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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (126045)	12/2/2009 10:59:20 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543661

When it was a draft military and labor was very cheap soldiers did all those things you mention (cooking, cleaning, driving fork lifts). With the volunteer Army that all has changed. Now it is cheaper to pay civilians to do those things and thats who does most of the infrastructure support functions. In order to attract people to be soldiers you have to offer them real wages and the services want them to be professional soldiers so their is very little non-professional duty any more--at least stateside--relatively speaking compared to what it was.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (126045)	12/2/2009 11:11:51 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 543661

I'm not sure I understand your post. The training in the military (again my experience) was very good and was probably the most cost-effective training program I've ever seen (I've seen a lot of them). We learned material covered in an AS degree at a JC in about 6 months. When we got out, employers considered military electronics as good or better than a civilian ASEE degree. This was one area where the services excelled - training - and strangely to me, it seems to be the one you are taking most exception with. A lot of information was transferred through a breakthrough learning technique the Navy called "Programmed Instruction". It was probably closer to Programmed Learning and had the advantage intensive self-study. If you personally couldn't learn it, they dropped you out of the program to a lesser rating (or no rating at all) so the individual is totally impacted by their success or failure. en.wikipedia.org