Army wants junior officers to fix quality-of-life issues that drive soldiers out
The Army's Junior Officer Counsel pilot program aims to get officers to come up with solutions for quality of life problems that are driving soldiers out of the Army.
Patty Nieberg
Posted 17 Hours Ago
An Army pilot program is asking junior officers to look at quality of life problems that drive junior soldiers out of the service. Army photo by Pfc. Jonathan Reyes.
A new Army pilot program is asking junior officers to address quality of life issues driving their peers out of the service.
In 2020, the Army started using an annual career engagement survey to better understand why its junior officer corps were leaving the service. Now, the Army wants to hear from junior officers themselves with a program modeled off a similar idea used in the Navy.
“Issues they’re going to solve are going to affect not just junior officers but all folks in the Army,” said Maj. Chris Slininger, the current director of AJOC. “Junior officers are closer to the soldiers on the ground.”
The goal of the Army Junior Officer Counsel, AJOC, program is two-fold: get feedback on what quality of life issues are driving junior officers out of the Army and put junior officers in leadership positions to hear from their own units about personnel, technology, and training problems affecting all soldiers. The program is being piloted in three units: 3rd Sustainment Brigade at Fort Stewart, Georgia, the 16th Sustainment Brigade in Germany and the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade in Arizona.
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