Retention and Recruitment Crisis
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The Marine Corps gave meritorious promotions BIMD. I don't know about now.
AF promotion system is more a single test.
E5 to E7 is a point system.
Two multiple choice exams, one AFSC specific, and another on general AF knowledge.
Performance Reports, decorations, TIS and TIG round it out.
To add, and this is something you know but others won't, is when the AF does use a single test it is the AF knowledge test. The AFSC-specific test will "go away" during times with sweeping changes to the AFSC or other significant events. For example, a decade or so ago the AF combined Ground Radio and SATCOM; the AFSC-specific test was re-written and not used for 2-3 years while everyone OJT'ed the specifics on the gaining skillsets. I vaguely recall a single test happening to 1C5's about 2016 or so, but could be mistaken on that point.
I kind of like the line number system. Is that a reflection of your "score" for that promotion cycle?
Articles like this don't help but the need for articles like this to be written cause more damage to recruitment and retention. Once you get past the "Canadian's are soft" part, it is truly honest about the sad state we're in. Oh and all the new procurement projects they praise, had been canceled and restarted or delayed by this current government when they gained power 8 years ago. It's everything else that's not on that list that's falling apart.
Senior military leader: Canadians 'overly comfortable' as global security shifts
Senior military leader: Canadians 'overly comfortable' as global security shifts
ThunderHorse
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So, there are definitely extremists in the Service. But they are not "right wing" ones. Unless we're considered that automatically for not putting pronouns in our signatures. They are of the DEI ilk.
Opinion | The Military’s Phantom ‘Extremists’
Military dot com obviously had a more party line take...
Pentagon Effort on Extremism Snarled by Confusion, Guard Divisions, Gaps in Security Clearance Screening
Opinion | The Military’s Phantom ‘Extremists’
Military dot com obviously had a more party line take...
Pentagon Effort on Extremism Snarled by Confusion, Guard Divisions, Gaps in Security Clearance Screening
R.Caerbannog
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Look at who wrote the Military dot com's version. Bet if you dig into his social media and personal connections the guy is a lemming. Based on his profile he was a Navy intel guy who sold out to CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/konstantin-toropin
I should say this, the guy is a cog.
Everyone in the world is "overly comfortable" due to Pax Americana... especially most Americans.
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On the bright side, we're building stuff again. No more outsourcing critical components and supply chains to people who hate our guts. Trades are making a comeback. It also means that people are less likely to tolerate the woke commie shenanigans Miley, Austin, and liberal party are pushing.
People have been getting their rude awakenings and it's only gonna get worse.
It has to get worse. It has to get A LOT worse before people are willing to make significant and lasting changes. People who aren't affected by a problem are not usually motivated to do anything about it. That's why our last period of major conflict lasted for 20+ years. "Doesn't affect me in any meaningful way, IDGAF."
The exception to that is, when people are so secure in their lives, property, and freedoms that they don't really have anything meaningful to worry about and put their energies towards, they either start taking on other peoples' problems, or they start inventing ones of their own. We can see that manifested in things like BLM and the gender identity cult.
Things can't just "get bad" or "get worse," they have to get BAD ENOUGH.
We're seeing in major US cities the consequences of bad decisions on things like crime and immigration. It has gotten BAD ENOUGH for some people in those places to want to do something about them.
Topkick
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The U.S. Government defined.
Right after 9/11 the civilian fear factor was pegging the meter. Then got wrenched up a few more notches with the anthrax mail murders. That's how bad bad enough has to be before the average civilian gives a fuck. But you'd better tap into it quick before indifference returns...as it inevitably does.
In Iraq, didn't we surround cities with berms or something and control the flow of people in and out of the city? I think that was cited as a way of breaking the insurgency so we could declare "victory" according to the doctrine of Saint Petraeus.
I wonder how many T-walls it will take to surround portions of Chicago. Turn SWAT loose, door-to-door, seize weapons and drugs, throw suspectedterrorists criminals in jail...we're want the people to be safe, right?
I wonder how many T-walls it will take to surround portions of Chicago. Turn SWAT loose, door-to-door, seize weapons and drugs, throw suspected
ThunderHorse
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RN relieve too many commanders? I heard Prince Andrew needs a job, he's an aviator, but a Sailor.
But also...their amphibious assault ships don't have crews...
But also...their amphibious assault ships don't have crews...
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Troops do not have an extremism problem, but veterans do, study finds
On Sep 3rd 2021, just Days after leaving Abbey Gate...We were in the Well deck of an LPD that I won't name in the Persian Gulf heading out of 5th fleet towards Home.
We did the mandatory Right Wing Extremism training. The FBI stats were put on a PowerPoint slide by an NCIS "agent afloat" attached to the ship. This slide showed "extremist" symbolism. It wasn't BLM or Antifa livery. It wasn't the ISIS flag, black with white Arab script. It wasn't the uniform patches of corrupt ANP we had to assist training near Kabul that allowed Taliban to just roll in after taking payment and abandoning thier posts. It wasn't the Taliban flag no doubt being raised in Kabul at that very moment as we had left americas longest war.
No, it was the Tree of Liberty, Betsy Ross flag, black subdued "Stars and Stripes" as well as many other founding symbols of our nation. But the "extremist" symbol that got me the most was that of the "don't tread on me"/ "Gadsden Flag". you know, the one that good ole Benjamin Franklin made famous. The same symbol that literally is the uniform regulation patch that most sailors wear on thier left sleeve when donning an NWU. (In "Navy Jack" form)
I wasn't the only sailor that looked at my shoulder when that Federal agent read aloud that mind numbingly stupid brief... all while departing a shamefully exited war and being told that we may be extremists if we show "any or all of the following". What a joke.
I had to go do some reading on this and it's bad, but not as bad as TwiX would have us believe. With that said, the UK is in a similar situation as the US for recruiting with the RN down 22%. That's insane.
Back to the ships, the RN was already operating without one of them as they went through periods of "extended readiness", basically mothballing one at a time for years, and then swapping out; this started in 2011. They've done the reverse of our Blue and Gold crews for one ship, essentially running Blue and Gold ships for one crew.
The MoD has looked to cut both ships since 2017 to save money to offset the cost of its new aircraft carriers and to free up manning for new ships coming online.
This is obviously a significant development, but one that goes back for over a decade. As an added bonus, there are plans to cut both, this isn't a done deal. The headline is a little click-baity, even if the MoD does cut both ships. They already had one foot out the door anyway.
Just wanted to provide a counterpoint to some of the doom and gloom out there, even though I decided to get out.
I chose to get out, not because of the fact that the military was “woke” or that they treated me badly. Frankly, I think I was just ready to go back into the civilian space and pursue opportunities that I still have the luxury of getting at my age and looking to set up roots. I also had to take a few L’s of my own accord and I was treated fairly and appropriately for it. I’m very grateful for having served, actually, because doing civilian interviews has shown that I am valued for being willing to work hard, get things done, and deal with a cross-disciplinary and viewpoint-diverse team.
I’m sort of accepting a relative pay cut, moving to a HCOL area for not that much more money. However, I admit that the amount of bouncing back and forth and no discernible ability to go to work for SOF Support means that I think 4 years is enough work as a JAG. I still have my GI bill so I’m seriously considering an LLM in tax law after a few more years of working as a civilian.
On the whole, I’m still glad to have been in and in the exit survey, I indicated that I would recommend the Army JAG Corps to other attorneys as well.
I chose to get out, not because of the fact that the military was “woke” or that they treated me badly. Frankly, I think I was just ready to go back into the civilian space and pursue opportunities that I still have the luxury of getting at my age and looking to set up roots. I also had to take a few L’s of my own accord and I was treated fairly and appropriately for it. I’m very grateful for having served, actually, because doing civilian interviews has shown that I am valued for being willing to work hard, get things done, and deal with a cross-disciplinary and viewpoint-diverse team.
I’m sort of accepting a relative pay cut, moving to a HCOL area for not that much more money. However, I admit that the amount of bouncing back and forth and no discernible ability to go to work for SOF Support means that I think 4 years is enough work as a JAG. I still have my GI bill so I’m seriously considering an LLM in tax law after a few more years of working as a civilian.
On the whole, I’m still glad to have been in and in the exit survey, I indicated that I would recommend the Army JAG Corps to other attorneys as well.
