Info Ops Require Targeting Mindset (06/01/2001)
Speaking at a panel at special Association of the United States Army symposium in suburban Washington, Lt. Col. Paul Bowman, chief information operations cell United States Air Force, said "information operations is very much a targeting mindset" because "you are focusing on an adversary to do your will."
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82nd Airborne Teeters on Digital Edge (06/01/2001)
Speaking April 12 at a special Association of the United States Army symposium in suburban Washington, Brig. Gen. Stanley McChrystal said the division has 58 computers, but in companies and below, soldiers were doing what their counterparts did 30 years earlier. "Maps, pens, acetate. For battalions and below, soldiers are largely communicating by voice over radio.
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'Information is Misused, not Understood or Ignored' (06/01/2001)
"Information is misused, not understood or ignored," one of the senior officers on the joint staff told 100 attendees at a special Association of the United States Army symposium April. 12. Lt. Gen. Joseph K. Kellogg Jr. said that the gap between technology and operations on the battlefield has created "unusual seams," but harnessing information would be a "silver bullet" in future combat operations.
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'It's a Privilege' (06/01/2001)
SFC Freddie Evans, 15 years in the Army, is now a senior instructor at the NCO Academy at Fort Gordon's Signal Center; and like many noncommissioned officers, he said he enlisted to get money for college and "to get away from New York." But "I stayed because I love this stuff." And he is busier now than he has been in some time. Evans has 14 other NCOs working under him "due to the class loads they have coming in" and they are training whenever they can get classroom space. "Right now, we've got to train the privates first. They have a priority over us."
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Back On the Job (06/01/2001)
Guard/Reserve Report
"People need to be more aware," Sgt. Milton Allen said after returning home from Bosnia with the Army's 249th Signal Battalion, part of the Texas National Guard's 49th Armored Division. "It looks like the National Guard is going to be deployed more and more," he said, and there might be a time where a soldier returns home to find they no longer have a job.
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Balkans Highlight Information Explosion (06/01/2001)
The information explosion "has fundamentally changed the way we do military operations," including peacekeeping, one of the Army's senior officers told attendees at a special Association of the United States Army symposium. As proof, Lt. Gen. Larry Ellis, deputy chief of staff for operations, cited his experience in Bosnia shortly after the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995.
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Training Space Endangered (06/01/2001)
"Every day there is less and less free space" for military training, the acting secretary of the Navy told 500 attendees at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space exhibition in Washington.
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4th ID Showcases Info Ops (06/01/2001)
Information operations has picked up "a real head of steam" in the National Training Center rotation that the 4th Infantry Division is now wrapping up, a former chief of staff of the Army told 140 attendees at a one-day symposium in suburban Washington.
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Business Booms at Signal Center (06/01/2001)
Business is booming for soldiers in Signal and soldiers assigned to the Signal Center at Fort Gordon, Ga. Col. Craig Zimmerman, chief of staff, said the attracting good soldiers is not a problem, but the very soldiers - officers, warrants and enlisted - that the Army wants to attract and keep are the ones most wanted in the civilian sector.
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AUSA Publishes Readiness Report (06/01/2001)
The Association of the United States Army has released a new publication focusing on both near- and far-term readiness issues facing today's Army. The Institute of Land Warfare National Security Watch report, "A New Look at Readiness: Solving the Army's Quandary," looks at how levels of readiness are determined, how the Army is suffering from deficient readiness funding, and what the Department of Defense and Congress must do to provide for future readiness.
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Army, School Partner (06/01/2001)
Family Programs
As trees burst into blossom and spring days grow longer, a young man or woman's thoughts turn to ... graduation. If that young man or woman is one of the 97,000 Army teens attending high school around the world, those thoughts can be unnerving: Will my credits from the last school transfer? Do I have all the classes I need to graduate?
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Housing Eternal Question for DoD (06/01/2001)
"Housing is an eternal question," one of the original members of the secretary of defense's special panel on women told several hundred attendees at a celebration marking the group's 50th anniversary. Speaking April 19 at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Dr. Dorothy Height said she remembered coming to Washington in the spring of 1951 for first meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
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Army Proceeds with Buy (05/01/2001)
The Army is going ahead with plans to buy 366 wheeled armored vehicles for its first interim brigades at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the wake of the General Accounting Office denial of a bid protest.
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Army Proceeds With Buy (06/01/2001)
The Army is going ahead with plans to buy 366 wheeled armored vehicles for its first interim brigades at Fort Lewis, Wash., in the wake of the General Accounting Office denial of a bid protest.
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4th ID Trains for War (06/01/2001)
In the large valleys that are surrounded by the dun and black-rock strewn mountains of the Mojave in the early spring, the 4th Infantry Division once again squared off against the Army's Opposing Force. This time, the Army didn't term the force on force simulated combat as an experiment. This time, the Army called it an exercise.
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Pay-Table Reform: The Next Step (06/01/2001)
Service in the American armed forces is unlike any other profession in the world. The compensation and benefits paid to servicemembers must be fair and equitable based on their skills, experience and the unique nature of military service.
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There They Go Again (06/01/2001)
View from the Hill
Well, they've done it again. The folks at the GAO - the Government Accounting Office - have completed yet another one of their exhaustive studies. Their conclusion? Not only does the Army not need more money for training, but it actually can get by with less.
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Torchbearer Message - Educating Military Children (06/01/2001)
No child must be left behind
In its in-depth examination of the challenges of educating the children of servicemen and servicewomen, the Association of the United States Army states: "Appropriate levels of funding for schools serving military children are non-negotiable." The appropriate funding will "level the playing field" for military children with their civilian peers.
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Education System Pays Off (06/01/2001)
NCO and Soldier Programs
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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Tax Help for Guard, Reserve (06/01/2001)
Voice of Congress
The security of our nation hinges on all the brave men and women who serve in uniform--active duty, Guard, and reserve. During the Cold War, National Guard and Reserve forces numbered more than one million personnel. As the Cold War concluded, however, our country needed a new national military strategy -- a post-Cold War strategy -- and a restructured military force.
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Plummer to Chair Resolutions (06/01/2001)
The Council of Trustees has appointed AUSA members to the Association’s 2001 Resolutions Committee at its spring meeting held at national headquarters in Arlington, Va. Col. Michael Plummer, USA, Ret., a member of the Northern New York-Fort Drum Chapter, was selected as committee chairman.
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Hood Housing Effort Awaits Hill OK (06/01/2001)
The Army plans to seek congressional approval to pursue the largest military housing privatization project ever completed by a public-private partnership. This project is part of the Army's Residential Communities Initiative (RCI).
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America's 1st Secret Hero (06/01/2001)
Chapter News
Fifty years ago a U.S. Army Reserve noncommissioned officer performed an act of heroism that led to him becoming America's first secret hero.
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DACOWITS Chair Sees DoD Leaders Using Panel as Resource (06/01/2001)
"Housing is an eternal question," one of the original members of the secretary of defense's special panel on women told several hundred attendees at a celebration marking the group's 50th anniversary. Speaking April 19 at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial, Dr. Dorothy Height said she remembered coming to Washington in the spring of 1951 for first meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.
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Concurrent Receipt Amendment Helps Retirees (06/01/2001)
Capitol Hill Focus
Concurrent Receipt amendment passes; TRICARE mail order pharmacy starts fast; Outstanding Legislator Award Recipients; VA wants to speed claims process
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Crusader is 'Indispensable Solution' (06/01/2001)
The Association of the United States Army's latest pamphlet on the Army's future needs terms the Crusader the "indispensable solution" to the service's need for high-volume, precise, long-range and cost-effective fires now and on the battlefields of the future.
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