Noncommissioned Officers have recited from memory, immortalized in script, and proudly displayed The Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer for many years. NCOs can remember reciting the Creed during their induction into the NCO Corps. Many of us...
Throughout history, the roll of the Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) has been the
vital link between, the enlisted soldier, and the commissioned officer. The primary
purpose of this link is to mentor and create young professionals out of soldiers....
Throughout history, the roll of the Non Commissioned Officer (NCO) has been the vital link between, the enlisted soldier, and the commissioned officer. The primary purpose of this link is to mentor and create young professionals out of soldiers. In...
This monograph discusses the relationship between the Army's AirLand Battle doctrine and the individual's will to fight. The monograph contends that AirLand Battle doctrine relies heavily on individual and sub-unit success. It further contends that...
As Senior Noncommissioned Officers, we have all faced many ethical dilemmas. All of those dilemmas are most likely similar to those of another Sergeant Major. Therefore, instead of recounting a personal event relating to ethics; I will explore what...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Soldiers become confident. Soldiers’
confidence is built through training, leadership, and technological advances which is evident
through the success of the Army Retention Program. A comparison of any...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how noncommissioned officer (NCO) leadership
builds confidence in Soldiers. We will first look at the history of the NCO and discuss how the
role of the NCO has changed throughout Army history. Competent and...
NCO traditions continue to play a big role in today's army. The essence of crossing over from an enlisted soldier to a noncommissioned officer is a significant event in an enlisted soldier's career and it should be highly regarded. The same way a...
The NCO induction ceremony is a celebration of the newly promoted Sergeants joining the ranks of a professional noncommissioned officer corps and emphasizes building on the pride we all share as members of such an elite corps. The ceremony also...
The purpose of this article is to show how lessons learned from the NCO creed made me a more agile and adaptive NCO. In 2005, I transferred to the 404TH Civil Affairs Battalion (SO) as HHC's First Sergeant (1 SG). I knew I needed to accomplish our...
This essay provides a short insight into the nature of Special Forces operations, the Army Values, and the Special Forces (SF) Creed. The Army Values are paraphrased and used as a base to overlay the Special Forces Creed and show how the SF creed...
The monograph analyses the origins of the use of violence in the name of religion by the Salafist movement in Europe in order to enable identification of key characteristics to shape national strategies of prevention that are appropriate for...
This study examines what effect unit culture has on leadership practices in the 75th Ranger Regiment. The study investigates how the unit culture of the 75th Ranger Regiment developed. Through a survey questionnaire administered to selected leaders...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
This document focuses on German Christianity and churches under the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), churches under the Nazi regime (1933-1945), church finances, religious education, the clergy, and ecclesiastical statistics.
This monograph examines whether the current U. S. Army Ranger School POI develops the necessary small unit leadership skills required to support the needs of the Light Infantry Divisions. The austere construct of the Light Infantry Division permits...
What price is too high? Where do we draw the line? When do we as leaders stop expending lives of our Soldiers in recovery efforts of dead ones? As a leader, I would say that even one life is too high of a price to pay to recover the body of a dead...
The military/media relationship is historically tenuous. While both the media and the military play a role in the preservation of American freedoms, the military depends on operations security for many of its functions while the media demands...
From January 2005 through January 2006 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Lieutenant Colonel Rich Creed served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor - part of 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division - in the Ba'qubah area of...
Owning our army ethic. MAJ Chris Case, U.S. Army; Major Bob Underwood, U.S. Army; and Colonel Sean T. Hannah, Ph.D., U.S. Army; The Army's ethic must reconcile possible tensions between action and duty by providing guidance for both why we fight...