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Perpetual consumers of taxpayer funding, the Rand Corporation has released a new study on how the various services select O-6’s to become O-7’s. Some of this will surprise nobody. From Military.com;<\/p>\n
“The value of command is universal. For all the military services, time and successful performance in command (particularly at the O-5 and O-6 grades) consistently serve as the chief signal to promotion boards that an officer is proficient in their specialty and has potential to excel at higher levels,” according to the report.<\/p>\n
Combat-related\u00a0deployments\u00a0are “very important” experiences to the\u00a0Army\u00a0and\u00a0Marine Corps\u00a0in the O-7 promotion process, but “not important” to the\u00a0Navy\u00a0and only “somewhat important” to the\u00a0Air Force, it found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
To the doubters and think being a general or admiral isn’t a political position;<\/p>\n
The Army, Navy and Air Force agreed that high-visibility assignments and maintaining personal networks are very important to the O-7-promotion process, while the Marine Corps viewed both areas as minimally important to the process, the report found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No surprise that the Marines value skills more important than how many cameras you jump in front of and how many palms you can grease (metaphorically of course).<\/p>\n
Beyond that, newly minted GOs\/flag officers take more risk in the Navy, while the Army’s BGs can’t operate without a doctrine to follow, Air Force Brig Gens are “somewhat uncomfortable with challenging the status quo when they provide advice”, and Marine O-7’s “value discipline over risk-taking.”<\/p>\n
More insights at the full article;\u00a0Military.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"