Is military re-enlistment a sign of job satisfaction or a sign of the times? After all, in a time of economic gloom there is a lot to be said for being in the armed forces. You are a doing a worthwhile job and at the same time you have a secure career.

Not alone that you have every opportunity and encouragement to gain promotion and to increase your skills.
At the retirement from the army of an officer he or she will often refer to the comrades he or she has made over the years and of course that camaraderie is another reason why people re-enlist in the armed forces. Such camaraderie is evident whether you are listening to an air force after dinner speech or a change of command speech by an outgoing naval officer. Whatever the occasion for such a speech it will say quite clearly that members of the forces are special and different. It will express the fact that there is having a mere colleague is totally different from having a comrade in arms. Re-enlistment is popular simply because the military life is like a drug. You get hooked on it.

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Change of command speech.

They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace. Well actually they are changing command in the forces all around the world and guess what? They all have to make a change of command speech. So today’s speech is just that, a change of command speech for a Navy commander. Here’s a small gem of advice I found given to an incoming commander for his speech.

‘Stand up, shut up and sit down.’ (I’m telling you ’simplicity’ is the new black). I’m just guessing here but I think that advice might have come from someone in the audience.

Though that doesn’t leave a lot of room for the incoming commander to express his or her sentiments for the future does it?

But I guess that’s where speech-writers come in.

Never knowingly short of words- Marco.

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