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Subject: Recruiting
anofi@aol.com    2/27/2001 10:44:54 AM
Recruiting the seriously handicapped seems a non-starter. There's got to be some uniformity.

It's one thing to bring in folks who are less than perfect physical specimens; flat feet, bad eyes, or an ulcer don't necessarily disqualify someone from fighting a desk, and preserving a military appearance. And keeping amputees, for example, who've already been in the service (like Douglas Bader), know the drill, and can perform the mission seems like a good idea.

Another angle is to drop "up or out" policies. There's no reason why a guy who's doing a good job can't continue to do so even if he doesn't get promoted any more -- just give him a pay boost every couple of years.
 
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Rambo    RE:Recruiting   2/27/2001 12:35:01 PM
Promise us that in every 10 years, we'll be able to invade some small country, kill lots of brown people, and not get killed. Basically play a live video game. That's the pitch we should use.
 
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This is actually depressingly true    RE:Recruiting   2/27/2001 7:13:52 PM
I make video games for a living, usually futuristic military ones. I like to read about weapon systems for ideas, which is why I haunt this site. The last game I made, the Army contracted to make it into some kind of military simulation / training thing. They don't think it is really that useful for training. But they do studys about why people don't stay in the Army. Not enough action is an important reason that people give. So somebody in the Army thinks they can help make it more appealing by having everybody play "Army Quake" (that's not the game) as an exercise that is really supposed to make being in the army more exciting. Another thought, unpopular here I suppose. Does anybody really think the armed services used to attract the best and the brightest? In a major war (like WW2) I suppose it does. I think a country that attracts its best and brightest to the military is usually a miltary dictatorship. A powerful country is a rich country. A rich country has better things for its best and brightest than military service. Not to put anybody down-- I'm sure there are a lot of smart people in the armed services. But the I.Q. bell curve is probably far to the left of most colleges.
 
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Shawn Dudley    RE:Recruiting   2/27/2001 8:13:58 PM
It's difficult for the Army on one hand to say they're out to help people by performing various OOTW such as disaster relief, counterdrug, peacekeeping, etc, etc, and on the other hand to train their personnel for massive orchestrated direct violence on their fellow man. Various apologists of the "Army of One" have stipulated that the army made it's sales pitch to be sort of like "Peace Corps with Guns" in order to gain converts in today "socially oriented" (i.e. politically correct) high schools. But one must look no further than the Marines to see what's really selling. The Corps promises nothing but Blood, Sweat, and Tears but gets lots more takers proportionally than the other services, because they offer something greater than money or college credits: HONOR. The Army, you can be a uniform. In the Marines, you can be a MAN! Of course, the Army has lots more technical positions than the Marines to fill, and doesn't need Natural Born Warriors to fill most of them. Perhaps what the Army should do is what the British do, and that is allow individual units and branches to run their own recruiting. Basically, if you want college credits and all of the free stuff, you can go down to your local Quartermaster, Finance, or Ordinance recruiting centers. If you want to kick some ass, the Airborne forces have their office next door, etc. This would help the Army get the right people for the right job, and also help them compete a little better against the Marines for recruits.
 
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jesserac@aol.com    RE:Recruiting   3/4/2001 1:22:02 PM
The only means to get the cream of the crop to join in significant numbers is cost prohibitive. If you want the best and brightest to serve in the current situation you have to institute a draft.
 
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