Thanks for the link. Really interesting thing to me
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This links to a
JAN 2007 GAO report on officer accesions and retention. Without addressing the "quality" issue, there are some interesting stats on overall retention in various Fiscal Years by various year groups. Some precipitous spikes in departures, but overall decent retention by commissioning source overall. Very interesting to see the similarities in FY 2001 and FY 2005 on page 31.
was that the much hyped loss of Captains is there but is not nearly as far out of the norms as the noise would lead one to bleieve.
Even more interesting is the fact that equally loud screaming about Majors is apparently true -- but doesn't affect the combat arms, other than FA much at all -- the losses are in the CS and particularly the CSS arena.
Since I've long contended that our Log tail is way, way too big, I can live with that... :D
Nor does the report address the ideal number of Officers overall in relation to the total force; if it did, I suspect they might infer that our reliance on significant Officer over staffing across the board to meet a potential mobilization goal might be better modified and that goal achieved in other ways.
World War II in northern Europe is still defining the US Army... :(