The United States military is far more innovative than it is given credit for. Here are a few examples:

Multinational Strategic Airlift Unit Activates in Hungary

Very few countries can afford to purchase the largest aircraft used for troop transportation and equipment transfers. The C-17 Globemaster is the heavy lifter in the United States Air Force but only a handful of countries are flying them other than the U.S.

On July 27, 2009, that began to change. The Strategic Airlift Capability program was activated at Pápa Air Base, Hungary. Twelve nations have joined together to create a joint heavy lifting capacity that
will be based there.

Army Training Embraces Web 2.0

Imagine an international company with over 500,000 employees and hundreds of manuals full of policies and procedures. Imagine that it requires all of the men and women in its executive training program to blog, Twitter and create a
Facebook page. Imagine that it has some of its hundreds of manuals on a wiki and open to change and rewriting by any of its employees from entry level to the CEO.

You do not have to imagine such a company. It already exists and is called the United States Army.

Army Reserve’s Employer Partnership Initiative

Imagine you are an employer. What if you knew of a place where you could find the following qualities in every prospective employee?

• discipline
• leadership
• ability to work under pressure
• tested drug free
• state of the art job skills

What if you knew of a place where every single person you might interview had these skills? Would you partner with that place and actively seek to hire some of those people? Of course you would.