Army Knows Better
82nd Airborne Div, Ranger Regiment, 11th ACR build competent, cohesive units despite the personnel system
- Officers serve repetitive assignments, NCOs are “homegrown”
- People know and trust one another
- Strong sense of unit pride
- High espirit, confidence and morale
- Healthy unit competition, from team to battalion level.
Unit Rotation to Iraq and Afghanistan (A Compromise)
These units are “bands of brothers and sisters—brotherhoods” we are trying to create—Army uses ad hoc unit manning system for these units. Ad hoc system works through combination of self-selection and unique qualifications which get SMs back to their brotherhoods and informal regimental systems worked through the current assignment process