However, they will continue to watch... ;)Actually, only a Commander can relieve (one reason the Marines call them Platoon Commanders...) but most follow the PLs recommendations. Regardless, if he...
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However, they will continue to watch... ;)Actually, only a Commander can relieve (one reason the Marines call them Platoon Commanders...) but most follow the PLs recommendations. Regardless, if he...
Yea, verily!
Well said, only thing I'll add is that over 45 plus years, I discovered early and annually reaffirmed that most 'bad' officers (yes, Virginia, they exist...) suffered from having no or a bad PSG.
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As is
Enlisted retention.
I think there's a rather powerful message in that...
Lest anyone say that 82Redleg's suggestions
will not work -- in both Korea and Viet Nam, what he suggests was effectively the case. Officer priority went to command, staff jobs frequently were filled by NCOs. Operations sergeants (mostly...
Thanks for the response.
I didn't misapply in the last case, though my attempt at finesse was fairly clumsy. In this case, I'm not sure I'm misapplying you -- or the authors of the paper -- butthis statement could lead one...
I know. Hyperbole is sometimes used to reinforce a point
Especially by moi...;)
I addressed that reality with my first bullet. All platoons go in cycles, they get really good folks and are well trained then they have bad weeks or months due to our...
Do these guys know that?
LINK.
LINK.
I can give you a fairly long list of Colonels including this one LINK
Not to mention the smartest and best Major, bar none, that I ever worked for LINK.
Yes, those are...
There are opportunity costs in eveything.
Three points:
- I spent over six years as a PSG -- over three of them as a brand new SSG. Rank is not the issue, competence is -- and competence is absolutely and positively not totally...
Specious as a three dollar bill...
Rarely, most OCS types are SSG or below, mostly below.Who has more value?In many specialties -- but Warrants could be commissioned and NCOs could do Warrant jobs. If the response to that is...
I know, I know
But I will defer to others for a while...
Schmedlap's points are well considered.
All are, IMO, totally correct. The first one bears some thought -- some will dismiss it. I suggest that would be a mistake because that's really what it's all about -- or is supposed to be...
...
Have to echo Wilf
Initial selection is key -- I've long contended that I'd rather have two motivated dummies than all unmotivated smart guys you can give me. I can train the dummies; I cannot motivate the unmotivated...
Pretty good paper.
They missed two really important points:
The OCS guys stay past eight years in greater numbers because they like what they're doing. The USMA and ROTC grads leave in greater numbers because they...