Posted on Dec 8, 2014
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
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This sentence (incorrectly attributed to Einstein) has an interesting idea that problems cannot be solved by the thought processes that caused them. Let's apply it to the Armed Forces. What problems have been carried forward? What are some solutions? What are the problems that we are creating that we cannot solve by staying stagnant in our thinking?
Be kind folks, we are all in the same family.
Be kind folks, we are all in the same family.
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My personal favorite: there is not enough money.
In a nearly $1 trillion defense budget:
We have to lay off DA civilians
We don't have ammunition for qualification
We quibble over pennies on travel vouchers
We say we have to throw away a 20 year old aircraft carrier (USS George Washington, when others have been in service 40 years or more) so we can keep building new ones
We cut training budgets, but continue to pay for conferences in Garmisch when we have plenty of VTC capacity
We cut aircraft that work, in fact dominate, like the A-10 in favor of an aircraft with arguably lesser air to ground capability like the F-35
We buy thousands of one-dimentional vehicles for a war that was ramping down, then give them all to police departments- like they need them - or worse, fall into the hands of ISIS.
We spend millions trying to develop a uniform that is superior, ignoring ones that perform better, then spend millions more trying to find a way to replace it AFTER the wars, only to adopt something they had all along.
I think a little Lean Six Sigma is in order.
In a nearly $1 trillion defense budget:
We have to lay off DA civilians
We don't have ammunition for qualification
We quibble over pennies on travel vouchers
We say we have to throw away a 20 year old aircraft carrier (USS George Washington, when others have been in service 40 years or more) so we can keep building new ones
We cut training budgets, but continue to pay for conferences in Garmisch when we have plenty of VTC capacity
We cut aircraft that work, in fact dominate, like the A-10 in favor of an aircraft with arguably lesser air to ground capability like the F-35
We buy thousands of one-dimentional vehicles for a war that was ramping down, then give them all to police departments- like they need them - or worse, fall into the hands of ISIS.
We spend millions trying to develop a uniform that is superior, ignoring ones that perform better, then spend millions more trying to find a way to replace it AFTER the wars, only to adopt something they had all along.
I think a little Lean Six Sigma is in order.
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I understand your annoyance with required Army classes, we've all been there. I would only say that MRT is based on some good science so I try to give that one a pass.
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Agreed, but back to the original post....how many Soldiers and the power that be, actually get it, understand it and employ it. I dont even think Soldiers are aware of consciouness and how we can create a co consciouness to make things better and/or worse.
I wish you had more people responding to this topic....
I wish you had more people responding to this topic....
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I wish I was back in Colorado, but that has little bearing on our conversation.
I think that the mystique that surrounds the suffering soldier (always overworked, underpaid, needing basic vices to make it through the day) inhibits many to really delve deep into the MRT program. I have a problem taking the program seriously because it is mandated by the Army, the same orginization that seems to think I should be told every weekend to not drink and drive, do drugs and other such nonsense.
It is good info though, and part of encouraging others to at least consider the techniques taught is to use them ourselves. Even better, to internalize them, make them work for us and rename them and show others the evolution that brought us to the present place for us that works. Then help them in their process.
But that is slightly idealistic.
I think that the mystique that surrounds the suffering soldier (always overworked, underpaid, needing basic vices to make it through the day) inhibits many to really delve deep into the MRT program. I have a problem taking the program seriously because it is mandated by the Army, the same orginization that seems to think I should be told every weekend to not drink and drive, do drugs and other such nonsense.
It is good info though, and part of encouraging others to at least consider the techniques taught is to use them ourselves. Even better, to internalize them, make them work for us and rename them and show others the evolution that brought us to the present place for us that works. Then help them in their process.
But that is slightly idealistic.
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