CR6 has it right, the reason for High School
completion was tied solely to the fact that it showed ability to stick to a task.
I don't think anyone here's being anti intellectual or running a wholesale attack on higher education. Unless of course, one takes the statement or thought that "College isn't for everyone" as being either of those things. That statement makes sense to me and, apparently to about 60+ % of Americans who do not partake. The oft repeated figure of about 80% of university graduates working outside their field of study would seem to lend more credence to that statement...
In any event, I didn't pick up either of those vibes. I did pick up a denigration of those who do not meet the august standards some here seem to wish to apply. :D
The non-completion of a few hitches and some minor disciplinary problems will occur -- the guy with a minor record or who dropped out of high School is by definition a little rebellious. It'll make the NCOs and Officers have to work a bit harder and I suspect the rapid and easy Chaptering-out of those deemed deficient will cease. Been done before and will be again. It is truly no big thing.
I resemble those remarks...
Having spent a few years dealing with less than stellar recruits and no easy outs for 'unsuitability' methinks a pole vault over a small pile is in view.
The paper is vastly overrated as a predictor. Ability to suck up some things without whining and get things done is not shown by possession of a diploma.
(I'd add or a degree but I don't want to start a flame war...)
Overly 'erudite' publications generally are
intended to justify a position...
Presley said:
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This one. I don't buy that "college isn't for everyone."
We can agree to disagree on that. I know a very large number of people aside from myself who don't subscribe to that view. I'd also submit we have cheapened the value of a degree by lowering the standard and overemphasizing the 'requirement' to obtain one. That however, is way off this thread and off the purpose of this board. I do agree with the rest of your comment from which I extracted that quote.
Norfolk said:
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...USMC pubs tend to be quite readable and with an appropriate amount of illustrations, and in recent years good pictures too. US Army pubs tend to be long, pedantic, and prone to giving the reader headaches - but with lots of nice pics!"
True. However, it hasn't always been that way, it's the Army's version of 'keeping up with the Jones's -- media type... :wry: