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 | A "flexible career management system" that's better able to utilize skills of senior soldiers |
| A flexible retirement system that allows a soldier (who hasn't yet served 20 years) to take retirement benefits away to another job |
| A review (and possible abandonment) of the current "up or out" promotion system. |
Also recommended:
| Improved training |
| Leadership that appreciates the soldiers |
| Improved communications with the civilian public |
| Consistency between "what we do and what we say." |
| Leadership tours should run for a minimum of 24 months so that it's not just another "block to check." |
| The Defense structure should be transformed so that "we are providing the right kind of manpower into the system to do what needs to be done, and that we are thinking far enough ahead to see issues and problems." |
| An improved way of recruiting and retaining soldiers |
| Better ways of "partnering with industry" |
| More competitive (and equitable) compensation and benefits |
| Better housing |
| Fully funded Tricare |
| Improved employment opportunities for spouses |
| Improved ability to vote from overseas. |
May 25, 2001: ATLDP Officer Study Report to The Army
According to a press release issued May 25, 2001, the Army has begun acting on recommendations made by the Training and Leader Development Panel (ATLDP). (More than 13,000 officers, soldiers and family members participated in surveys, focus groups and one-on-one interviews for the study. The ATLDP also will survey Noncommissioned Officer Corps and the Warrant Officer Corps). The study's methodology, findings and recommendations are detailed in The Army Training and Leader Development Panel Officer Study Report to The Army. (Note: In order to view any PDF file, you will need software called Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it, you can download it for free here).
Some of the recommendations said to be already implemented:
| "Establish a Central Tasking Authority to reduce short-notice taskings, ensure that taskings adhere to strict timelines giving sufficient advance notice, and minimize non-operational taskings as much as possible;" |
| "Offer Soldiers with a child in senior year in high school the opportunity to request stabilization at their present duty station rather than moving their family to a new duty station;" |
| "Restrict the amount of time Soldiers spend working on weekends while in garrison;" |
| "Authorize Soldiers four-day weekends in conjunction with every Federal holiday;" |
| "Stabilize lieutenants in their platoon-level jobs for a minimum of one year to ensure they build an adequate leadership foundation;" |
| "Move all battalion and brigade changes of command to a summer cycle to minimize dislocations during the academic school year;" |
| "Explore the possibility of routinely scheduling Permanent Change of Station (PCS) moves in the summertime, especially for families with school-age children; and" |
| "Pursue actions to give Soldiers PCS orders a year out from their next duty station assignment." |
Based on additional panel recommendations, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki has directed:
| "The elimination of non-mission compliance tasks that compete with war-fighting training" |
| "That better ways be determined to train lieutenants to serve in captain positions" |
| "A rewrite of training manuals FM 25-100 and FM 25-101." |
For more information, contact the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office at (703) 697-7550.
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