hire them as contractors wit NO rank or authority
Posted on 06/19/2016 12:14:49 PM PDT by BBell
I can reasonably see the logic, within the context of those specific disciplines mentioned, like cyber and logistics management. I would think it better to bring in those skilled workers as civilian contractors, instead of trying to make them officers. That might eliminate morale, compensation and chain of command issues.
This is specifically for bringing in people with technology skills (as has long been done with doctors, dentists, etc). They want to expand that to computer skills, and raise the top rank to O-6 (colonel).
Better would be to just have special high-pay technical specialist ranks.
hire them as contractors wit NO rank or authority
The United States has done this during all wars, but in World War II this was most often done for accomplished industrialists, scientists, engineers, and lawyers to mention a few. A few politically connected individuals were commissioned, but usually at lower ranks. Henry Cabot Lodge and Lyndon Johnson come to mind. During the Civil War, politicians were frequently commissioned as Colonels and Generals with field commands, especially if they were able to raise new regiments. Most of these were worthless in combat except to the enemy.
Of course, today's Administration never does anything without a political motive and often the political aim is the only purpose. The civilians in DoD and the Obama appointees in the White House despise the military and want to change their culture, their effectiveness, and their threat to their power. How better to do this than by inserting political operatives in key positions. This is exactly what they did with the judiciary and the educational system so you have to wonder why they have waited so long to do this.
General Zuckerberg..?
Doubtful, the last one was a little Zicotic...
We already have a General Schedule (GS) payscale system which hires people in at high pay grades. I don’t see why we need to commission people in the active duty ranks.
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General Zuckerberg would be placed in charge of MWR.
Basics, such as how to wear a uniform or knowing whom to salute, could prove confounding for midcareer civilians wooed into military service, critics of the plan argue. (Photo: Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy/Army)
For instance, the French immigrant Georges Doriot. A professor at the Harvard Business School since 1926, he became a citizen in 1940 and was commissioned a lieutenant colonel in the Quartermaster Corps, at the request of a former student who was Quartermaster General. By the end of the war, Doriot was a brigadier general. After the war, he returned to Harvard and achieved considerable fame as a venture capitalist.
I love your tagline.
Thank you
I am sort of sympathetic. One of the most talented people I know went down to the recruiter in late 2004, height of the war in Iraq, and asked about his options. 39, great shape, two Ivy League degrees, three fluent languages, ran a desk of 50 guys on Wall Street and made seven figures consistently ... got told that he couldn’t get a commission but that maybe the National Guard could use him at E3 because of how many guys were being medicaled out after having their bells rung by IEDs on their deployment. In other words: we value your super-intelligence just up about to the point where it exceeds that of people with brain damage. That’s not the best use of human resources at war.
Before that too. WWI.And before that.
Frederick Funston.
Probably not as big as now. I wonder why you wouldn’t just bring these experts in as GS or Excepted Service appointees, maybe even as terms so they don’t have the expectation of a long-term job. At my place the military folks work for the civilians and vice versa just fine. Each side has to learn the others’ rules but that’s not too complicated.
We seem to do just fine in the medical field by paying for medical school in return for service. I know personally a couple of docs who went this route, one stayed the full 20.
I hate to say it, but to get hired in the Army, you need to be specialized in a skill the Army needs and be able to pass the physical. All of the impressive credentials in the world won’t get someone in if they don’t have a needed skill set.
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