.....to either stay or leave.


Since you opened the door I have a comment about this because the response to the issue, while not directly related to retention, does lead once again back to overwhelming frustration and mistrust. Their response is more ground training. Added to what we already had. At a minimum admit what we were doing doesn't work and scrap it. Don't add to it.

Senseless uninspired "training" called resiliency training. Exactly what the hell does that even mean? An 8hr waste of time. There is already a mandatory session as part of the deployment line, a yearly SARC briefing, an online video requirement. However, those folks who championed the current method of education and were hailed as champions with glorified OPRs, have now been promoted and are still making poor decisions. Thus the same resone was to be expected. As I mentioned above, the need for career broadening has trumped well developed leadership skills. Never seeing the results of their decisions before moving on to get a small taste of another OSS section, Group/Wing job or pcs'g to headquarters. Renaming sexual assault yet again shows the Air Force burying its head in political correctness instead of addressing an issue of such great importance head on. Unfortunately for leadership, the very people they lead, who have been required to be educated box checkers will see through this and roll their eyes at senior leaders trying to recolor the same turd with another coat of glaze.

Didn't this start with senior leaders getting caught misbehaving? I wonder how many of them have had to actually sit through this stuff? I'm sure their days are too important to stop for 8hrs. Theyll rely on feedback from thier underlings who will never "tell the emperor he has no clothes" because their careers will be effected. I'm sure if this issue was actually of great importance all 4-stars and below would have sat through this course. As it is, it's been "contracted" out and shoved down to the masses as "the fix".

Such intolerable behavior should be dealt with swiftly and directly. That should be the focus of the training. Holding persons accountable for their actions. This is basic child psychology 101 for parents. Give your children an inch and they'll take a mile. It takes education of the act as intolerable and the knowledge of what will happen should you proceed on your chosen path. Resiliency training is just another typical response that will add to the broader feeling of O-5 and below sense of distrust and frustration (especially those who are married with children- probably not the need target audience). In the end this will not be the reason forgetting out, but adds one more log on the fire.