“If there are things on your training schedule that are not making you more lethal or more cohesive where you’re taking care of your teammates, then you need to have a discussion about taking that off the schedule and not doing it,” George said. In a recent presentation at Fort Moore, Georgia, the chief was explicit with the maneuver force audience. The chief sees taking action in those types of scenarios as the best way to show the force he’s serious about change and prioritizing warfighting.īeyond equipment, the acting chief wants to trim or eliminate much of the administrative strain of entering data or jumping through hoops with unnecessary online training. We may not be exactly where we want but the point is when you say you’re going to do something, you need to show you’re serious about it,” George said. But George doesn’t want to dissect those types of changes from the Pentagon, he wants units to do the work and see what happens. That effort may provide a template for the rest of the Army’s divisions, but with such a quick turn, there will also be ways to improve.

During the ceremony, Poppas presented veterans and veterans' family members with folded flags and coins. Army Forces Command, salutes a folded flag presented to him at the Eternal Heroes' Memorial Ceremony Jin Normandy, France. “If you’re spending time laying out equipment, servicing equipment that you don’t use or need or are not going to combat with, then we shouldn’t have that inside of the formation,” George said. Much of that gear may have served a purpose at one point but is either so rarely used or not needed for combat that it’s simply weighing down the commander and their unit with added inventory, maintenance and other duties. He shared an example wherein even a company-level commander could be responsible for a 118-page property book.

One of the ways he expects to do that is to reduce the strain on commanders, especially lower-echelon leaders. “The Army is doing a great job meeting all of our requirements globally - I want us to continually look at how we get better at managing home station training,, and transformation so units have the appropriate time to meet their requirements and get the time they need to rest, refit, and stay connected with their families,” George said. Joshua Aquinde, commander of the 230th Engineer Company at the Hawaii Army National Guard Puunene Armory, Maui, Aug. Army Pacific, receives a farewell salute from Capt.

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