The purpose of this paper is to provide information to the future Command Sergeant Major regarding unlawful command influence and its effects. Many Command Sergeants Major face the dilemma of what they can and cannot say as it relates to judicial...
The current American way of life supports the fact that many people currently in the Army show a lack of responsibility and discipline. The Drill Sergeants have to begin the process after the recruit enters the military and upon arriving at a unit...
NCO's confidence can be affected in several ways. One of the most concerning problem is the short transition between a new Soldier and NCO. Some of the new Soldiers become NCOs after two years after their enlistment. I wonder how effectively they...
Terrorists have caused the United States of America to enter a war against terrorism. Some argue that the enemy combatants have been tortured. During Operation Iraqi Freedom many United States Soldiers who became captured were tortured and some...
I believe that the environment in which the U.S Army obtains its recruiting mission each year leads to recruiting improprieties, and pits NCO against NCO in unhealthy competition. It is a practice that is divisive and allows one individual to step...
The basis of my ethics paper is leaders making the wrong decisions in the Army. I will discuss in detail two examples of junior leaders who failed to act ethically. I will also discuss how the ethical reasoning process could have helped them with...
What is the right thing to do in an ethical situation? Ethics is nothing more than looking at a problem, determine if it's wrong, and then making the right decision based on our values. Ethics comes from our own childhood background. The army...
A massive effort consumed America when Hurricane Katrina crushed the gulf coast of Louisiana. Thousands of civilians displaced, while America watched one of the worst natural disasters in our history. The Humanitarian effort would challenge the...
In 1993 the office of the Secretary of Defense issued a memorandum to the United States Armed Forces; this memorandum outlined the implementation of the Department of Defense policy on homosexual conduct in the Armed Forces. Referred to as "don't...
This paper addresses the differing mentoring requirements between the Officer and Enlisted Corps within the United States Army. It discusses the lost art of mentoring within the Noncommissioned Officer Corps. It also attempts to identify reasons...
During the initial ground invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Will Johnson commanded the Headquarters and Headquarters Battery (HHB) of 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery Regiment, part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, until he...
Colonel Bruce Grant was the deputy commander of a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) in Iraq from December 2005 through September 2006. Retired when Operation Iraqi Freedom commenced, Grant "felt a sense of duty" to return to active service and...
About to join the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - "the most deployed unit within special operations" - it came as little surprise to Major Ben Sunds that, following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, "their...
The commander of Charlie Troop, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry - part of 3rd Infantry Division - Major Jeff McCoy participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom from the opening of major hostilities in March 2003 through his redeployment approximately three...
Major Mark Gillespie served as the assistant team leader on a military transition team (MiTT) around Baghdad from May 2005 through June 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In this interview, he talks about the focus of predeployment...