Feb 21, 2008 (Talk of the Nation) — Last year, 13 percent of junior officers with four to nine years experience left the armed services, a jump from eight percent in 2003. Marine Corps Times reporter Andrew Tilghman joins Talk of the Nation to discuss what this loss of experienced soldiers could mean for the military.
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Officers in Exodus, Military Losing Seasoned Soldiers
by Lynn Neary
Feb 21, 2008 (Talk of the Nation) — Last year, 13 percent of junior officers with four to nine years experience left the armed services, a jump from eight percent in 2003. Marine Corps Times reporter Andrew Tilghman joins Talk of the Nation to discuss what this loss of experienced soldiers could mean for the military.
In 2003, eight percent of junior officers in the armed services with four to nine years experience left the army. Last year, the number rose to 13 percent.
Andrew Tilghman, a staff writer for the Marine Corps Times, talks about what the military's loss of the 'best and brightest' could mean for the war in Iraq and beyond. Tilghman recently wrote an article on the topic in Washington Monthly magazine entitled "The Army's Other Crisis."
Joining the discussion is Lieutenant Colonel John Nagl, commander of 1st Battalion, 34th Armor Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. Nagl was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and is author of the book, Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam.
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