Quote Originally Posted by MASON View Post
18% seems like an over dramatization.

At core it is fundamentally a leadership problem. The mid-level career officers seem to be attempting to weather through their appointed masters tenures hoping for future missions and or guidance more to their taste. The internal battles in agencies and organizations are more signifigant on a personal level for careerists than the percieved temporary external situations they are tasked with undertaking. As a result the junior officers see and bare the consequences of the friction seemingly with out coherant purpose and with less invested look elswhere.
You got it. The talent pool in the FSO field is enormous; it is not mentored and nurtured in a system that will further develop that talent.

Tom