Wednesday, May 16, 2007
the next step
After looking on the Internet and asking a friend some questions, I moved onto a book called Military and Political Leaders & Success : 55 Top Military and Political Leaders & How They Achieved Greatness by Investor's Business Daily. This book talks about the stories of military leaders that succeeded. It also talks and gives ideas on leadership styles and strategies to become such a leader. A couple people that this book talks about are Winston Churchill, dealing with World War II and and Nazi tide and Norman Schwartzkopf who encouraged troops to a great success during ground assaults in the United States. I felt that I had a good start on the beginning steps of some rankings, so I was interested to see how some people go to their level of ranking and what they had to go through.
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I agree. I was actually having a conversation with my boyfriend the other night about military rankings. He said that because he already graduated from college he could walk in as an officer and have those who have been soldiers for several years report to him. I was a little surprised that a college education merits more responsibility than experience. What do you think?
Sounds like a pretty good book. Yeah education definitley merits going up in the ranks. The promotion system right now in the Army is of promotion points. You need so many points to appear in front of a board. Once in front of a board they ask you a series of questions and determine if you move up in rank. College credit hours can turn into a lot of promotion points. Where as a course like WLC (warrior leadership course) is a very minimal amount of points. The thing is though, is that 2 week course teaches you how to be a sgt and above, where as college credit hours do not.
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