...A Walk Over The Fence. By Colin Moore. “Read this and sign it’ The section commander mumbled to me. I had noticed him moving from man to man offering the unofficial looking document for inspection. I knew what it was, as did every one else. I took the sheet of paper from him and moved my eyes down the list of names until I found mine, next to it I scribbled my signature and read what was written, then handed it back. ‘ O group 1400 hrs’. Said the section commander and then he moved off and out of the tent. The paper was a warning order informing the platoon that we were to cross the fence and move by foot to set an ambush at a yet to be disclosed position, full details would be given at the 1400 O group. I had only been with this platoon a week and I still didn’t know any one, pretty much the outsider. In all I’d been in this army for four and a half months, four months basic training then posted to this combat unit I had served once before in another army in another place and another time but had never been in combat. What lay ahead of me was now untried ground and I was scared. Scared of dying or being wounded but most of all scared of letting down the platoon, these men who didn’t know me, and who I didn’t know. The O group was brief; everyone already knew what they were doing and what was their role in the mission, so every one was preparing gear and collecting ammunition and expendables. By this time I was shit scared; all this was becoming way too real. For...
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...RECORD SUBJECT: CBRN SOP 1. CONCEPT: This SOP contains information and guidance from many sources. It is intended to simplify the task of learning CBRN room maintenance operations, provide a ready reference for CBRN room maintenance operations, and convey the commander’s intent concerning maintenance of equipment stored in the CBRN room. 2. PURPOSE: To establish procedures for the maintenance of equipment stored in the unit CBRN room. 3. APPLICABILITY: This SOP applies to all personnel assigned to the unit. 4. RESPONSIBILITIES: A. Company Commander: 1) Ensures assigned personnel follow procedures addressed in this SOP. 2) Ensures that all unit personnel and equipment are ready to perform their primary mission in a contaminated environment. 3) Includes CBRN Defense training as part of the overall training strategy for the unit. Commanders will analyze their mission...
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...TA 600-BNCOC/05-002 THE ARMY TRAINING SYSTEM (TATS) COURSEWARE BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES BASIC NONCOMMSSIONED COURSE PHASE I PREPARED BY UNITED STATES ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY FORT BLISS, TEXAS 79918-8002 FOR THE ARMYY SCHOOL SYSTEM (TASS) INSTITUTIONS FIELDING DATE: OCT 04 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES PFN T321 T342 L327 L326 L330 L335 L328 L333 L336 L324 L338 L340 T323 W326 W332 T341 W323 W325 W321 W322 Table of Contents The Risk Management Process Cultural Awareness Considerations Enforce the Equal Opportunity Program Communicate Effectively in a Given Situation The Army Writing Style Develop Subordinate Leaders in a Unit Counsel Subordinates The Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Reporting System Motivate Subordinates to Accomplish Unit Mission Ethical Behavior Apply the Ethical Decision-Making Method at Small Unit Level Develop a Cohesive Team Training Management at the Squad Level Intelligence and Electronic Warfare (IEW) Operations Establishment of a Check Point Casualty Evacuation Troop Leading Procedures Squad Tactical Operations Graphics and Overlays Plans, Orders, and Annexes THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK U.S. ARMY SERGEANTS MAJOR ACADEMY (BNCOC) OCT 04 BNCOC SOLUTION TO PRACTICAL EXERCISES BNCOC BNCOC Stand Alone Common Core THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK T321 PRACTICAL EXERCISE SHEET T321 Title Lesson Number/Title Introduction OCT 04 THE...
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...property. What do you refer to in order to get the latest updates on technical manuals, supply catalogs (SC) and supply bulletins? WRONG AR 25-400-2 FEDLOG AMDF DA PAM 25-30 Figure 5-1. 5. SSG Brown just issued the Generator set, LIN: G74711, NSN: 6115-01-275-5061, Sn: G472221 to Paul J. Sfransky on the Temporary Hand Receipt in the figure above. Where does Paul J. Sfransky sign the DA Form 3161? Signature not required 1 3 2 6. How would you verify that equipment is being issued to the intended user, and determine if the individual is still assigned to the unit? Use the unit personnel roster and the DA Form 1687 signature card Use the MTOE and the hand receipt Use DA Form 1687 signature card and platoon roster Use the battalion personnel roster and the DA Form 1687 signature card 7. The maintenance NCO has been notified that he is moving to the Battalion staff. He has to sign his property over to the shop foreman. Before the inventory can take place, what action must you...
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...establishment (Reilly, Minnick, Baack, 2011). Who then is a manager? What the duties of a manager as a leader in an organization? The solution to these questions mainly depends on the five functions of management which are: planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling are implemented in the various institutions to help in identifying standards and accomplish set goals. In this paper, I will present how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in my workplace. As a member of the United States Army which fight and win our Nation’s wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict in support of combatant commanders. Provides internal and external security for the people of this country and also a...
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...you and your Soldiers will face them. Controlled combat stress can call forth stress reactions of loyalty, selflessness, and heroism. Conversely, uncontrolled combat stress causes erratic or harmful behavior that disrupts or interferes with the accomplishment of a unit’s mission. Any uncontrolled combat stress can impair mission performance and may bring disgrace, disaster, and defeat. The art of war aims to impose so much stress on enemy soldiers that they lose their will to fight. Both sides try to do this and at times accept severe stress themselves in order to inflict greater stress on the enemy. To win, you must control combat stress. The word “control” is better than the word “manage” to emphasize the active steps that leaders, supporting personnel, and individual Soldiers must take to keep stress within an acceptable range. This does not mean that control and management are mutually exclusive terms. Management is, by definition, the exercise of control. Within common usage, however, and especially within Army usage, management has the connotation of being a somewhat detached, number–driven, higher echelon process rather than a direct, inspirational, leadership process. Stress is the body’s and mind’s process for dealing with uncertain change and danger. Elimination of stress is both impossible and undesirable in either the Army’s combat or peacetime missions Combat and Operational Stressors Combat and operational stress will affect you and your Soldiers...
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...Elements of Sexual Harassment. 5. Define Sexual Harassment Behaviors. 6. Explain the Sexual Harassment Checklist. 7. Explain the Techniques to Deal with Sexual Harassment. 8. Explain the Administrative Actions. TYPE OF INSTRUCTION: Instruction and Small Group Discussion TIME OF INSTRUCTION: 4 Hours NOTE: You must ensure you have a video player and monitor to show the video on the prevention of sexual harassment (Pin Number 170876, ICN: TVT-20-1996) produced by the Department of the Army in 1996. This tape is available from your EOA or TASC. It is recommended this video be shown at the beginning of the block of instruction, but stop it before showing the vignettes. By showing the first portion of the video at the beginning, the students will already be familiar with many of the concepts and terms you are going to be instructing. This should make the learning process easier for them during your instruction. After the block of instruction, and the practice exercise is completed, then show the vignettes. The responses from the group while stopping after each vignette for discussion will ensure learning occurred, and serve to clarify what constitutes sexual harassment in the student’s minds. The video facilitating guide is located enclosed immediately following this lesson plan. LEAD-IN: During recent years, the controversial subject of sexual harassment has been brought to the public’s attention by such events as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill...
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...You look lazily at your clock, noting that it reads 9:30 A.M. Today you woke up not feeling the best that you can be. Dang, this is going to be a long day you groan to yourself as you roll over out of your very warm and inviting bed. It is made especially more difficult given that your girlfriend lies on the other side of it wishing your departure would not occur so quickly. However, it is yourself that knows the reason for why you are leaving; it is because the bills have to be paid somehow. She working two part time jobs to help in paying the basic bills like water, electricity, and all that food you two consume, especially given the fact that both of your friends come over, quite often, you note. And it is with your added efforts that the burden will be lifted off of her and you two can maintain a “comfortable” lifestyle. All those purchases from iTunes and Xbox live; they add up quite quickly. To the tune of around $300 per month quickly! Then you must also add into this the rent which, miraculously, isn’t getting any cheaper. In fact, that darn flyer that was stuck in your door the other day brought you the joyous news that in fact, it is going to raise up by $50 per month, starting next month! Thanks for the warning bud, you think to yourself. This is why you must get up and start to prepare for your interview at 1 P.M. You have to drive off of the motivation of what had happened to your friend, Steve, a few weeks back. There is no way you cannot allow for...
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...Afghanistan war has been no different. A reported 280,000 women have been deployed; 800 have been wounded and 200 have died. (Nindl et all. 50) Soldiers, no matter their Military Occupation Specialty (MOS), are involved in combat because of the nature that the enemy engages. On one such occasion, a bomb ripped through a U. S. Armored vehicle, an 18-ton Stryker, that contained four people. The enemy was shooting at the Stryker with their guns. A staff sergeant lost his leg below the knee and a lieutenant pulled him out of the tank and to safety. Left behind were a 6-ft. 1-in. critically injured sergeant, weighing 250 lb with his gear on, and a 5-ft. 2-in. female Army lab technician. The group commander watched the whole ordeal. Later, he recalled: Getting in and out of the vehicle with all of your kit on is difficult enough on its own, especially if you add smoke, fire, and the chaos of getting shot at, and bullets pinging off the outside of the armor, but she does it anyway. …As she’s dragging him back, she’s shooting onehanded with her M-16 toward the bad guys. Completely phenomenal! (Thompson 53-54) This is not the only time a woman proved her worthiness. Time and time again, woman rose to the occasion. The Combat Action Badge, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, Silver Star, and other awards for valor have been awarded to women. Nevertheless, women were still denied the privilege of serving on combat vessels and in combat missions. Surprisingly, the military found ways around this. Women...
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...NCO-ER EVALUATION REPORT PREPARATION GUIDE 1. PURPOSE: To provide a simplified, easy-to-read, guide to preparing Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Reports (NCO-ERs). The intent of this guide is not to replace the governing Regulation, AR 623-205. Rather, this guide will serve as a useful 'teaching' tool for young NCOs and officers. Users should still become familiar and comply with the provisions of AR 623-205. 2. APPLICABILITY: This guide applies to all Army NCOs, officers, and civilian personnel, as well as members of other services, who rate and senior rate Army NCOs. 3. SUGGEST IMPROVEMENTS: This is a one-time only publication and will be distributed electronically. Users may change it to meet the needs of their own installations/units and publish locally if desired. Hardcopies will not be distributed by PERSCOM. 4. TABLE OF CONTENTS: CHAPTER I PERFORMANCE COUNSELING Definition/requirement Page 2 How to Plan & Conduct Performance Counseling Page 3 CHAPTER II PREPARING AN NCO-ER Part I, Administrative Data Pages 4-6 Part II, Authentication Pages 6-7 Part III, Duty Description Pages 8-9 Part IV, Values/NCO Responsibilities Pages 9-13 Part V, Overall Performance and Potential Pages 14-15 Sample of Completed NCO-ER Pages 16-17 CHAPTER III RESPONSIBILITIES AND TIPS FOR RATING ...
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...copies of the exercise for each student. If you wish - depending upon group size - you may want to break them into groups and allow the groups to work together. The Star Power Exercise is also recommended to reinforce this block of instruction. You should plan on allowing three hours for this exercise. If you do not possess the Star Power exercise, then you should find another exercise that will demonstrate the concept of power to your students. You may find a suitable video or film at your local TASC that would demonstrate the principles of power or the abuse of power that would serve well. However, Star Power is strongly recommended as the best means to reinforce this block of instruction to the group. LEAD-IN: Hopefully, blatant incidents of discrimination in the Army today are a rare occurrence, rather than a common one as in times past. However, recognizing isolated incidents may still occur, and to fully safeguard against discrimination, we must understand some of the factors involved in discrimination. As the EOL for your unit, you should always be alert to what types of behaviors can directly and indirectly...
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...USAIC Pamphlet 350-6 Training the Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB) Test 31 MARCH 2009 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Headquarters, United States Army Infantry Center Fort Benning, Georgia 31905-5593 USAIC Pamphlet 350-6 TRAINING The Expert Infantryman Badge (EIB) Test TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ............................................................................................................................. iii CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION 1-1. 1-2. 1-3. 1-4. 1-5. 1-6. 1-7. PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................. 1-1 AUTHORITY............................................................................................................................... 1-1 FREQUENCY ............................................................................................................................. 1-1 EXCEPTIONS ............................................................................................................................ 1-2 PROCEDURES .......................................................................................................................... 1-2 SCORECARDS .......................................................................................................................... 1-3 RISK ASSESSMENT ................................................................................................................. 1-3 CHAPTER 2 – ADMINISTRATION AND...
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...additional guidance on the Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program (para 1-4e(6)). o Clarifies the groups of personnel who must be informed of the Army’s accommodation of religious practices policies (para 1-4f). o Adds the categories “senior field grade officers,” “senior field grade warrant officers,” ”field grade warrant officers,” “company grade warrant officers,” “enlisted noncommissioned officers,” and “junior enlisted Soldiers” (table 1-1). o Adds policy that the senior commander is normally, but not always, the senior general officer at an installation (para 2-5b(4)(a)). o Adds policy for command responsibility for the Total Army Sponsorship Program (paras 2-5b(4)(a)16 and 2-5b(4)(c)8). o Clarifies policy on how Army command, Army service component command, and direct reporting unit commanders may request a permanent change of senior commander (para 2-5b(4)(g)1). o Clarifies policy for Army commanders in the grade of lieutenant general or above assuming command of Army installations as an exception to policy (para 2-5c(1)). o Clarifies policy regarding...
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...Army Regulation 350–1 Training Army Training and Leader Development Rapid Action Revision (RAR) Issue Date: 4 August 2011 Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 18 December 2009 UNCLASSIFIED SUMMARY of CHANGE AR 350–1 Army Training and Leader Development This rapid action revision, 4 September 2011-o Implements the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010 by deleting all references to developing and conducting training concerning the Army’s Homosexual Conduct Policy (paras 2-21p and 2-22k.) o Rescinds paragraphs 2-6r, 2-46ac, and G-14e.) o Makes administrative changes (app A: marked obsolete forms and publications; corrected forms and publication titles; and corrected Web site addresses; glossary: deleted unused acronyms and corrected titles/abbreviations as prescribed by Army Records Management and Declassification Agency). *Army Regulation 350–1 Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 18 December 2009 Effective 18 January 2010 Training Army Training and Leader Development History. This publication is a rapid action revision (RAR). This RAR is effective 20 September 2011. The portions affected by this RAR are listed in the summary of change. Summary. This regulation consolidates policy and guidance for Army training and leader development and supports a full-spectrum, force protection, expeditionary Army. Applicability. This regulation applies to the active Army, the Army National ...
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...U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Report 1819 FUTURE COMBAT SYSTEMS COMMAND AND CONTROL (FCS C2) HUMAN FUNCTIONS ASSESSMENT: INTERIM REPORT - EXPERIMENT 3 Carl W. Lickteig, William R. Sanders, and Paula J. Durlach U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences Thomas J. Carnahan Western Kentucky University Consortium Research Fellows Program February 2004 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences A Directorate of the U.S. Army Human Resources Command ZITA M. SIMUTIS Director Technical review by Kenneth Copeland, CECOM RDEC C2D Robert A. Rasch, Jr., CECOM RDEC C2D NOTICES DISTRIBUTION: Primary distribution of this Research Report has been made by ARI. Please address correspondence concerning distribution of reports to: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, Attn: DAPE-ARI-PO, 5001 Eisenhower Ave., Alexandria, VA 22304-4841. FINAL DISPOSITION: This Research Report may be destroyed when it is no longer needed. Please do not return it to the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. NOTE: The findings in this Research Report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position, unless so designated by other authorized documents. |REPORT...
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