I’ve got a JAG NCO in my state that publishes so much that it almost seems like spam with the LinkedIn article links…

I think we are seeing a sea change in NCO publication opportunity as we see upper level PME open to senior NCOs and the ease of publication mass market with Army University Press, LinkedIn, Task&Purpose, etc.

So how we encourage this is by acknowledging and even co-authoring. I’m working on an article now with my SGM for the Infantry journal. He and I worked plans into counseling that involved more than DA forms and saw the results take off down to the team leader level. We forced narratives over bullet points in order to see their writing improve over time and get them interested in writing as a tool. We engaged the history of our regiment in order to get guys researching and teaching. We stoked the interest. He never wanted to write an article at all.

Now he does.

As they say, it’s a method…