The Officer Critical Skills Retention Bonus

[jcustis]

I think I've read about ninety percent of that here on SWC.

Is the Warlord Loop a good email list?

Yes. Reminds me of a running conversation a few of us had about 4 months ago.

[RTK]

Yes. Reminds me of a running conversation a few of us had about 4 months ago.

If I remember right one of us actually got this e-mail right after it was sent out. We've discussed this before.

[jcustis]

Yup, I just did a backtrack to that thread, and the email had been posted. It was labelled FOUO at the time, so the post in question was deleted.

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=2886

[SWJED]

Army Offers Officers Incentives - original e-mail now w/ permission to post from COL Burton...

[RTK]

Yup, I just did a backtrack to that thread, and the email had been posted. It was labelled FOUO at the time, so the post in question was deleted.

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=2886

Yeah, I remember that now. I was in the field the night that was posted, saw the FOUO marking, and quickly sent out some PMs.

[Rob Thornton]

the only requirements will be opposable thumbs

[Granite_State]

From my armchair, this all makes a ton of sense, and we should be investing a lot more in both retention and recruitment, and a lot less in F-22s, the Future Contract System, etc.

[Granite_State]

5. Rotate operational units differently. Most officers and Soldiers would rather rotate to Iraq, then do a second rotation to Afghanistan, then a third tour back to Iraq - this shakes up the scenery, allows us to fight a different enemy in different terrain, and think through different problem sets. It also puts a new set of eyes on the trends and problems for each conflict - might skin the cat a different way!

For those of you that have served in Iraq, Afghanistan, or both, does this make sense? I remember the old saw about one of the biggest problems in Vietnam being that we didn't fight the war for nine years, we fought it for one year nine times.