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Every day America eats its young
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Every day America eats its youngWhat can make a nigga wanna fight a whole night club/Figure that he ought to maybe be a pimp simply 'cause he don't like love/What can make a nigga wanna achy, break all rules/In a book when it took a lot to get you hooked up to this volume/
What can make a nigga wanna loose all faith in/Anything that he can't feel through his chest wit sensation -
lol I love it. "They're not asking for volunteers, because too many good people leave." Yes. Competent people run from the organization screaming while those who remain are the ones who know they can't get a job in the civilian world. Promotion in the military is worse than the Peter Principle.
These officers are getting laid off. I'm not sad for all the soldiers who will have to find new jobs; I'm happy we no longer have need for such a big army. -
"Up or out" predates this event by quite a bit.......“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of ManComment
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These are junior officers and plenty of them are grunts.Originally posted by MOBIUSCan't these officers just take it on the chin and consider themselves casualties of war - or the lack of it...
Oh wait, they're not used to being casualties - it's usually the grunts that actually get killed.
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Sooo... what does this mean for Alby?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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He's still an anti-Semitic ******To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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He's anti-Semitic?“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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uhhh yeahTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003Comment
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Hardly.Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
The Marine Corps has something called 'career designation' (which replaced an older and similar policy called augmentation) by which, after 4 years on active duty company grade officers are assessed for retainment on active duty (all officers, unless they resign their commission, are reservists by default). Current career designation rates (for captains right now) are about 50%. That means half of all USMC captains hitting their four year mark this fiscal year will not be retained on active duty Marine Corps. Because reserve units have only so many allotted billets, many of these forced out captains can't even go into the reserves (plus the historical recent surge of reservist second lieutenants of which I am one of many hinders the opportunities of these captains since we lieutenants are contractually obligated to drill and must have billets allotted to us; funnily enough, we have primacy over captains).
This system ensures that only the highest performing half of company grade officers are retained on the active side. Granted, performance is primarily measured by fitness reports, which may not be an ideal method of assessment of performance. There is some concern that the current climate makes company grade officers too conservative and not willing to rock the boat for the betterment of the Marine Corps for fear of negative fitness reports and the resulting failure to be career designated. Nevertheless, the system does allow the Marine Corps to shed deadweight.
I do not know if the Army has a similar system but the drawdown is the time to introduce one.
Historically, and this comes from analysis of casualty rates in WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq/Afghanistan, company grade officers (lieutenants and captains) have the highest casualty rates of any rank, officer and enlisted. This makes sense because leaders are targeted by the enemy.Originally posted by MOBIUSCan't these officers just take it on the chin and consider themselves casualties of war - or the lack of it...
Oh wait, they're not used to being casualties - it's usually the grunts that actually get killed.
That is why the lieutenant getting killed (or expecting to get killed, as in Forrest Gump) is such an overwhelmingly pervasive movie trope.
Nothing. The Army is suddenly having to do what the Marine Corps has been doing for the past 3-4 years. Our force is already nearing our reduction goals and it's why I had no option but to be a reservist (no active duty officer accessions in FY13).Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui View Post"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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By "fitness reports" you do not mean physical fitness, primarily, do you?Comment
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No. NAVMC 10835Originally posted by Buster's Uncle View Post"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben KenobiComment
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