Five Things The United States Military Needs To Stop Doing
5. STOP Naming everything "The _______ Center of Excellence." Stop naming everything this. Seriously. It's the worst aspect of corporate double-speak gobbledegook emblazoned on the water tower of every military post in the world. Why call it that? If you call something "The Center for Military Medical Excellence," does that mean you had a " Center for Military Medical Mediocrity" that was invariably called "The M3?" Service members already chronically avoid medical treatment to their own detriment all the time. It's not going to change anything to start naming medical centers after people again, but anything to move the needle, I say. As though slapping "Of Excellence" on everything will suddenly stop people from having negative opinions? Like having a full-bird colonel remove my wisdom teeth with a rusty pair of pliers while shouting "RELAX! THAT'S AN ORDER!" is going to make me say "Ah, it was the Dent...