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...
The Army’s Liaison duty began in Germany to assist those Soldiers who arrived at Landstuhl Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany with injuries and other illnesses that they acquired while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. With the War on Terrorism...
The purpose of this article is to share advice and ideas for future casualty assistance officers (CAOs) to enhance their performance and enrich the experience for the families involved and themselves. In September 2006, I was selected to serve as a...
The majorities of soldiers in the Mississippi Army National Guard have spent their entire career as a guard member and has never been overseas or in any type of military war conflicts. The events that took place at the Pentagon and the World Trade...
What is the ARTEP? The U.S. Army Training and Evaluation program describes the mission and critical collective tasks a unit must perform to accomplish its mission and survive on the battlefield.
This AR 195-5 covers Department of the Army policy on criminal investigation evidence procedures, including the collection, accountability, preservation, and disposition of evidence. It also delineates responsibility and authority between Military...
Regulation prescribes policies and procedures governing promotion of Army commissioned and warrant officers on the active duty list. It incorporates provisions of the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act as specified in section 557 through 563...
Prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing U.S. Army casualty operations to include casualty reporting, casualty notification and casualty assistance. It provides policy guidance and information to soldiers who have been designated to perform...
Establishes policies and procedures for reporting absences, establishes procedures for special category absentees, personnel dropped from the rolls, and the surrender of military personnel to civilian law enforcement authorities. It refines policy...
The Mission Training Plan (MTP) provides the active and reserve component training manager with a descriptive, performance-oriented training program to assist leaders in training their units. Standards for training may be made more difficult, but...
In my 26 years of experience in the Army National Guard – the last 20 years being full-time service, one of the most challenging and rewarding assignments occurred when I was appointed as the Casualty Assistance Officer for the family of a fellow...
The prejudice and bias of awarding awards to low density MOSs is an ethical dilemma facing many units in today's Army. Before I give specific examples let’s look at the word ethics and its true meaning. Ethics is clearly defined as doing the...
William Bainbridge Ethics Papers:
In 1994 the commandant of the Sergeants Major Academy, Col Fredrick Van Horn created the William E. Bainbridge Chair of Ethics in the Sergeants Major Course. In reality this amounted to the introduction of a...