I see the chance to get a CTO being used as a reenlistment tool in the future, or perhaps as a reward for serving time overseas or winning best soldier or some other sort of thing. A perishable(sp?) skill needs to be kept current, and not having a chance to apply your schooling to real world traffic in a standardized ATC facility is gonna create a generation of *ATCers that dont actually know ATC, they'll know parts of ATC and know what the book says but they wont have real world applicable knowledge or experience. I like how the Air Force uses their controllers.