The Non Commissioned Officer empowerment has been building for over 200 years. This power has evolved through military pay, education and training, and a professional personnel management system provided to our young men and women in the Armed...
Baldonado, Frederick P.; Blore, Andrew W.; Jones, Walton; Phelps, Rufus III; Richards, Walter L.
We will discuss in this paper the Noncommissioned Officers Education System (NCOES) and the fact that it needs a serious overhaul. The NCOES needs to power down the POIs so that noncommissioned officers are learning ahead rather than behind or at...
This paper compares and contrasts the actions of the United States Army in two separate conflicts. It identifies the lessons learned during the Apache Wars of the Western Frontier and the constabulary duties of the Western Hemisphere. These...
The purpose of this paper is to describe how military planners failed to account for the proper amount of funding, training, and mobilization time necessary for the deployment of Army National Guard brigades to Operation Desert Storm. When three...
Even though the Army continues to repeat itself with the fight against insurgency, all military professionals should study military history because we continue to repeat the same mistakes. There is a wide epidemic among writers and historians who...
The scope of this Personal Experience Paper (PEP) encompasses my views and experience of my unit’s pre-MOB training, mobilization at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, deployment to Iraq, and redeployment to home station. The span of this period started...
Nelson, Thomas; Meriweather, James; Krueger, Juanita; Montez, Romeo; Scheil, Kevin
General George Armstrong Custer became one of the greatest legends of his time. He was genuinely liked by some and completely despised by others. He went from being picked on and ridiculed as a child to being a very confident and driven officer...
As 1SG Barney Q. Hopkins stood in the door of a C-47 airplane flying just 400 feet above the ground, tracers lit the sky like fireworks in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. Little did he know what was to transpire during the next 42 days in...
I deployed to Kuwait in January 2003 as part of the CFLCC C-3 IO cell as the Intelligence Officer. These are my experiences in trying to make a difference, to keep our soldiers alive, and to assist in our victory.
Does the 1994 National Defense Authorization Act commonly referred to as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" need revision? Should homosexuals openly express themselves in the military? Is it a political or prejudice issue? In this paper we will explore how...
The greatest gift to be offered by the study of military history is that of perspective. The lessons learned have always been an essential part in the evolution of military tactics and strategies. History has highlighted the failures of those who...
LTC (Ret) Anthony B Herbert was born in 1931. He always wanted to be in the service, so at the age of 14, he and his friend Tony Spiegel altered their baptismal certificates. Their principal found out and got them out of the service. Anthony knew...
The Chief Enlisted Soldier in the Army is the primer enlisted position and with comes the awesome responsibility of caring, mentoring and enhancing the quality of life for all of the Army's enlisted soldiers, a task not be taken lightly. When you...
Nelson, Thomas; Meriweather, James; Krueger, Juanita; Montez, Romeo; Scheil, Kevin
General George Armstrong Custer became one of the greatest legends of his time. He was genuinely liked by some and completely despised by others. He went from being picked on and ridiculed as a child to being a very confident and driven officer...
During the battle for the "Dam", a Ranger company (light infantry), with supporting Battalion heavy mortars and a slice of the Battalion TOC, were surrounded, far from any reinforcements, by a numerically superior enemy force. This battle raged for...
The CSM Theodore L. Dobol Collection contains several biographical and miscellaneous materials related to CDM Dobol’s military career. The textual files include photographs, transcripts of oral history interviews; a short autobiography; the...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...