Master Sergeant Danny R. Jones served as the Service Detachment Noncommissioned Officer in Charge of Group Support Company 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) during Operations Enduring Freedom. I am writing about taking over a new job two weeks...
African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) is a U.S. State department program that began in July 1997. Initially the program focused on battalion size elements. After three years of developing this capacity at the battalion level the U.S. State...
The events of September 11, 2001 will always remain vivid in the minds of many Americans. The events of this day changed the lives of many Americans. This event also changed my life and the Soldiers of the 69th Signal Company forever. These are the...
I would like to share my experience as a senior Noncommissioned Officer. My personal experience paper will cover my background of 21 years of service. I will share a brief lead in of my duty assignments, schooling, missed military engagements and...
This paper seeks to give a short background of my unit at that time, leading up to
It’s being alerted and moved into isolation in preparation for combat operations. All our training would be called upon for the removal of a violent dictator. The...
This paper will deal with the challenges I had in deploying a Delta Company of an Infantry Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). It will deal specifically with the pre-deployment, deployment, preparation and execution phases of...
The 4 years that I spent at 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group was exciting. As a senior noncommissioned officer I learned a lot from them. They also learned a lot from me during the 4 years. The knowledge that I gained would eventually help...
The United States Army NCO Corps had a profound effect on the Soldiers and Officers of the Republic of Uzbekistan. This heralded in new changes to the Uzbek military and the Officer-NCO relationship. These changes created a stronger more unified...
The Education of a Soldier is based on the personal experiences that have molded me into the leader I am today. It tells of the personal experiences and influences I received in the early stages of my career. The story starts out in basic training...
In a foreign country along the northwestern borders between Mosul, Iraq and Syria. Noncommissioned Officers were rewriting history in the role of NCOs during an armed conflict utilizing our powerful Army. Training, planning, and leading the...
During the ethnic fighting in the Republic of Macedonia, the National Liberation Army (NLA) gained control of the town of Aracinovo. The Macedonians Army conducted offensives operation for 15 consecutive days without success. The NLA was at this...
During my tenure, the 121st General Hospital, Yongsan, Korea was a forward deployed hospital consisting of over 400 soldiers and 43 Korean Augmentees to the United States Army. The Military Occupational Specialty for the First Sergeant position is...
In preparing this document, I have tried to focus my effort on three areas that I think readers will benefit from regardless of the branch or career management field. The Veterinary Corps is an extremely small organization when compared to the...
This paper will provide a historical view of the events of 1st Squad, 1st Platoon of Bravo Company, 2/187th Infantry BN, 101st ABN Division, Fort Campbell, KY. I will provide insight of the operation from the squad level noncommissioned officer...
As first Sergeant of a Headquarters and Headquarters Company during Operation Iraqi
freedom II, I was responsible for a Mortar and Scout Platoon and six sniper sections as
maneuver. I also had the regular Battalion Sections Organic 10 a Heavy...
I learned an enormous amount about leadership during my four-year tour as the Company First Sergeant for the Iowa City Recruiting Company. I learned something from every person I encountered. I observed both effective and ineffective leadership....
During Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), I was initially assigned to HHC 2/502d IN, 101st Airborne Division Air Assault. During the operation I was promoted to the grade of MSG and subsequently moved to the Forward Support Battalion that supported our...
One of the bedrock responsibilities of a Noncommissioned Officer is accountability. We receive and submit status reports on our Soldiers on a daily basis to insure we know there whereabouts. Accountability is a discipline exercised in garrison as...
The focus of this paper will be on my participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom II (OIF II) from January 2004-January 2005. I deployed as the Assistant S3 Sergeant Major while assigned to the Headquarters, and Headquarters Detachment (HHD), 759th...
A three-year veteran of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Major Vincent Torza served as the 4th Squadron's operations officer during most of his Operation Iraqi Freedom deployment. During the fall of 2003, his unit prepared for and executed...