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When I served in Germany in '78-'81 unit-level training was a big deal. One of the things that discouraged an enthusiastic attitude about presenting it was inspectors coming around with clipboards...

It wasn't only the retirement of the World War II NCOs circa 1965 that changed the Army as an institution -- more broadly it was the retirement of the 1940s-50s generation of NCOs that changed...

When the war began in 2003 many people in the combat service support branches probably regarded small arms as impedimentia they had to take with them when they went to the field, not things they'd...

I don't think the comeback of the Army during the 1980s can be neatly characterized as the restoration of high standards versus entrenched mediocrity. It was more complicated than that -- it was a...

I was field artillery, so my main things as a lieutenant were quadrants and deflections, not leading a platoon. At the time the Army general Don Starry made a big thing about how lieutenants should...

I was speaking of the 1982-84 period, when the U.S. Army changed from a "don't piss off the troops" attitude to one of establishing standards to recover from the post-Vietnam slump of the 1970s. ...

I realize my off-kilter messages can sometimes be distractions from the subject under discussion. I was both enlisted and commissioned, so when I see overly intellectualized discussions about the...

When I clicked on Ken's link to U.S. Army Human Resources Command the message below came up. I guess this is further proof that they are the nefarious guys Ken says they are.



I don't know...