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To: cosmicforce who wrote (126028)	12/2/2009 10:48:16 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543652

<<<A common misconception is that military is cutting edge. That is just not true. Military hardware is robust and robust hardware comes from MATURE technologies with long design cycles of 7 to 10 years. When I was in, a lot of our circuitry was one generation back from civilian hardware. Integrated circuits were relatively newfangled and didn't have the proven operational reliability of discrete components needed for military working conditions. Even new airplanes use conservative designs. Employers using current technology find those trained in the military are not up to date on current test equipment. Same is true for the guy in the motor pool. The differences are even greater there.>>> I agree there is tremendous misconception. I agree about transfering skills developed in the military into civilian jobs. But I disagree with where you are leading and concluding. The perception and the military is complicit and where the military are training people for highly technical occupations. In reality the military require mostly not very technical forms of labor to do the majority of cooking and keeping the kitchen clean, supply chain functions of forklift and stacking of supplies, truck drivers and deliveries, and other labor intensive duties. There is a disconnect in expectations of recruits and people who design training. That is why training is so expensive. It is like in the civilian education establishment where everyone is being trained as if they were going on to a phd in philosophy.