Is There Anything Right With The Career Cadet NCO Concept?
It is conceivable, and perhaps common, for a C/MSgt to have more time in grade than a new C/FO has in the program if the Cadet officer completed each achievement in the absolute minimum time. In this case, the experience of the Cadet NCO will be invaluable. The C/FO will almost certainly be unaware of the many details involved in leadership and rely on the C/MSgt to fill in the gaps. Under other circumstances, say with a 30-month C/FO and an 24-month C/MSgt, the C/FO should be more than capable of helping to train the Cadet NCO. Career Cadet NCOs are also valuable if they have truly sought to become better NCOs. Not only are they learning and applying valuable leadership tools and techniques that are useful as an NCO, they are learning things that will help them as officers and help them to train Cadet NCOs in the future. The Leadership 2000 materials for the NCO ranks have simply too much information for a Cadet to exhaust their potential in 13 months. Conversely, their lessons will e
