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**choollaBard** · 12-09-2011, 04:04 PM

Why have any?

Tradition. This is the only reason we currently have three (four if you count the CG). This is the heart of the question--at which point does military tradition become too expensive to support? These sacred cows feed on bales of cash and suck up personnel whose talents could be applied to operational/support missions. Roughly 4-5K personnel are assigned to the Air Force Academy / 10 ABW to support the prep-school and the Academy cadets. There are a lot of AF ops and support units who are working extra shifts / longer hours because they are short on personnel and its only going to get worse as cuts start coming in the next few years.

I'm all for tradition, but not when it annually wastes millions of dollars and tens of thousands of work hours.

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. --Peter Drucker

12-09-2011, 04:04 PM	#11
choollaBard Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 516 Senior Member	Why have any? Tradition. This is the only reason we currently have three (four if you count the CG). This is the heart of the question--at which point does military tradition become too expensive to support? These sacred cows feed on bales of cash and suck up personnel whose talents could be applied to operational/support missions. Roughly 4-5K personnel are assigned to the Air Force Academy / 10 ABW to support the prep-school and the Academy cadets. There are a lot of AF ops and support units who are working extra shifts / longer hours because they are short on personnel and its only going to get worse as cuts start coming in the next few years. I'm all for tradition, but not when it annually wastes millions of dollars and tens of thousands of work hours. Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. --Peter Drucker
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