Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!uokmax!occrsh!att!cbnews!military From: ames!ames!claris!portal!cup.portal.com!mmm@uunet.UU.NET Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: The Value of a Military Education Message-ID: <14399@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 1 Mar 90 04:03:31 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: I have some old Air Force ROTC books, and I think they are really superb examples of clear and effective textbooks. The subject matter they cover seems to have great applicability outside the military sphere, applicability to things like running a business, organizing political groups, etc. Skills which are taught include keeping accounts, making an office efficient, training unskilled people to do a job, designing paperwork (and reducing it by consolidating and eliminating forms), etc. It seems to me that these books reflect a course of education which must be of immense utility when applied to the problems of life in general. But not having experienced this education, I realize I could be way off the mark. My question is: is a military education a valuable thing? Would such an education make a person well-qualified to, say, run a restaurant or a hardware store? Or would a military education be a slow and inefficient way to learn skills which could better be learned in some other way? And even if it is a good form of education, what are its principal weaknesses?