Fulfilling the duties and responsibilities as a Headquarters and Headquarters First Sergeant before, during, and after a major deployment is not an easy task. You have to ensure that you’re Leaders, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and Soldiers...
The 642nd Engineer Company, 41st Engineer Battalion, 10th Mountain Division participated in
Operation Iraqi Freedom 1 (OIF) from March 2003 to March 2004. The 642nd Engineer
Company’s wartime mission was seizure, clearance and repair of selected...
I will discuss my unique experiences, challenges, and frustrations of my Active Component to Reserve Component (AC/RC) assignment while stationed with 6th battalion, 52d Aviation Regiment headquartered at Los Alamitos, California. The explanations...
Drawing from the lessons learned during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the Medical Logistics community set in motion to overhaul the Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Battalions into smaller MEDLOG Companies (MLC). Better-equipped and more versatile in...
I attended basic combat training at Fort Dix, New Jersey from August thru September 1984. I was a drill sergeant at Fort Jackson, South Carolina from October 1997 thru October 1999. I returned to Fort Jackson in July 2003 to assume duties as the...
On 9 December 2004, I found myself in a comfortable position; the 1SG of a cavalry troop just returning from combat. Soon, things would change. The 2d ACR moves to Ft. Lewis, Washington and what follows is the scramble to stand up the 4th Brigade...
My personal experience paper will cover my deployment to Karshi-Khanabad, Uzbekistan in which I was selected, by way of deployment order, to deploy within 48hrs in support of the CJTF-180 Joint Logistics Command, 1st COSCOM to fill the Special...
Approximately 2700 men and women serving in the Armed Forces have lost their lives in Iraq since the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Additionally, thousands have suffered physical, emotional, and mental injuries that will affect them for the rest...
Transformation of the Armed forces is going to continue as long as the mission changes.
The Armed forces are learning that we have to communicate jointly in order to fight as a team.
There have been many changes before my time in the Army and what...
I am very proud to be your Command Sergeant Major, and promise my undying loyalty
and dedication to you, our unit and the mission of warfighting. Your part is to dedicate
yourself to our unit, its mission, and the great nation we serve. I want us...
This personal experience paper covers some of the issues I encountered during the inception of 3-10th General Support Aviation Battalion through my return home from my deployment to Afghanistan with this unit. I came home in order to attend the...
The purpose of this paper is to share a very dramatic and challenging experience I that shared with my Company Commander. In March of 2003, while serving as the First Sergeant of Charlie Company 440th Signal Battalion, I was deployed to Kuwait in...
Flawed personnel actions and pay problems have been long standing issues in the Army. Many Congressional inquires are based on delayed and unresolved personnel actions and pay problems. A few years following Operation Desert Shield and Operation...
This paper will relate my experiences in deploying Military Police Companies. It relates my experiences as a unit First Sergeant deploying the 212th MP Company. It also narrates my role as the S3 Sergeant Major in the 3D Military Police Battalion...
My personal experience paper will highlight the challenges of establishing a Combat Support Hospital in Iraq. My unit encountered many obstacles during Operation Iraqi Freedom I (OIF I), such as security problems, lack of logistical support,...
When America was attacked on 11 September 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom in Kandahar, Afghanistan (OEF-A) was formed to fight the war on global terrorism. To support the fight, my deployment to OEF-A with the 82nd Airborne Division Task Force...
The purpose of this paper is to describe and outline my personal experience in the process of developing a Mentoring Model for the Army Chaplaincy. The concept of a mentoring initiative formulated during my assignment to the Army Chief of...
Taking over as a company First Sergeant (1SG) is one of the most difficult transitions I have had to make in my military career. There is no how too books on the subject. As hard as I looked, I couldn’t find the book “1SG for Dummies”...
The focus of this paper relates to the unique experiences of SGM Gillis during the beginning of OEF/ OIF through June 2006. The author attempts to highlight his contribution to the Nations fight in the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Topics include...
This paper talks about the challenges I encountered as the First Sergeant of Alpha
Company 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry Regiment. The company was facing a lot of
leadership challenges. Our battalion was slated to rotate to Iraq the early part of 2004...