select folks that seemed suited for a job and see how they did. If they did well, they stayed there and did that. That process worked. so we don't do that anymore...
Two things happened. civilian HR practices got introduced to military personnel systems -- no matter how inappropriate they were.
Then Congress got overly involved as a result of not understanding the Armed Forces but instead deciding to listen to whining service folks and parents (as opposed to
having to listen to them) and to attempt to reduce their whining workload, dictated 'fairness and equality' would rule
all personnel decisions.
Thus as a result, Congress and the Personnel people have totally screwed the services by insisting that one size fits all, that all persons of like education and experience are equal in all respects and that they are thus totally interchangeable. While that is obviously incorrect and is potentially dangerous -- sooner or later, someone not suited for command is going to really screw up badly and get a lot of people killed -- they are simply refusing to do what you sensibly suggest.The Drill Field and Recruiting take particular mindsets (and I suggest anyone who excels at one job will be miserable at the other in the case of those two). So does other Instructional work, so does staying in a TOE unit and doing the job called for there, so does command
or staff work.
We ignore that and opt to go for -- even force -- mediocrity and then wonder why performance today is far from stellar and why it take so long to implement change.
Mediocre loves company and stays mediocre as long as it can possibly do so...
Originally Posted by Ken White
select folks that seemed suited for a job and see how they did. If they did well, they stayed there and did that. That process worked. so we don't do that anymore...
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