Inculcating Jointness: Officer Joint Education and Training from Cradle to Grave
Abstract
A joint culture exists in the U.S. military as a result of the Goldwater-Nichols legislation and Skelton Panel on education. This culture is not enough however, and a need exists to improve officer Joint Professional Military Education and Training in order to develop better joint officers. This paper proposes a comprehensive cradle to grave approach of educating and training officers both in their own services and in the joint arena. This approach synthesizes several existing recommendations with new ones to affect a radical change in joint officer production. The current existing PME and training structure is examined and shortfalls are noted. Next, a restructured PME process from pre-commissioning through the War colleges and Capstone is proposed. A new construct for changing the current Phased approach to JPME is proffered to not only help solve the military's joint manning problems, but also to address the large disparities between service beliefs and actions for PME. Lastly, joint training ideas are evaluated to enable more operational opportunities for both individuals and units. An effort here is made to reduce the operational impact of training on Unified commander's staffs and field units who feel the brunt of current operational and personnel tempo.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 07, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA378525
Entities
People
- Michael W. Carrell
Organizations
- Naval War College