Paul Sauthority
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staff more like the military does? As I understand it, a lot of the lower level government workers are just hired fresh out of high school or college, without any need for specific educational backgrounds. What if instead of having the staff for a given agency composed entirely of people who are more or less expected to spend their career with the agency, you had a lot of the grunt work done by enlisted individuals, who'd basically subject to the same style of training, compensation, and chain of command that an enlisted soldier is. Only instead of being trained to fight and sent of to war, they'd get trained to perform various administrative tasks, and then spend a few years mostly going between the barracks and an office building where they would work to enforce environmental regulation or look for signs of tax fraud, while higher ranking career officers would be do the work of actually setting policy recommendations.
I realize that the military is incredibly expensive to operate, and have read that even the cost to train an individual soldier can be in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, but the impression I get is that a lot more of that has to do with the cost of specifically military equipment, so maybe those costs wouldn't transfer over to government agencies?
Thoughts?
I realize that the military is incredibly expensive to operate, and have read that even the cost to train an individual soldier can be in the hundreds of thousands, or even millions, but the impression I get is that a lot more of that has to do with the cost of specifically military equipment, so maybe those costs wouldn't transfer over to government agencies?
Thoughts?