The Top 10 Reasons for Belonging to the Association of the United States Army (01/24/2008)
AUSA is the Army’s professional association and has – for 57 years – provided support for soldiers and family members. And, I believe that every soldier should be a member. AUSA’s strength can be found in its membership and chapters. That’s why membership is important.
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Soldiers Enter Virtual World (08/07/2007)
Sgt. Tommy Rieman and Maj. Jason Amerine share a number of things beyond their Army uniforms, service in Afghanistan and Iraq and combat awards. Both soldiers are featured in an interactive video: “America’s Army: Real Heroes,” and have been traveling with the “Virtual Army Experience” to explain what it means to be a soldier and to give visitors a taste of what a military mission can be like.
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Professional Forums are for You (02/01/2006)
In spite of everything that’s happened, noncommissioned officer education remains at the heart of what the Army is trying to do.”
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Ordway’s Contribution (01/01/2006)
As I reported to you in the March, AUSA’s Fort Lewis Chapter plans to erect a bronze, sculpted statue of 1st Sgt. John Ordway, to be placed in the Fort Lewis Memorial Park located at the post’s main gate.
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Enforcing Standards (12/01/2005)
Command Sgt. Maj. Dave Bruner was selected as the 2005 Larry L. Strickland Educational Leadership Award recipient. Bruner, a special operations soldier, was recognized for his dedication to teaching future leaders while practicing excellent stewardship of our nation’s most precious resource – our soldiers.
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'The Best of the Best' (11/01/2005)
Sgt. Jeremy S. Kamphuis was named the Army’s top noncommissioned officer and Sgt. Chad H. Steuck top Army soldier on Monday Oct. 3 at the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting in Washington.
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Kidd to Receive Bainbridge Medal (10/01/2005)
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Richard A. Kidd, USA, Ret., is the 2005 recipient of the Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge Medal.
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‘Special Place for Special People’ (09/01/2005)
“A Special Place for Special People” is how we describe the Armed Forces Retirement Home for Distinguished Veterans. AUSA is sponsoring a tour of the home during this year’s Annual Meeting and Exposition for the outstanding soldiers and NCOs.
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Best of the Best (08/01/2005)
2005 competition for the honor of being selected as the best drill sergeants.
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Best Ranger (07/01/2005)
It was an unseasonably cool April weekend at Fort Benning, Ga., for the 22nd Annual David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition.
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Teaching Blocking and Tackling (05/01/2005)
Sgt. 1st Class David Estabrooks is keeping a close eye on a small knot of infantry second lieutenants as they begin their first battle drill – room clearing.
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Getting The Upper Hand (04/28/2005)
Sgt. 1st Class Matt Larsen traces the development of the Army’s combatives course back over 10 years to the Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning, Ga., when he was a squad leader there.
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Lewis Chapter to Build Memorial (03/16/2005)
AUSA's Fort Lewis Chapter is raising funds to purchase the Sgt. Ordway Memorial Statue.
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'We Liberated 55 Million People' (02/15/2005)
Command Sgt. Maj. Frank Grippe is "looking forward to my third deployment in the war on terrorism." A battle during the first of Grippe's deployments in this continuing war was described in the June 2002 issue of AUSA NEWS in a story headlined: "Quite the American fight."
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Dreams For the Future (01/24/2005)
Sgt. Chad Prichard wants to use the Arabic he is learning back at his reserve center in Kansas City, Mo., one day to "go back to Iraq and maybe take my children" to show them a rebuilt nation.
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Meeting Great People (12/22/2004)
For more than two years, Sgt. 1st Class Lee Markwell has been a drill instructor at the military police school at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. “I always wanted to be a soldier,” he said about the decision that took him from Alaska to Fort Bragg, N.C., where he started out as a medic.
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NCOs Provide Continuity (11/29/2004)
The Army expects its vaunted Noncommissioned Officer Corps to provide the continuity needed to adapt to change as the service transforms itself while engaged in sustained combat, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said Oct. 25.
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Soldier-Medic to be Honored (10/20/2004)
Sgt. Maj. David J. Litteral has been selected as the 2004 recipient of the Sergeant Major Larry L. Strickland Educational Leadership Award and Scholarship. The award and scholarship is named in honor of Sgt. Maj. Larry L. Strickland, who served the nation and America’s Army with distinction for 30 years.
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Devine to Receive Bainbridge Medal (10/01/2004)
Command Sgt. Maj. Donald H. Devine, USA, Ret., has been selected as the 2004 recipient of the William G. Bainbridge Medal. Devine was selected for his 54 years of selfless service to America's Army – both in and out of uniform.
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Your Vote Counts (09/01/2004)
I live and work in the greater Washington, D. C., area. For the most part, it is an exciting place to live with lots of things to see and do. In my opinion, Washington is the cultural, historical, as well as the political center of the country. Once every four years it seems to go into overdrive.
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Top Drill Sergeants, Recruiters (08/04/2004)
Every soldier – no matter when or how long in service – has two things in common, two shared experiences. He or she has had up-close and personal encounters with a recruiter and a drill sergeant. It was an Army recruiter who believed in them and made them believe that they have what it takes to make the team, and an Army drill sergeant who performed a minor miracle by transforming the recruit into a soldier.
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Something Completely Different (07/01/2004)
Staff Sgt. Rigoberto Alcala had a weekend to decide whether to leave his position at the burn unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and move to Miami to become part of something completely different in Army medical training. He opted to come to the Ryder Trauma Center where he and a few others were going to teach doctors, nurses and medics how to function as a team.
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The Walter Ehlers' Story (06/09/2004)
This is the story of seven June days in 1944 in the life of Walter D. Ehlers. For his bravery, he would receive the nation’s highest military honor.
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Hearing From the Troops (05/13/2004)
Your Association recently held its mid-winter symposium and exposition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with a record-breaking attendance of over 1,700 participants from industry, all components of America's Army, leaders from the Department of Defense, foreign allies, the media and civilian guests. The emphasis was on how industry and the Army can better support soldiers and noncommissioned officers who are deployed around the world fighting the global war on terrorism.
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'I Needed a Change' (04/01/2004)
We had heard rumors we were going to go,” to Iraq, Spc. Billie Grimes, a combat medic then assigned to one of two platoons of medics with a Forward Support Battalion in Friedberg, Germany, said. She originally joined the Army Reserve to obtain money for college, but she wasn't satisfied. “I needed a change to get away [from Lebanon, Ind.] and find myself.”
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Going the Extra Mile (03/01/2004)
Staff Sgt. Heatherann Bozeman, drill sergeant and trainer for Army students, said drilling soldiers at the Defense Information School at Fort Meade, Md., has been the largest leadership challenge she has ever faced.
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AUSA Wants You (02/01/2004)
The best thing about this time of year is that spring is right around the corner. At least that's the case in the Washington, D.C., area. We are too far south to be able to enjoy the outdoor winter sports and too far north to escape the icy fingers of winter.
Spring is my favorite time of year. And, spring is the time of the year that the 130-plus AUSA chapters begin their annual membership drives.
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'No Second Best' (12/01/2003)
Sgt. Maj. of the Army of the Army Jack Tilley, US Army Ret., making his last appearance at the Annual Meeting before he retires in January, said, “One thing we've got to fight is complacency” developing in the American people because the war on terrorism is not over.
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Future Fight (11/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker told senior NCOs at AUSA's Annual Meeting Monday that the Army and its sister services had fought a combined arms war in Iraq for the first time in U.S. history.
"This is joint operations," Schoomaker said. "This is the way we will fight in the future."
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A Vision for the Future (03/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
Fort Bliss, Texas, was the site of the Third Annual Sergeant Major of the Army's Nominative Command Sergeants Major Conference. For the third year in a row, command sergeants major from the active, Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve gathered for a week of briefings, discussions and team building.
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Fighting For Each Other (05/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
As I watch the war on terrorism unfold every night on television, my admiration for America's Army grows by leaps and bounds. There can be no question that our Army has superior equipment, state-of-the-art technology and, more importantly, the best soldiers in the world.
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Army Names Top Recruiters (06/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
The United States Army Recruiting Command and the Army National Guard have selected the active Army, Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve recruiters of the year.
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Santiago Honored (10/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
Command Sgt. Maj. Roberta L. Santiago, U.S. Army Reserve, Ret., is the 2003 recipient of the Sergeant Major of the Army William Bainbridge Noncommissioned Officer Medal. The Bainbridge medal is awarded annually to a noncommissioned officer -- active, reserve component or retired -- contributing most to the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer Corps.
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The Unique Relationship (09/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
"Remember, your title is 'Platoon Leader' not 'Platoon Follower,'" the senior noncommissioned officer at the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Va., said to the men and women seated in a classroom at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Titled "The Role of the Noncommissioned Officer," the roundtable was convened at the annual George C. Marshall ROTC Award Seminar at the Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee.
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A First (08/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
For the first time in the history of the competition, two female drill sergeants were standing side-by-side as the U.S. Army Drill Sergeants of the Year.
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Nominate the Best (07/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
As a tribute to the Army NCO Corps, the Association of the United States Army established a Noncommissioned Officer Distinguished Service Medal in the year 2000. This award, named for the fifth Sergeant Major of the Army, William G. Bainbridge, USA, Ret., and its first recipient, will be presented to a noncommissioned officer during the opening ceremony at the 2003 Annual Meeting.
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Fund To Honor Strickland (04/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
The family and friends of Sgt. Maj. Larry Strickland have instituted a memorial scholarship fund and leadership award program to recognize Strickland's 30 years of selfless service to the nation, the Army and the Noncommissioned Officer Corps.
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Membership Makes AUSA Strong (02/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
For many of our 130 plus AUSA chapters around the world spring is the last thing on your mind. It is, after all, February and in places like Fort Drum and at Fort Wainright -- it's still winter.
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A Good Year Ahead (01/01/2003)
NCO and Soldier Programs
America's Army is fighting a global war on terrorism and at the same time transforming itself to meet the challenges that lie ahead. And, doing both magnificently. AUSA is also transforming itself to keep pace with the needs of America's Army.
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'A Hooah Day' (12/01/2002)
NCO and Soldier Programs
The morning of Oct. 20, 2002, was unseasonably cool in the shadow of the Pentagon, as soldiers from every corner of the world gathered for the 18th running of the Army Ten-Miler.
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Striving For Excellence (11/01/2002)
If you look up the word "symposium" in the dictionary you will read such things as: "a social gathering at which there is a free interchange of ideas" and "a formal meeting at which several specialists deliver short addresses on a specific topic." And, that's just what we will do for noncommissioned officers during the 2002 AUSA Annual Meeting.
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Arlington Tour (09/01/2002)
AUSA's 2002 Annual Meeting is just around the corner and once again it is filled with a wide variety of noncommissioned officer professional development events.
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AUSA Salutes Top Drill Sergeants (08/01/2002)
The 2002 Drill Sergeant of the year Competition was held recently at Fort Monroe, Va. Each year drill sergeants from the active Army and the United Stated Army Reserve compete for the right to be called "The Best of the Best - The Drill Sergeant of the Year."
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Top Recruiters (06/01/2002)
The United States Army Recruiting Command and the Army National Guard have announced the active Army, Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve recruiters of the year.
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Van Autreve's Legacy: Stronger NCO Corps (05/01/2002)
Sergeant Major of the Army Leon L. Van Autreve, U.S. Army Retired, died March 14 at his home in San Antonio, Texas.
He was the 4th Sergeant Major of the Army.
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The Greatest Need of Our Living Heroes (03/19/2002)
The Armed Forces Veterans Home Foundation addresses long-term health care issues for America's elderly veterans.
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AUSA Honors Moran, NCOs (03/01/2002)
If you understand the phrase "Hitting the ground running," you will know what I am talking about when I tell you how the United States Army Noncommissioned Officer Corps started the New Year.
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A Great Soldier's Life (01/24/2002)
On Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2001, Silas L. Copeland, sergeant major of the Army, retired, died at the Conroe Regional Medical Center, Conroe, Texas, following a brief illness. He was a great soldier and will be missed dearly. SMA Copeland had a long and distinguished career in both peace and war.
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AUSA Honors Outstanding NCOs (01/01/2002)
Every year for as long as I can remember AUSA has honored the NCO Corps at the AUSA Annual Meeting during the Sergeant Major of the Army's Awards Luncheon. Due to the Annual Meeting suspension this year, the awards luncheon will be held during the SMA's annual Nominative Command Sergeants Major Conference the second week of January.
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Leadership Development Is Continuous Process (12/01/2001)
Leader development in the Army is a three-phased operation. At least that was true when I was in uniform. It may be different now but my guess is that the only thing that has changed is the terms we use to describe the process.
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AUSA Honors Top Drill Sergeants (09/01/2001)
As I listened to John Beck, the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's command sergeant major, give his welcoming remarks, I was thinking how important drill sergeants are to America's Army -- how they transform America's best and brightest young men and women into first-rate soldiers. The United States Army may not be the largest Army in the world, but we are unquestionably the best.
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AUSA Honors Top Army Recruiters (08/01/2001)
AUSA will honor and recognize three outstanding noncommissioned officers during this year's Annual Meeting -- the recruiters of the year from the active Army, the Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.
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Guard Culture Changes (07/01/2001)
Frank Lever, command sergeant major of the Army National Guard, discusses how the culture in the Army National Guard has changed over the past 30 years.
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Education System Pays Off (06/01/2001)
In the year 2001 the United States Army's NCO Corps is unquestionably the best in the world -- highly trained, competent and professional noncommissioned officer leaders. Today's NCOs are truly the backbone of the Army. But it hasn't always been that way.
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Members Are Our Credentials (05/01/2001)
The importance of membership in AUSA. A top ten list of reasons to join AUSA.
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New NCO and Soldier Directorate Formed (04/01/2001)
The former NCO and Enlisted Affairs department of AUSA has recently been elevated and renamed the Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier Programs Directorate. However, this does not mean that AUSA is an NCO association. AUSA is the Army's professional association and anyone with an interest in keeping America's Army strong are welcome as members of the Association.
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Sergeants Major Develop 'NCO Vision' (03/01/2001)
Fort Bliss, Texas, was the site of a recent gathering of the Army's senior noncommissioned officer leadership. Every command sergeant major in a nominative position in America's Army was there -- active, Army National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve.
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New Beginnings (01/01/2001)
For those of you who keep track of such things Jan. 1, 2001 marks the beginning of the new millennium (not to be confused with Y2K). The New Year also brings with it a new congress, the 107th -- and a new administration.
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Shortages are not new (02/01/2001)
During my travels out and about America's Army I am often asked questions about personnel shortages. It seems that everyone has a story or two about someone calling it quits mid career. The story they tell usually sites back to back deployments and the lure of higher paying jobs on the "outside" as the primary cause. The questioner wants to know what the Army plans to do to stop our best and brightest from leaving.
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