You have been given the authority to change three things in your branch or DoD wide … What are they?

1) Eliminate the reflective belts/vest requirement completely. It used to be just road guards wore them during hours of limited visibilty
2) Reduce the number of General officers and their perks. Guard Bureau had done just fine with a three star heading it, but then NGB gets a seat on the JCS, and instant four star...and nothing changed!
3) Stop the social engineering. The military is here to destroy our enemies, not to appease every hair-brained senator or congressman's politically motivated whim. (I looking directly at

1) Stop DOD wide always being PC.
2) Figure out a better way to give units money. I can't even count all the times units have nothing all year then right before the fiscal year ends they buy a bunch of stuff they don't really need. I don't know the solution but their has to be a better way.
3) Demote people who deserve it, not just ones who fail pt. I mean the people that get kicked around units or are in leadership roles in any way that just can do it. Quit paying that person for a job they can't/won't do.

1. Throw the entire lengthy acquisitions process out the window and start from scratch. Use consultative services from private industry to help draft our contracts until we have sufficient controls in place to prevent our current predicament with contract laws. Right now we're paying almost $180k for Cumins V12 Diesel for the AAV when the free market is paying somewhere around $5k for the same engine. Almost every MOS in every service has waste of this sort and the short-term high cost of consultants and private industry lawyers will be nothing compared to what we save on new contracts.
2. Institute new policies concerning unit fund allocations. Right now everyone spends so that they get the same amount next year. Ranges will never be "ammo dumps". We should be able to request training and have those funds allocated without the worry that the funds will go away next year.
3. Get rid of the civilian employees and contractors which are eating up the DoD budget when we could have servicemembers do the job cheaper. We've all heard of military higher-ups, officers and enlisted, creating justifications for new positions and then filling that post themselves when they retire at a comfy GS-12 or higher paygrade. I could name several positions off the top of my head. We don't need more garbage careerists sitting around waiting to turn 65 on the DoD's dime without providing actual value to the institution. Also, MFLACs need to go. No accountability and functions identical to the chaplain? Send the chaplains to a course if you want them to have more training, but we don't need more civilians accountable to no one. I'm tired of these garbage, entitled govt union employees who are incompetent, unhelpful, and wasteful by their very nature. I'd decimate MCCS as well, since a large portion of what they "give back" to the Marine community just goes to pay the salaries of their higher-level employees and places like MCRD aren't large enough to offset the cost of most of their services, especially when Miramar has identical services.

Eliminate ALL gender differences. If a female soldier is able to avoid a deployment and a PCS move due to pregnancy, then allow a male soldier who's wife is pregnant the same benefit. PT Test requirements the same across the board. I'm not saying make it harder for females or easier for males, just make one standard and let that be that. Equal pay for equal work. "But Chief, if they do that then every married Soldier in a unit set to deploy will get their wives pregnant!" So how is that any different than when a female soldier does the same? I guess its something the Army will have to figure out.

1. Restart MOS SQT testing and make it a major factor in promotions
2. Restart the Army ranks of SPC 5-8. Not everyone is a leader and those people shouldn't be placed in the position of failure.
3. Stop wasting so much money on uniforms - how come the Marines can get a dress uniform loooooking good and the Army can't?

Get rid of weight standards if someone passes the APFT...
False sexual harassment claims get prosecuted.
ACTUALLY train to standard, not time.

1. I would end "Political Correctness" swiftly and ruthlessly. I would put it in the same category as treason, subversion, and espionage. Violators would be subject to trial be Courts Martial and, the minimum sentence would be 20 years in prison. You should not have to worry about hurting someone's delicate feelings while your job is deploying to a hostile location to engage in combat with an armed enemy who wishes to kill you. Focus on critical war fighting tasks rather than "mandatory sensitivity training". Harsh words killed no one ever and, if you get destroyed over words, combat is definitely not the place for you.
2. All major policy or uniform changes would have to pass a board, with a two thirds approval, of Soldiers comprised of three personnel of each of the following categories: Field Grade Officers, Company Grade Officers, Senior NCO's and, Junior NCO's. If it's a bad idea, like the black beret or the last great tattoo policy, it will most likely fail here.
3. I would do away with gender specific standards. There would be ONE standard across the board. No Soldier should have to put their life in the hands of another who is not required to meet the same standards in training.

Maybe a Draft? The American people need to have skin in the game again. As it stands the military is a "video game" the People watch on TV when we have an action. Not my kid? Why NOT your kid?

Bring back discipline, Allow NCOs to scuff up soldiers that need it, and stop funding needless uniform changes. (If I had a fourth, I would reduce the raw number of PCS's allowing more continuity of training and stabilization at one station as well as reducing the cost to move them all over the world every few years.)

Stop wasting so much dang money, comfortable boots, and comfortable boots.