The services need more training on completing officer evaluations, and leaders must make sure subordinates receive the feedback they need to learn and develop, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.
In an ongoing effort to balance the force, the Army is seeking about 300 eligible infantry, armor, field artillery or engineer lieutenants to apply for voluntary branch transfer to one of several understrength branches and functional areas.
Last summer, commanders of the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment, at Fort Moore, Georgia, the unit overseei
As the military faces one of the toughest recruiting environments in decades, most Americans would encourage a friend or relative to serve in the military as an officer, but they would discourage that young person from enlisting, a recent Rand Corp. report found.
The House of Representatives has approved a proposal that could end up establishing a uniform allowance for military officers.
The proposal from Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a Marine veteran, asks the Defense Department to track the expected useful life of uniform items for officer and enlisted personnel, estimating how long items last and the out-of-pocket expense for replacements.
For decades, lieutenants have come to their units following institutional training and been placed immediately in leadership positions
In the early 1950s, the Army created Special Forces units, which were dedicated to conducting unconventional warfare.
Junior captains will soon have an opportunity to chart their careers up to seven years in advance by opting into a program for the most “highly talented” among them, a senior Army officer said during a virtual event hosted by the Association of the U.S. Army.
A new system called Talent Based Career Alignment will be tested with officers in the Captains Career Courses that begin in late August through early September in the armor, infantry, logistics, air defense artillery and field artillery branches.
The software tool that drives the Army’s new officer assignment process will be improved and made more “user friendly” before the next round of assignments, the general officers in charge of the program said.
More than half of the officers who participated in the first assignment cycle modeled after a commercial-style marketplace were matched with their top choice, a promising outcome in the Army’s efforts to overhaul the way it manages soldiers’ careers.
The assignment cycle took place through a program called the Army Talent Alignment Process (ATAP), a decentralized market-style hiring system designed to align officers with unit commanders seeking to fill staff positions.
