Model For Health And Well-Being: Petty Officer Watson

Performed duties of an SGL assigned to the Basic Leader Course (BLC) for the Fires Center of Excellence (FCOE). Served as the subject matter expert for all Course Management Plan (CMP) and Programs of Instruction (POI,) training and maintaining instructor certification. Responsible for the wellbeing, safety, professional development, and training of 16 Soldiers on a 22-day recurring cycle, performing nine cycles a year. During my tenure as a BLC SGL, I achieved numerous accomplishments and achievements. Received enormous praise from the United States Sergeants Major Academy (USAMA) for renovation of a Training Support Package (TSP) that was implemented across BLCs for the entire Army. Hand-picked as NCO of the Month for September 2015, selected

As a young college graduate COL Mahoney wanted to join the Army and make an immediate impact in law enforcement; so he became a member of the Military Police (MP) Corps in1982. With discipline and dedication, he climbed the ranks, obeyed the orders of his superiors, motivated his peers to persevere, encouraged his subordinates, and honed his personal leadership skills. Time after time he led the physical training sessions and the complex mission requirements training of the MP force in each of his units.

Officer fatigue can be a quite serious problem for police departments. Excess fatigue will generally reduce alertness, decrease performance and worsen mood. These symptoms can reduce officer's performance and safety with potentially life-threatening effects. Patrol officers are expected to remain alert and able to resolve complex, emotional, and potentially dangerous situations. They are expected to be able to multi-task, as well as stay alert during periods of inaction. These activities can be quite difficult for a fatigued officer to complete (Vila 1996). Community oriented policing efforts can be seriously compromised by officer fatigue with excess officer fatigue harming community-police relations (Vila & Taiji 1999).

Her health patterns are excellent compared to others because she does follow the rules and conforms to the Navy standards. She also watches what she consumes to stay compliant with the nutritional needs as part of her physical fitness regimen.

Sergeant Willins maintains excellent physical fitness and volunteers to lead physical training, to include the Remedial Conditioning Program. He is a role model and mentor to Marines, and constantly applies his experience and knowledge in physical fitness and nutrition to build individual training plans in order to help Marines achieve their personal health and fitness goals. Sergeant Willins also regularly volunteers to support youth programs such as I Run 4 and Big Brothers, Big Sisters. He has filled in as the Platoon Sergeant of the Operations Platoon, seamlessly managing the daily training, accountability, and operations of the Marines within the platoon. His consistent professionalism and demeanor exemplify the qualities of a seasoned leader, and has earned him recognition as Marine of the Quarter (MOQ) for MCCYWG First Quarter 2016, MOQ for MARFORYBER First Quarter 2016, and Non-Commissioned Officer of the Quarter for MCCYWG First Quarter 2018. Sergeant Willins is a distinguished Marine leader who has been an invaluable asset to MCCYWG's

As Assistant Command Fitness Leader, she led 70 sailors during command PT and 10 sailors in the Fitness Enhancement Program (FEP). As Assistant Command Fitness Leader, she aided personnel in maintaining physical fitness for operational readiness, resulting in an outstanding 97% passing rate for the command.

Petty officer Gray has distinguished himself in the performance of his duities and is most deserving of his first Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for actions during the period from July 2013 to 2015, while assigned to U.S. Naval Construction Battalion One as an Equipment Operator, and Dispatcher. Petty Officer Gray quickly earned the respect and admiration of both his superior and subordinates with his eargerness to qualify on all required licensing for command tasking ahead of schedule in order to assume greater responsibilitys which greatly benefitted and supported command mission. He attained excellent rating knowledge, sound leadership abilities, and exceptionally strong work ethics. He has without doubt provided professionalism

SPC Jones achieved the XVIII Airborne Corps Noncommissioned Officer Basic Leader Course graduation requirements with an overall 94.33 % grade point average. She exceeded the Army standard by scoring 273 points on her APFT. SPC Jones has exhibited unwavering motivation from beginning to end through her constant pursuit of perfection. Her relentless effort to excel was seen in every evaluation which resulted in her ability to achieve outstanding results in 11 of 12 evaluations. SPC Jones took her leadership role seriously and her ability to communicate with purpose, respect and confidence commanded the respect of her peers. She demonstrated true team cohesion by not only putting out information but by helping when needed even when in a

In preparing for my quantitative research I reviewed three articles relating to the wellbeing of the milspouse. The first article, “Military Deployment and the Spouse Left Behind”, Asbury and Martin (2011) included both male and female milspouses who were civilians or they were active duty personnel themselves. They gathered their data via a voluntary online survey which measured the spouses’ depression, anxiety, perceived social support, and marital discord. They focused on the differences between the civilian milspouses and the military milspouses and hypothesized that the military milspouses would experience more depression, have higher rates of anxiety, experience higher rates of isolation and marital discord than their civilian counter parts. They found no significant difference between the groups in depression, anxiety, or perception of social support. They did discover in the marital discord findings there was a significant statistical differences between participants with a spouse in the military and the participants with civilian a spouse. “The results showed that participants with military spouses had more marital discord being that 80% of the military milspouses and only 17% of the civilian milspouses had frequently considered divorce.” (2011, p. 47)

Sgt Trombly is eager to serve and aggressive in the execution of his duties to accomplish the mission given the opportunity. He performs a broad range of assignments with minimal supervision. He is a Marine of high moral character and attentive to the needs of his fellow Marines. He is reflective, and can be relied upon to get day to day operations completed successfully and on time. Maintains a desire to achieve and learn while continually seeking improvements within himself. Continue to challenge and further develop for the rank of SSgt. Retain and promote with

I understand that these trainers will have limitations, but the Army also has an extensive amount of resources such as the Behavioral Health, chaplain, and the Army Substance Abuse Program that it can also count on.

IOP: PFC Jones, you have done a great job working at IOP making sure Soldiers that need an exam or are class 3 be schedule for an appointment. The Army currently is top priority is readiness and you are helping the Army by making sure Soldiers are fully ready for deployment.

SPC Godoy graduated from Basic Leaders Course in the top ten percent of her class, with an overall classroom average of 97%. She set the physical fitness standards at the NCOA by scoring 281 points on the Army Physical Fitness Test, and improving her score by twenty points. SPC Godoy's leadership, infectious enthusiasm and spirit set the standard for her peers and subordinates to

Major Robinson stated that she has been in this position for two years and has previously worked as a staff nurse on the Medical Surgical Floor. She is an active duty officer who has a BSN in nursing and is certified in informatics. Ultimately, after working bedside nursing she decided to focus on informatics because of an interest in advancing military medical systems (personal communication, October 22, 2016). The following questions were asked during the interview and her responses are immediately following.

Similarly, veteran’s personal pride of being strong and reliable was one of the focal arguments of feeling reluctant to seek psychological care in a qualitative study of veterans with PTSD (Sayer et al., 2009). In like manner, Britt, Greene, Castro, and Hoge (2006) highlighted the similar issue based on their survey outcome that receiving help from a medical doctor or a chaplain had no differences from receiving help from psychologist. These findings indicate that the military culture inevitably holds a distinctive impact on service members that there is little to no tolerance for being “weak” and “deviant.” Particularly since these service members’ attitude and belief seemed to be exceptionally dutiful, one study found that military personnel believed that an adverse label would be stuck on them if they asked for treatment (Stecker, Fortney, Hamilton, & Ajzen, 2007).