Excessive Administrivia: Eliminate the Background Noise and Get back to Brilliance in the Basics
Abstract
Currently, annual training in the Marine Corps is excessive, ineffective, redundant and overly focused on symptoms rather than causation. Marine ethical failures gain attention in the media and the public eye. Many of these failures revolve around drugs, alcohol, suicide, domestic violence, and even sexual assault and rape. The sexual assault, rape and even pornography are now increasingly including children. These sorts of behaviors ought to be incapable of being conducted by Marines, but Marines who have been indoctrinated in the Marine Corps core values are perpetrating these behaviors. The Marine Corps has a linear approach to combating these issues. Certain training is mandated by the Department of Defense of the Department of the Navy, and even Headquarters of the Marine Corps. Most of the training is required to be given once annually, with the average time spent on these important areas of character flaws and misconduct equaling sixty to ninety minutes a year, per Marine. In addition to a one-hour approach to training, the emphasis unfortunately seems to be more heavily towards recording and reporting completion of the training to higher, rather than the standards the training is taught to meet or exceed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 27, 2015
- Accession Number
- AD1175991
Entities
People
- William J. Patrick
Organizations
- Marine Corps University