What a bullshit name for an important organization. Excellence is not achieved in a title, but in practice. It made sense to rename the Army's proud Infantry Center after the Armor School was moved to Fort Benning (from Fort Knox) and their shared mission focused on joint maneuver. Calling it "Maneuver Warfare Center" would have made sense. But the Army's TRADOC bureaucrats have gone nuts with eight of these self-proclaimed "Centers of Excellence" that sound more like failing inner city schools than the training laboratories of a fighting army. I feel sorry for the men who have to suffer such sophomoric bullshit after putting their lives on the line for us.
I agree. There's a laundry list of Excellence names added on to crap throughout the Army along with adding "Joint Base" to every Army Fort next an Air Force Base name. Soldiers repeating that would sound like they're on drugs.
Everything’s a “Center of Excellence” now. If you see “COE” in the acronym, that’s what it stands for. At the clinic on Fort Meade, there’s a “Hallway of Excellence” complete with a sign hanging from the ceiling, I kid you not.
What do you expect from the same organization that turned itself inside out and compromised it’s own standards to graduate women from the Ranger Course? As another poster mentioned above, this has less to do with being combat effective and more to do with keeping the defense industry money flowing.
“”Centers of Excellence””
21st Century phrase for testing center. We had our code testing facilities renamed centers of excellence. Didn’t matter. Without process and training the apps teams pumped out the same crap code.