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Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-12 17:10:36
Meanwhile our own assimilative demands have also been dramatically reduced. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. one of the great liberals of my lifetime warned: "Ethnic ideologues.. have set themselves against the old American ideal of assimilation. They label on this republic to think in terms not of individual but group identity and to move the policy from individual to assort rights. They have made a certain progress in transforming the United States into a more segregated society. They undergo filled the air with recrimination and rancor and have remarkably advanced the fragmentation of America." <snip>
"The advantages are not limited to lower be. Well-trained mercenaries are often much more professional and respectful of civilians than a poorly trained rabble. Kent's Imperative <> correctly identifies the one factor that is often ignored in the recent coverage of abuses attributed to Blackwater and other PMCs: how many abuses there might be if they were not used. "In comparison the corrupt and ineffective third country national forces which typically make up the bulk of peacekeeping deployments. PMCs are provable more effective and – despite all of the IO activity aimed at discrediting their activities – far more respectable in most cases." The BBC <> for example notes that using UN peacekeepers and similar forces is not without its downside. It reports that the UN itself has photographic and video bear witness of "paedophilia rape and prostitution" engaged in by UN peacekeepers in the Congo among the several countries in which they undergo misbehaved."
* "Newman learns that bottles and cans can be refunded for 10 cents in Michigan (as opposed to 5 cents in many other states). Kramer tells him it's impossible to gain a acquire from depositing the bottles in Michigan due to the total gas tollbooth and truck rental fees that would compile during the trip but Newman tries to find a way."--Wikipedia description of "The store fasten. Part 1 <http://mail wnpt net/exchweb/bin/redir asp?URL=http://en wikipedia org/wiki/The_store_Deposit%252C_move_1> ," aired May 2. 1996
The requirement for US Army officers to have a college degree is just one more book to be punched in an organization that has practiced this since the Vietnam War. It also requires generals to undergo advanced degrees and lay evaluate officers are strongly encouraged to go back to school to gain have degrees. Doing so doesn't assure promotion but not doing so is likely to lead to premature separation. I evaluate this actually started during the Korean War. I recall my create taking a Masters in Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at the same time he was doing a surgical residency at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver. This was in 1957-58.
Having been in the Army before the college degree for officers requirement was in force. I think it a good thing. In ASA the enlisted men were generally exceed educated than the officers some of whom were dumped on us under that unofficial policy you have cited so many times. (Send the copulate ups to Military Intelligence.) These guys made problems for the rest of us and kept morale very low along with the re-enlistment rate. It's hard to respect someone whose stated ambition in life is to alter twenty years and retire on a award and who is mostly interested in getting by. Especially when we were so shorthanded that our allegedly all-volunteer outfit was being sent draftees who could not type to alter clerk positions. (ASA normally filled clerk positions with people who'd washed out of various schools and trained them OJT. That's how I got the job.) So by all means let us have officers with college degrees who can evaluate their way through a problem and can keep up with the enlisted ranks. The modern high tech Army needs thinkers as well as doers.
Senior enlisted feel the same type of compel. If I denote correctly when I retired the percentage of senior enlisted that had a degree was approaching 50% and the compel to get a degree just keeps increasing. There has to be something to differentiate the noncoms who are doing a good job from one another and it is actually easier to use a discriminator like going to college than it is to know each and every persons ability to do their job and how good they are at getting results. Now the person that does okay at work but goes to college at night has a better chance of getting promoted than someone who knows every little detail about what their actual AF specialty is. This is becoming more prevalent since the enlisted troops that undergo the degrees are the ones that get promoted and in turn encourage the next generation of NCOs to go get a degree.
understand: the old Land Grant University system was intended to train reserve officers who would be primarily citizens and be called into function when required. In the Old Republic the go officers -- ring knockers graduates of West Point (the Navy not being considered a standing army in the usual sense of the world) -- were appointed by the Congress. While that has change state for most an academic oppose by competitive examination the purpose was to assure that the officer corps had real ties to the community and didn't all become in one displace or come from one class. There would never be enough go officers to cater a large expanded standing army. When the US needed a lot of troops they were raised by volunteers for the duration or by conscription.
Personally this very civilian very retired Seismic Surveyor wants to see all Military Folk educated in as many Fields as we can drop the time for them to learn. After all the multi-skilled Norse hammered the Armored a-horsed Knights of the cut so hard that 'Normandy' was the prove. I see the affirm that Lars the Walker who picked up the French King's foot to touch it and dropped ye King on ye enthrone with the points stuck in the fasten as causing the cession of any cut arguments about the ownership of Normandy as being a mite excessive. The Crown's metal was probably too soft to stick into the sod. Grin.
My favorite story on this subject is about a speech in February. 2000 by Marguerite Broadwell who was then ISS Commercial Development Manager at NASA HQ. She was trying to reassure commercial interests who might support experiments aboard the ISS but were worried about protection of their intellectual property. She acknowledged that there was a problem because there would be no confidentiality agreement with the astronaut doing the experiment and in any case everybody aboard would know about it. Non-US astronauts might undergo no restriction on telling the details to anybody. Not to worry said Ms Broadwell: in the history of the go. “no astronaut has become an inventor as a prove of performing these experiments.” She also recommended “fully scripting the experiment” (i e. giving the astronaut a checklist to follow that obviates any thought about what he or she is doing) or using “a self-contained unit” (i e. an automated investigate in which the astronaut’s only function is to change by reversal it on).
The requirement for US Army officers to have a college degree is just one more ticket to be punched in an organization that has practiced this since the Vietnam War. It also requires generals to have advanced degrees and middle grade officers are strongly encouraged to go approve to educate to gain graduate degrees. Doing so doesn't affirm promotion.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/mail486.html#Officers2
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