Professional Military Education

Over the course of the past four weeks, The Chief Petty Officer Academy has challenged my thought processes, pushed my physical abilities, and helped me become a more professional, even tempered chief and leader. My experience at Training Center Petaluma has encouraged and nurtured new leadership qualities that I will implement within The United States Coast Guard Band to help improve the climate of the organization. Of the seemingly countless elements that I will employ in my effort to be a better Chief upon return, there are three that are most memorable. First, the over-arching leadership curriculum has aided me in the development of a concise leadership philosophy. Second, courses in facilitative leadership have significantly improved my

As a Recon Marine we are responsible for a wide spectrum of technical expertise that is not always up to date so learning is always occurring, it doesn’t matter who or what rank is teaching what matters is that the most proficient Marine or individual is the one we all listen to. So if it’s a young Marine that is the most proficient then we all listen and learn from him/her. In addition from learning from the young Marines we must attend general professional military education, it is a Marine Corps requirement and though the material is specific to the Marine Corps the process of learning remains the same. In order to remain relative and progress in my field, I had to attend over forty formal schools over the span of my career further instilling the fundamentals of the process of

NCO must have courage to be able to lead their Marines in the presence of

This is where a Recruit learns for the first time the amount of disciple that is expected from a Marine. All Recruits are taught exactly the same from MCO P 5060.2 to keep consistency.3 Once a Recruit has completed Recruit training, and has then earned the title Marine, the Marine is then sent on to MOS training. Once the Marine arrives at the next training the Marine maybe come in charge of fellow Marines of the same rank or subordinate rank. Once in this position the Marine will have to show confidence in leading fellow Marines. Discipline is not only expected from a Marine’s superiors. Both superiors and subordinates alike expect confidence from a Marine in a leadership position. One of the best ways of building confidante in a new Marine is by putting the Marine in front of other Marines to conduct closer order drill, and give commands. Once a Marine has gained the confidence to lead a small unit the Marine is then ready to take charge of a larger unit. This also leads to confidence in other aspects of a Marines

The previous promotion system that the Army had in place was designed to support an Army at war. Prior to the height of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army mandated that soldiers attend the appropriate level of Non-commissioned Officer Professional Development (NCOPD) course before the soldier could pin on the next rank. As the Army goes through demobilization, the Army is seeing more of a garrison style of leadership come full circle, realizing that NCO development supports combat readiness long-term. The Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General Mark Milley said “Readiness is the Army’s number one priority” (www.armytimes.com) The Army’s combat readiness depends on leaders at all levels to embrace the importance of developing NCOs at a higher level. With changing and improving weapons system and equipment, soldiers of 2020 will need to be at a higher level of readiness than ever before. It must commit to placing emphasis and value on the training, education, and experiences individuals obtain in the operational, institutional, and self-development learning domains. The U.S. Army has made leaps and bounds from where it first began and leading up to the twentieth century. “In the mid 1900’s many leaders in the Army still felt that development was done through the means of on-the-job training, and that that is where it should stay.” (www.ncohistory.com) This was about as far from the today’s system of STEP as you could possibly be.

On Sep 11, 2001, al Qaeda threatened the United States (U.S.) national security, and we are still combating terrorism. Since that time, al Qaeda and other extremist groups have also been endangering some of the U.S. allies. Realizing the magnitude of this international fight, the U.S. needs help from its partners to counter violence worldwide.

Since birth, there is an exposition of the human being to different types of Leadership. From mother emanates a sort of gentle Leadership, where she is constantly protecting her offspring, and preventing from danger. She is capable of precluding them from getting harm or maybe having singular experiences just to make them feel safe. The mother will support her offspring on each decision they make, even the dumbest ones. From father, there is a somewhat more aggressive Leadership style, where he also protects his offspring however; he encourages them to try different adventures, even if they are dangerous, to make his offspring as experienced as possible. This way when the father sets the example, his offspring will know that whatever moment of their journey they fail, he will support them because they have tried. The father 's primary goal is to make whatsoever he can in order to his offspring reach higher levels of proficiency, effectiveness, and success. The father wants his offspring to do better than he did. There are also Leadership styles that emanates from the grandparents. This kind of Leadership is between the Leadership style of the mother, and the father. It is protective like the mother 's nevertheless it is as well comforter when it concerns to the father 's aggressive Leadership style.

If we want to fix this problem, then we need to start by being honest with our peers and subordinates and actually attempting to counsel and develop them. We simply don’t do that as much as we should. We are terrible with paper work and almost never give soldiers written counseling. While in SF I have received counseling, that wasn’t a generic copy and paste for every team member, one time. In ten years. We cannot expect to grow and promote the right guys if we all generally have the same NCOERs and we fail to do any negative paperwork when guys do the wrong thing. I would, and I expect others to do the same, counsel my peers and subordinates. Identify major decision making failures and put in the effort to rate that individual accordingly. Mistakes are looked at as isolated incidents and then a year down the road that individual is making the same mistakes with someone else and there is no record of it happening the previous year. With the situation involving my Company Commander, I failed to do anything to help rectify the situation. I was a junior member and lead to believe that it was just something that I would have to

The almost endless struggle of the NCO corps to find our place to define our roles continues even today. However, we have an extensive NCO Education System that is itself constantly improving to provide the most up to date and relevant training for our young leaders. As well as those who are far more experienced. An improved Brick and mortar NCO school system and the addition of DL training, along with active and ongoing in house NCODP, provide a vibrant and widely varied opportunity for development of enlisted leaders at all levels.

Education is a significant aspect in human life. However, to learn more on education, one ought to understand learning as a word. For instance, education is an activity initiated or undertaken by one or more agents designed to effect transformation in the attitude, skill and knowledge of communities, groups or individuals. While defining the term, emphasis is placed on the educator, who in this case is a transformation agent who presents reinforcement and stimuli for designs and learning activities to induce alteration. The word learning puts more emphasis on the individual receiving the change.

My training to become a United States Marine began when the bus reached Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina. I was awakened from a sound sleep by a screaming man telling everybody to get off the bus, and get outside on the yellow foot prints. This was my first encounter with a Marine Drill Instructor. He had my undivided attention, and I followed his order without hesitation. Right before my eyes the building blocks to how to be a leader of Marines was being revealed to me. At the time I did not put two and two together, but my philosophy of leadership, "Mission Accomplishment" was born. Not until after completing my primary military occupational school in Memphis

NCO it is in our best interest that the new thoughts Marines perceive be credited for their victories and responsible for their missteps. By a similar token, being liberal shouldn't be what is quite recently required of a NCO to coordinate controls and sympathy.  Finding out about your Marines' identities will enable you, concerning outline those future Marines, pick how to best deal with every Marine. Additionally, make sense of when close supervision might be required. You should know about when teach or sympathy is justified, always fabricating that trust between your subordinate and leaders and be receptive while making that genuinely necessary common regard to be eventually viewed as an exceptionally successful NCO who can integrate discipline

The history of education in the military has played a huge part in the dynamics of how the military has shifted from a soldier building environment to one of developing members through adult education and training. Kasworm, Rose, and Rose-Gordon (2010) describes how military adult education was initially designed to help build morale by giving members’ enough reading skills to read their Bibles and to have enough literacy to perform their jobs. This paper will cover some historical figures that have influenced adult education in the military as well as events that have had an effect on adult education in the military.

Lance Corporal through Sergeant: MCI 001A - The Principles of Instruction for the Marine NCO

As a former Marine and a current leader in my organization, it has been vital for me to understand every aspect of leadership. Furthermore, why it remains essential to me to be an extremely effective leader. During this course, I have developed more knowledge and learned some valuable lessons in leadership. Not just about myself as a leader, but the importance of the follower and the situation. In addition, moving forward, I can improve my leadership