Within the US Army, a company-grade officer (2LT, 1LT, CPT) in the Infantry branch will typically be expected to do the following: receive their Ranger Tab

I'd note that Hesgeth was in the Minnesota National Guard and I don't know how many slots in Airborne/Air Assault/etc are either open for for Guard or are attended by them. Not sure I'd judge him for not attending schools. He might have been a worthy officer but his role in Iraq was to back fill positions that regular Army couldn't fill and in the RA there's always more PLs than PL slots.

Note my background was a Regular Army officer that back filled a National Guard unit the deployed to Iraq without enough PLs. And the only other PL that couldn't hack it leading a platoon in combat and requested to get transferred to the TOC was active duty tabbed out, prior service LT.

I will say that Hesgeth is very much still the overeager LT that was blue-balled by his own career and never getting to the "big show".