The Culture Must Believe in Units!
“[unit] manning system enhances warfighting capability by enabling commanders and Soldiers to make informed decisions quickly, decreases personnel turbulence, maintains well-being of individuals, employs and replaces units and individuals, and provides quick access to HR information and processes.”
--The Objective Force in 2015, 8 December 2002
“Their [Unit Manning Task Force] efforts cannot be taken lightly, or repeat the attempts in the past of hoping to operate on the fringes of doing what is right, or we will end up with another COHORT. COHORT was a half hearted measure that ended up frustrating a lot of people and never allowed the Army and its soldiers to reach their full potential as fully trained cohesive units that knew what right looked like!”
--Unidentified Expert on Unit Manning/Personnel and Readiness issues 10 December 2002