Has been going downhill for quite some time now. I’ve been a member of the Institute for 30+years now and in the last ten years-its flagship magazine, Proceedings-has really failed to satisfy.
But now, it has really hit rock bottom. I’ll leave it to someone more qualified than me to explain why.
Skippy:
Thanks – this is going to be a long, hard fight over the period between now and the Annual mtg – given the resources of those involved the outcome is anything but certain that this measure will be overturned and the those pronmoting it ousted.
There are relatively few times in our lives that we can say with certainty we are on the sides of the Angels, but this is one of them. The actions of six Board members – half retired FO’s, approaches a level of contemptuous venality that rivals the worst of Wall Street…and threatens the foundations of an organization that is unique among the Services.
Fight’s on…
w/r, SJS
I sold an article to them back when congress declared it illegal for the military to take pay for articles they wrote. I had a subscription at the time but USNI paid off with a rather lengthy extension of that in lieu of $. Even then I knew the Proceedings had caved. For the first 7 years it was a good read and then it turned into the Air Force Times. It sucked. I read the commentary which shrank each issue and the Nobody Asked Me and the the rest of the articles were written by Disco Dan of NAVSEA et al and did nothing but heap praise on every shallow idea out of OPNAV. I’ve attended AFCEA for the last 10 years, get the free copy of Proceedings, skim it and toss it. It got worse and worse.
I refuse to write about what I do/did and have for many years. I can understand others who feel the same way. Perhaps that means that sources of articles have dried up leaving them little but pablum to publish. I still think they could have take up the articles of those critical of NAVSEA, PERS, OPNAV.
I don’t know about you-but every time I wrote for them- I took the check and cashed it.