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COVER STORY: James B. Balocki, command execu-tive officer, U.S. Army Reserve Com-mand, shares his first impression of the command’s workforce during an interview with the public affairs staff, Feb. 3, 2014, at the USARC Headquarters, Fort Bragg, N.C. (Pho-to by David San Miguel/U.S. Army Reserve Command)
The Way I See It ..............................................................PAGE 3
Safety ................................................................................PAGE 12
Army History ....................................................................PAGE 14
Staff Judge Advocate ....................................................PAGE 16
Chaplain’s Corner ...........................................................PAGE 17
Around the Headquarters ..............................................PAGE 18 Across the Army..............................................................PAGE 20
Depth of Field ..................................................................PAGE 21
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Counting the days, not weeks
Timothy L. Hale, a U.S. Air Force veteran, is an award-winning photojournalist and editor of the USARC Double Eagle. A member of a number of professional organizations to include Nikon Professional Services, he also owns a photojournal-ism and graphic design service and freelances for an international photo wire service. The views expressed in this column are expressly his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the U.S. Army Reserve Command, the Department of the Army, and/or the Department of Defense.
As I mentioned in last month’s Double Eagle, I did indeed have a complete left knee replacement surgery on Feb. 3.
Despite attending a “knee and hip class” prior to surgery to learn what I could expect and talking with a few other folks who have gone through the same procedure, what I learned did nothing to prepare me for the result after surgery.
Yes, I knew there would be swelling, bruising, and sore muscles as nurses and hospital physical therapists worked to get my leg moving again so I could return home. What I was not expecting was how hard a simple task such as getting out of bed, sitting up to eat, or even brushing my teeth would be.
Most of you who have seen me moving around the building on photo assignments and interviews know there are now cobwebs under my feet. I was always on the move, wheelin’ and dealin’, visiting directorate chiefs and subject matter experts all in the effort to get the stories out in a timely manner.
With the slice of the surgeon’s scalpel, that has temporarily come to a screeching halt.
I went into surgery thinking about recovery in weeks - six to eight weeks is what my surgical team told me. At the most, no more than 12 weeks. Twelve weeks? You’ve got to be kidding! I chose to focus on the six to eight weeks instead.
Initially, physical therapy gains were not coming fast enough for me and it forced me to reevaluate my recovery. Instead of counting the weeks, I realized that I would have to start counting the days.
There are good days and there are bad. Nights are often the worst as my new companion - pain - comes to visit. But good days usually follow bad nights.
So, I have adopted the Army adage of “crawl, walk, run” to get me through the recovery.
As I enter the fourth week, I’ve ditched the walk-er (crawl) and I am now using a cane for walking.
In the days (and yes, weeks) to come, I hope to toss the cane and return to my days of “running” around the building doing what I love to do.
Hopefully, with rehab, prayers, and patience, I will be back on my feet and these days will hopefully become a distant memory.
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EDITOR’s NOTE: The U.S. Army Reserve Command Public Affairs Office had a one-on-one conversation Feb. 3, 2014 with James B. Balocki, USARC command executive officer, who shared his first impression of the command’s workforce and a number of issues affecting the Army Reserve.
USARCPA – How have your previous assignments prepare you for your present role as the USARC Command Executive Officer?JBB – I’m not sure anything can adequately prepare you for the breadth of opportunity that leadership in USARC offers, but the broad nature of assignments I’ve had, even as a civilian, have taught me three things: ask lots of questions in order to understand; trust your people – they are critical to your organi-zation’s success – and, be yourself, be genuine – the values and behaviors that have brought you to this point continue to serve you well.
USARCPA – In several articles published in the Federal Times, you provide several strategies to the workforce for advancement – what do you advise for the new federal employee? The new Soldier?JBB – First, learn your craft. Find others who are experts and learn from them. At first, this may be difficult, but you’ll quickly learn the key folks you’ll want to seek out and emulate.
Second, ask questions. One of my own great regrets earlier in my career is that I didn’t ask enough questions so that I could truly understand what was expected of me.
Third, be open to new ideas. Moving an organi-zation to achieve success requires new ways of look-ing at problems. Frequently, a fresh set of eyes, even from the newest members of the team, can suggest a different path forward.
USARCPA – The active Army is drawing down, troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan – how does this impact the Army Reserve?JBB – The Army Reserve will continue to be a key element of the Army’s formations. By design, its
life-saving and life-sustaining capabilities fulfill essential elements of our nation’s security needs. The Operational Reserve will be as relevant in the future as it has been in the recent past, and there will be many opportunities for our Soldiers to serve with distinction.
USARCPA – Any first impressions of the command that you’d like to share?JBB – I have observed an incredibly talented and professional staff, working hard seven days a week to serve Soldiers, Families and an Army they believe in. I am both proud and humbled to serve alongside these selfless Soldiers. I’ve seen our leaders face a number of challenges in my first few weeks. They’ve done so with passion, commitment and desire to get things right. I’m impressed.
USARCPA – How important are community en-gagements to the Army Reserve?JBB – The Army is drawn from the fabric of our communities all across the nation. Reserve Soldiers and their Families are a part of the communities where they live, work and serve. The Army represents just a small fraction of the nation’s population, so telling our story in the community is incredibly important. Engaging with those communities, their leaders and institutions, is critical to maintaining an understanding of what we do and why we exist.
USARCPA – In previous articles, you mentioned the importance of the Family – can you elaborate?JBB – I’ve tried to balance my own life around Fam-ily, fitness and faith. The most important of these for me is Family – they provide strength, love and support. I’ve been blessed with an incredibly strong Family who grew up and grew together all over the world. They were held together by these important bonds: the knowledge that we always had each other, and I just can’t imagine something more important.
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USARCPA – What is the Army Reserve doing to address suicide?JBB – This is incredibly challeng-ing – it’s really a scourge on our formations. I define it often as a permanent solution to a temporary problem.
I think the Army and the Army Reserve in particular have done a lot, certainly as we focus attention on it.
It’s not just unique to the Army Reserve. It’s a societal prob-lem. It’s in all of our formations, but that doesn’t mean we should look the other way or dismiss it either. We’ve stepped up to make resources available. The one thing that I think we probably can do is help Families. That reinforc-ing bond exists for every young woman or man and that’s a part of our formations. Help them to be a partner with us in preventing these suicides. We’ve stepped for-ward with some of the best medi-cal and mental health professionals that are available. We’re talking to people in ways that we haven’t talked to them before.
Any loss of life, whether it’s accidental or it’s a person taking their own life, it’s just tragic. Life is too precious. There’s too much that every one of us has to contrib-ute.
We’re asking men and women to go into harm’s way to do our nation’s bidding on behalf of the citizenry of this great country, and for folks to be willing to sacrifice their life in this noble pursuit and not have the support of a Family
member or another Soldier when they’re in a time of trouble to me is just a devastating thought. So, I don’t think that we could do too much to help these folks get through this temporary situation.
USARCPA – What is the Army Reserve doing to combat sexual harassment within its ranks?JBB – First and foremost, like the suicide issue, we raised the aware-ness and made the point through-out the command more broadly and more deeply about our unwill-ingness to tolerate. It shouldn’t be tolerated. It’s not being tolerated. We’re raising awareness by educat-ing our formations. We’re provid-ing specialists to help folks under-stand the tools that are available to enable them to teach and carry the message.
We’re asking these young men and women - these Soldiers - to do some of the most difficult work there is and to have to hide under the cloud of harassment, whether sexual or any other reason, is just intolerable. We’ve got to work collectively as leaders, collectively as Soldiers, civilians and Family members to eliminate it from our ranks.
USARCPA – How does your role as CXO affect Soldiers across the force?JBB – I’m still trying to under-stand this, but I’ve already seen the important role the CXO plays in our formations – as a member of the command team and partner
with the commander.The civilians who are a part
of our formations are incredibly important enablers to the Sol-dier. They perform key functions throughout the command wheth-er it’s being unit administrators, whether it’s being a CXO or whether it’s working at an AMSA shop or processing pay, whatev-er those functions might be, are critical to ensuring that our forma-tions and our units are capable of performing their mission.
USARCPA – What are your prior-ities as CXO?JBB – My first priority is to understand what’s going on in the organization and to embrace the priorities of the Army and the chief of the Army Reserve, because I need to be pretty much lock-step with these guys. It’s too difficult to get into an organization and have too many priorities, because then nothing is a priority.
The other thing that I would say – a personal goal – is to ensure the capabilities we’re providing are what’s needed, when it’s needed and where it’s needed. Those en-ablers that I’ve just described, our unit administrators and military technicians, are in fact the right capabilities, and they’re serving the needs of Soldiers and Families.
USARCPA – Are there any partic-ular issues you’d like to address?JBB – The areas where I need to place emphasis are going to be driven largely by my understand-
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ing where that emphasis is needed. So, though I have a deep personal interest in some areas that may or may not be where the command and the organizations in the Army Reserve need for my emphasis to be, I’m going to take my cue from the Soldiers, from their Families and from the leaders in our orga-nizations as to where that empha-sis ought to be.
USARCPA – Given your extensive civil engineering background, how will that come into play as you execute your job as CXO?JBB – Technically, not at all or maybe just a very little. The interesting thing about having an engineering background is hav-ing a way to look at and frame problems or opportunities, how to solve those problems and, maybe more importantly, the ability to take those proposed solutions to create consensus.
USARCPA – Are there any hobbies or interests you’d like to share?JBB – I do enjoy running and part of this goes back to Family. I introduced my three sons to
physical fitness. My other hobby is weightlifting and my goal is to out lift my son. It’s not going to hap-pen, but you have to have a goal. My youngest son can dead lift 600 lbs., so I know that’s not going to happen.
Photography would be another hobby.
I’m delighted to be here. I’m excited to be here. I look forward to getting out to the command and meeting with folks.
What happens at the head-quarters is interesting, but the real important work in what gets done in the Army Reserve is down in our organizations that are charged with missions.
USARCPA – During this time of budget constraints and reductions in force, do you have any words you’d like to share with the work-force?JBB – The one thing that having a few grey hairs and a few wrinkles allows is the fact that I’ve seen it before.
What I offer folks is that we’ll get through this. Again, part of this is the angst of making tough decisions. We’ve gone through
a period of 12 to 13 years where we’ve had significant and nearly unlimited resources. We should be thankful for the American people that we were able to do that and prosecute the war as we saw fit, but now the priorities of the American people, as shown through their elected representa-tives, has changed.
We have to be responsive to that. What that means is that the department is going to have to shrink.
This is not new. It happened after every major war.
So we just have to make tough decisions now. The leaders that are a part of our formations, the CAR, the Chief of Staff of the Army and the Secretaries will help guide us, but at the end of the day, we’re going to have to work together collectively to decide the things that are important, which I would call enduring missions, and capabilities from the things that are urgent. These are the things we are dealing with today.
We’ll make those decisions. It’s not going to be easy, but that’s okay. Nothing worthwhile should be easy.
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North Carolina professional storyteller, Mitchell G. Capel, presents works by Paul L. Dunbar, a Civil War era poet and former slave, to the U.S. Army Reserve audience, Feb. 5, 2014, at Fort Bragg, N.C. The “brown bag” presentation was a part of the command’s Black History Month celebration.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Bringing the African-American experience to life, Mitchell G. Capel cap-tivated more than 100 military and civilian employees during a “brown bag” presentation hosted by the U.S. Army Reserve Com-mand here, Feb. 5.
The presentation is part of an initiative by the Office of Army Reserve History to commemo-rate Black History Month and to educate its employees of Afri-can-American contributions to the nation.
Known nationally as “Grand’daddy Junebug,” Capel is a noted storyteller, poet, recording
artist, actor and author who has performed at festivals and events nationwide to include venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Smithsonian Institution for the Presidential Inauguration of Bar-rack Obama.
A native of Southern Pines, a progressive town centrally located in the Sandhills of North Caroli-na amid the longleaf pine forests, Capel recalls how his interest in storytelling began.
“It was ingrained in me since the age of three,” he said. “I can remember my grandmother reading to me poems from ‘The
Life and Works of Paul Laurence Dunbar,’ a turn-of-the-century African-American poet, novelist and playwright.”
A native of Dayton, Ohio, Dunbar was the son of former slaves who gained prominence for his poems and novels which were written in black dialect.
According to Capel, Dunbar’s writings were the source of his family’s entertainment for genera-tions.
When Capel grew older, his parents would encourage him and his brothers to memorize the works of great poets and to recite
Program highlights African-American storytellingStory & photos by DAVID SAN MIGUEL USARC Public Affairs
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. – As the weather turns warm, the speed of drivers on post roads here tends to increase.
Unfortunately, for many of these speeding drivers, the like-lihood of getting into a collision with another privately owned vehicle or Army military vehicle also increases.
According to Fort Bragg safety and law enforcement officials, there are more than 2,800 motor vehicle collisions a year here. That averages out to between 50-55 per week.
The severity of the incidents range from small fender benders and minor personal property dam-age to severe or fatal injuries.
“You have 50 different types of drivers here,” said Lt. Jason Tatro, Fort Bragg Provost Marshal Office, Traffic Investigation. “You have individuals from every state … and all places drive differently. You have people from Nebraska that like country driving and people from New York that are bumper-to-bumper, honking their horn.”
He said the difference in driv-ing styles is readily evident when travelling through the reservation, especially on Chicken, Manchester and Plank roads.
Throw in Soldiers behind the steering wheels of mine-resistant ambush-protected and light me-dium tactical vehicles still using their driving styles they learned while deployed to combat zones and you have the potential for collisions, he said.
“You have big LMTVs, MRAPs and Humvees out there and you have people that are try-ing to get to work, they are late for PT, whatever … it’s a bad thing out there when it comes to traf-fic accidents,” Tatro said, adding there have been fatal incidents with speeds in excess of 120 mph on the reservation.
While ultimate responsibility lies with the driver behind the wheel, there is also command responsibility to ensure that every-one – military as well as civilians, is operating their vehicle safely.
“It’s key to the chain of command that they educate their employees – both civilian and mil-itary – that there is training going on,” said Joe Hafner, Fort Bragg Installation Safety Office accident investigator.
Hafner said it boils down to having situational awareness when you are behind the wheel.
“Keep your road rage in check. When there are military vehicles out there and you are in a no passing zone, make sure you are doing the right thing,” Hafner said.
He added that planning and considering the weather is key for a safe trip to and from work.
“Think about every time be-fore you leave your house, that you want to come back to your house,” Hafner said. “If you keep that in the back of your mind you will be safe, because you don’t want to be involved in an incident that injures or possibly kills someone.”
North Carolina state laws
include the Absolute Speed Law which means exactly what you think it does – do the posted speed or else. Not only do driv-ers stand to lose their lives or cut short the lives of others, there are also financial implications to speeding on the installation.
“If it is 50 miles an hour, it’s 50 miles an hour,” Tatro said. “If you are travelling 51, 52, you can receive a ticket.”
The PMO is currently tracking speeds on the roads through the reservation, Tatro said. Through this monitoring, they are able to determine if a large number of cars are exceeding the speed limit at a given time of the day.
“What that does is give us a good range of enforcement times,” he said. “We have written citation after citation out there. Some of the citations we write out there are in excess of $270.
Tatro said the fines for speed-ing can run from $250-$275 plus court costs. If someone driving an AMV is charged with causing a traffic incident, they may also face punishment under the Uni-form Code of Military Justice. For non-military vehicles, state and possibly United States Codes may come into play, he said.
So given the potential for financial loss and possible loss of life, Fort Bragg officials hope driv-ers will slow down on installation roads.
“Nothing is that important. You just have to take your time out there,” Tatro said. “No matter what it is, it will be there.”
“You just have to take your time out there.” - Lt. Jason Tatro, Fort Bragg Provost Marshal Office
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A Soldier’s level of physical fitness has a direct impact on his or her combat readiness; a Soldier must be mentally and physically fit to perform required tasks.
One foundation for such readiness is physical training.
For the active component Soldier, physical train-ing is an everyday occurrence. Each day begins with structured physical training in environments that are well analyzed in terms of risk and countermeasure.
Army Reserve Soldiers, training away from their duty stations, face increased responsibility and chal-lenge. Not only must he or she establish the training regimen, the environment near home contains sub-stantially similar but considerably less well controlled hazards.
The significant differences include the now solo trainee’s assumption of at least three additional responsibilities: leadership (self discipline), planning (route, length) and risk management (situational awareness, traffic, weather).
Most of us think traffic is the greatest hazard we can face while exercising, but there are other hazards to consider such dehydration, over-exertion, and physical injuries.
A review of Army Reserve fatalities indicates that our Soldiers are accepting lower standards of personal safety in their lives as citizens.
Common factors leading to fatalities include loss of situational awareness, inappropriate risk accep-tance and overconfidence.
Two Army Reserve Soldiers were killed while
running when they stepped into the path of moving vehicles. Another was killed while walking at night in dark clothing and listening to music on ear buds.
One was killed while engaged in high risk recreational mountain climbing. Finally, four more drowned in water-related sporting activities in bodies of water that were large, rough and/or heavily traf-ficked.
When training off duty, do more than simply exercise. Your personal safety quickly evaporates without planning and informed decision making.
Away from post, accept your four-part role of trainee, leader, planner, and risk manager to identify and mitigate the hazards likely to occur.
Your noncommissioned officer-in-charge is not at home to correct and guide you, but those familiar Army Reserve physical training skills and counter-measures will be if you apply them.
Just a few of these countermeasures are: be visible, stay aware, avoid traffic, communicate a route plan, carry a phone, buddy up, no music when walking or running, hydrate, and carefully match your exuberance for high risk activity to your level of competence and that of your trainer or partners.
You have successfully completed moderate to high risk training events while in a duty status.
You know how to conduct physical training in an organized and safe manner.
Bring It Home. Manage your personal risk.Fatal accidents while training, regardless of duty
status, are unacceptable and largely preventable.
BRING IT HOME: Physical trainingBy EREWA JAMES USARC Safety Office
DON’T LEAVE YOUR PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE BEHIND
Since Fiscal Year 2012, over 42 percent (8 of 19) of Army Reserve Personal Injury accidents involved Troop Program Unit Soldiers, not in a duty status who died either performing physical fitness training and/or elevated risk fitness related recreational activities. There were ZERO fatalities while conducting physical training in a duty status.
Army reserveFACT:
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Army History: Women’s History montH
In observance of Women’s History Month, this arti-cle highlights women in U.S. military history.
Throughout the history of armed conflict most of the fighting was left to men while women were rele-gated to supporting roles to keep soldiers fed, clothed and healthy.
The social mores of history and traditional roles of femininity had, until recently, exempted American women from combat.
History has shown us numerous times that wom-en have served in combat both openly and, in some instances, after they hid their female identities.
During the Revolutionary War, women routinely accompanied the Army on campaign. Many women that followed the Army were married to Soldiers and received rations along with their children.
These women weren’t officially part of the Army but they were subject to its rules. They were among the “camp followers,” anyone, male or female, that followed the camp, including wagon drivers, porters, laborers and even prostitutes.
Women performed many traditional roles that included laundresses, seamstresses, cooks, foragers and nurses - tasks needed to sustain an 18th century Army.
In some cases, women gathered intelligence on enemy movements as part of a network of spies for
the Continental Army. In the Nov. 17, 1776 attack on Fort Washington,
Margret Corbin and her husband John crewed one of the fort’s guns. When John was struck down and killed by enemy fire, she took his place by the gun. She continued to man the gun until she was hit.
The Hessians that stormed the fort discovered her among the dead and dying. She suffered terrible wounds in the arm, chest and jaw. For her service to the nation, she became the first woman in U.S. histo-ry to receive a military pension.
At the time of the Civil War, women were still barred from serving in uniform.
In the beginning stages of the war, women had difficulty serving as nurses in Army hospitals because many did not allow them to serve in that capacity.
This was an issue until October 1863, when the War Department passed order number 351, officially allowing women to serve as nurses in hospitals.
To also support the war effort, many women went to work in factories that produced munitions, equipment and uniforms.
The new Superintendent of Army Nurses, Dor-othea Dix, provided stringent guidelines that nurses should be plain-looking, age 35 to 50 and not wear any cosmetics, brightly colored hoop skirts or jewelry.
Dix imposed the restrictions assuming that the
AMERICA’S MILITARY WOMENSuccessful for centuries
Story by CHRISTOPHER RUFF Curator, National Museum of the Army Reserve
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Soldiers would take advantage of attractive young ladies. Women contractors also manned telegraph stations for the U.S. Army.
There are numerous historical instances where women served in combat after they hid their female identities.
One documented case is that of an Irish immi-grant who enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry under the name Albert Cashier. Cashier served honorably from August 1862 to August 1865 and participated in approximately 40 battles and skirmishes.
Cashier’s true identity was found out in 1913 when she was examined by a surgeon in the Quincy Illinois Soldier’s Home. Her true name was Jennie Hodgers.
The story was sensationalized in the papers at the time of her discovery, as she had lived her entire adult life disguised as a man.
Since the World Wars of the 20th century, the role of women in the military has been on the rise.
Massive mobilizations of men necessitated the establishment of female military and paramilitary organizations to support the war effort.
In WWI, women drove ambulances that trans-ported wounded soldiers from the trenches to aid stations behind the lines.
The industrial nature of the conflict mobilized millions of military age men for the fight, leaving women to fill the manpower shortage.
The pioneering work done by women during the WWI era led to social change and equal rights with passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, giving women the right to vote.
WWII gave us the popular image of “Rosie the Riveter,” as thousands of women once again entered the work force to produce munitions and other war materiel.
The Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps, or WAAC, was created on May 15, 1942 with the passage of Public Law 554. In 1943, the WAACs were adopted full-time as the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) with Oveta Culp Hobby as its first director.
The 150,000 WACs that served in WWII freed up what amounted to seven divisions of men for combat.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said that "their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determi-nation are immeasurable".
During opening stages of the Korean War, there were 22,000 women in the Armed Forces, of that number, 7,000 were medical staff.
The Women’s Armed Forces Integration Act of 1948 gave women increased prospects for military careers to support a Department of Defense effort to recruit more women. These measures met with limit-ed success and were discontinued in 1952.
The 1991 Gulf War saw the largest deployment of women in US history.
More than 26,000 women served in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, according to the U.S. Army Center for Military History.
Women represented more than 8.6 percent of the Army’s deployed force and 17 percent of Army Reserve Soldiers at the height of the conflict.
Maj. Deborah Gilmore of the 94th Regional Support Command served as a young lieutenant and executive officer in Saudi Arabia. When she arrived in country, she began to direct troops unloading the plane. The oppressive heat in the air was apparent, but the stares from the Saudi men beat down heavi-er as she relates: “I remember the astonished looks of the Saudi military as I gave orders. They didn’t understand why I was giving orders, but even more, they couldn’t comprehend why the men were listen-ing.”
In more recent history, the line between combat-ant and non-combatant duty for women was blurred when Army Reserve Chief Warrant Officer 4 Gwen Schallow became the first woman to qualify as a pilot in command of an Apache attack helicopter.
In the summer of 1999, Schallow and her unit, the 8th Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment, de-ployed to Bosnia where the Army Reserve unit provided air support for the 10th Mountain Division. Female Soldiers represent nearly 23 percent of the Army Reserve today.
The year 2013 became a watershed moment for the U.S. military as the last restrictions barring wom-en in combat were lifted - pending futher studies.
Today, women seeking combat service won’t have to don a disguise but they will have to pass stringent requirements that test physical strength, endurance and intelligence.
The role that gender plays in the military is not what it used to be. History has shown that women will continue to serve and succeed in their military roles.
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Lt. Col. WILLIAM M. STEPHENS USARC Deputy Staff Judge Advocate
Giving Victimsa VOICEThe Special Victim Counsel Program (SVCP), created at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, provides legal advice and representation to military related sexual assault victims throughout the military justice process.
The 2014 National Defense Authorization Act establishes that the Secretary “shall designate legal counsel (to be known as “Special Victims’ Counsel) for the purpose of providing legal assistance to an individual eligible for military legal assistance who is the victim of an alleged sex-related offense, regardless of whether the report of that offense is restricted or unrestricted.”
An “alleged sex-related offense” means any UCMJ allegation of committing or attempt to com-mit a crime of a sexual nature (e.g. sexual assaults, rape or any case involving Articles 120, 120a, 120b, 120c or 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Jus-tice).
On Dec. 27, 2013, the Chief of the Army Re-serve issued policy implementation guidance for this critical program.
The Reserve SVCs are part of the Army-wide effort to ensure that all sexual assault victims associ-ated with the military and eligible for legal assistance are provided responsive and timely support through-out the investigation and judicial proceedings.
The USARC policy is that each General Officer Command will have a Judge Advocate nominee to be an SVC and each Regional Support Command will coordinate the services of each SVC throughout their respective regions.
All of the candidates must have the necessary military justice experience (either trial or defense/military or civilian) as well as the maturity and good judgment to work with victims of sexual assault.
Each SVC will have the critical mission and professional duty to represent their clients’ interest throughout the military justice process even if their clients’ interests do not align with those of other interested parties, to include the government of the United States.
The approved nominees will serve as SVCs for no less than one year and no more than two years.
All initial nominees will attend the first USARC SVC training March 3-7, 2014 at The Judge Advo-cate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlot-tesville, Va.
This training addresses the responsibilities of the SVC from the initial report and throughout the mil-itary justice process. Further, the classes will include training on the victim’s rights and duties, available military and VA benefits for the victim, guidance on
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U.S. Army Forces Command and U.S. Army Reserve Command hosts a weekly Christian Bible study.
Studies are held each Tuesday, starting at 11:30 a.m., Room 1901 near the USARC G4.
Please come and share a time of fellowship and worship with us.
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching,for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, thatthe man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work.”
Second Timothy 3:16-17
FORSCOM/USARC Christian Bible Study
CHAplAin’s Corner
Holidays come and holidays go so often the inspira-tion for the holiday is short-lived and fleeting.
But every now and then, we would do well to reflect on the personality of the person or the event that inspired the holiday we enjoy and celebrate.
Saint Patrick is just one such mysterious, largely unknown and under-appreciated host to our celebra-tions.
Born in AD 387, St. Patrick is known as the Patron Saint of the Irish. St. Patrick’s Day is cele-brated on March 17th each year, the anniversary of his death. The holiday is celebrated with parades, the color green, and beer. Various traditions have devel-oped over the years to augment St. Patrick’s Day to include some rivers being dyed green and everyone acting Irish for a day.
But there is more to the story than the color green, parades and beer that few of us know.
St. Patrick was born in Scotland, was captured at the age of 16 and sold into slavery in Ireland. At the age of 20, he escaped from slavery and made his way back to Scotland. After his return to Scotland, he studied in a monastery and was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church and was later appointed as a bishop. He felt called to go back to Ireland to minister to the people there.
St. Patrick would remain in Ireland as a priest for 40 years. He is credited with teaching his church
the doctrine of the Trinity by using the shamrock, a three-leafed clover to illustrate the three persons in one God concept prevalent in the Christian Church. In less than 30 years, he erected schools and monas-teries and thousands came into the Church, essen-tially converting the entire island nation of Ireland to Christianity.
I would encourage you to think about the impact St. Patrick had on Ireland.
Would we be able to overcome the trauma of being made a slave for four years and still be able to go back to the same place and help the people who held us in slavery?
To do what St. Patrick did requires we learn to forgive a person(s) and to love them. If each of us were able to do that, our world would be a better place.
In Proverbs 17:17 (NIV) it reads “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adver-sity.”
St. Patrick was not able to overcome the hurt and pain from this adversity by himself; his faith and love from his community sustained him.
If you are having a challenging time, I encourage you to draw strength from your faith and your com-munity. In our own lives we can overcome adversity through God’s help and also by being there for each other as we face adversity.
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) RICHARD SAVAGE USARC Command Chaplain Directorate
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The U.S. Army Reserve Command Civilian Personnel Manage ment Office has scheduled the following personnel orientation dates for all new USARC personnel.
The dates for upcoming orientations are: Mar. 20, May 15, July 17, Sept. 18, Nov. 20Orientation starts at 8 a.m. and will be held in Room 4901 unless otherwise posted.This training is mandatory for all military and civilian employees assigned to the USARC
headquarters. For more information, you may contact Danny Sampson, orientation planner, at 910-570-
8343, or via email at [email protected].
USARC Newcomer Orientation for 2014
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them at church and civic events.“The more I studied and read
Dunbar’s stories, I realized this was history and these events actu-ally happened,” he said. “I realized that the oral history was being lost.”
Capel attributes much of this lost art to the integration of public schools during the mid-60s.
“When the schools were integrated, teachers no longer taught African-American history,” he said. “So all of our heroes and heroines were kicked to the curb.
“I wanted to keep that history alive and show them the contri-butions that African-Americans made to society,” Capel said. “I wanted to show them that we all contributed into making America the great country that it is.
“I’m continuing that family tradition of preserving culture and teaching through stories,” he said.
The Army continues to promote and support specific training and devel-opmental opportunities under the various Career Programs.
All Army Reserve Civilians are categorized under one of the 31 CPs, ranging from civilian personnel to aviation.
Depending on the CP there may be multiple Occupational Series (job specialty designations) that are grouped together.
Information on your specific CP can be best located at the Army Career Tracker, or ACT, at https://actnow.army.mil.
This portal provides specific links to recommend training, devel-opmental opportunities, and updates on career plans and programs. It also allows the user to plan out long term goals within their CP and enroll in selected training.
Take the opportunity to explore, familiarize yourself, and get in-volved with your career program today.
The USARC point of contact for Career Program information is Dan-ny Sampson, [email protected] or at 910-570-8343.
Do you know your Career Program?
expedited transfer requests, Military Protective Orders as well as civilian protective orders.
Victims of sexual assault and eligible for legal assistance will be able to use the services of SVC to assist them on topics such collateral civil issues arising from the crime as well as questions regarding the process, such as Article 32 proceedings, discovery, the roles of Trial Defense Service and the Trial Counsel, providing a victim impact statement and post-trial submissions.
At this time, SVCs will not represent child abuse victims.The Special Victim Counsel is not the same individual nor will
they provide the same services as the other individuals who will also be assisting the victim throughout the process, such as the SHARP repre-sentative or the Victim Witness Liaison.
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WASHINGTON – Soldiers looking for challenges beyond their regular military training, in national security policy or strategic decision making, for instance, might consider applying for one of two newly available programs through the Army's Broadening Opportunity Program.
The “Strategic Broadening Seminars” and the “Army Special Operations Forces Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Fellowship,” begin this summer, said Joel Strout, program manager for the Army's Broadening Opportunity Program. The application deadline for both programs is April 4, 2014.
The Strategic Broadening Seminars program is an Army chief of staff initiative, and is especially designed to respond to the 2013 Army leader development strategy as a means to broaden future senior Army leaders, Strout said.
The program is open to active, Army National Guard and Army Reserve captains, majors, chief warrant officers 3 and 4, and sergeants first class through command sergeants major.
Participants will attend a series of seminars, each about 3-5
weeks long, “based on the study of mutually supportive yet diverse strategic focus areas within a small-group environment which culminates in a strategic action project,” he said.
Lectures will be given by “top-tier” university professors and other subject matter experts.
Strout pointed out a number of motivators for applying to the program.
“This opportunity will enhance a Soldier’s understanding of the complexities associated with strategic choices, the varied cultures of the interagency and federal government, and diverse approaches to strategic decision-making,” he said.
Soldiers wanting to enhance their appreciation for the development and impact of national security policy and strategy will want to apply, he said.
Topics will be broad in scope and are intended to support critical and creative thinking, he added.
Participants will be in a temporary duty and return/en route status with funds provided by Army G-3/5/7. More details and seminar locations are available
within MILPER Message 14-045.The Army Special Operations
Forces Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies Fellowship provides an educational experience in broad national security policy, strategy, interagency and management issues, Strout said.
The fellowship is open to active component majors and lieutenant colonels in the special forces, psychological operations and civil affairs career fields.
The goal of the program is to enable Soldiers to “participate effectively as senior leaders in the formulation and implementation of national security policy that enhances the communications between policy institutions across the Departments of Defense and State,” he said.
Soldiers interested in furthering their knowledge and expertise in national security policy, strategy, interagency and operational challenges will be especially interested, he added.
Participants will make a permanent change of station to the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, reporting in August. The fellowship lasts 12 months. More details are available within MILPER Message 14-047.
Some Army Reserve ranks eligible for new opportunitiesStory by DAVID VERGUN Army News Service
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(LEFT) Paratroopers of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Civil Affairs & Pscyhological Operations Command (Airborne) descend upon St. Mere Eglise Drop Zone, January 24, 2014 at Fort Bragg, N.C., after jumping out of a CASA 212 aircraft. (Photo by Capt. Saska Ball/USACAPOC(A) Public Affairs Office)
(ABOVE) U.S. Army Sgt. Steven D. Clark of Atlanta, a broadcast journalist with the 300th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, prepares to drive during a Humvee familiarization training class Jan. 26 at Gillem Enclave, Ga. His reserve unit falls under the command of the 359th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade based in Fort Gordon, Ga. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Gary Witte/300th MPAD)
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