A Comprehensive Officer 's Abbatical' Program

<p>The military needs to retain the best officers and maximize the skills and abilities of these officers to achieve the more proficient and professional officer corps required in the modern complex operating environment. <br><br>This AY-09 USAWC Resident student author argues that due to limited opportunities for formal and informal education outside the military environment changing demographics within the greater military family difficulty competing with characteristics of the civilian workforce and a growing civil-military cultural gap the military has not successfully maximized the quality proficiency and professionalism of its officer corps. He proposes a comprehensive sabbatical program requiring military professionals at certain junctures in their careers to take a hiatus from military service for a two or three-year period to pursue an education start a family work in the civilian labor force or otherwise pursue life outside the military before returning to the military to resume their career.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>