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| 2011-01-08 |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 And this is before the whole DADT kicks in - and people who don't like it can say they are leaving because the CJCS told them to. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-01-08 23:01 |
| #4 as a verteran and partial victim of that biased system, I wholeheartedly concur with your concise assessment. I would only add that its also biased to reduce the willingness for risk taking as a career proceeds, especially above the rank of 04. Hence senior fieldgrade emasculation complex, only trumped by GO trepanning... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2011-01-08 22:37 |
| #3 Wow Procopius - awesome statement which I agree whole heartedly with - well said |
| Posted by: Chief 2011-01-08 21:40 |
| #2 the last fifty years it has focused on a non-war time personnel system which tries to find a peacetime substitute in identifying and promoting officers. P2K Behold! Affirmative action and the military social, petri dish. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2011-01-08 17:33 |
| #1 A key institutional defect of the military establishment is that for most of the last fifty years it has focused on a non-war time personnel system which tries to find a peacetime substitute in identifying and promoting officers. Unfortunately, it ends up with managers rather than leaders. We've been in a wartime environment for nearly ten years now and the system failed to shift into real wartime mode to pick and promote quickly those who have demonstrated themselves on the battlefield. It's dysfunctional. The military exists to fight and the personnel system needed to default to that mode and has failed. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-01-08 17:29 |