Essay On Army Leadership Style

In June 2010, I was a newly promoted Private First Class in the United States Army. I’ve been in the active service for less than a year at that point and I was already outshining my peers. My First Sergeant, the most Senior Enlist Personnel in my Company, came up to me and gave a challenge. This Challenge would result in a complete change of direction in my career, my physical toughness, and my mental capacity to learn. It change my mind set on what it means to be a Soldier. It helped lay down the foundation of what being a Leader in the Army meant to me and how I should focus my Leadership style towards my peers and future Soldiers I will teach and lead. That challenge was, at the time, one of the most physically and mentally demanding leadership …show more content…
Combative Level 3 is a leadership courses that only Sergeants and above can attend. The reason being that it was designed as a trained the train course to Commissioned and Noncommissioned Officers can train and certify Soldiers in Combative Level 1 (Basic Combative Course). Since I was lower enlisted personnel, I had to attain a waiver to attend the course. My First Sergeant saw that I was motivated and believed that I could not only pass this rigorous course but I could use it to give back to the Army and train soldiers efficiently. Needless to say I learned that my First Sergeant words calling the course “a challenge” was a massive understatement me. The Combative Level 3 course was a 4 week long, 180 hours of physical fitness combined with course instructions on fighting techniques both standing and ground. Every morning would start off with RPT which stands for Restorative Physical