An estimated 60,000 of the 205,000 soldiers on their books can’t deploy to combat zones because of medical problems – and an alarming number of these non-deployables are either wacko, overweight or otherwise physically not up for the fighting game.
I sometimes wonder if Hackworth knows what he’s talking about when it comes to things military. Hopefully he knows more about the military and military matters than he knows about the “real world.”
First, there’s a little thing known as the ADA. You go ahead, in the “real world,” and “sack” someone for a medical problem (or mental problem or for being overweight for that matter). You will have a variety of issues to deal with regarding your business and its ability to continue operating after the lawsuit(s).
I’m beginning to think that Hackworth doesn’t have much experience living in the real world.
Proving only that things are screwed up in the real world, too. One of these days, some lean-and-mean organization is going to take over a lot of our lard-laden dysfuntional social constructions, and it will be very lean times for most of us.
When you compare a typical day for a typical American with what our ancestors had to do just to survive, it makes you realize that 'punctuated equilibrium' is not only an exceptionally efficient means of evolving -- it may be absolutely necessary.