Posted on Jan 18, 2015
Are we doing everything we can to train our soldiers the value of diversity?
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As an Equal Opportunity Leader, I am quite concerned by some of the ideologies expressed by individuals throughout society regarding religious, cultural, and various other differences. What is even more bothersome is seeing some of these thoughts being expressed by members within the military. I firmly believe that the military is an opportunity for everyone to be viewed on an equal playing field if they are capable of meeting the standards and performing their duties. Is this not an assumption we should have? We are constantly talking SHARP, but rarely do we truly explore differences regarding Equal Opportunity until an issue arises or if a unit has significant diversity. Should there be more emphasis on cultural differences to prevent prejudice and slander? I believe so. Thoughts?
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Actually, I think we spend too much time on social issues and not enough on warfare. I get it. We should all be equal opportunity leaders, but let us not forget that in our duties to protect and defend the Constitution that we also need to afford adversaries equal opportunity to die for their beliefs. We should be spending more time training our adversaries on equal opportunity and less on our own troops.
Let us stop coddling grown adults. We all volunteered to serve our nation. We all grew up in varying levels of diversity. We all went through some form of basic training where we learned to get along with members with different gender, race, ethnicity, etc. We do not need to be browbeaten over EO at the detriment of valuable training time for other things in our duty days.
Let us stop coddling grown adults. We all volunteered to serve our nation. We all grew up in varying levels of diversity. We all went through some form of basic training where we learned to get along with members with different gender, race, ethnicity, etc. We do not need to be browbeaten over EO at the detriment of valuable training time for other things in our duty days.
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Sir, while I understand the construct of your argument and agree that we are all grown adults, these issues play an intricate role in how soldiers work together. If individuals do not have respect for one another, then they are not likely to be effective in working together during times of war.
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Maj Walter Kilar
CPT (Join to see) I am not saying these issues do not play an intricate role or that we do not need to have respect for one another. What I am saying is that we spend an inordinate amount of time beating these lessons into our heads. If your OER needs to waste an entire bullet statement on "playing with other kids in the sandbox", then the military is wasting too much precious leadership time on coddling Soldiers and not enough on the mission. Soldiers will get along when you tell them to, or they will be shoved out the door by court martial or after the end of their enlistment when they decide they do not want to play by our rules. Before the day of online training, we learned to get along with others by being forward deployed (in real world or field training) with people of different backgrounds. If you want to train Soldiers about diversity, get them out in the field with people of different backgrounds. They sure as heck will not learn much from forced happy sessions in classrooms or computer training.
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Sir, this response is kind of vague. Could you elaborate? If you are referring to how we currently lack effective tactics and efficient techniques to accomplish our missions, then yes, I concur. If you are stating that studying how to make war is more important than addressing these issues, then I must respectfully disagree. If we are not addressing internal issues first, then we cannot be effective on the battlefield.
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Capt Richard I P.
CPT (Join to see) much like CPT Michael Barden the purpose of my answer was one of focus. What unit (other than special ones) spends as much time on the functions of their weapons, tactics, necessary warfighting knowledge as they do on the various mandatory annual trainings?
It's a Main Effort vs Supporting Effort problem. As a military we are weighting the supporting efforts heavier than the main effort (close with and destroy the enemy).
It's a Main Effort vs Supporting Effort problem. As a military we are weighting the supporting efforts heavier than the main effort (close with and destroy the enemy).
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