Since day one communication has been important in the military. Without this communication soldiers wouldn’t know where to be or when to be there. Without communication in battle soldiers wouldn’t know when to take a knee, when to begin reloading their weapons and when to stand back up to take aim to start the process all over again. Communication is the heart of what makes the United States Army what it is today. Without Communication vital information would not be passed down from the Chief of Command to a chain of Non Commissioned Officers to the soldiers. Not to mention, innocent lives would be in jeopardy, missions, and simple information from NCO to soldier would be misinterpreted.
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In today’s world, most nations attempt to minimize the risk of war caused by miscommunication. Fortunately military communication does not always cause warfare, but often supports intelligence gathering and communication between other countries and sometimes prevents war. Communication is greatly employed when troops don’t want to be heard or detected and it serves to provide a means of transmitting information from reconnaissance and other units in contact with the enemy. The military uses signal communications in many different ways and have done so since the beginning of the military. Whether it be in the form of hand and arm signals to allow everyone behind them to know what they need to do at a specific time whether it be halt or stop movement, or to take a knee, to get down in the prone, to mark a rally point to meet up at. Communication can also be used by smoke grenades to notify medevac of their position in case they have wounded soldiers that need to be picked …show more content…
The written form of communication is probably the most commonly used form of communication within the military. Military uses written communication everyday. Whether it be in the form of an email which can also be considered verbal or in the form of a Memorandum for record or a DA form 4856 counseling form. The DA form 4856 counseling is used amongst the Army. It gives guidance to the soldier on a monthly basis or whenever they do something negative in which his or her chain of command feels it is necessary to give the soldier a negative counseling. There are many other reasons for a counseling. They can be used for promotion purposes to give the soldier a guideline to things that he or she must accomplish in order to be recommended for promotion or reasons that they are not being recommended. On a monthly basis the counseling tells a soldier how the soldier ultimately did for the previous month whether it be good or bad. The counseling will have special emphasis on what the soldier did well as well as the soldier’s shortcomings, giving the soldier guidance on what he or she should work on the following month. The DA 4856 is an excellent form of communication between the Team or Squad leader and the lower enlisted within his or her team or squad when used properly. Most people in the Army do not use the counseling form in the correct manner in which it was designed to be used. This is usually due
Lack of communication …show more content…
In today’s world, most nations attempt to minimize the risk of war caused by miscommunication. Fortunately military communication does not always cause warfare, but often supports intelligence gathering and communication between other countries and sometimes prevents war. Communication is greatly employed when troops don’t want to be heard or detected and it serves to provide a means of transmitting information from reconnaissance and other units in contact with the enemy. The military uses signal communications in many different ways and have done so since the beginning of the military. Whether it be in the form of hand and arm signals to allow everyone behind them to know what they need to do at a specific time whether it be halt or stop movement, or to take a knee, to get down in the prone, to mark a rally point to meet up at. Communication can also be used by smoke grenades to notify medevac of their position in case they have wounded soldiers that need to be picked …show more content…
The written form of communication is probably the most commonly used form of communication within the military. Military uses written communication everyday. Whether it be in the form of an email which can also be considered verbal or in the form of a Memorandum for record or a DA form 4856 counseling form. The DA form 4856 counseling is used amongst the Army. It gives guidance to the soldier on a monthly basis or whenever they do something negative in which his or her chain of command feels it is necessary to give the soldier a negative counseling. There are many other reasons for a counseling. They can be used for promotion purposes to give the soldier a guideline to things that he or she must accomplish in order to be recommended for promotion or reasons that they are not being recommended. On a monthly basis the counseling tells a soldier how the soldier ultimately did for the previous month whether it be good or bad. The counseling will have special emphasis on what the soldier did well as well as the soldier’s shortcomings, giving the soldier guidance on what he or she should work on the following month. The DA 4856 is an excellent form of communication between the Team or Squad leader and the lower enlisted within his or her team or squad when used properly. Most people in the Army do not use the counseling form in the correct manner in which it was designed to be used. This is usually due