Great and detailed advice is spot on. To add on, remember that you have (or should have) a sponsor assigned to you at your gaining unit, suck that person dry for knowledge, both on the job you’ll be doing and on the community in general. Knowing the better places to live and the fastest way to get on post are more important than you probably…[Read more]

The previous two responses pointed out many resources you have available to you at large installations, and are things that you should use in creating your fitness plans. There are other factors, however, that you should understand as a junior officer.

First, as my current First Sergeant put it when he was my Team Sergeant, there is the Army…[Read more]

The role of specialty advisor also crosses outside of the XO/Staff realm and certainly also extends into the Specialty PL lane as well. My entire time as an LT was a the CBRN Recon PL in a Stryker Recon Squadron, and as both the only Specialty PL and the defacto BN Chemo, I was given substantial leeway to both advise my HHC Cdr and the BN S3…[Read more]