Many events have occurred from the early years of the NCO to the modern day corps that changed the way the noncommissioned officer thinks and perform on the battlefield along with his counter-part, the commissioned officer. Over strength in...
The best explanation for studying history was perhaps given by the blind Czech historian Milan
Hubl to the novelist Milan Kundera. “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its
memory. Destroy its books, its culture, and its history....
Throughout the history of the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO), Training has been conducted at the units through on the job training (OJT). In the beginning of the continental Army, NCOs received their education at the regiments and the officers from...
The American Noncommissioned Officer, also known as an NCO, is an enlisted member of the United States Armed Forces who has been given authority by a commissioned officer. Noncommissioned Officers serve as trainers or administrators as well as...
NCO History Papers: In 2003 the Sergeants Major course introduced a new NCO history lesson. The lesson requires each student to pick a topic relating to NCO history and develop it during the course. Each student delivers a number of short briefings...
By the early-1960's, the United States Army was again engaged in conflict, now in Vietnam. As the war progressed, the attrition of combat, the 12-month tour limit in Vietnam, separations of senior noncommissioned officers and the 25-month stateside...
This paper will concentrate on how the NCO Corps has grown in responsibility and prestige, as well as professionalism, and on the relationship of NCOs to Officers, from 1945 until the Present.
Looking back at the time between the Second World War...