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Are officers truly needed in a military?

Asked By: GOD HAMMER - 12/17/2010
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Ok, you have your widget twister. All he know is how to twist widgets. He's good at that job. He's been doing it for ten years. Maybe he's E-7.

Or you have the the framus adjuster. Now this guy is pretty technical. I mean, you have a badly adjusted framus, and you're liable to find yourself up to your eyeballs in gunk. So the military's sent this guy to a ton of schools to learn the intricacies of adjusting the various framuses... and upgrading his skills on new models. He may have only been a few years... let's say he's an E-2.

Now you have an officer. He may not even know what a widget looks like. He may have only the vaguest idea what a framus is for. But he knows that both are integral parts of the machinery (plane, ship, weapon, vehicle... whatever) with military personnel fight. And he has knowledge of deployment schedules, commitments handed down to him from his superiors, etc. So he goes to his senior enlisted experts and lets him know that the machinery will be needed on such and such a date. If there's an insurmountable problem that cannot be solved by some sort of "work around," he has to go back to his superiors with that information. But, once the command is given, it's up to the specialists to see that the widgets are properly twisted and that the framuses are precisely adjusted. And it's up to the officer to make sure the experts have whatever they need in the way of personnel, supplies, equipment to do their jobs. If there's flak from above, it's the officer's job to absorb as much of it as he can so his experts can do their jobs with minimal distractions.

Now, without the military hierarchy of officers and senior enlisted personnel, the President of the United States would be wandering around the flight lines, the hangar bays, the engine rooms, motor pools issuing orders regarding something else about which he has absolutely no clue.

The military... all branches... have a crying need for competent, career-minded officers and enlisted personnel. That need will never diminish. Even with the moronic push to unmanned vehicles, ships, and aircraft, there will still be a need for competent people to maintain and control them. And, while battles may be fought with machines, they're won by men. Without the men, the machines are so much scrap metal and spare parts.

If you're thinking AI, that's still pretty much a dream. A guy I know said he was laughed out of an interview for a computer job in 1975. He was asked what he thought was the future of computers. He said that in about ten years (that would be 1985) there would be as many computers in the home as there were TV sets at that time. In 1975 computers were the size of rooms and required special air conditioning. He said that in another ten years (1995) the store of information would be so vast that no single computer could hold it all, and that computers would be linked together in some way. In 1975, with peripheral storage devices there was thought to be no limit to the amount of data available to a computer. Data on one computer was loaded on tape and sent to a computer that needed it. In 1975 he predicted the boom of personal computers in 1985, and the wide-spread proliferation of the Internet in 1995. But the last thing he said had no time frame. He said that if man wasn't careful to build a fail-safe "off" switch on all computers, computers would take over and man would be eliminated from the loop as a weak link. Do you need officers? Would you rather take orders from a computer... or worse, some dumb civilian who hasn't the foggiest notion about the military, its mission, or how it works?
Answered By: Mark - 12/17/2010
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In the navy they do all the paperwork we don't want to do.
Answered By: Krys - 12/17/2010
Are leaders truly needed in business? Are coaches needed in sports? Are teachers needed in classrooms? Of course they are. Silly question.
Answered By: JC - 12/17/2010
Then who will lead?


The Fewer, the Prouder, The Marine Officers
Answered By: Fight on the Oppression - 12/17/2010
In what world would handing out hundred of thousands of guns to anyone who is tired of working for minimum wage with no supervision be a good idea?
Answered By: cirestan - 12/17/2010
YES.

Officers are in desperate need in all branches of the U.S. military.

A snake cannot operate without its head.
Answered By: BigBill - 12/17/2010
Yes, they are the leaders, the planners and the strategists. We'll have a bunch of soldiers go all over the place not knowing what's going on nor what to do.

They are also the surgeons, doctors, nurses, pilots, etc.
Answered By: clayjar_azn - 12/17/2010
Of course they are. Why would any soldier follow a body of soldiers that had no leadership when the other side knows exactly what it is trying to do and where it wishes to go because it has officers and we don't.

The question your question inspires is do we really need a military and the answer is yes. To say otherwise would be to commit suicide by absence of thought with so many fingers on so many buttons world wide and more removing their gloves atomically on an almost daily basis.

The chaos that would result from a military run by consensus without officers would have us killing each other in confusion and indecision more than we would the enemy whomever they might be. In military affairs, knowledge is power. Officers become officers by demonstrating a proven depth and breadth of military knowledge both past and present which is why it is they who should form the policies and strategies of our military future. Without them, we are nothing more than an armed gang of directionless thugs attempting to overcome the fact they have a thousand different directions they wish to go in, no idea what they wish to do when they get there, and the enemy as well. That is not a formula for success. If success is not your primary goal at all times, you have no business being involved in a military engagement of any kind for any reason. Without the leadership of officers you would simply get in the way and insure failure of the objective whatever it might be.
Answered By: The Big E - 12/17/2010
Yes. Officers are "educated" men and women that are tasked with making sound decisions to ensure that all the men in their command comes home alive.

There are some exceptions when it comes to making sound logical decisions (lol)
Answered By: Desert Marine - 12/17/2010
Absolutely
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75th Ranger Regiment Infantry Officer of 11 years, Captain Matthew Becovic
Answered By: Rangers Lead the Way! - 12/17/2010
Is ANYONE needed in the military? It's about the person's skill and their compensation for said skill, no matter whether it's public, private, military or otherwise.

Someone has to lead, though anyone can fall into that position. Someone needs to have knowledge and skills, but people can come from anyone with these. However, there are certain standards at different parts of the chain that need to be organized in order to keep good order and discipline. Everyone on an even level does not work.

The system is broken, but just removing parts fixes nothing.
Answered By: Xistove V - 12/17/2010
Yep, the enlisted men need someone to cuss when things run amok.
Answered By: Pete T - 12/17/2010
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