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The Joint Force has a deep appreciation for the importance of communication systems—across commands and 

between people. Leaders, civilians and servicemembers, officers and enlisted, often forget that communication and 

the ability to communicate is deeply generational. Dr. Fred Kienle developed the content of this article and oft 

presented it to new faculty at the Joint Forces Staff College. Campaigning asked Dr. Kienle to convert his slides to 

an article to enable broader sharing and consideration, since communication is a key enabler for so much of what 

the Joint Force strives for.

Cross-Generation Acculturation in JPME

Written by1

Frederick R. Kienle

Someone posted a motivational sign on the wall of a Joint Professional Military Education 

(JPME) college recently. The sign proclaimed, “the mind is like a car battery, it recharges by 

running.” Attributed to Bill Watterson, the inspirational, if not brainy quote, made perfect sense 

to the administrator or faculty member who placed the sign in the busy hallway.

1 But to someone 

growing up in a generation with an increasing number of electric vehicles, the quote might seem

ridiculous. Most any teen in Generation Z can confidently argue that electric vehicles can’t 

charge their own batteries; batteries need to be plugged into a power source for recharging. 

Maybe brainy and maybe motivational, but the quote is certainly a generational anachronism.

Intending to create unity, it serves to illustrate the risk of ignoring the existing differences 

between the generational cultures that populate the JPME enterprise. Today’s JPME faculty and 

students generally find themselves as products of at least two different generational cultures, 

with slightly different thoughts, ideas, and educational preferences, which can, if neglected or 

poorly addressed, diminish learning and create contentious classroom dynamics.

The U.S. Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) enterprise is clearly in the business of 

amalgamating cultures through a process termed “acculturation.” Acculturation can be defined as 

“a change in behaviors and thinking among a group of individuals as a result of continuous 

contact.”2 The CJCSI 1800.01F Military Education Policy charges all of U.S. Military’s JPME I 

& II accredited military colleges to achieve acculturation through “a mix of students and faculty 

to foster a joint learning experience” and through the creation of “common beliefs and trust that 

occurs when diverse groups come into continuous direct contact.”3 JPME institutions have a 

mission to mitigate, if not overcome, the profound differences in culture, attitudes, underlying 

values, traits, and worldviews of the Services.

1 The views expressed are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the official policy or position of Joint Forces Staff 

College, National Defense University, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government.
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Defining Generations and Culture

Service cultures are not the only cultures clashing in JPME classrooms. Military and Service 

cultures are a complex product of national values, history, experiences, social necessity, 

technologies, amongst other considerations. Service cultures are demonstrated through multiple 

artifacts, espoused values, and basic assumptions.4 Each of the six military branches has its own 

set of terms and acronyms that relate to traditions, roles, missions, job titles, tactics, and 

expectations of military service members and their organizations.

5 Each military branch also has 

its own set of moral codes such as duty, honor, courage and strength, which shape servicemembers’ personal and professional outlooks.

6 The immutable existence of cultural differences 

between Services is well recognized. JPME institutions acknowledge and address different 

Service cultures but often make far less effort to recognize and address generational differences 

existing across their respective populations. The multiple generational cultures might be as 

different as the ever-present Service cultures in JPME classrooms.

A generation is often defined as a group of people born within a twenty-year time period and 

during the same general era in history.

7 A generation usually embraces the aggregate of all 

people born over the length of one distinct phase of life: childhood, young adulthood, midlife,

and old age. Generations are identified, from first birthyear to last year, by looking for cohort 

groups of the twenty-year duration that share three criteria: first, members share what many 

researchers term "age location in history”; generations tend to encounter key historical events 

and social trends at about the same phase of life; and those in a generational cohort generally 

share common beliefs and behaviors. Using that definition as a frame of reference, members of a 

generation are shaped in lasting ways by the specific and similar eras they encounter as children 

and young adults. Aware of the experiences and traits that they share with their peers, members 

of a defined generation cohort also share a sense of common perceived membership in that 

generation.

8 Like Service cultures, generational cultures are a complex product of multiple 

distinct factors that impact personal values, assumptions, behaviors, and behaviors.

Acknowledging and understanding the generational cultures is important for JPME institutions.

Generational culture develops as a result of multiple environmental events. Events of late 

childhood and adolescence, coupled with distinct parenting strategies and contemporary 

technological advances merge to set the life course for each specific generation type.

9 Each 

generational cohort forms its quasi-unique persona based on the social conditions cohort 

members were exposed to at the most formative period of their lives, childhood and adolescence. 

Significant events are seared into young memories and shape understanding and attitudes. When 

the events of Kennedy’s assassination, the Challenger Disaster, and 9/11 occurred, each age

group, whether child, teen, middle-aged parent, or senior grandparent, observed and processed 

the events according to their developmental status. The similar processing according to 
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developmental status creates shared social influences, successes, tragedies, and technologies 

during formative years that substantially contribute to a shared societal personality and world 

view. Parenting styles and tendencies also have indelible influence on a generational cohort’s 

maturity, independence, and decision-making skills. A cohort’s general receptivity, dependence,

and attitudes toward emergent technology are shaped while young, both within the home and at 

school. Yet another impact defining each generation is that generational cohort’s reaction to its 

predecessors, usually including parents, teachers, and other influencers. The breadth of the

changing environment and events that unfold in a cohort’s most formative years helps define that 

cohort’s generational attributes.

Parenting methods and styles, driven by social and technological changes, shaped how children 

from each generation viewed and experienced the world.10 The Greatest Generation, having 

survived World War II, focused on raising their families and valued hard work. They knew about 

loss and hard times, and their realistic and pragmatic way of living greatly influenced their 

parenting style, which emphasized the virtues of labor and effort. The Silent Generation married 

young and raised children young; they also popularized divorce and raised their children to be 

seen and not heard. Baby Boomers, born in the prosperous shadows of post-World War II are the 

parents of late Gen Xers and today’s Millennials. They raised their children with an focus on 

increasing their children’s quality of life, preparing them for college, and worrying about how 

their children felt about growing up. Baby Boomers were markedly different parents from the 

two preceding generations. Generation X parents focused on work-life balance, dedicating study 

and time to the role of parenting while supporting their children’s broad development and 

choices for a variety of individual lifestyles. Socially open-minded Millennials are marrying less 

and having less children, engaging in a parenting style markedly different from derisively termed

“helicopter parenting” that characterized the approach of their parents. The differences in 

parenting styles between successive generations greatly impacts generational values and societal

views with regard to family, authority, work ethic, entitlements, expectations, and commitment.11

Differing generational approaches to parenting shape how each successive generation cohort

approaches nearly every facet of their lives.

Just as technology—television, travel, communications, and media—influenced parenting styles, 

and it also directly influenced learning styles. Differences in access to and familiarity with 

technology is one of the major differences between generation cohorts. Generation Z has been

born into the digital; millennials are digital natives; generation x’ers are early tech adopters; baby 

boomers are digital immigrants who are generally less tech-savvy or tech-reliant. Younger 

generations are generally more prone than their older counterparts to embrace new technologies,

and the younger generations are also more likely to place value and trust in emergent 

technological capabilities.12 Younger generations tend to be more technology-based, exhibit 

innate abilities to quickly find information, and have broad access to updates across the global 

socio-political environment.13 While technology always influenced human life, it now exerts 

more power and influence than in preceding generations. Technology is the personal portal for 
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communication, learning, news feeds, updates, images, entertainment, music, and daily 

schedule.

14 Degrees of technology acceptance and application impact almost every aspect of 

modern life, defining a key part of a generation.

The major events of late childhood and adolescence coupled with distinct parenting strategies 

and new technologies set a life course for each specific generational cohort.

15 The realization that 

life experiences shape the beliefs, values systems, attitudes, skills, and behaviors of specific age 

cohorts is essential to understanding how different generational cohorts of student officers 

think.

16 Culture constantly evolves, and successive generations embrace a particular perspective 

within the broader culture. In embracing a perspective, the opportunity for clashes and 

misunderstandings between generations increases. Teaching becomes increasingly problematic as 

conflicts generated by cultural difference arise in the classroom because the generation and 

sharing of knowledge diminishes. The effectiveness of JPME curriculum delivery and 

andragogical approaches become suspect if faculty praxis fails to acknowledge and account for 

the existence of cultural diversity in the classroom. 

JPME Generations and Demographics

The JPME enterprise accounts for members of three distinct generational cohorts as defined by 

the Pew Research Center. Most military PME institutions include leaders and senior 

administrators born between 1945 and 1964, the last of the baby boomers. JPME faculty, 

generally in the grades of O-5 to O-6, reside squarely within the confines of generation x, born

between 1964-1981. JPME students, principally junior O-4s to very junior O-6s, are considered 

the millennials, born between 1981 to almost 1997, and the last of the generation x’ers are 

progressing through the senior level education institutions.

17 The distinctive grouping should 

come as no surprise, as generational differences are prevalent in the military due in large part to 

the military’s hierarchical structure with officer promotions based predominantly on performance 

at successive grades and time in service.

18 Military leadership, faculty, and student bodies also 

have many cuspers amidst their ranks. Cuspers are those born within 3-5 years of a generational 

divide that favor and display characteristics from both relative generations.

19 Cuspers tend to be 

concentrating in two distinct generations over the remainder of this decade.

20 More and more, 

JPME students tend to be millennials amongst a faculty predominantly comprised of the 

generation x cohort. The requirement for cross-generational understanding in JPME institutions 

is fundamental to mission accomplishment. 

The baby boomer generation includes those who served in the military during the Cold War and 

Desert Storm, inheriting a strong work ethic from their parents and learning in traditional linear 

classrooms. As a result of their early life experiences, boomers live to work, tolerate digital 

technologies, and are generally optimistic. Many boomers tolerate rather than embrace popular 

social media technologies, are warming to classroom technologies, and retain very traditional 

views of academia. While baby boomers are leaving the JPME enterprise, their presence remains 
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across the political landscape and among the most senior military leadership. Baby boomer

influence will likely remain for some time.

Figure 1: JPME Students Across the Generations 2023. 

The majority of JPME leaders, and nearly all JPME faculty, are generation x. Generation x 

includes most senior officers across the Services. Some generation x military officers served in 

Desert Storm, but most had their formative military experience in Bosnia, Operation Enduring 

Freedom (OEF), and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Generation x leaders and faculty were 

raised as latchkey kids because both parental figures worked and increased divorce rates, which 

lead to the rise of one parent families. Generation x proved more independent than their parents, 

and lacked the optimism of their parents due to experiencing memorable economic crises, failed 

political leaders, and the Challenger Disaster that demonstrated the fallibility of technology.

Generation x observed a change between employers and employees due to downsizing, furloughs 

and layoffs that suggested a shift in commitment. The end of the Cold War led to similar 

reductions in force across the military. Most of generation x did not share their parent’s “live to 

work” ethic and, at least initially, saw the military as a job and not a committed lifestyle.

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Generation x learned to adopt and adapt to new technologies, experienced some of their early 

learning in semi-formal environments, such as pods and work groups, and recoiled against 

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educational requirements they deemed irrelevant or not valuable.

22 As generation x assume

senior leadership roles, they may occasionally struggle in their efforts to truly connect to 

millennial junior grade officers.

23 Millennials often view generation x as overly traditional, often 

inflexible, and risk averse, but they also see generation x as loyal, independent, and resilient.

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According to most sociologists, millennials are sociable, optimistic, talented, well-educated, 

collaborative, open-minded, influential, and achievement oriented. Their formative years of 

parental and societal focus on children and family, and busy, nontraditional, yet highly structured 

adolescent lives influenced their prevailing attitudes. Many researchers believe that society’s 

child-focused parenting of the 1980s and 1990s contributed to the characteristics of entitlement 

and specialness frequently cited as detrimental but prevalent millennial traits.

25 Based partly on 

their early educational environment, millennials exhibit a definite inclination to work in teams. 

They make decisions as a team and frequently measure themselves against their peers as a result 

of social media habits. The team-oriented lifestyle and social media habits of millennials might 

also explain why their engagement in political and civic activities may surpass the young people 

of previous generations.

26 Millennials were raised with frequent positive reinforcement from 

multiple sources, such as social media likes, savor multi-sensory stimulation, and expect a 

synthesis of learning and entertainment—edutainment.27 Millennials learn differently from their 

predecessors that drive preferences and expectations when they are students. Millennials have 

critical perception of generation, which should consider JPME faculty since the majority of 

current JPME students are and will be millennials over the next decade.

Boomers and generation x will benefit from understanding, managing, and adapting to millennial 

preferences and expectations. Understanding will allow leaders and faculty to home in on and 

resolve the seemingly contradictory tension between millennial preferences. Most millennial 

students subscribe to similar learning preferences in their contemporary learning environment. 

Based on the life experiences that create preferences, millennials expect JPME curriculum to 

incorporate teamwork and group efforts in problem-solving exercises. Millennials tend to crave 

active and interactive direction, and they tend to expect their faculty to know more than they do. 

Because of their rearing, millennials expect constant attention from faculty accompanied by 

frequent and detailed feedback, particularly positive feedback. Previously accustomed to 

regimented childhood schedules, millennials desire a delicate balance between classroom 

supervision and an organized, flexible learning environment. Millennial students enjoy 

challenging faculty assertions, and they are quick to search for contrarian assertions on the 

internet. Some of the challenges millennials present are grounded in feelings rather than facts. 

They expect skills and information that will make life less stressful and ensure professional 

success, based on the belief that there is a clear right-way that can be explained. Most millennial

students are prolific readers and desire more supporting information from more sources while

expecting concise and to the point readings.

28 Products of their formative years, most millennials 

exhibit clear preferences is learning styles, classroom management, and curriculum design that 
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necessitate consideration from leadership and faculty if they hope to have a positive effect on 

millennial JPME students.

Iraq and Afghanistan, the formative conflicts of millennial’s careers, led to the development of a 

unique professional ethos. In a world of social media, instant reporting, and internet virality, 

millennials became comfortable with attention and the volatility of public opinion, and 

considered in conjunction with the interactivity of the internet, suggests a comfortability with

institutional change and the expectation that their needs and desires will be accommodated. 

Millennials are products of their environment, experience, and education. It is disingenuous, if 

not foolish, to expect millennial JPME students to adapt to educational processes and practices 

that were developed for the culture of a different generation. Accommodations and innovation 

are requisite to ensuring cross-generational acculturation throughout JPME.

While JPME educational processes must consider and accommodate the culture of the millennial 

generation, this should not be a dramatic overhaul or abandonment of what is currently working. 

The traits, values, and ethos of millennials are broadly indicative of the generational culture but 

are probably not uniformly embodied across the JPME student population. Many factors separate 

individuals beyond when they were born, and military members of a generation have certainly 

experienced starkly unique occurrences that shaped individual preferences, strengths, and 

weaknesses. The dates that separate generations are somewhat contrived, and it is sometimes 

difficult to categorize those whose age puts them at the cusp of those dividing lines. Generation

cohorts certainly consist of diverse people and groups of people from all walks of life. And many 

ostensible generational characteristics are likely life-stage effects, which are found every 

generation as the cohort generally moves from less responsibility in young adulthood to more 

responsibility in later years. Yet, as argued by many respected research organizations, age is 

definitely one of the most important predictors of each individuals’ values, attitudes, and 

behaviors. Where military officers fall in their career, their life cycle, global events that occur 

during their lives, and the influence of their peers shape the traits of their entire generation.29

Understanding the realities and differences of generational cultures is essential to managing the 

interaction of multiple cultures in the JPME academic setting.

Bridging the Gap

The proverbial generation gap is real, but it can be bridged. JPME institutions will serve 

themselves well if they educate leaders and teachers on recognizing generational differences and 

cultural preferences. Leaders and faculty should routinely encourage cross generational 

interaction to include mentoring, sharing experiences, and solicitation of fresh perspectives. 

JPME’s Outcome Based Military Education (OBME) suits millennials’ preference for a focus on 

results rather than process and enables a broad range of learning and communication styles. 

Team-based problem-solving exercises also suit millennial learning preferences and lend 

themselves to integration of technology and media enhancements favored by millennial learners. 
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Exercises support more frequent feedback, additional learner responsibility, and opportunities to 

customize learning to satisfy millennial student preferences. Finally, offering millennials a voice 

in their classroom governance and a degree of open classroom organizational structure tends to 

gain more collective buy-in. Understanding the culture of the millennial generation facilitates 

targeted JPME instructional design and more favorable outcomes.

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Generational cohort differences can be as significant as the differences between the Services or 

the other cultures routinely found across the gamut of JPME classrooms. As the JPME enterprise 

advances, consideration of the differences between the three or four generations involved in 

JMPE is critical. While JPME institutions have long focused on acculturation between the 

Services, understanding between governmental organizations, and recognition of different 

national differences, they may not have truly analyzed the impact of competing generational 

cultures. As members of the millennial generation dominate the JPME student population, 

generation x and remaining boomer faculty and leaders must acknowledge and master and lead

acculturation between multiple generations.

The environment facilitating acculturation should extend well beyond simply acknowledging, 

understanding, and bridging Service differences; it also necessarily includes bridging the cultural 

differences between civilians, foreigners, government agencies, academic institutions, and 

generations. Yes, differences in values, worldview and culture between generations within and 

across each of the services may be as profound as those differences between the Services 

themselves.

31 The distinct generational differences that exist in JPME classrooms have been 

clearly identified by psychologists, sociologists, and everyday managers. The generational 

differences manifest themselves in the way military officers at various ranks and grades approach 

duty, work-life balance, loyalty, trust, authority, ethics, commitment, technology, and a wide 

range of other important issues related to the JPME enterprise.32 Generational differences can be 

as significant as the differences between the Services or the other cultures routinely found in the 

gamut of JPME classrooms.

Dr. Fred Kienle, COL, USA (Ret) was a professor at the Joint Forces Staff College of the 

National Defense University. He was the first director of the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, 

served on dozens of JPME accreditation teams, and continues to support military and 

government educational activities. 

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Dr. Fred Kienle, COL, USA (Ret.) was a professor at the Joint Forces Staff College of the National Defense 

University. He was the first director of the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, served on dozens of JPME 

accreditation teams, and continues to support military and government educational activities.