Regardless of your branch, every officer is first and foremost a logistician: you manage time, people, and resources. Readiness is about maximizing the management of all three.

Understand there’s a difference between readiness and responsiveness. When alerted, your focus as an officer becomes all about responsiveness. You as a company-grade…[Read more]

I made senior rater counseling a key part of my battle rhythm and it paid huge dividends.  One TTP I found that was extremely successful was to actually enumerate the person I was counseling.  I would open every senior rater counseling with: “As you know, over the last two/three months my top three priorities are 1, 2, and 3. I currently senior r…[Read more]

I always chuckled when Officers complained about staff positions.  Uh, you do realize that Officers only command Soldiers at three levels, right? Company, Battalion, and Brigade…? Two of those really aren’t guaranteed and in the case of a Brigade Commander, you’re essentially managing the battalion commanders and their staffs.  The rest of yo…[Read more]

As a logistician, I was skimming over the comments and have a few more suggestions for you.

1. Become best friends with your Brigade Mobility Warrant.  That transporter is critical in getting your gear moved from Point A to Point B.  You are the go-between between your Unit Movement Officers (usually your Company XOs) and the Mobility Warrant w…[Read more]