I read today that the Army Chief of Staff (CSA) is concerned about high percentages of people being promoted in the force today...with little attention being given pertaining to selecting only the "best" to receive said promotion.
He said, “We’re promoting 95 to 98 percent of captains to major, 93 or 95 percent of majors to lieutenant colonel,” Dempsey said. “We’re not really separating out the true high performers that we should aspire to have. We shouldn’t be satisfied that 98 percent of captains are being promoted to major, because 98 percent of captains don’t deserve to be promoted to major. Statistically, that’s an infeasible percentage. And we’ve got to do the same thing on the noncommissioned officer (NCO) side.”
The CSA wants to reverse this trend and rightly so. If this does not change soon, the Army is going to find itself with a lot of average performers running itself in the future. Not a good thing in my view.
