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Vasudus
May 30, 2003
Exciting times in suicide prevention.




















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Vasudus
May 30, 2003
The Army correctly assumed that not enough people would want a leadership position if offered it and made it the only option for advancement past a certain level.

However, in typical Army fashion, they either failed to realize or didn't care that doing so would create two major problems:

1) Forcing people into leadership positions they don't want doesn't make good leaders and no amount of "training" can change that.
2) Setting the bar at E-loving-4 as the end of the road is insanely stupid

It also completely bypasses the problem of "being in leadership positions sucks an endless amount" and doesn't even begin to address the culture problems - if anything it reinforces it and makes it worse.

I've thought of a solution a few times and the best I can come up with is a quasi "spec 5 / spec 6" rank (spec 6 allowing you to serve until retirement) that requires testing into like the Navy does. But then I realized I've basically just created a dollar store version of WOs.

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