Schoomaker Asks for Time to 'Fully Assess' End-Strength Needs (09/01/2003)
Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing July 29, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, who was called out of retirement for this position, said, "I'm going to take a little risk. I think we need more people."
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Construction Spending Passes (09/01/2003)
Capital Focus
On July 11, the Senate passed H.R. 2559, a $9.2 billion military construction spending bill for Fiscal Year 2004. The bill is $1.5 billion less than what was approved for 2003, and $41 million less than President Bush's request for 2004.
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Concurrent Receipt Help (09/01/2003)
View from the Hill
As I write this column, Congress is working hard to finish as much business as possible before the August recess begins. Unfortunately it does not look like that work will include the conferences for the defense authorization and defense appropriations bills.
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Registration Opens for Eisenhower Security Conference (09/01/2003)
The media, public policy professionals and the public may register now -- online -- for the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Security Conference Sept. 26-27 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in Washington.
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Schoomaker Confirmed Army Chief (09/01/2003)
The Senate confirmed Gen. Peter Schoomaker as the Army’s 35th chief of staff July 31.
Schoomaker replaces Gen. Eric K. Shinseki who retired from the Army June 11. Gen. John M. Keane, the current vice chief, has been the acting Army chief.
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'Pay Banding' Part of Proposal (09/01/2003)
Army officials responsible for civilian personnel policy support a more flexible, merit-based personnel management system to recruit needed talent and properly reward employees for their work.
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'Know Your Stuff' - Seminar Honors Top Cadets (09/01/2003)
Today, the Virginia Military Institute's over 1,200 cadets, preparing for their future as America's citizen-soldiers - tomorrow's military leaders - annually host the George C. Marshall ROTC Award Seminar with the cooperation of neighboring Washington and Lee University. The seminar, sponsored by the U.S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Monroe, Va., is administered by the George C. Marshall Foundation at VMI.
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Four Cadets Discuss Their Futures (09/01/2003)
"It's easy for us to figure out who the scholars, athletes, leaders are on college campuses," Maj. Gen. John T.D. Casey, Commander, U.S. Army Cadet Command, said during an AUSA NEWS interview earlier this year.
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ROTC Makes Mission, 1st Since 1989 (09/01/2003)
Maj. Gen. John T.D. Casey, who turned over his command to Maj. Gen. Alan W. Thrasher, July 31, told AUSA NEWS in an interview held during the 26th George C. Marshall ROTC Award Seminar at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., that this year - 2003 - "we are going to commission over 3,900 officers - and we may exceed our mission."
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'Up Close and Personal' (09/01/2003)
It shouldn't be difficult to figure out where you are when the streets are named Old Ironsides Ave., Spearhead Division Ave., Ninth Cavalry Regiment Ave., Gary Owen Regiment Ave. and Blackhorse Regiment Road. But, if you are still having trouble figuring out your location and you reach the intersection of Bullion Boulevard and Gold Vault Ave. - well.
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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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Honoring the Savers of Life (09/01/2003)
Voice of Congress
Thousands of the military medics who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom worked amid intense enemy fire and brutal desert storms to save the lives of their comrades, the innocent, and even their enemies: Their work has not ended, and they should not be forgotten.
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End Strength (09/01/2003)
The issue of end strength has been addressed by the press, the pundits and the think tanks, left to right, high to low; by the Senate, the House and, of course, the opposing party. The objective is to have enough soldiers to execute Army mission(s) at the right time and in the right place, have enough in the total force to have both tactical and operational flexibility and to have adequate depth, in numbers, to support leader development, required force structure manning and the requisite balance needed across the ranks.
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Army Sets Iraqi Rotation Schedule (09/01/2003)
Gen. Jack Keane said that most units deploying to Iraq over the next few months can expect stays of up to one year when he announced the unit rotation schedule July 23.
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Rumsfeld Expresses Support for Army (09/01/2003)
The Defense Department's top civilian declared July 22 that he's not at war with the U.S. Army. "I've always liked the Army," U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, accompanied by acting Army Chief of Staff Gen. Jack Keane, asserted during a wide-ranging interview with Army Times and American Forces Press Service reporters.
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Supporting Soldiers Leads to Satisfaction (09/01/2003)
Despite a personnel management system that administration officials contend stifles leader development and is often threatened by outsourcing, Army civilians interviewed at Fort Meade, Md., said supporting soldiers and job satisfaction are reasons they choose to be career civil servants.
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Essay Sees Information Technology as Efficiency Key (09/01/2003)
An essay on transforming Defense Department businesses practices says the Army civilian workforce should turn to information superiority to quicken business processes.
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Annual Meeting Focus - War and Transformation (09/01/2003)
"The Army -- At War and Transforming," the theme of the Association of the United States Army's 2003 Annual Meeting, will set the tone for speeches and special presentations from senior Defense Department and Army leaders on subjects relating to the Army's service in Operation Anaconda, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the global war on terrorism -- and its transformation efforts, accomplishments and goals.
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