Commentary
The Air Force says it wants to have resilient troops. Mostly, this is in reaction to the high suicide rate. It’s terrible, and wanting to reduce suicides is admirable and critical. But, in typical Air Force fashion, it resorts to training to fix a problem, and truthfully, the other branches probably do the same thing. Creating a training course to fix a problem is the easy way out. It’s a way to demonstrate positive action to solve a challenge without putting a huge effort behind it or making huge changes. But ask professional training people how often these band-aids work, and the answer will be something along the lines of “rarely.”…