Today's Focus:
Army Training Support Enterprise
SENIOR LEADERS ARE SAYING
"At the core of that is strong garrison leadership. We've got to make sure we get it right across the full spectrum -- units, Soldiers, families. The only way I know how to get at [suicide prevention] is through leadership and leaders focusing on their people...Every single person in this audience is a leader. People have to be bold and step in, and this has to do with taking care of each other, leading and mentoring those who come behind you. You can't just passively sit and watch this happen."
- Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, while speaking to Soldiers and airmen at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., underscored strong garrison leadership as the core for suicide prevention
Longer 'dwell' time poses new challenges for Army
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
"I don't believe for a minute that the military is creating this situation where people want to take their lives - not for a minute. The military's not causing it - but the military can solve the problem ... It's unacceptable. We've got to solve this problem."
- Retired Army Maj. Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor recipient, tells Guard members attending the 39th annual conference of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States in St. Louis on Aug. 8, 2010, that leadership at all levels is key to cutting the spike in servicemember suicides.
Leadership key to tackling suicide, says Medal of Honor recipient
CALENDAR
August 2010
Anti Terrorism Awareness Month
National Immunization Awareness Month
Aug 26: Women's Equality Day See related website: Women in the U.S. Army
Aug 31: End of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF); Transition to Stability Operations
TODAY'S FOCUS
Army Training Support Enterprise to Streamline Training Support
What is it?
The Army Training Support Enterprise (TSE) represents the entire organization of training support. TSE includes all products, services, processes, actions and functions necessary to manage, develop and deliver integrated, operationally relevant training support capabilities to help Soldiers, civilians, leaders and mission/combatant commanders support Army readiness.
What has the Army done?
The Army Training and Doctrine Command designated the Combined Arms Center-Training (CAC-T) to establish the TSE. To ensure the TSE becomes a reality, CAC-T is conducting meetings and briefings with individuals involved with training support at all levels to educate them on the who, why, what, when, where and how of the TSE. Through these meetings, CAC-T is communicating the value-added, establishing responsibilities, and gaining consensus with its customers and partners.
What does the Army have planned?
CAC-T and others in the training support community have begun working together to define the governance processes critical to ensure that objectives are achieved, risks are managed appropriately, and resources are used responsibly. The governance processes will help bring together managers and others involved in training support under a single umbrella to collaboratively identify like requirements and opportunities for leveraging capabilities across programs and lines of operation. A Program Management Review for several programs under the TSE is scheduled for 4th quarter FY10 to help align governance processes.
Why is this important to the Army?
Without TSE processes that eliminate stovepipes and enable integration and synchronization of capabilities, the Army cannot optimize training support solutions that are fully responsive to customer needs. Once fully implemented, the TSE will help distribute limited resources to provide training support capabilities that achieve the optimal balance between effectiveness, efficiency and strategic risk.
Resource:
"Army Training Support Enterprise: A New Paradigm for Training Support," Engineer Professional Bulletin, January-April 2010
STAND-TO! NEWS
ABOUT THE ARMY
- Leadership key to tackling suicide, says Medal of Honor recipient (The U.S. Army)
- Army astronaut makes 6th longest spacewalk in history (The U.S. Army)
- 'Sergeant Firewall' promotes information assurance at LandWarNet (The U.S. Army)
- Petraeus scheduled to start spate of media interviews (New York Times)
- Senior NCOs from CENTCOM nations meet (The U.S. Army)
- Soldier washed out of BUD/S but wore Trident (Army Times)
- NC donors respond after Soldiers' supplies stolen (The Charlotte Observer)
- Guard chief tells force to prepare for prolonged overseas role (The U.S. Army)
OVERSEAS OPERATIONS
- As Afghan allies reposition, U.S. role evolves (NPR)
- With Korengal abandoned, COP Michigan bears brunt of Kunar fight (Stars and Stripes)
- Engineers redesign counterinsurgency tactics in Kandahar (The U.S. Army)
- Taliban return to Northern Afghanistan (NPR)
- Taliban say they abducted Afghan soldiers (Wall Street Journal)
OF INTEREST
- Pentagon to cut thousands of jobs, defense secretary says (Washington Post)
- Compensation gap between federal, private jobs doubles (USA Today)
- Virginia stands to feel the most pain from defense cuts (Washington Post)
- Gates to kill JFCOM, cut general officer billets (Army Times)
- GI Bill changes don't include much for families (Stars & Stripes)
- Teen captive's confessions can air at Guantanamo trial (Miami Herald)
- Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim al-Qosi's plea agreement is kept secret (Washington Post)
WORLD VIEW
- U.N. to issue Pakistan aid appeal (Al Jazeera)
- U.S. troops killed in Afghan prison (Al Jazeera)
- Afghanistan civilian deaths up 31% this year, says United Nations (The Guardian)
- Iran plans Afghanistan conference (Financial Times)
- Iran increases uranium enrichment – IAEA (BBC)
- North Korea 'fires artillery into Yellow Sea' (BBC)
- Guantánamo Bay's youngest detainee goes on trial (The Guardian)
- Iran plans Afghanistan Conference
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