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Military Review - May 1, 2004

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(25.) General Accounting Office (GAO) 03-238, Report to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, "Military Personnel: Joint Officer Development Has Improved, but a Strategic Approach is Needed" (Washington, DC: GPO, December 2002), on-line at <www.gao.gov/new.items/ d03238.pdf>, accessed 29 April 2004.

(26.) JP 3-05.1 and SOCOM Directive 621-1.

(27.) JP 3-05.1.

(28.) This model is an updated version of an original program of instruction, which was proposed in 1989. See "Fighters vs. Thinkers: The Special Operations Staff Officer Course and the Future of SOF," Special Warfare (Spring 1989): 33-37.

(29.) One recent RAND report notes that distance learning supports asynchronous learning (that is, learning whenever an individual chooses to) and allows learning programs to be redesigned and offered as modular units, thus tailoring the material to current skill levels, new assignments, and time constraints of individual soldiers. Also, distance learning can more easily provide refresher training and just-in-time training, allowing soldiers to remain proficient in a wider range of skills or to have proficiency restored when and where needed. See "Army Distance Learning Can Enhance Personnel Readiness," RAND, on-line at <www.rand.org/publications/RB/RB3028>, accessed 8 April 2004.

(30.) GAO-03-238.

(31.) Ibid.

(32.) MG Sidney Shachnow, quoted in Special Warfare (October 1995). Commander Steven R. Schreiber, U.S. Navy, serves in the Operations Department, U.S. Special Operations Command. He received a B.S. from the University of Arizona and an M.S. from the University of Tennessee. He was the commander of an anti-submarine squadron aboard the USS John F. Kennedy in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Major Greg E. Metzgar, U.S. Army, is the J7, Special Operations Command-Joint Force Command. He received a B.S. from Boise State University and an M.S. from Central Michigan University. He has served in many troop leadership positions and Special Forces assignments and was with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Major Stephen R. Mezhir, U.S Air Force, is Chief, Nuclear Security Policy, United States Strategic Command. He received a B.S. from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. from Webster University.

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