coming up, the only way you can fail is if you're incompetent, lazy, or both.
And you have the scoresheet, so you know what changes need to be implemented.
You also know what doesn't work/isn't optimal from the gargantuan list of requirements, so you've sidelined them until now.
So.
You go and make the required changes.
And you annoy a lot of people with your changes.
Because you can't fail this inspection; it'd be bad.
The inspectors come and do their things, give you your passing grade along with some notes on how to fix up the small things they found—because they'll always find something.
And then they leave.
What happens next is how I personally judge you and your team.
Do you stand by the changes and keep them as is going forward to comply with the letter of the law?
...Or do you stand down from red alert because the important folk are gone? Return everything back to your modified baseline?
Because if it's the second one: you suck.
Yeah, we're inconvenienced by the changes, but it'd have been far less annoying if I hadn't had access to these random things beforehand.
It's like flying first class in an airplane: If you've never done it, you can only imagine how much better it is than coach.
But once you've sat in those larger chairs... experienced that better service... going back to the lower class seating isn't remotely tolerable.
Even more infuriating is the fact that the inspectors themselves most likely made their way up the ranks to get where they are.
Which means that at one time they, too, were doing the exact same shit, and they know that it's still happening.
And so all of this is bullshit and it should stop.
Meh.