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2010-01-08 Afghanistan

Please Don't Send Me To The Eastern Front

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Posted by tipper 2010-01-08 10:55|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 DOD seeks but gets few volunteers for 5-year deployments to Afghanistan. The five year plan is a good one. Military history has shown that staffs that serve longer together, especially in a foreign land, are much more effective. There's no other way to get this advantage other than to be there, for a long time. All the service chiefs have promised to encourage their best people to step forward. But the way the military is set up, and the bureaucracy itself, is not hospitable to ideas like the Afghanistan Corps. In other news, the US has already been involved in Afghanistan 8 WHOLE YEARS.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-08 11:04|| 2010-01-08 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 The problems are several. The big one is career enhancement. How will that five year assignment weigh on promotions and future assignments?

The track record is abysmally poor. It's the old late 19th century pattern of staying close to the flag pole [Washington] versus serving on the frontier posts. It's institutionalized by a personnel system still firmly entrenched in a peacetime mode that hasn't been altered for [again] eight years of war. It is further hampered by the legal caste who's effort is to make every act of mayhem on the battlefield a courts martial offense.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-01-08 11:56|| 2010-01-08 11:56|| Front Page Top

#3 You mean your big idea is to get people to stay away from their families for five years when the political class finds it a challenge to stay in Washington longer than six months at a time?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-08 13:03|| 2010-01-08 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 No comments by Sgt. Schultz or Colonel Link?

Posted by borgboy 2010-01-08 23:40|| 2010-01-08 23:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Col. Klink, excuse me. Played by the brother of the great conductor...

Posted by borgboy 2010-01-08 23:42|| 2010-01-08 23:42|| Front Page Top

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