Serving as a member of the Armed Forces is very different than it was twenty years ago. I am a senior NCO that has been in the Army for twenty-one years, and I have seen a vast amount of change in the system. When I first came in the Army I did not...
COMMANDANT’S SUMMARY: In 2007, transformation proved to be the key for the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy. The Academy sought to continue transformation in the Noncommissioned Officer Education System, in the increased use of distance...
Over the past 12 years I have struggled over aspects of my military occupational specialty, 92Y-Unit Supply Sergeant, which has caused me to self-assess my integrity and honesty while making mission in the Special Operations community. In early...
"This 1957 manual is a guide for artillerymen in the techniques of sound ranging and flash ranging, and in the application of these techniques to tactical operations."
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...
This paper is based off my time and experience as a member in a Special Forces unit. This paper is an introduction to the Special Forces Group unit composition, Special Forces Qualification Course training, some of the additional training that one...
An ethical problem facing the Army today is the misunderstanding of the term "taking care of soldiers." I've experienced recent situations where the misguided perception of some junior leaders that he or she is taking care of a soldier by allowing...
The objectives of Engineer are to inform, motivate, increase knowledge, improve performance, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas. Views ex-pressed are those of the authors and not those of the Department of Defense or its elements. The...
The purpose of the Unit Training Program tor Armored Field Artillery, is to assist the commanders and their staffs of newly-formed armored field artillery units in planning the balanced training of their units and in preparing the detailed...
"Wire is one of the principal means of communication for all field artillery except mechanized and antitank artillery. It consists of telephone or telegraph communication. All other means augment and supplement wire."
Sector S-5 CIMIC (Civilian Military Cooperation) in the 72dBrigade is a new job in the Slovenian Army. The process of achieving maximum quality work is a hard task. I learned some valuable skills in Staff NCO School, and some parts of the job from...
HHC (Warhorse), 2nd Battalion, 8th (U.S.) Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, prepared for its wartime mission during the conduct of Operation Iraqi Freedom I. Upon receipt of deployment orders, we continued to train and prepare our Soldiers, families,...
My deployments were both challenging and fulfilling. My initial deployment was to Bosnia in 1999 for six months. Bosnia was a non-combat environment and was an easy deployment. My second deployment was to Iraq. I was stationed in Tikrit as an...
The Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) have a strategic purpose in both Operations Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Enduring Freedom (OEF), but severely hamper the coalition’s tactical mission by being inadequately manned and under-trained. In this...
Even though Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) have been successful in OEF/OIF, inadequate training; poor staffing; divergent operating environments; lack of a strategic overview and poor guidelines for civil-military relations led to confusion...
Even though Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) have been successful in OEF/OIF, inadequate training; poor staffing; divergent operating environments; lack of a strategic overview and poor guidelines for civil-military relations led to confusion...
Transformation has changed the way the Army does business. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Military Intelligence branch. Historically the ISR fight was conducted by reconnaissance troops in the field and intelligence troops in the rear....
This paper describes some of the key events and lessons learned during my ECT at JRTC, FT. Polk, Louisiana, during JRTC Rotation 08-05. I discuss: Staff operations, hospital set up and operations to provide level III care to the 4th Brigade, 1st...
This paper is to document my experience as a Company Sergeant Major during Operation Iraqi Freedom IV and my company's rotation. It will cover some of my experiences during mobilization, pre-mission training, deployment, redeployment, and...