Sergeant Major of the Army

In Army profession as an HR Sergeant’s role it is there job to uphold the ethics in the culture around us. On a daily basis of the profession in our job is to manage strength in the Army. Being an HR Sergeant in the Army we are experts in our jobs because we play so many roles in division, bridges, battalions, and companies. Most of the time we don’t have one certain…

“The director also underplays the asset that makes Glory distinctive: its black cast. Two remarkable actors lead an impressive ensemble--Denzel Washington as a firebrand runaway slave and Morgan Freeman as a gravedigger who rises to the rank of sergeant major. All perform brilliantly, but their dialogue seems to be grimly rationed while Broderick's…

14th, 1775 the congressional army was formed and George Washington was elected the commander in chief. In the mid 1900s, the US military split into the separate branches: the Air Force, Navy, and Army. The career began to defend United States soil and the principles of the United States. Over time, the career changed from the entire United States military to just a single branch. During World War II, the Gi Bill was introduced. (“About the Army”) The United States Army requires many jobs for…

man, to the Christian Crusades of Jerusalem, and even today’s Global War on Terror, there have been major disputes between different parties. This drives a figurative wedge between our fellow man, and ultimately provides a purpose for the United States Army. Even though conflict is the basis on which our service was founded, we can not afford to have fighting within the ranks. It degrades the Army, and, as leaders, Non-Commissioned Officers must have the tools to manage conflict. Firstly, a…

complete the mission.” (Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA), 2012) This example is the Army's definition of leadership. But what makes up a good leader? A good leader understands the critical elements of leadership but also uses his or her unique background to convey this exact purpose. For example, a good leader will ensure that their subordinates adequately train on their weapons system before a combat deployment. In my time in the Army,…

planes. Similarly, Sergeant Bob Barnes (Tom Berenger) can be considered a catalyst that disrupts the story world because his motifs and actions are unclear. Furthermore, the conflict between Barnes and Elias Grodin (Willem Dafoe) is what drives the plot forward, especially their confrontation in the middle of the film, when Barnes attacks the latter and intentionally leaves him to die at the hands of Vietnamese soldiers. This creates tension between the followers of each sergeant, which reaches…

My first major mission, a young 18 year old, the lead gunner behind a M240B as the first line of defense for our platoon; would soon be a situation that left an imprint in my life and has forever changed how I now lead as an NCO. This mission took place in 2007 near the city of Ad Dawr, Iraq. The mission was complex but my orders were simple, protect the convoy and provide security. The main objective was to expose and detain (if possible) a cell leader to include destroying his know cache point…

the material that I would not need much time to prepare for a class. We should have begun planning “Leaders ensure they understand the commander’s intent for training, the implied and specified collective tasks on which to train”(Department of the Army, 2012) We failed to do this as soon as we received the mission. We skipped the plan portion of the operations process and jumped right into preparing when the time…

When the JDOC was first formed we only had around 12 senior leaders mostly colonels and three Sergeants Major. The officers were a mixture of Army Soldiers and Air Guard Airmen, who had already taken command, reassigned as an interim assignment to retire, or who were waiting to take a position of increased responsibility. The Enlisted Soldiers were all full time staff employees who had volunteered to work with this group verses working on their normal Monday through Friday assigned duties.…

Glory is a 1989 war film which portrays the 54th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer infantry in the American civil war (1861-1865). The screenplay was written by Kevin Jarre, inspired and based largely on the personal letters and experiences of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the novel One Gallant Rush by Peter Burchard, and Lay This Laurel (1973) by Lincoln Kirstein. It is directed by Edward Zwick and stars Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Mathew Boderick, and Denzel Washington as the main characters in…