Quote Originally Posted by Ski View Post
Well, I agreed with him as the attrition rates will rise. Hey, everyone needs a break, even the hardest of samurai. Shuffle a guy off to school followed by a ROTC or TRADOC assignment would cure a lot of ills.
have to be a total spectrum Army and we're losing the big war edge, only the schools and training will fix that. We're in the same boat we were in during Viet Nam; year or less in CONUS, year there. Repeat.

That ran off a humungous lot of obligors at the end of their oblig. Captains left in droves. Killed a lot of good NCOS too. Left the hardcore and the dead wood and very few in between. Given the personnel community's approaches, we're probably looking at the same thing again.

Hard to understand. Not like we've never done this before...

Some people would be amazed at how good a job a young LT can do as a Company Commander or a good SSG can do as an acting Platoon Leader or a Major can do in the Div 3 slot. Once upon a time, we insisted all newly commissioned Officers had to do two years combat arms duty before reporting to their final branch. There was a reason for that. However, it was unpopular with some so it got killed, nominally on grounds of cost effectiveness -- and at great loss of flexibility in entry Officer assignments -- not to mention professional knowledge...