In a perfect world yes. “Should.” Recruiting and retention demands create a different situation.
We could reduce the uniformed force and privatize a lot of desk duties — as most troops spend their careers clacking away on computers — but there seems to be no drive to do that from the civilian leadership.
Correct, and the lack of reliable equipment that is also affordable on a mass scale doesn’t improve these errors.
Good. Although most athletic kids trend towards leanness, allowing coaches to force body fat percentages way down like before involves risk to these people’s health long term.
Agree 100%
That may actually cost more.
Why pay a admin wage when you can pay an E-2 to E-4 wage?
It has definitely helped the sport.
Devil in the details. Both uniformed troops and GS employees are unnecessarily expensive — the former due to lots of unnecessary one size fits all training and unproductive hours on the job for various reasons; the latter due to being unfirable and knowing it.
I think there are a lot of potential savings in contracting jobs out, but it would have to be done competently…not how the military has done it for decades.
I’d shake the whole system to its core if I could, but I would need God-level magic powers.
Focus more on weight lifting, healthy meals in the dfac. There are a lot of things we could do.
Way too much garbage food in the dfac. Kids like to eat garbage. We need to train them to eat healthy. Diet is 80-90% of weight.
During the holidays I eat whatever I want. lol. Rest the year I eat a more regimented diet 6 days a week.
So do adults.
Parents should teach their kids how to eat healthy and get them involved in an extracurricular activity that moves their body. Maybe the new SNAP rules in some states that restrict junk food and soda will help.
When my kid was in high school I’d cook for four, me, my wife and two dinners for my son. Then an hour after dinner he’d go to Chipotle and get a burrito bowl with double chicken. He has a very athletic build, played tennis several times a week and would play pickup sports with his buddies.
I’d like to see all that as well.
Unfortunately not expecting to any time this century. I could write a whole book as to why.
Essentially the civilian leaders are corrupt, incompetent, or negligent. Their actions ensure military commanders have other priorities.
Anecdotal, when I was in Korea in the early 90’s there was a reduction in force push. They replaced a position that was for an E-7 or E-8 (can’t remember exactly) with a GS employee. The SGT that was in that position retired, took vacation, and came back in the same position as Mr. in civilian clothes instead of SGT in BDU’s.
I resemble that remark
That happens fairly often, and it’s nice when it does.
Unfortunately many other positions are filled with a single applicant or otherwise someone not suited to it.
When someone slips through the cracks as a uniformed troop, he/she can be discharged eventually.
GS employees get to stay until they decide to go.
I’m seeing a trend here that is NOT good at all. Parents who don’t have the time to drive the kids to middle school are buying them throttled ebikes or even e-motorcycles and sending them on their way. While the bikes do have pedals, I never see the kids pedaling them…they are just cruising at 20 mph sometimes on streets but usually on sidewalks. Not only are they getting zero exercise, they are a hazard to themselves and others. Add a shitty diet to that and I see the US obesity epidemic only getting worse. I’m sure you’ve seen something similar up there.
I don’t want parents in the DFAC with the kids.
They should serve healthier food and have training on nurtition.
Boils down to they want cheap, quickly produced food as it’s cheaper.
Real food is a little more expensive but the benefits are worth it.
Hell most restaurant food now days is just warmed up crap. People ask why I cook at home so much. It taste better, and it’s cheaper.
One of my friends is about to give birth. I just cooked her a bunch of soups. She said mine is better then anything she has had at a restaurant. It’s not that i am some amazing cook. The shit at most places is just reheated in a plastic bag made in a factory somewhere.
No clue if this is true but I read on a message board that in 2008 due to the crisis a lot of restaurants went to more premade food to lower cost.
I used to love outback but their salad dressing taste like crap, the steaks are decent but the bread taste like crap as well now.
I believe it.
Schools went that same way long before. As much as I despised that movie Super Size Me and its filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, in it he showcased school lunch ladies talking about their most often used kitchen tool, the box opener.
I don’t have any data to prove this, but I suspect this started to happen when federal funds were used on these public schools. That honeypot paradigm guaranteed the money would go to contractors rather than benefit the students. And you see similar degradation in quality of teaching.
Centralized funding is shit. 
Everything was fried for the most part.