Lydia,

Welcome to the Chemical Corps.  As you are a testament to, this branch has had a long history of detailing officers in.  Do you already know your unit of assignment?

I would answer your first question in two ways – first about how to get ahead in the chemical corps itself, and, second, about how to get ahead as a detailed officer, w…[Read more]

Hi, Carson

MOS training on drill weekends is a constant battle.  As a Signal officer, I experienced many of the same problems while I was a company commander.  Soldiers want to do their MOS job. Without just passing the buck on this one, I will tell you that your best asset when it comes to this is your BN CDR, LTC Kevin Jones.  I’ve worked wi…[Read more]

Hi, Carson

MOS training on drill weekends is a constant battle.  As a Signal officer, I experienced many of the same problems while I was a company commander.  Soldiers want to do their MOS job. Without just passing the buck on this one, I will tell you that your best asset when it comes to this is your BN CDR, LTC Kevin Jones.  I’ve worked wi…[Read more]

Submit a request and get a second branch. What are you now? If not a 91A, check out my post at https://juniorofficer.army.mil/discussion/more-than-one-branch-within-the-ngreserves-pros-and-cons/ and request for the 91A branch qualification… It’s DL.

Unfortunately it never took place. We had an emergency that required multiple hours of effort to fix, and then when the dust settled I was pulled into my BC’s officer and told I was talking command of one of our companies, so I had to bounce and start my assessment. Maybe next time….

I believe we’ll all experience this more than once throughout our career.  For me, the degree to which the rater and senior rater (SR) diverge dictates how I would handle this problem.

Minor discrepancies can often be handled by addressing the problem directly with the rater to adjust fire on expectations.  It’s the major break-aways from SR’…[Read more]

THANK YOU! These are incredible and I greatly appreciate the attachments.

Hey Gary!!!

Yep, I already have an RFI with him, haha. I became perplexed when I was writing up my lit review and citing a publication from 2015 that refers to the ATLDP….which looks awesome but I think was only a panel from 2002…I can’t find anything else on it. And it’s on the army mentoring page….so many things floating on the inter webs…[Read more]

 I LOVE this discussion. I always like to bring in business type articles on discussions like this. In my career field, we’ve learned to treat the military much more like a business. The business world consistently incorporates best practices in leadership into their leadership models but the military seems to lag a bit (and of course we have…[Read more]

 I LOVE this discussion. I always like to bring in business type articles on discussions like this. In my career field, we’ve learned to treat the military much more like a business. The business world consistently incorporates best practices in leadership into their leadership models but the military seems to lag a bit (and of course we have…[Read more]