ILE-CC Curriculum

[AmericanPride]

From a junior officer's perspective, I lost much respect for senior officers who displayed an inability to effectively communicate in written English (or to use the simple features of a computer or the internet) -- especially when I or my section received taskings via written orders (read: powerpoint) or e-mail. It wasa even more incredibly annoying when getting awards and evaluations reviewed by multiple senior officers and NCOs with increasingly worse understandings of the mechanics of the English language. If we expect leaders to be responsible for everything that is done or not done, this should at least include basic writing skills.

[Cavguy]

From a junior officer's perspective, I lost much respect for senior officers who displayed an inability to effectively communicate in written English (or to use the simple features of a computer or the internet) -- especially when I or my section received taskings via written orders (read: powerpoint) or e-mail. It wasa even more incredibly annoying when getting awards and evaluations reviewed by multiple senior officers and NCOs with increasingly worse understandings of the mechanics of the English language. If we expect leaders to be responsible for everything that is done or not done, this should at least include basic writing skills.

Well said - and at the field grade level, written communication ability is a CLEAR discriminator of talent and affects both selection and promotion.

[AmericanPride]

Well said.

I've been practicing. ;-)