No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:38:57 -0500

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.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 8 at 2014 9:13 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:13:52 -0500

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.

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 8 at 2014 9:23 PM

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:23:20 -0500

MRT....just joking but in my opinion a waste of time