Military Training Mission

Dr. Williamson Murray once declared a want to develop his Expeditionary Warfare School (EWS) seminar students into hand grenades. His comments were, of course, figurative, but Murray communicated a vision: his company grade students would read more deeply, think more critically, write with greater effect, and ultimately be more willing to challenge conventional wisdom than their peers. Murray, with EWS, engineered the course, from initial selection through the final seminars, to meet his goal of a competent, well-armed officer prepared to make and recommend just decisions grounded in history.

Since 2007, NATO has accepted to assist the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) by providing strategic airlift and sealift in support to AU member states willing to deploy in Somalia under AMISOM. NATO has also provided subject-matter experts for the Peace Support Operations Division (PSOD). The PSOD is responsible for the planning, conduct and management of AU operations and missions, including AMISOM. NATO experts, working side by side with AU counterparts, offered expertise in specific areas for a period of six to twelve months, renewable at the AU’s request. OPERATION IN MIDDLE EAST, COUNTERING THE ISIS:

NCC, Inc. dba New Century U.S. is pleased to submit this proposal to the U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs for the Notice of Funding Opportunity, Mentorship and Training for the Somali National Army and the African Union Mission in Somalia. The New Century U.S. (NCUS) team assembled for this program has substantial success performance not only in Somalia but also the objectives outlined in the solicitation. The team is composed of New Century US, New Century International, Pbi2 and ALRM Group. The team has staffed programs of similar or greater level of effort that have successfully developed and instituted military capacity building and mentorship programs. New Century US team brings a wealth capability and best practices:

In todays army, soldiers are required to continuously learn and train in order to keep up with the demand of the ever changing battlefield. To properly conduct these training session, a training management process(TMP) is created to be a universal outline for leading and managing training and development. Examples of the TMP, is the Army Training Network (ATN) and the many doctrines found on Army Publishing Directorate(APD) site. In this essay, we will focus on the importance of three processes that are apart of the TMP; rehearsals, pre-execution checks, and After Action Reviews. We will also focus on the value of web-based training and doctrines, such as ATN and APD.

The United States military is becoming more diverse. This includes its own ranks. Not only is there joint operations within the U.S. military’s own units and branches, but now it is a globalized world. The military must learn to work with other foreign forces and other government agencies. With this leaders must be able to work with all these entities. One way to do this is the use of Mission Command.

100 years ago JROTC was created in 1918, it began its relationship with the US Army with the creation of the Student Army Training Corps. The program was created due to America’s entry into World War I and ended shortly after the war did. In 1943 the relationship was rekindled with the creation of the Army Specialized Training program and was created in response to America’s involvement in World War II, the program also ended at the conclusion of the conflict it was meant to support. In January 1951, Northeastern University officially formed an ROTC department in support of the Army Corps of Engineers and Signal Corps, the first commissioning class graduated in 1955. Northeastern Army ROTC enrolled 886 men in its inaugural year, making one of the largest non-military campus programs in the nation, by the end of the decade, the program reached up to 2.800 Cadets.

The level of training required to become a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division was agonizing. The men were taken on night marches, the first one being eleven miles with full field equipment on. While on these marches, the men were not allowed to have a break, cigarettes or water. As for their level of fitness, it was intense. Their fitness was brutal. The men were required to run Mount Currahee 3 miles up and back down and ran at least three to four times a week unless Lt. Sobel instructed otherwise. After getting adjusted to running, the men could run six miles or more in fifty minutes. They were required to go through an obstacle course daily along with other exercises like: push-ups, pull-ups, and deep-knee bends. However, when it

For the United States military to take an active role in foreign nation’s problems or situations, the President and congress have to approve the mission. The US military has played numerous roles throughout many different regions of the world. Military regions for the US are forming and processing multiple armed forces, which maintain relations and safety for certain areas of the world. The United States of America’s main goal when it comes to stationing the military in different regions of the world is too influence foreign perception. America focuses on influencing democracy, and a secure country for people throughout the world. “During the 1990s, American foreign policy focused on consolidating its success” (U.S. Military Policy). Foreign

foreign policy, strategic goals, emerging security concerns, and regional affairs. Earning this graduate degree will further develop my understanding in these critical areas and, most importantly, teach me the skills to stay ahead in the rapidly changing international relations and security environment. Furthermore, I want to enhance the effectiveness of the Army in its many existing partnerships with nations around the world and help shape new ones as my career progresses. It only took a few times out in the villages of Afghanistan to realize that without Afghanistan's Government and their Security Forces as the face of coalition initiatives, the people would never support any of those initiatives. After this lesson in counterinsurgency, I then learned the importance of the alliances we hold with other nations from my most recent assignment to Japan. With our military resources spread across the globe and security challenges from countries like China and North Korea it is evident how crucial our allies and partners like Japan, South Korea, Australia and the South East Asian Nations are to help deter aggression and promote regional stability. I strongly believe our international partnerships are one of, if not, the most critical component of international security and will only continue to increase in importance with the growing number of threats we face. Again, it is because of this I desire a professional academic background in all the complexities of international security and I believe the international security program has all the right components to send me back to the Army a leader in this

Moreover, the great experiences during the Maxwell exercise, including the interagency dynamics and benefited from the differences of the missions and go beyond of comfort zone at interagency and international environment. Indeed, the entire JLASS program helped me to understand more the role of Diplomacy, Development and Defense in the theater of operations. Security Cooperation, Bilateral and Multilateral approaches to the problem was key during our preparation and planning. The initial phase of JLASS was to understand the environment and same time to shape the operational approach based on the World

The Army’s mission is to build forces capable of Unified Land Operations, able to operate effectively with Joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational partners across the range of military operations to provide capable and ready forces to combatant commanders (CCDRs) in support of the National Security and National Defense Strategies, while sustaining and maintaining the quality of the All-Volunteer Force. (United States, 2014)

Military Unit, Equipment, and Personnel Readiness has been maintained within 12 distinct data base systems, recently the Army is developing the Enterprise Management Decision System (EMDS) drawing data from the most relevant systems into one place.

Conflict over energy resources—and the wealth and power they create—has become an increasingly prominent feature for geopolitics particularly in the Middle East . The discovery of oil in the late nineteenth century added a dimension to the region as major outside states powers employed military force to protect their newly acquired interests in the Middle East. The U.S.’s efforts to secure the flow of oil have led to ever increasing involvement in the Middle East region’s political affairs and ongoing power struggles. By the end of the twentieth century, safeguarding the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf had become one of the most important functions of the U.S. military establishment. The close relationship between the United States and the Saudi royal family was formed in the final months of World War II, when U.S. leaders sought to ensure preferential access to Saudi petroleum. The U.S. link with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region has demonstrated to be greatly beneficial to both parties, yet it has also led to ever deepening U.S. involvement in regional politics.

Training objectives must support the mission profile and meet the commanders desired end state. Prior to the 56TH train up at the National Training Center (NTC) the deployment location changed from Iraq to Afghanistan (case study). Changes to mission essential tasks were not identified prior to NTC, resulting in the BCT training on collective tasks and validated during MRE based on the Iraq mission profile. However, the shift to the Afghanistan mission profile created gaps in training not identified until units arrived at Bagram Air Field (BAF). i.e. the BCT had to establish an MRAP drivers training program at BAF extending the RSOI process. Training gaps were not limited to company level shortfalls as battalion and brigade staffs were not able to anticipate potential threats and capitalize on opportunities. (case study 2)

Military deployment is a significant risk condition entailing increased probability for maladjustment in several critical life domains. In the research literature, there is a general lack of information on the evaluation of gender differences in mental health, vocational, and barriers affecting post deployment. The research for female veterans following deployment in conflict climates is extremely limited (cite). When looking at the literature of PTSD despite women being barred from some combat deployments rates of PTSD are at the same rate as men (11-13%) (cite). One factor that the literature suggests is the high rate of experiences of sexual assault, sexual harassment and gender-based harassment during deployment.