United States Army

The Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) program integrates and fields the Army’s capability to digitally capture medical treatment data in operational environments, enhancing the continuity of care, and enabling a comprehensive lifelong electronic medical record for Service members. MC4 contains multiple systems within one system including medical software packages fielded to operational medical forces worldwide. The system is comprised of joint software, commercial, and…

Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Reports have a direct and significant impact on the NCO’s promotion selection process. These reports are more than likely the most important document in the NCO’s file when they are considered for advanced schools and promotions. The new Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Reporting system has caused a significant change to a decades old evaluation system. This evaluation reporting system has been in use since 1987. The old NCOER form became more problematic…

He got up from his corner and helped patch up the troops. For most of them, there was nothing he could do. The only person that could help them was the Recovery Unit. “Okay, everybody.” Howard commanded, “Get on the truck, we can treat you there and hurry home.”. Ash started helping the injured troops onto the trucks and let the Recovery unit do their thing. Once everyone was on board, he hopped on and the truck started moving. He sat down near the front and looked back at the wounded soldiers.…

saying she charge their position. When the Army came to investigate this incident, they were not able to uncover the cover-up, and they were not charged with any crimes. The TCP’s continued to be a problem later when an insurgent was able to kill a squad leader and a team leader of 1st platoon. 1st platoon began to seek means in order to help cope with their deployment and harsh living conditions. They would purchase drugs and alcohol from the Iraq army members. Drinking and drug abuse became a…

During this part of Black Hawk Down, the rangers and the D-Boys are still trying to get to the second crashed black hawk in Mogadishu, Somalia. They have lost their humvee convoy and are traveling on foot to the destination to try to get the survivors. They are being pinned down because of how many Somali militia soldiers there are and how they are all over the place. The Sammies are shooting in every direction at them and there is close to no cover for the running American soldiers. This…

Flight of the Cygnus In the year 2240 EDF Deep Space Outpost 14: Near the Outer-Rim of the Milky Way "Where the hell are they?" "I'm not sure sir, the 6th Recon Squadron should have reported in before now" The commander leaned back in his chair, a look of worry on his face, "Keep trying to raise them Jennings." Jennings nodded, and put his headset back on. After trying to raise the command ship of the squadron several more times, Jennings looked back at the commander and shook his head.…

Introduction In the movie Twelve O’clock High, Brigadier General (BG) Savage’s fluid leadership was necessary to continuously assess the 918th Bomber Group, build the organization, and then develop its future leaders. BG Savage was placed in command of the 918th after General (GEN) Pritchard, the Wing Commander, relieved Colonel (COL) Davenport for ineffective leadership. BG Savage immediately and continuously assessed the organization. He used a Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model of…

The concepts of Mission Command as proposed in U.S. ARMY's Field Manuals is a relatively new concept and has the focus on the Commander's interaction with subordinates and how both conducts operations in the complex scenario of modern combat. Although it is a new doctrine, traces of the employment and the characteristics that consecrate this theory was present in the actions of many leaders of the past. One example of other time that enshrines and exemplifies the philosophy of Mission Command…

Women in Combat In the United States, equality is strived for, but what happens when equality becomes more of a political standard that bleeds into the aspect of American society that is rightfully separated from their civilian counterparts for the greater good? What might be right for the American civilian may be devastating for the American warfighter. For instance, it is debated that women shouldn’t be present in combat. For women outside the military, it was acclaimed as a step toward true…

Careful analysis of Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and Harold Moore’s and Joseph Galloway’s “We Were Soldiers Once… And Young” reveals two markedly different portrayals of the United States’ army during the Vietnam War. This change mirrors the dwindling optimism of the American people from Moore and Galloway’s account of the 1965 Battle of la Drang and O’Brien’s more comprehensive account of the later stages of the war and post-war period. While O’Brien, Moore, and Galloway all served…