7. Career path is not in line with its Future Force.
Army doctrine lists a handful of “broadening assignments” captains can complete after their 12-to-18 month command is finished. Those include serving as an aide-de-camp, a service school instructor or a doctrine developer. The broadening assignments are specific and don’t include things such as a strategic stint with the State Department or two years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, as was the case for Lt. Joseph Riley.