Army Expects To Meet Retention Goal (11/01/2002)
The Army reported that more than 51,600 soldiers in the active force re-enlisted during the first 10 months of the fiscal year. The goal is 56,800, and retention officials said they expect to meet it.
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Striving For Excellence (11/01/2002)
NCO and Soldier Programs
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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1st African-American Woman In Guard Tapped For Star (11/01/2002)
Brig. Gen. Julia Cleckley vowed to make it possible for others to follow in her footsteps after becoming the first African-American woman to be promoted from colonel to flag officer in the Army National Guard.
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1st Woman To Serve as Top Reserve NCO (11/01/2002)
Command Sgt. Maj. Michele S. Jones has been selected to become the ninth command sergeant major of the Army Reserve.
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Hamilton Steps Down (11/01/2002)
Civilian Report
After six years serving on the Association of the United States Army's civilian advisory committee, Milt Hamilton, the committee's chairman, is stepping down.
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Soldiers To Play Key Role In Future Combat Systems (11/01/2002)
The Army's top acquisition officer said the receipt Aug. 30 of operating requirement documents for the Future Combat Systems was another step in transforming the service.
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Quick Fielding of Stryker Important (11/01/2002)
The chief of staff of the Army said that the success of "moving from concept to capability with the Stryker" in three years was an important step for the Army in showing itself, the Defense Department and Congress how quickly it could transform itself.
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Seeing Double (11/01/2002)
Capt. Andrew Cote is the officer in charge of the pharmacy laboratory and the X-ray laboratory for the 48th Combat Support Hospital. Like many soldiers in the unit, he has experience in both the active Army and the Army Reserve - enlisted cavalry scout, combat engineer, military policeman and drill sergeant.
But some soldiers might not believe what their eyes are seeing.
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The Road To the Chaplaincy (11/01/2002)
"I was not a churchgoer" is the way Maj. Tom Roltsch describes his journey from being a software engineer in civilian life and a one-time combat engineer in his Army career to being a chaplain assigned to the 48th Combat Support Hospital.
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'Well-Trained, Technically, Medically Proficient' (11/01/2002)
Lt. Col. Kenneth Rudes was the officer in change of the 14 observer/controllers that worked with the 48th Combat Support Hospital during the annual training in August at Fort McCoy, Wis. The 48th is no stranger to Rudes or he to them. Last summer, he was an O/C, officer candidate, at their first annual training.
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'I'd Jump at Chance' (11/01/2002)
Lt. Dharmapauh Raju joined the Canadian Forces as a medical specialist in May, completed his basic training during the summer and then was on his way from Winnipeg, Saskatchewan, to Fort McCoy, Wis., to work along side American doctors, nurses and technicians in Operation Blue Devil.
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Pa. Sees Growth In Program (11/01/2002)
Pennsylvania Army National Guard officials believe that their accelerated Officer Candidate School program will only "get bigger and better."
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State Sees Payoff In 'LTs' (11/01/2002)
Pennsylvania sees a very tangible benefit from the accelerated Officer Candidate School - more trained second lieutenants. Maj. Jonathan Scott, operations officer, said, without it, "we were going nowhere."
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OCS: Fast Time In Pa. (11/01/2002)
Louis V. Mucci had a dream, but to make that dream a reality he had to move quickly. He could "hear the clock ticking. I'll be 40 in August."
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Iraq on Front Burner (11/01/2002)
View From the Hill
Well, it is late September - only a few days left in the fiscal year but the Defense Authorization Bill is not out of conference and the Defense Appropriations Bill has yet to go into conference. The appropriations process for the year is a mess.
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Protecting the Vote (11/01/2002)
Voice of Congress
As our country moves closer to the 2002 mid-term elections, the United States Congress has yet to pass significant election reform language that would help us to avoid the pitfalls of the 2000 election. Chief among these problems were military absentee ballots which were almost certainly discarded for hyper-technical reasons that grievously disenfranchised our service personnel for shameful political gain.
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Key to Growth: Training (11/01/2002)
Chapter News
While August brought hot days across the United States, it also brought AUSA chapter officers from throughout the Association to Memphis, Tenn., for a comprehensive skills training seminar.
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Recruitment Campaign Rolls On (11/01/2002)
As an AUSA member you are automatically eligible to participate in our Recruit-A-Retiree membership campaign which is half way to its grand prize drawing of an eight-day, seven-night vacation to Hawaii that includes three dinner shows at the Hale Koa Hotel. The campaign is an incentive program for members who recruit new retiree members.
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AUSA, Rubbermaid Salute Knox Family (11/01/2002)
Family Programs
A Fort Knox drill sergeant and his family have been selected as the winners of the first Association of the United States Army -- Rubbermaid Volunteer Family of the Year award.
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Brassey's, AUSA Renew Partnership (11/01/2002)
The Association of the United States Army has announced that Brassey's Inc., will again partner with the Association in the AUSA book program.
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Augustine To Receive Dixon Award (11/01/2002)
Norman R. Augustine, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin, received the 2002 John W. Dixon Award for his "outstanding contributions to national defense" at the Association of the United sates Army's Annual Meeting in Washington.
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Conference Focuses On Education (11/01/2002)
Family Programs
The Army Education Summit, attended by commanders of Army installations, students, school district superintendents, school counselors, Department of Education officials and other education specialists, focused on education issues and the challenges military children face.
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Torchbearer Reports Address 3 Three Army Issues (11/01/2002)
The Association of the United States Army's Institute of Land Warfare has released three Torchbearer National Security Reports covering the key issues that focus on the Army's transformation to the Objective Force, the service's strategic imperatives and Army well-being.
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AUSA Honors Inouye, Markarian, Freeman (11/01/2002)
Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, Maj. Gen. Ronald H. Markarian, and Clarissa J. "T.C." Freeman will receive medals at the 2002 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting for their dedicated service to the U.S. Army and AUSA.
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Army South Will Move (11/01/2002)
The Army has announced the relocation of the headquarters of U.S. Army South (USARSO) from Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, to Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The move is expected to take place during Fiscal Year 2003.
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A Special Occasion (11/01/2002)
Each year, the Association of the United States Army joins in a family get-together of The Army at our Annual Meeting. This year's Annual Meeting is special for two reasons.
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After a Year - Pentagon Survivors Pick Up, Carry On (11/01/2002)
Just as "Project Phoenix," the name for the Pentagon reconstruction program, set out to return the Pentagon to how it looked on Sept. 10, 2001, survivors have tried to return their lives back to normal as well.
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Getting Ready To Go (11/01/2002)
Maj. Lance Raney is a physician from Fort Knox, Ky. On a beautiful August day in western Wisconsin, he's telling a huddled group of soldiers in the triage area of the 48th Combat Support Hospital's training site: "If you had only one casualty, you can't waste the resources" of throwing everyone into caring for that patient.
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On the Way to Bosnia - 28th ID Mobilizes, Deploys (11/01/2002)
Capt. Thomas Meyer is taking 80 of his troops to Bosnia this fall. "So far, they are all deployable."
His soldiers are part of the 28th Infantry Division's deployment to the Balkans as SFOR 12, but it is a mission that is changing almost daily - as soldiers from the 29th Infantry Division learned during their recently completed deployment.
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'I Wanted To Be In the Army' (11/01/2002)
The terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001 convinced Allen K. Hawkins that it was time for him to join the Army. Hawkins, 26, from Spartanburg, S.C., was the last active duty soldier sworn in to meet the Army's goal of 79,500 new troops for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30.
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'It Gives You Chills' - Active Duty Director Loves Retirement Home, Residents (11/01/2002)
Col. Arnold Smith takes his time walking around the campus of the Armed Forces Retirement Home -- Washington.
As the first active duty director of the home since 1885, the native Washingtonian wants each and every resident who is out on this relatively cool late August day to have a chance to talk with him.
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