{"id":443,"date":"2015-08-31T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/?p=443"},"modified":"2024-02-13T08:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:24:45","slug":"the-arguments-behind-new-tech-track-career-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/the-arguments-behind-new-tech-track-career-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arguments Behind New Tech-Track Career Paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, hundreds of technically or tactically skilled officers and non-commissioned officers, trained at great expense, leave the military for the private sector, not because their skills aren&#8217;t needed but because the military up-or-out promotion system and enlisted retention gates favor leadership qualities over technical expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in shaping his \u201cForce of the Future\u201d initiative, is weighing creation of new \u201ctechnical career tracks\u201d that would allow many more high-tech military personnel to serve full careers without having to strive for command or being pushed into supervisory roles.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, see<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/militaryadvantage.military.com\/2015\/08\/the-arguments-behind-new-tech-track-career-paths\">this Military Advantage blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, hundreds of technically or tactically skilled officers and non-commissioned officers, trained at great expense, leave the military for the private sector, not because their skills aren&#8217;t needed but because the military up-or-out promotion system and enlisted retention gates favor leadership qualities over technical expertise. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, in shaping his \u201cForce of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/the-arguments-behind-new-tech-track-career-paths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Arguments Behind New Tech-Track Career Paths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/veterans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}