NCO Leadership Challenges

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Leadership Challenges of Combined Joint Forces
SGM George K. Ott
Operation Enduring Freedom, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Farah Afghanistan, 04/30/2008
38B, Civil Affairs Team NCOIC, 451st CA Bn. CJTF-82 Bagram george.k.ott.mil@mail.mil 9 November 2015
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I was deployed in late 2006 to become a Civil Affairs soldier and lead a CA team as the NCOIC in Operation Enduring Freedom, within the first hundred days of arriving at forward operating base in Farah, Afghanistan; I was assigned an additional duty as the FOB acting Sergeant Major for a Provincial Reconstruction Team in an austere environment with over 300 joint forces to care for and provide NCO leadership. I will discuss some of the challenges encountered by this type of unique organization. As an experienced senior NCO I was able to come up with measures to solve the problems we confronted, working together with the joint team of NCOs for suitable solutions to complete the mission.

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The orders had me report to Ft. Bragg to a Civil Affairs Brigade to start the basic Civil Affairs course training. I attended a two week course at Ft. Bragg and then went to Ft. Dix, NJ to complete a month long expedited Civil Affairs course to get our class ready for deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan in support of the global war on terrorism. Our civil affairs class was made up of Army Reserve Troop Program Unit and Individual Ready Reserve soldiers to help fill the shortage needed to support the Provincial Reconstruction Teams needed for the

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