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And a further 43,5% are lost afterwards. And for these, if it is allowed, I would request General Meyer to provide the combat records. Afaik these were 20 officers of entered but also left the club in the last 5 years for various reasons. I can't imaging them being successful but leaving, I think the opposite is more likely and would again point to the possibility that the training process is somehow flawed.
It is always encouraging to hear the thoughts of an enthusiastic and animated club member who so readily recognizes what is wrong with the club. It is even better to watch as that member avails himself of the opportunity to step right up and assume the additional responsibility of correcting those flaws with his own personal time and energies. You are quite as capable as I, Christian, to rummage about within the DoR to extract the information you profess to support your claims. But I assume you are even more capable of utilizing your talents by becoming an UMA Instructor and helping to give back something of that which you were given as you approach the sixth anniversary of your own graduation. Perhaps you might even consider creating and administering a special, post-graduate, tactical school in which all new members will be given the play skills and tools with which they will become proficient players. (Perhaps JTS might even pay you for your troubles!
)I must, however, compliment and salute you on your recognition of the importance of membership retention, a subject of which I have been constantly aware and most actively concerned. Any Recruitment Plan must eventually attend to that subject, otherwise a portion of the time and effort spent in rounding up the new cadre would seem to be for naught.
For the moment, lets us hope that the recruiting efforts already placed in motion will be met, at a minimum, with the same friendly, gracious and voluntary efforts accorded to you and I as cadets, and that a more permanent recruiting program may be placed within the club's operation.