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Such a dumb choice. Go disgruntle the people you're going to send to be your primary points of contact for getting people into uniform in the first place when
by psunavy03 3y ago
Such a dumb choice. Go disgruntle the people you're going to send to be your primary points of contact for getting people into uniform in the first place when you're already behind the eight-ball meeting your quotas in the first place.
This is what can happen when an organization is led by people who have spent 40 years working in one organization, and who got to the top by being stack ranked over and over and over again. "I love it here, there's no problem! How can there be a problem when the system worked for me?"
I will say, having briefed up to the four-star level while in uniform, all the general officers and flag officers I personally interacted with were impressive as hell and wicked smart. But the "company men and women" on track for stars can also have some huge blind spots as mentioned above.
Then something like this comes down the pipe and you just go "I'm glad I retired at 20 to focus on the private sector." People only have a finite amount of goodwill to burn . . . it's foolish to burn it on petty crap, especially in an organization like the military where "embracing the suck" is necessary in places like combat.
- halJordan 3y agoIt's not "disgruntling." Imagine if your boss told you last week, that this week you had be at Fort Knox KY. To spend three years in a career dead-end, that also carries a major, statistically important, increase to your suicide and depression vulnerability. If you say no, there are perverse legal punishments you'll go through that the Supreme Court has already said don't get constitutional protections.
- psunavy03 3y agoThe UCMJ doesn't authorize "perverse legal punishments" and servicemembers still fall under the Constitution. Come on. You can make a point about how this is bad policy without resorting to adolescent hyperbole.
- true_religion 3y agoPerversity is in the eye of the beholder. Military boot camp training has recruits subjected to language and control that people would rebel against and sue if it were done in a web developer boot camp. Yet that’s normal for the military. I had my chance to join the army, but did not due to several of my relatives telling me what a bad gig it was.
- psunavy03 3y ago. . . so you're opining on something you haven't the slightest credible clue about other than biased sources. You and everyone else who "almost joined."
- true_religion 3y agoActually, they joined. I didn’t because of first hand reports from people who spent ten years or more in the military.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoHow is it a career dead-end? In the Marine Corps, becoming a recruiter or drill instructor are good ways to gain rank more quickly because they boost your cutting score. I had friends who did recruiting and they loved it- it's comparatively easy work with a high level of autonomy
- toomuchtodo 3y agoRecruiting in the current environment is likely to lead to less success due to potential recruit fitness readiness, the reduced competitiveness of military opportunities vs the private sector (rising wages, structural demographics), and the zeitgeist around going to the sandbox to die for someone else's pet political project. https://www.cfr.org/blog/presidents-inbox-recap-us-military-recruiting-crisis https://www.cfr.org/blog/presidents-inbox-recap-us-military-... https://www.rand.org/topics/military-recruitment.html https://www.rand.org/topics/military-recruitment.html https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/13/big-bonuses-relaxed-policies-new-slogan-none-of-it-saved-military-recruiting-crisis-2023.html https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/13/big-bonuses-r... https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/09/30/military-recruiting-desantis-woke-abortion-health-waiver-jobs-politifact/ https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2023/09/30/mi... https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/addressing-the-u-s-military-recruiting-crisis/ https://warontherocks.com/2023/03/addressing-the-u-s-militar... https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/the-military-recruiting-crisis-getting-worse https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/the-military-rec... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-recruiting-and-confidence-in-americas-armed-forces-is-so-low-right-now https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/why-recruiting-and-confide...