...The U.S. military is extremely proficient at invading a country and defeating its military. This can be seen with the Gulf War and the initial operations of Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. On the other hand, the U.S. has not achieved the same level of success as an occupying force. The ability to survive as an occupying force in a hostile foreign country depends entirely upon sustainment operations. Failure to sustain a force will ultimately led to mission failure. Sustainment operations have to be planned and synchronized from the highest to lowest levels. The three major elements of sustainment operations that allow a unit to be successful are logistics, personnel services, and health service support. I will use my experience as a MEDEVAC pilot in Afghanistan to explain why the three elements and eight principles of...
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...Captain Heather L. Bates, United States Army, distinguished herself by exceptionally meritorious service to the United States as the Deputy G4 and Property Book Advisor, 201st Military Advisory Team (MAT), Train Advise Assist Command - East (TAAC-E), Gamberi, Afghanistan, from 28 September 2017 through 15 June 2018, during Operation FREEDOM’S SENTINEL. CPT Bates facilitated the Train Advise and Assist efforts of the entire G4 section which consisted of 9 different sections including 7 Army Officers, 2 Non Commissioned Officers, 2 Polish Officers, four DA civilians and three linguists by providing clear guidance and creating shared understanding through personal example, patient coaching, and caring leadership. CPT Bates’ vision was the primary catalyst...
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...Negotiations between 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and United State Army Reserve Command William N. Willhoite Keller Graduate School of Management HRM-595; Negotiation Skills Professor Kenneth Goldsmith 16 December 2012 Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction Page 3 A. Background Information Page 3 Parties involved in Negotiations Page 4 Mission of the Mobilization Augmentation Page 5 Section 2: Field Analysis of the Constituents Page 7 Section 3: Negotiation Goals and Strategies Page 10 Section 4: Conclusion Page 13 Section 5: References Page 14 Negotiations between 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command and United State Army Reserve Command This paper is a discussion on the negotiations between the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command (364th ESC) and the United States Army Reserve Command (USARC) over the number of Army Reserve Soldiers that will be allowed to augment the headquarters of the 364th ESC for the purpose of assisting Army Reserve units preparing to mobilize onto active duty and demobilizing from active duty. Background The 364th ESC has participated in an Army Reserves has a program that has been operational since the 364th ESC’s establishment in 2010, that allows general officer commands to add additional staff to their authorized full time manning for the express purpose of assisting deploying units prepare...
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...meqbal30@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------- Profile More than 9 years of experience in translation , interpretation and Linguist management for Senior U.S Military Personnel and Afghan National Security Forces in Afghanistan which included translation of hundreds of documents and simultaneous and near simultaneous interpretation of dozens of Senior Leader Seminars for Afghan military and civilian officials hosted by U.S military. In addition, I have managed and supervised more than 75 linguists supporting Operations Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. More than 2 years of experience instructing Dari and Pashto languages including a working knowledge of Afghan Culture to the U.S. military in U.S. ------------------------------------------------- WORK EXPERIENCE Dari/Pashto Linguist/Translator Feb.2011-Jun-2014 Mission Essential Personnel LLC.| Afghanistan. * Translated hundreds of projects from Dari to English and vice versa. * Translated military, medical, legal and Afghan Government documents from Dari to English and vice versa * Edited translated documents from Dari to English and vice versa. * Translated/Interpreted for U.S army during Detainees Operation in Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Dari Instructor Jan.2009-Feb.2011 American Federal Contractor, (A.F.C) Fort Polk, La, USA * Provided professional language and cultural instruction to U.S Armed Forces pre-Deployment * Integrated technology to reinforce...
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...NATO: Joint Operations In the years following the Second World War, a new superpower began to emerge that had conflicting ideals with the United States and Western Europe, the Soviet Union. As a result of Soviet military might, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 to counter and deter Soviet military aggression. The original treaty included 12 nations from North American and Western Europe, today, the number of member nations has grown to 29 with the three largest contributors being the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. NATO is a strategic military alliance with a specific mission set and through its 69 years of history, has utilized joint operations between nations to prevent war and when need be, used...
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...Gregg Zoroya’s book, “The Chosen Few,” provides a comprehensive account over the small skirmishes and the three major battles that paratroopers from Chosen Company—and soldiers from sister units, pilots, and faithful allies who assisted—of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade fought during their fifteen-month deployment to Afghanistan that ended in the summer of 2008. Paratroopers, from all walks of life, would come together and face some of the most daring battles, exhibit heroism and courage, and make the most of their limited resources. This Battle study will offer an analysis over the three major battles: Ranch House, the Ambush, and the Battle of Wanat. I will draw an extensive examination on the...
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...organizations current focus? The current focus of the United States Army is to improve its ability to sustain stability operations at home and abroad. Currently the army finds itself facing fiscal challenges due to the worlds economic down turn in recent years. In spite of these challenges, the army must be able to maintain its readiness posture to be prepared for future conflicts, while simultaneously sustain stability operations in places around the world wear it is already conducting operations. What are the organization’s overarching goals? The overarching goal of the United States Army is to fight and win our nation’s wars by providing prompt, sustained land dominance across the full range of military operations and spectrum of conflict. What are the organization’s training needs? The United States Army’s training needs require multi-echelon, effective training, that addresses the organizations need to maintain its readiness posture while maintaining the stability it has currently achieved abroad, while using significantly less fiscal capital to achieve results. How do they relate to the overarching goals? The way that the army’s training needs relate to its overarching goals is that the army must be prepared at all times, in a moments notice to deploy any where in the world, and fight and win in any conflict, while maintaining current operations, and still conduct training to maintain and improve that readiness, for less...
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... 2011-2013 Role player/foreign language specialist • Trained soldiers through military mission and situational exercises that enable soldiers’ battalions to interact under various conditions • Replicated various roles and groups of people representing possible situations military battalions may face during deployment • Adapted the cultural appearance, dress, language, behavior and manner of speech of the assigned characters • Conform to the Safety Plan and Quality Plan to accept responsibility in helping to achieve customer satisfaction • Facilitated realistic training in preparation for real-world events and scenarios the unit will likely encounter during contingency operations •...
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...following courses of action: • Producing high standards in and maintaining efficient productivity during periods of peacetime as well as wartime and operations. • Developed formats for higher-level command intelligence products such as Daily/Weekly Intelligence Summaries (INTSUMs), Daily Commander Update Briefs (CUBs), and Staff Mission Briefs (SMBs) as required. • Able to motivate, maximize productivity, and increase morale through conducting formal and informal counseling of peers and subordinates. • Performed major duties given little to no guidance in order to complete tasks in a timely manner. • Recognized as an exceptional mentor who enjoys supporting others, demonstrating a lead-by-example approach whilst working parallel as a team member to ensure a specific, unified outcome. Professional Experience: United States Army - Special Forces Support, Year – present Rank - Completed ? years with the U.S. Army. Achieved supervisory status of SGT within the first 3 years of enlistment. Was promoted ahead of peers to SSG within 5 years of enlistment. Chosen for complex Afghanistan missions to support Special Forces teams in high-risk operations....
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...OVERVIEW UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FISCAL YEAR 2014 BUDGET REQUEST APRIL 2013 OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) / CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Preface The Overview Book has been published as part of the President’s Annual Defense Budget for the past few years. This continues for FY 2014, but with modifications as proposed by congressional staff. From FY 1969 to FY 2005 OSD published the “Annual Defense Report” (ADR) to meet 10 USC Section 113 requirements. Starting with the President’s FY 2006 Budget, this report was no longer produced. Subsequently, the Overview began to fill this role. This year to ensure compliance with Section 113, new chapters are added to include reports from each Military Department on their respective funding, military mission accomplishments, core functions, and force structure. Key initiatives incorporated in the FY 2014 Defense budget. Our budget is formulated based on aligning program priorities and resources based on the President’s strategic guidance. This year’s budget involves key themes to: achieve a deeper program alignment of our future force structure with resource availability; maintain a mission ready force; continue to emphasize efficiencies by being even better stewards of taxpayer dollars; and continue to take care of our people and their families. Implementing Defense Strategic Guidance. The FY 2014 budget request continues the force structure reductions made in the FY 2013 budget request. Following...
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...coming off active duty with the Army in September of 2009. The unit is a battalion sized training unit with ninety percent of its members being male Soldiers. The battalion mission is conduct training readiness oversight and mobilization of designated active and reserve component forces in the western are of responsibility in order to provide trained and ready forces to regional combatant commanders. The battalion supports pre-mobilization training for reserve component forces in accordance with our Higher Headquarters, First Army, Division West located at Fort Hood, TX. Some of the specific tasks of the unit is to assess and report pre-mobilization readiness for reserve component forces; conduct mobilization and demobilization operations; conduct counter-improvised explosive device, counter insurgency and escalation of force training; provide command and control over assigned and mobilized forces; and provide operational force protection. Most of these training tasks and activities have traditionally been performed by all male Soldiers since it has long been considered a male’s job to perform any type of combat related duty or training. Division West objective is to conduct battle focused, tough, realistic training to provide equipped and ready Soldiers, units and leaders for the combatant commanders. The command continues to increase the strategic changes and responsiveness, flexibility and quality of life for all Soldiers and families while remaining a critical...
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...Lack of Proper Assets results in Misuse of Government Property in South West Asia WOILE 15-016, CW4 Michael Podesta I served in multiple contingency operations with in South West Asia (SWA) Theater from Feb 2006 to Jan 2010 separated in to three deployments supporting different contingency operations. These deployments included Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Jan 2005 to Mar 2006 with the 3BCT, 3ID as the Brigade Mobility Officer, OIF Mar 2007 to July 2008 with the 3BCT, 3ID as the Brigade Mobility Officer, and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) Sep 2011 to Jan 2012 with the 45th Sustainment Brigade (SB) as the SB Mobility Officer. During all of these deployments while serving as a Mobility Officer regardless when I was serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Kuwait between the time periods I have noticed one thing has been remained constant despite the location or timing. Regardless if its Military, Civilian, or Host nations support everyone on the military installation misutilized the Air Force 463L Pallet. Government property which has an only authorized use and purpose as an intermodal asset to transport cargo by air. Observation 1: Air Force 463L Pallets used as tent flooring. Discussion: Many units did not have proper materials to use as proper tent flooring in order to keep tent floors dry. While deployed to hot and dry environments when it rains the ground quickly became muddy and flooded with water, without proper flooring tents can quickly became wet and uncomfortable. The...
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...DynCorp Anthony Allen ETH/316 August 25, 2014 Dr. Michelle Kuamoo DynCorp The US defense industry is a worldwide program that enables research and development, and maintenance of military weapons systems to meet U.S. military requirements. The Defense industry consists the DOD and thousands of defense based companies. The defense industry has companies located in countries all over the world that are vital to mobilization, deployment, and sustainment of military operations (Homeland security, 2014). The defense industry has come under scrutiny, because of its work with the war in Afghanistan, the battles here in the US, and defense spending. These days, people and businesses are influenced by social media, television, peer pressure, and these outlets can change the way a company functions or operates. Despite the best logical responses to certain social pressures, the defense industry actions will not please everyone, but it will provide the most basic sense of security we are all use to. A good example is the F-22 military aircraft was created to revolutionize the way we fight a war, so far the F-22 raptor program consists of 187 aircraft and cost 79 billion dollars($420 million per aircraft), but matched with a cheaper aircrafts in other countries. After a series of highly publicized mishaps (faulty oxygen systems and the death of Capt. Jeff Haney) and media pressure, the aircraft was grounded till the problems were fixed (Lee Farran, 2012). My employer, DynCorp International...
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...Organizational Structure Paper Oswualdo Ramirez MGT/230 June 20, 2012 Kellie Parker Organizational Structure Paper The United States Army is one of many legal types of organizations of the armed forces and has been since June 1775. It is the largest and oldest of all the branches of the military and continues to dominate all threats aimed at the United States alongside the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines. Like many other organizations in the United States, the U.S Army has a structure of its own. From the top down, it functions as any other organization, but unlike most, every member of its team carries rank and has a chain of command to abide by. In the following I will describe and evaluate the structure and functions within the United States Army, compare it to its fellow branches, and explain its organizational design that has been the primary reason Americans have been kept free from tyranny and enjoy the freedoms taken for granted every day. Army Organizational Structure What is an organization? According to "Businessdictionary" (2012), an organization is a social unit of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals on a continuing basis (Organization). The United States Army has a structure that starts as high as the President of the United States down to the newest and youngest recruit soldier. Its organizational structure far exceeds that or your local neighborhood Wal-Mart, yet has far...
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...Organizational Structure Paper Eli Cash MGT/230 October 23, 2014 The United States Army Organizational Structure The United States Army is one of many legal types of organizations of the armed forces and has been since June 1775. It is the largest and oldest of all the branches of the military and continues to dominate all threats aimed at the United States alongside the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Marines. Like many other organizations in the United States, the U.S Army has a structure of its own. From the top down, it functions as any other organization, but unlike most, every member of its team carries rank and has a chain of command to abide by. In the following I will describe and evaluate the structure and functions within the United States Army, compare it to its fellow branches, and explain its organizational design that has been the primary reason Americans have been kept free from tyranny and enjoy the freedoms taken for granted every day. Army Organizational Structure What is an organization? According to "Businessdictionary" (2012), an organization is a social unit of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals on a continuing basis (Organization). The United States Army has a structure that starts as high as the President of the United States down to the newest and youngest recruit soldier. Its organizational structure far exceeds that or your local neighborhood Wal-Mart, yet has far less “employees”. As...
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