A new RAND Corp. study offers a report card for each of the U.S. military's systems to create generals and admirals that could shape the Pentagon's future approach to building joint-force leaders. All of the services stress the importance of fighting as a joint force, but having joint experience is ranked as minimally important by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps and only somewhat important by the Air Force in the O-7 promotion process, according to the report. The Army, Navy and Air Force agreed that high-visibility assignments and maintaining personal networks are very important to the O-7-promotion process, while the Marine Corps viewed both areas as minimally important to the process, the report found.
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