Negative ROI on prestige online programs

As to the Air Force, seems to me that their standards for recruitment for officers and enlisted are always a cut above everyone even (lightning may strike me here) the Navy. I entered the Navy as an officer candidate in 1976 and they were (obviously) pretty desperate then.

 

With Spanish, I find most words are from one of three possible origins - Latin, Arabic or Native languages of the Americas. Cesped is from Latin.

All here: https://wordconnections.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/cesped/

 

It's not just the MBA. In the IT field, the bubble is already popping. DoD's Dir 8570 and 8140 require, in Information Assurance/Cybersecurity positions, that you have a IT certification, or you can't have the position.

https://public.cyber.mil/cw/cwmp/dod-approved-8570-baseline-certifications/

 

Ah! So it is Latin after all!

 

Claro que sí. - Ita est.

 

Yes, higher overall because we have a greater proportion of specialties that require advanced training and, thus, the aptitude for it. But you can find really challenging specialties and really smart and capable people in each of the services' enlisted forces.

As for officers, it's all about the same across the board. Mostly.

 

I'm sorry but I don't see the connection between what you said and what I said.

Certifications, IT or otherwise, seem like the most logical credentialing step for a skilled workforce. You have a pretty clear idea of the skills one possesses if they earned an MCSE, for example, but you don't have any such assurance with a degree in CS. You could have a PhD in Computer Science and devote your research to a very niche area and not have the slightest clue how to optimize our database while someone with an associates degree and a DB certification can do the job like a boss.

The liberal arts education, noble as the goal is, was also developed as a finishing school for the elite. It was never designed to provide full spectrum vocational training. That's why certifications make so much sense. But alas, certifying bodies don't have nearly the lobbying might that universities do.

 

But the Navy has way cooler uniforms.

 

I'm more exasperated with them being called Space Force Guardians. It sounds too close to National Guardsman and Coast Guardsman while also not having anything to do with Space. I also don't really buy the reasoning that the motto of the Air Force Space Command in 1983 being "Guardians of the High Frontier" makes it any better.

Unfortunately I can't provide a solution to this problem because all of the names suggested were terrible: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000177-73e1-d263-abf7-fbfda8440000

I think Aeronaut might have worked (although close to Astronaut so maybe the same issue.)

 

Space Cadets?

 

The proposed dress uniform looks kinda silly to me. But then, the U.S. Navy officer dress blue (really black double breasted with gold lace and buttons) uniform is very common throughout the world with minor variations such as the "executive loop". Even the Merchant Marine wears it on passenger ships. My point is that sea going officers tend conservative. It's basically an old fashioned cut business suit with gold stripes and a peaked hat. No "flash". No "vision". No "style ".

 

And Battlestar Galactica uniforms? https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/09/22/03/48226449-0-image-a-9_1632277517576.jpg

 

I like the diagonal buttons. The problem I have is that over what appears to just be the light blue USAF shirt it looks to me more like either a fancy chef or hotel concierge sort of styling. Gosh, you know, if only there was a way to come up with the same basic element in a way that appealed to the largest number of people imaginable. Maybe even introduce a new color to military uniforms like something in the red family? Maybe even a garment that can reinvigorate the mock turtle neck?



The whole concept is a little goofy. Might as well lean into it.

 

I nominate this thread for "Most Hijacked in 2021".

 

Speaking of hijackings, have you seen the 2019 action-thriller 7500? It's on Amazon Prime. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it.

 

The USAF dress blue uniform looks like what it is; an adaptation of the US Army Air Corps uniform. That makes a kind of historic sense to me. I haven't figured out why the USCG made such radical changes to its dress uniform though. Decades ago, USCG officers wore the same blue uniform as USN with the addition of the Coast Guard shield on the sleeves. That made sense; in wartime the USCG merges with the Navy or at least used to do so. Now they look a bit more like police officers. Hm. Well, they ARE police of a sort I guess.