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Old 05-04-2008, 17:29 PM   #5 (permalink)
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On further thought- that still represents 40-60 2LTs from an approx grad class of 400 or so.

You'd know better, but I'd guess that a goodly pct. will be combat arms, specifically airborne infantry rifle platoon leaders in high-speed/low-drag outfits. If so, then they'll be heading to Afghanistan and Iraq in short order.

It would seem that there's an under-utilized resource here unless application takes a back seat to vacumn theory. Brachman ought to be teaching TDY courses. 14 day TDY to USMA for combat arms battalion/brigade S-2s. Five classes, 10 days instruction, twenty students per...

Fourteen hundred man-days for 1Lts/Cpts. Maybe $300,000 plus TDY and course/instructor expenses. $500,000-1.0mil is chump-change for the value. Eighty hours of instruction would be huge. I'm sure that the relevant material is there.

Just idly speculating...
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