Personnel System Is Stuck in the Past
Our Industrial Age Personnel system has not evolved with the changing face of warfare or the needs of 21st Century Soldiers
“Army Culture is out of balance. There is friction between Army beliefs and practices. Over time, that friction threatens readiness. Training is not done to standard, leader development in operational assignments is limited … and officers and their families elect to leave the service early.”
--Army Training and Leader Development PPanel Report, 2001
“The Fact remains that our present personnel system does not focus on maintaining teams, as it should, despite the fact that human connections are the glue that bond our units together. The negative impacts of turbulence do not get the visibility they merit because we have no metrics of intangibles such as unit cohesion or team work.”
--Thomas White, Secretary of the Army, 118 October 2002