Transformation across Generations

Prospective officers may also have been born as early as 1991, but those who finished college at age 22 in 2019 were likely born in 1997. [...]are the newest, youngest Marines still millennials? [...]it is not a surprise the experience of junior officers and enlisted Marines causes them to question the value of "stationing troops in Okinawa to protect foreign countries. Communicators, logisticians, administrators, intelligence analysts, and others contributed to the standard infantry battalion deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan; however, so did a corporal in direct support from the Regional Disbursing Office who managed funds for the Commanders' Emergency Response Program, as well as a lance corporal combat photographer attached to capture that moment when a Marine carried an injured host-country child to a helicopter so the story could influence the local populace and inspire the American public. To help "entitled" junior Marines understand why senior leaders may lack interest in their opinions or ideas, provide the example of a captain with seven years clicking slides for a major with twelve years briefing a lieutenant colonel with seventeen years. [...]a lieutenant with two years understands chain of command and career progression dynamics, we should expect them to go straight to the battalion commander, whose posted command philosophy includes an "open door" policy.