Harper, Robert W. ; McCullough, Isaac C.; Beekman, Howard T,; Callahan, Roy W.
Thesis Statement: The noncommissioned officer insignia of rank has evolved over approximately 150 years from a variety of designs and colors, including branch insignia as part of the chevron, to the present uniformity of design that is now...
Introduction by the author: "Like many book projects this one took a different direction then originally intended. I started out with the idea of writing a book on military knowledge management for military knowledge management professionals. A...
One of the biggest ethical problems facing the Army today is the current Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Report (NCOER) system. The NCOER is currently not use for what it was originally intended. The purpose of the NCOER is to provide a written...
This paper describes some of the lessons learned and my experiences during my deployment to RC East, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom VIJ and VIII. I have tried to list events in chronological order. The NCO's of B-425FA were charged...
MAJ Charles Ford served as the assistant operations officer (S3) in plans, as battle captain and at the battalion level in Mosul, Iraq during 2004 and 2005, and as commander of Alpha Company, 1-24 Infantry in Baghdad, Iraq during 2006 and 2007 in...
From February through June 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Major Carlos Goveo served as the Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) commander for 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, a Blackhawk assault helicopter unit. In this...
I enlisted in the military on October 15, 1986. When I enlisted in the Army
Reserves I didn’t have clue of what I was getting myself into, I just knew I wanted
out of Amarillo, TX and I figured this was the way to go. So my journey beings in...
I enlisted in the military on October 15, 1986. When I enlisted in the Army
Reserves I didn’t have clue of what I was getting myself into, I just knew I wanted
out of Amarillo, TX and I figured this was the way to go. So my journey beings in...
Captain Richard C. "Rick" Topping is a Regular Army officer who received his commission in 2003 though the Longwood University ROTC program. After a short stint as a tactics officer for ROTC Advanced Camp, Topping attended the Signal Officer Basic...
With Combined Joint Task Force 76 in Bagram, Afghanistan, from November 2004 through May 2005, Major Craig Whitten served as chief of law enforcement for the civil affairs operations section of the Combined Joint Staff. As the single point of...
Major John Alterburg, an Army lawyer, talks about Noncommissioned Officer Authority. He discusses the source of this authority (power granted by The Constitution, and passed down chain of command to NCOs), including what NCOS are empowered to do,...
MAJ Vance Brunner served as a chemical officer with the 1-319th Field Artillery (FA) in Fallujah, Iraq during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), as a platoon leader with the 21st Chemical Company in Khost, Afghanistan during...