The following dictation shares my personal experience as the First Sergeant of the 360th Transportation Company before, during, and after Operation Iraqi Freedom III (OIF III). I discuss a myriad of problems, events, and issues ranging from...
Leaders, civilian and military, must know history. The Philippine Insurrection provided many lessons about the effects of different tactics on the ability to obtain actionable intelligence. These lessons become valuable when compared to events in...
Today the Army faces many ethical issues, the biggest being the prisoner abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, which has called into question of the Army Ethics and moral values. As Senior Non-Commissioned officers we have a...
Senior leaders expect our Soldiers to act in an ethical manner when faced with decisions that could compromise Army Values. This is a thought paper on the perception of ethics in Soldiers today. Do senior leaders really expect ethical behavior to...
In the news recently and in past history, the American Military whether Army, Navy, Marines, Air force or our reserve forces experienced a series of incidents involving morals and ethics, although it doesn't pertain to the majority of our service...
An ethical dilemma is when two common held values collide, that is personal values versus military values. If the leadership fails to correct problem it not only can corrupt the unit, but the Army and the entire system that so many have fought and...
The Just War Theory comes from traditional Christian views, that the use of force, or violence, can be used to intervene to protect or even kill to protect the innocent. This controversial view directly effects today's justification of the use of...
Andrews, Jr., Lawrence E.; Greene, Cheryl; Rek, John; Fausz, Wayne
On September the 11th, 2001, radical Islamic terrorists proved that the United States was unprepared for terrorist type attacks. Since then the government has gone to great lengths to secure its borders, airlines, infrastructure and improve its law...
On September the 11th, 2001, radical Islamic terrorists proved that the United States was unprepared for terrorist type attacks. Since then the government has gone to great lengths to secure its borders, airlines, infrastructure and improve its...
Learning from our past has become routine in today’s military. The creation of the Center for Lessons Learned dedicates many resources to the cataloging of our successes and failures. These lessons can be used as references for what to do and...
The U.S military has repeatedly been unprepared to execute its primary mission at the outbreak
of hostilities. We have been prepared for the initial outbreak of any war. I think we have
not been prepared for the aftermath of the invasion. We, the...
In June of 2004, our unit Battery B 1st Battalion 623d Field Artillery, a Kentucky National Guard Unit, received an alert order for a possible mission in Operation Iraqi Freedom III. Prior to two annual training sessions at the Wendall H. Ford...
In order for the U.S. Military to ensure the greatest chance for mission success in foreign
outbreaks of hostility, the creation, implementation and adherence of a risk analysis plan at all
levels of command must be achieved. The plan must account...
Huffin Jr., William R.; Guan, Chua Hock; Simonetti Jr., Frank J.
Thesis Statement: Chemical Warfare is probably the most difficult issue face by a nation. Effort of a nation to combat chemical attacks not only involves a huge amount of resources and manpower. It also requires multiple government agency...
This objective of this paper is to provide all Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) with valuable information for you to determine if Military History is Important or Not. After an extensive research I found it to be important to study Military History....
The purchase of degrees without attending the required block of college classroom or online instructions through means of monetary means. College degrees are one of the means of showing a Soldier's ability to go over and above his fellow peers....
As the Army moves into the 21st century, we as Senior Non-Commission officers will be the role models for future generations of Soldiers to come. As leaders we have all encountered this question at one time or another. We have observed Officers and...
Some of the strategies and tactics used to fight insurgencies in the past are still appropriate to use today, but many must change. In the Philippine Insurrection, a counterinsurgent war fought at the turn of the twentieth century, the United...
Confusion exists among commissioned and noncommissioned officers about their duties, responsibility, and authority. The purpose of this manual is to assist both commissioned and noncommissioned officers in clarifying their duty to reduce this...