Quote of the day: Moving through Army jobs too fast with too little accountability

Maj.
Scott
Stagner took this lesson away from his time in
2006 commanding a 7th Special Forces Group detachment in
southern Afghanistan: "We
are so rushed as officers to get through and check blocks. In my opinion,
everyone is looking more toward their next job than they are at their current
job. I fault our system for that ... We rush people through because we are stuck
on this system of trying to get everyone through all the jobs that we can
possibly get them exposed to. So, 1) they are never held accountable for truly
their actions. You have to really mess up to get relieved and it does not happen
very often. And 2) you don't ever get to operate in the job that you are
training for. You are always getting trained to move on to the next position,
so rather than employing the best person for that job. The best person is the
guy that gets pulled out immediately to go and do something else."