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Originally Posted by JimP
I spent some time there in the early days. The original design concept espoused by GEN Cody when he was Vice was immediately neutered when he retired. It was more a rice bowl issue. Once Cody was gone and they didn't have a Godfather, the long-knives came out. They had some incredible talent, and weren't tied to many of the developmental rules hindering traditional orgs.
In my time there, we suffered monthly investigations - someone with stars coming in trying to shut it down. We'd have to go to the Pentagon weekly to brief the Army 3/5/7 on ops.
The only thing they found was on one particularly painful investigation with a total douche of a GO (can't recall assholes name) was that one NCO's date of her taking the PT test didn't match what was on the training calendar for that month. I shit you not!!
They still did some awesome things as they had the entire world as a JOA and there were some good programs running that few others could pull off. That's about all that can be said in this forum.
The death knell was when they were assigned to TRADOC....; they didn't know what to do with them and the Pentagon looks to have successfully killed what was originally envisioned as an incredible capability.
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Lots of interesting points in here. I was trying to apply, but they said they weren't hiring which was odd to me, then this came out so it makes sense.
Going back to 2008 when Russia invaded Georgia, hybrid warfare has only increased. We're going to see a lot of continuous low level conflicts globally and Big Army seems to be focused on slicing that skillset out in favor of an envisioned WW3 that's highly improbable to occur at the expense of fighting the wars we're likely to continue fighting.