Personal Narrative: My Initial SOJTF-OIR Mission

This billet is normally filed by a GySgt, requires supervision of Marines and Civilians and requires extensive coordination with Joint Forces Headquarters personnel, senior members of the Intelligence Community, and training oversight. During this time, he was directly responsible for signals intelligence development for multiple targets, resulting in multiple serialized reports and over a dozen internal analytical products used by the CMT, Marine Forces Cyber Command, United States Cyber Command, and the National Security Agency. His leadership responsibilities in these cases required supervision and accountability of three Marines and two civilians, including taking proactive action to ensure the completion and maintenance of all oversight & compliance paperwork. His duties involved daily interaction and liaison with senior personnel within the national security community, including GS-15 branch managers, Senior Executive Service (SES) personnel, and General/Flag Officers. He handled these relationships with the utmost professionalism, initiative, persistence, and maturity. His efforts regularly brought forth accolades and praise from the leaders SSgt Jones interacted with. This interaction required a delicate balance of restraint and assertiveness, balancing the need to work with interagency partners while still prioritizing the CMT's primary mission responsibilities to its assigned supported

With the sun beating against my back, I ran through the narrow path, my breaths heavy and jagged. This was my first time running an obstacle course, and the different stations, from rope climbing to log jumping, had left me exhausted. My squad members had started to notice me struggling, but instead of running past me, they started to shout encouragements and cheer me on. Though I was drained of energy by the time I reached the finish line, I was overflowing with appreciation. My squad members, whom I met just four days before, had all teamed up to support me.

Managed and supervised the operational tasking, contingency planning, deployment, training and mentorship of 31 contractors and military personnel during MRXs and MTT events. Responsible for the care, training and welfare of subordinates and training audience Soldier during rotational unit exercises. Developed learning objectives, defined tasks, conditions, and standards, and produced POIs and training support packages (TSPs). Trained Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) staffs on issues supporting current and future threats, improvised explosive device (IED) pattern analysis, assets capabilities and management during home station training. Applied knowledge in the areas of SIGINT, MASINT, CI/HUMINT, and Operations Intelligence (OSINT), and the exploitation processes. Performed short- and long-range planning for upcoming rotations and Leader Training Program sessions. Developed and established a program to train newly hired DoD, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysts that addressed MI Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)/Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) trends. Incorporated institutional doctrine, CTC training and tactical trends/challenges into exercise planning and rotational interjects. Routinely coordinated and conducted liaisons with Center for Lessons Learned

As a Sergeant Major I have sat on numerous military awards boards and have written many recommendations for awards for my soldiers and military personnel in my units. I was deployed to Farah, Afghanistan with a combined joint force on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in 2007 as the Civil Affairs Team NCOIC and Forward Operating Base SGM. The PRT missions was civil affairs and helps set-up governance and build schools in the Farah, Afghanistan area of operation, with a Navy Commander and joint

USF is a big place with a lot of new people to meet, however, the same can be said of my previous high school. The main difference here is that people are more free to be who ever they want to. What excites me is that there so much to learn of how the world works that I have yet to figure out and how USF is a such concentrated culmination of unique people each with different ideas. For example, I learned last week at USF that some people prefer to use the pronoun “they” instead of the conventional “he” or “she” when spoken of. Honestly, its really overwhelming how much I want to do and have to do to accomplish my goals but if I actually plan my time responsibly I do believe I have the ability to do it all. I have also made a few really smart

There were many faults in US intelligence during Persian Gulf War I (Gulf War I) that carried over to the Persian Gulf War II (Gulf War II). A lack of a doctrinal foundation and existing structure by the Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Intelligence Group (SRIG) when aiding the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) in Gulf War I severely hindered the ground operations during this war. Similarly in Gulf War II the army doctrine attempted to provide “a baseline for helping the commander visualise the information environment.” A plan to influence the information is then relayed to subordinates. This failed to prepare commanders to integrate IO (information operations) into their operations by repeating the same mistakes in Gulf War I. These faults

One day at my job as a US Air Force test pilot in the year 2023, on Area 51, I stumbled upon a lower level of the underground bunkers used to store top secret materials and projects I discovered a cylinder of high strength glass. The room was well lit, but it seemed empty and abandoned. As I approached the strange object, it became apparent that there was a door that opened and swung to the left, with a high strength steel latch on it. Once I was close enough, I realized that this machine may have been a prototype of the much sought after time travel machine that was depicted in so many movies and TV shows. The sparkling glass, the gleaming aluminum base and cap, suddenly seemed very appealing, interesting, and enticing to me. I stepped inside.

LTC Bailey advocated the nexus of intelligence driven operations and successfully achieved the 1st Iraqi FPD collaboration of the Intelligence and Operations Officer resulting in two high value enemy targets captured. LTC Bailey conducted over 100 combat patrols with partnered Iraqi forces in a heavy green on blue threat

Recognized for incredible attention to detail and hard work during Change of Command inventories being awarded the Army Achievement Medal. Selected to perform duties as Ceremony Usher NCOIC and Funeral Detail NCOIC due to my attention to detail. Selected as MICO Team Leader and responsible for the health, welfare, and morale of 2 Paratroopers resulting in 1 Paratrooper re-enlisting. Participated in one Brigade exercise All American in which the Trojan Spirit, Trojan Lite, and Prophet Spiral were kept fully operational allowing for increased mission readiness throughout the Brigade and subordinate Battalions. Selected to attend the Trojan Spirit Operators Course over peers and more senior Noncommissioned Officers graduating at the top of the

Four or Five years ago if you were to tell me that I would be confidently applying to the University of Miami I would have laughed. Through high school I did not give much effort and like most of my peers, thought that furthering my education was my only option. Nearing the end of my senior year I started realizing that no noteworthy university would even consider accepting someone like me. As the days ticked away, I applied to a nearby college with an incredibly high acceptance rate and found myself opening an acceptance letter a few weeks later.

I began my freshman year in August of 2013. I was nervous, not knowing what to expect. I was a very quiet and shy kid for as long as I can remember up until around my sophomore year. We were expected to select our classes for the upcoming year after being given a graduation requirement checklist and a link to the website that gave a paragraph describing each class. It was an overwhelming experience at the time and I ended up choosing Naval Science 1 (NJROTC) by mistake. The first day of school, merely barely having walked into the classroom I could tell that it was unlike any other class I had ever had. I was scared and told myself I would switch out. Every single day for probably four days I came home telling myself I would switch out of the

Today was a slow but productive day. My supervisor Jim Hornsby scheduled me for a class in order to be a certified field navigator. A field navigator is another word for case management. The class was held about a few hundred yards from CTLC. The class started at eight o’clock, I was the fist to arrive. When I sat down in the classroom I found myself reflecting on how much I have accomplish just this year alone. In the middle of my reflection I head a loud bang at the door, so I went to investigate and there was the rest of the student. They all came in like a pack, everyone knew everyone except me. I didn’t mind though because I figured if I knew thn I could probably cause a distraction for me while in class. Long who the pack of people about ten total, the instructor

Hi, my name is Hannah Lancaster and I am a freshman at the Career and Technical High School and prior to going to the Career and Technical High School I had listed ROTC as one of my electives I would like to join but sadly it never made it onto my schedule. I was wondering if I could start out going to ROTC sophomore of my High School career and if so if I have to take any extra courses for missing my MS1

Partnerships were not just joint but a better relationship between the Operational units under INSCOM and the proponent for intelligence under Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). These formed a strong bond that allowed current education, training, and mission success to shape the Army’s next steps. The relationship between TRADOC and the Operational frontend is absolutely vital to the success of training and education. Too often TRADOC would lag behind or operations would not communicate the changing demands, thus hindering the advance of military intelligence occupational

Not all Americans contribute equally to our society. Some fail to participate, by waiving their right to vote or even evading taxes. Of those who do participate, most do not take an active position by running for office, going to meetings and debates, protesting, or even simply writing letters to the officials who represent them. I was one of these people. I didn't think that my involvement would matter, that one person among over 300 million in the United States could make even the slightest difference. The Tennessee American Legion Boys State showed me that I was wrong. I learned, through positive and negative experiences alike, to value myself appropriately, to be completely selfless, and to value community.