Posted on Dec 30, 2017
If you had a the chance to improve 2 things for the military, what would you choose and why?
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If today you were given the chance to, what changes would you make. At least one change should be in reference to improving some aspect relating to your technical classification and the other either to the branch you service or the military as a whole. Leave a comment, what you would change, why, and what benefit you believe it would bring.
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Get rid of the up or out concept. One thing I learned was that the quality of the German Officer Corp today is greatly improved by officers who choose to stay at the LT and Captain grades. You get Officers who are fantastic and extremely knowledgeable in their career tract. Something the US Military could learn from. Next get away from the WWII AIT mind set. we need professional soldiers/sailors/ marines/ airmen, AIT should at the very least be 6 months long, you graduate with a professional CDL to drive the vehicles your career field uses. Quit dumping stuff on the gaining unit.
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SSG (Join to see)
Agreed Sir. The "up or out" concept brings to full bear the idea of the Peter Principle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle ), which summarized is...
``...that a person who is competent at a job will earn promotion to a more senior position which requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again. If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again, and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at that final level (termed "Final Placement" or "Peter's Plateau"). ``
``...that a person who is competent at a job will earn promotion to a more senior position which requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again. If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again, and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at that final level (termed "Final Placement" or "Peter's Plateau"). ``
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SPC Chris Ison Clearly there will always be people who want to advance, right? There are people who want to be Generals. There are portions of my life where that's what I want to do that just don't happen to be the Army.
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SPC Chris Ison
SSG (Join to see) - Peter Principle does not apply to the Army. At every step you're trained for the new position in which you get promoted.
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I would pull the military of out internal country struggles like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and other parts of the world. I'd also strengthen U.S. Army Corps of Engineers capabilities and use them for public works projects around the country, ensuring that all Americans had access to free high speed internet, and that basic services like electricity and water were more prepared for natural disasters. The US military would be as focused on rendering aid to victims of natural and man made disasters, as it was about fighting wars.
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PFC Rick Schuetz
I’m totally with you on pulling out and avoiding entanglements in foreign countries that have no bearing on America directly.
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SGT John Peacock
That's 1 of the biggest complaints I've heard my entire career from most engineers. All time spent in garrison was either doing "area beautification" details non-stop, prepping for some soldier board or otherwise not doing the job they were trained for. Meanwhile, contractors get huge contracts to build barracks, roads, ect, while PFC Joe Snuffy engineer gets stuck mowing the grass around HQ. The only time they ever get to really put their training to work is when they go to the field and even then, more often than not, they rarely get to build things so much a blow things up. Most of the engineers I've worked with pretty much NEVER got to build, engineer or otherwise, get to do the job they were trained for. So why not let our troops actually DO the jobs they signed up for. Let SIGGO folks run the comms, Engineers do the building & so on & so on.
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Sgt Dale Briggs
Makes so much sense on the whole, but on the positive side we have a military structure that’s ripe with experienced combat commanders.
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Erin Nelson I feel that all military should have transition counseling to check to see if they have PTSD to see if they need help before they face this not so friendly world. This was suggested by a SFC NCO who I interviewed for my book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and and Out of the Miltary. He is battling PTSD as we speak.
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PO2 Lawrence Janiec
1SG (Join to see) - First off, not everyone who has PTSD from military service has it from combat. I love how you pool the people who were sexually assaulted by officers into those who had trouble handling the horrors of war. Are those people who went to boot camp, went to AIT, got raped by an officer at AIT and then claim they have PTSD just "freeloaders" and need to defer to the "real" Veterans the VA helps? Please, explain that one to me.
SPC Chris Ison - I don't appreciate your language (only because it's not supposed to be used on this forum), but you reminded me of something I used to say all the time... I love the internet, everyone is either an MMA fighter or a Navy SEAL or a proctologist!
However, I am wondering why any of you insensitive jerks are trying to get a rise out of him? Or anyone with PTSD? If SPC Chris Ison gets triggered by you antagonizing him with all the suffering he has been through and he decides that he has had enough of people mistreating him and commits suicide, he will be another statistic in the long list of Veteran suicides. So if you drive him to kill himself, will you claim that as a victory? Put another notch on your belt as a confirmed kill? Seriously, why do you any of you think it's okay to antagonize the mentally ill instead of trying to help them? I don't appreciate his language in a community where it is not supposed to be used, but I also don't blame him for using language like that with how you're treating him, and treating others like him.
SPC Chris Ison - I don't appreciate your language (only because it's not supposed to be used on this forum), but you reminded me of something I used to say all the time... I love the internet, everyone is either an MMA fighter or a Navy SEAL or a proctologist!
However, I am wondering why any of you insensitive jerks are trying to get a rise out of him? Or anyone with PTSD? If SPC Chris Ison gets triggered by you antagonizing him with all the suffering he has been through and he decides that he has had enough of people mistreating him and commits suicide, he will be another statistic in the long list of Veteran suicides. So if you drive him to kill himself, will you claim that as a victory? Put another notch on your belt as a confirmed kill? Seriously, why do you any of you think it's okay to antagonize the mentally ill instead of trying to help them? I don't appreciate his language in a community where it is not supposed to be used, but I also don't blame him for using language like that with how you're treating him, and treating others like him.
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SPC Chris Ison
PO2 Lawrence Janiec - Thank you.
I decided after i posted the last time not give him anymore of my time.
I decided after i posted the last time not give him anymore of my time.
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PO2 Lawrence Janiec
SPC Chris Ison - Good answer. I know it's difficult (especially for me) but the way to end a flame war is to stop pouring gasoline on it. The best way to kill a troll is to not feed it. Yes, it. Trolls do not deserve gender. And yes, these people were trolling you. I am glad that you are rising above the abuse that these people have been giving you.
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