The Modern Army Combatives Program was adopted by the U.S. Army in 2000. The program is the culmination of a directive by the Commander of 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment in 1995 to improve the Army's older and unused combatives program. Modern...
Thesis: Today’s Army Physical Fitness Program does not effectively assess, train or prepare Soldiers for today’s combat missions. Units often become complacent with the reverberation and everyday maintenance cycles, marksmanship, and field...
Thesis Statement: The current Army Physical Fitness Program does not train, assess nor prepare Soldiers for today’s combat missions. Although it is commonly believed that noncommissioned officers from within a formation can conduct physical...
Modem Army combatives started at 2nd Ranger Battalion in 1995 when Lieutenant Col. Stanley A. McChrystal, then battalion commander, ordered a review of defensive hand-to-hand training in order to be better prepared for the changing face of military...
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...
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...
In this author's opinion, the United States Army is not doing enough to prepare combat organizations for the inevitability of casualties. This thesis proposes the following primary research question: How can United States Army combat organizations...
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 study is a resource Soldiers can use to help prepare for a deployment to Afghanistan by creating a self-development plan using technology supported tools. First, the study identifies some types of knowledge technology supported tools can...
Learning to leverage new media: the Israeli defense forces in recent conflicts. Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, U.S. Army; Mr. Dennis M. Murphy; and Mr. Anton Menning; The Army must learn to embrace lessons from the explosion of...
The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of the CrossFit fitness program and methodology to increase the physical fitness of U.S. Army Soldiers. Over the past several years, the CrossFit fitness program has gained popularity among U.S....
Creating Sergeant Majors for the 21st Century Contemporary Operating Environment
The 21st Century has brought on changes in the way our Army that have yet to be addressed seven years into the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Sergeant Majors have...
In November 2006, the 4th Battalion 320th Field Artillery, 506th Regiment Combat Team (Currahee), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom to the lower Karrada district of Baghdad, Iraq. During their...
Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry, the unit that I was assigned to on 4 January, 2004. I was the First Sergeant (“Hardrock 7”) of the best company in 3rd Brigade Combat Team. The unit was redeploying back from the National Training...
In the mid1990s the Army cut back on funding and reduced the size of the Army Marksmanship Unit. This budget cut began the fall of marksmanship training in the Army. I feel that we waste valuable time and funding on other pursuits such as Golf...
Major Greg Nardi is currently an analyst in the Science and Technology Division of the Unit of Action Battle Lab at Fort Knox. He was deployed to Iraq from March 2004 until March 2005, serving first as Headquarters Company commander in 1st...
This thesis focuses on the impact of character in Special Forces (SF), or its lack thereof, through the historical analysis of various warrior sects and key historical figures. This research then contrasts current perceptions of character within SF...
This paper describes some of the key events during my attendance to Enlisted Green Platoon, which is a prerequisite in order to be assigned to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). I discussed the training in chronological...
SUMMARY: The Army transformation effort provided the dominant theme for the Sergeants Major Academy in 2008. The academy sought to continue transformation in the Noncommissioned Officer Education System, through the increased use of distance...