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Don’t Promote Mediocrity

Sunday, May 27th, 2012

For those of you who haven’t been through this drill before, troop reductions are coming. Competent people are going to leave. Quality performers are going to be run off. Why? It’s because that’s the way the system works. Check out BG Mark C Arnold’s (USAR) piece in Armed Forces Journal entitled ‘Don’t Promote Mediocrity‘ for some ideas on how personnel policies could change for the better.