A changing strategic landscape and an emerging new world order are causing a major shift in the size and structure of the U. S. Armed Forces for the 1990s and beyond. The result will be the Base Force of 1995- a Total Force prudently tailored of...
A Comparison of CGSC and the Frunze Military Academy by Lieutenant Colonel Andrei V. Demurenko, Russian Federation Army and Lieutenant Colonel Timothy L. Thomas, US Army
Lane Training at Gagetown by Brigadier General Peter W. Clegg, US...
As part of a series of interviews conducted by John Hamilton, the Air Defense Artillery command historian, Colonel Christopher Mitchell discusses serving as the division team chief on a military transition team in Mosul, Iraq in 2008 in support of...
Authorizes and directs the use of the Transportation Coordinator Automated Command and Control Information System (TC ACCIS), as well as coordinated and approved alternative automated means for continuing maintenance of UMD and for reporting UMD to...
During his 2005-06 deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Major Randolph Morgan served as the operations officer for Task Force Guardian, the military police brigade charged with overseeing all MP functions in country....
Each year near the end of September, the Department of the Army hosts an event known as The Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier of the Year Competition. This event spotlights 20 Soldiers, representing 10 Army Commands (ARCOM), to test their skills...
In November 2006, A Troop 5/73 Cavalry, 3rd BCT, 82nd ABN Division reunited with the rest of the Squadron at FOB Caldwell (Kirkush Military Training Base, KMTB) after being detached to the 3rd BCT, 4th IN Division for a period of four months in...
In this interview MAJ Watters discusses his deployment to Iraq from September 2004 until September 2005 as the personnel officer (S1) with the 106th Transportation Battalion out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. MAJ Watters had just returned from a...
In this interview, MAJ Michael Delborrell, US Army, Logistics, discusses his deployment to Iraq as a company commander in 2007 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Delborrell discusses how his prior deployments prepared him for his...
MAJ Steven Wallace served with as a platoon leader, adjutant (S1), executive officer (XO) and company commander with the 82nd Airborne Division in various areas in Afghanistan during 2002-2003 and again in 2006-2007 in support of Operation Enduring...
Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETES) are conducted by military medical units in a field environment, where US military personnel conduct medical evaluation, treatment, and health education for persons who are not health care...
MSG James' assignment with the 741st AG Co, Orlando, FL, indicated Platoon Sergeant: but performed primary duties of Training NCO and other functions as required. Her story tells of continuous Army Reserve postal units' participation in various...
Napoleon is often credited with saying that with a few ribbons, he could incite his men to perform great feats of valor in distinguishing themselves upon the battlefield. All sources agree that in the context of Napoleon’s quote, he was...
NCOs must have a working knowledge of history to understand, support and positively contribute to change. Our history, beginning with the birth of our nation and continuing on through every major engagement reflect the need for reorganization and...
On a 120-day assignment - from March to June 2005 - as the J1 personnel officer for the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula, which encompassed most of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Major Rod Boles was based at...
Some noteworthy achievements of lower ranking enlisted men in peacetime often go unrecognized in spite of the commander's desire to do so because there is no existing procedure that will tangibly and appropriately recognize the exact degree of...
The 1991 USASMA Annual Command History is designed to preserve a record of the academy's activities during the year. It consists of three main parts. The first is a very brief introduction to the history of the academy and the Noncommissioned...
The Army awards program has lost its value through years of reduction in the required standards of excellence. Regulatory guidance provides criteria for each award, yet leadership conveniently overlooks or outright ignores the guidance. The Good...
The Army Reserve faces a paradoxical situation wherein it has 'been declared a major element of General Land Forces under the Total Force concept and, concurrently and ironically, it will lose its principal source of personnel input with the...
The Command and General Staff College (CGSC) Reserve Component (RC) Officer Education Task Force (TF) was chartered by the Chief of Staff, Army, to study the RC Officer Education System (OES). The TF reviewed the entire RC Officer Education System...