I can't speak from personal experience, but I can relay what my brother's thoughts are. He retired from the Navy after 28 years as an E9 Master Chief. This should give you a slight window into his competence level. Only 1% of enlisted will make E9. After retirement, he got a job creating budgets for the US Army. There are 6 or 7 people in his office doing this. Some of them are retired military, and the rest have pretty much only worked in government services as civilians. He get's extremely frustrated with those GS workers because of lack of attention to detail, poor work ethics, and apathy. Granted this is just his one office, but that is his experience.
Retired military will typically hold people to a higher standard than non military from my experience. That isn't necessarily a bad thing. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk 2
Agreed on both counts. It would probably be better if the retired military worked only at civilian companies. Civilian companies never have employees that underperform.
They certainly do but it's that companies prerogative to correct, not mine as a voter as is the case with government. If that company has too many underperforming employees it fails. Government is guaranteed to not fail. Let's not let economics get in the way though. Ex military personnel often make the best managers, but again that's based on limited experience (seems to keep biting me in the ***)
