Annotated Bibliography: Norman Scwarzkopf Needed Brainpower
Norman Scwarzkopf Needed Brainpower, Sonny Montgomery Provided It
BY Brad Hollingsworth
Mississippi State University
Draft #1
15 October 2014
History 8823: Seminar in US History since 1877
Dr. Richard V. Damms
G.V. 'Sonny ' Montgomery at Adjournment Party of House Resolution 1400
Source: File Photo/MSU Special Collections
The Montgomery GI Bill is a piece of legislation that has been left out of the discussion when it comes to factors that led to victory in the Gulf War, and that is an error. The historical record proves that education benefits saved the military, especially the Army after Vietnam, and made the all- volunteer force a huge success. There is no arguing that there are other factors that helped win the war in the Gulf. …show more content…
If the sSoldiers who initially joined only did an initial tour and went back to the private sector there was a constant revolving door at the initial entry training locations (IET). This createds a high demand for training allocations and increaseds the training budget significantly. Initial entry training can ranged anywhere from 3 months to a year to complete, depending on the occupational specialty of the sSoldier. So if a sSoldier iwas in one of the longer schools he could spend less than a year with his unit. This didoes not allow for strong unit cohesion but. more importantly to policy makers, cost a lot of money. Finding the appropriate solution that would allow the all-volunteer force to draw a larger and better educated population of sSoldiers and retain them would eventually reduce both personnel and training costs. Drawing a better educated group of recruits would help reduce training costs because many sSoldiers would make it half way through the initial entry training before failing out. Every day they were at training was a waste out of limited funds and training seat allocations. Representative McCloskey elaborated on the caliber of Ssoldiers serving in the military by reading an article out of a May 1979 issue of Stars and Stripes:. “450 Soldiers were tested in West Germany, only 7 out of 450 could read, write, and compute at the ninth grade level. This is the army that will have to take on new technical systems. If our troops are stationed at the Brandenburg Gate, or if they are guarding an embassy in Islamabad, they need to have judgment, coolness under fire, good common sense. We do not have that Army today.”14 The chart below shows how scores that score in the top categories I through IIIA pass job performance test while those in IIIB and IV fail the same
BY Brad Hollingsworth
Mississippi State University
Draft #1
15 October 2014
History 8823: Seminar in US History since 1877
Dr. Richard V. Damms
G.V. 'Sonny ' Montgomery at Adjournment Party of House Resolution 1400
Source: File Photo/MSU Special Collections
The Montgomery GI Bill is a piece of legislation that has been left out of the discussion when it comes to factors that led to victory in the Gulf War, and that is an error. The historical record proves that education benefits saved the military, especially the Army after Vietnam, and made the all- volunteer force a huge success. There is no arguing that there are other factors that helped win the war in the Gulf. …show more content…
If the sSoldiers who initially joined only did an initial tour and went back to the private sector there was a constant revolving door at the initial entry training locations (IET). This createds a high demand for training allocations and increaseds the training budget significantly. Initial entry training can ranged anywhere from 3 months to a year to complete, depending on the occupational specialty of the sSoldier. So if a sSoldier iwas in one of the longer schools he could spend less than a year with his unit. This didoes not allow for strong unit cohesion but. more importantly to policy makers, cost a lot of money. Finding the appropriate solution that would allow the all-volunteer force to draw a larger and better educated population of sSoldiers and retain them would eventually reduce both personnel and training costs. Drawing a better educated group of recruits would help reduce training costs because many sSoldiers would make it half way through the initial entry training before failing out. Every day they were at training was a waste out of limited funds and training seat allocations. Representative McCloskey elaborated on the caliber of Ssoldiers serving in the military by reading an article out of a May 1979 issue of Stars and Stripes:. “450 Soldiers were tested in West Germany, only 7 out of 450 could read, write, and compute at the ninth grade level. This is the army that will have to take on new technical systems. If our troops are stationed at the Brandenburg Gate, or if they are guarding an embassy in Islamabad, they need to have judgment, coolness under fire, good common sense. We do not have that Army today.”14 The chart below shows how scores that score in the top categories I through IIIA pass job performance test while those in IIIB and IV fail the same