Operations personnel are the top of the class, acquisitions are government bureaucracy at its finest.
Pros
The operational community features highly motivated, highly skilled professionals committed to accomplishing the mission with the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Extensive focus is placed on leadership development and officers are given plenty of opportunities to excel.
Cons
The acquisitions community is a swampland! The officers are generally mediocre and unwilling to think creatively. The name of the game is bureaucracy, placing blame and doing as little as possible to get by. Blame shifting and blame placing are the key skills which seem to be rewarded followed up by brown nosing. Officers have so little authority in the career field that they suffer analysis paralysis, they seem incapable of making a decision with out excessive analysis, briefings and special studies. If you want to do great things, acquisitions is not the place to be. If you love pushing paper you'll love this place.
