Posted on Aug 24, 2015
Military version of the Beloit College Mindset List
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The Beloit College Mindset List prepares professors for the incoming class of freshmen by providing cultural touchstones shaping the new generation. It also highlights those touchstones that may be foreign to them.
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/
A topic posted earlier in regards to how promotion lists are announced started me thinking about this. Are there any military or general culture touchstones that shape our perspectives and interactions between the generations? Please post your suggestions for these "touchstones" to create our own Mindset List for understanding today's "rainbows".
(Do we still call recruits, "rainbows" even?)
@SrA Melissa Chiles
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/
A topic posted earlier in regards to how promotion lists are announced started me thinking about this. Are there any military or general culture touchstones that shape our perspectives and interactions between the generations? Please post your suggestions for these "touchstones" to create our own Mindset List for understanding today's "rainbows".
(Do we still call recruits, "rainbows" even?)
@SrA Melissa Chiles
Posted >1 y ago
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MSgt Aaron Brite you included a very interesting link, and something I heard echoed on the radio the other day driving to work. If you think about all of the changes and/or innovations that have occurred since 1997 it is rather extraordinary. Regardless if we take many of these items for granted now, that was not always the case. There are many experiences that more seasoned military members have experienced that younger generations never will, or at least have not yet. Those new privates and future lieutenants entering our forces fall into the same age group as college freshman. Some "touchstones" could include soldiers never seeing a pot belly stove or filling sandbags. Or perhaps the fact they will never know a military prior to e-mail or PowerPoint as well, oh my goodness how did we ever get anything done?
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