I think that a lot of what is missing here is a realistic look at how young officers are treated as they come into a unit, especially when they have to deal with toxic leadership and the lack of talent management, and maybe the realistic view of their roll in the unit. You can tell all these young LT’s the nice platitudes of what books to read and how to act with their senior rater when they first get to a unit,  but perhaps encouraging some resiliency and realism of being the low man on the totem pole is what is needed to really set them up for success in the Army. So that when they get five minutes to see their BN CDR, instead of a warm welcoming initial counseling, they know what they need to do. A grittier look at leadership and talent management will help them prepare also for all the rough discipline issues they will have to deal with with the uneven quality of Soldiers we have.

I do not want to be negative, but realistic advice in my opinion is the best way to ensure that you don’t see the amount of LT attrition that happens across the Army due to this line of work not being what they thought it would be.

TL;DR- officer resiliency, talent management, toxic leadership