FORT JACKSON, S.C. -- Fort Jackson senior leaders came together at Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Tuesday to discuss updates to the installation's campaign plan.
Although the new campaign plan is still in the works - it is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of fiscal year 2011 - some elements, such as the vision and mission statements have already been revised.
"I have a pretty simple vision," said Maj. Gen. James Milano, Fort Jackson's commanding general. "One, to be the premier Army Training Center in the Army, and two, to be an Army Community of Excellence award winner. The first one isn't particularly metrics-based, but I want (Fort Jackson) to be known reputation-wise as being the very best training center in the Army."
Col. James Love, garrison commander, outlined recent adjustments by IMCOM to designate installations as Army Communities of Excellence. The new competition is largely based on installations' effective implementation of IMCOM's campaign plan. Love said he believes that this will give TRADOC garrisons a better chance at the awards.
"It makes it easier for garrisons like (Fort Jackson) to compete," Love said. "And that's the idea, to level the playing field."
The tie-in of Fort Jackson's vision with the IMCOM campaign plan is just one context in which the post's new campaign plan is nested. It is also linked to the Army's, TRADOC's and deputy commanding general for Initial Military Training's respective campaign plans, said Mike Ryan, strategic planner for Fort Jackson.
In addition to updated vision and mission statements, the new plan will reduce campaign objectives from 10 to five. Ryan said the purpose of the reduction is to give the new plan a more narrow focus. The new campaign objectives are: train Soldiers and civilians; develop leaders; enhance well-being, provide quality of life and build resiliency; enhance and modernize the infrastructure; and equip and sustain the force for training.
During the day, leaders separated into three groups, each discussing which major objectives should be identified along one of the campaign plan's three lines of operation - training; quality of life; and support and sustainability.
"This is really the starting point for the next (generation) of the campaign plan," Ryan said.
*Fort Jackson Vision and Mission Statement*
Vision
Fort Jackson: The preeminent Training Center in TRADOC and an Army Community of Excellence award winner. Tradition, Training, Transformation
Mission
The United States Army Training Center and Fort Jackson (USATC&FJ) trains Soldiers and other personnel in support of full spectrum operations; receives and transforms Volunteers into Soldiers who are able to function effectively in their First Unit of Assignment (FUA); trains and educates our military and civilian leaders; and provides the highest possible Quality of Life for our Soldiers and their Families.
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