Our untapped resource: Junior enlisted
By Thomas E. Ricks
February 23, 2017
Here’s one of our biggest military secrets: The greatest untapped resource in the Marine Corps is the E-1 to E-5…
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By Sgt. Jon Gillis, USMC
Best Defense guest contributor
Here’s one of our biggest military secrets: The greatest untapped resource in the Marine Corps is the E-1 to E-5 community.
There are two reasons for that. First, the junior enlisted community is the closest to the smallest points of friction. Those are the ones that leaders often don’t recognize, but that add up over time to create the service level problems that we pour much of our time and energy into solving. Secondly, the junior enlisted community is a lot more capable than leaders usually assume.
Here’s an example of that fact. During my first three years in the Marine Corps, I worked with an accountant, an investment banker, a legal assistant, an aerospace engineer, a teacher, a firefighter, and a bunch of retired drug dealers.
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