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Based on my experience, active duty in Vietnam and Europe with the balance in the reserves, I'd strongly agree with the Sergeant Major. I'd have to disagree, however, on full time manning at the higher grades. The real solution is centralized promotion and assignment boards made up exclusively of active duty officers. These boards would have to be real and, unlike some of the boards I've seen in action, not subject to input from the reserves beyond OERs and a summary of IG and Annual Training evaluations. If some integrity were applied to the system, we'd all be a whole lot better off.

[eno_]

Two part solution:

1. Deploy the slackers for a couple months to some hellhole so they leave.

2. Cut FLEOs pay by 25% if they don't sign up for the Reserves. There's TWO infantry divisions worth of JBTs in the FedGov.