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Thursday, July 19, 2018
76th Year, Issue 28
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DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
RELEASE
Music on the Lawn
Fort Hood’s free summer concert
series returns at 6:30 p.m. July 27
at the lawn behind Chili’s Grill and
Bar.
The event is free and open to
all and feature a variety of genres.
Lawn chairs and blankets are
encouraged.
Pets and glass containers are
prohibited. For more information,
call 288-7835.
Comedy tour
A comedy show featuring Carlos
Mencia and special guests Jordan
Rock and Trish Suhr is set for 6:30
p.m. July 28 at Abrams Physical
Fitness Center.
Open to all 18 and older due to
adult content.
Purchase tickets at Leisure Trav-
el Services.
Advance tickets:
• Floor seating: $25 each
• Bleacher seating: $15 each
Day of Show tickets at the door:
• Floor seating: $30 each
• Bleacher seating: $20 each
For more information, call 288-
7835.
Photo by Dave Larsen, Command Information Officer
Information regarding the WholeSoldier counseling program can
be found at www.wholesoldier.com. The counseling form is avail-
able for download on the web site.
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CSA discusses Army’s growth,
BY HEATHER GRAHAM-ASHLEY
Sentinel News Editor
BY TODD PRUDEN
Sentinel Editor
Since 1942
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ing current readiness and strengthen-
ing its combat formations. Futures
Command will provide that same
focus to future readiness by fine tun-
ing and implementing the service’s
modernization strategy to increase
the Army’s lethality against near-peer
competitors in tomorrow’s conflicts.
“The establishment of the Army
Futures Command is the best example
of our commitment to the future read-
iness and lethality of the force,” said
Secretary of the Army Mark Esper.
“Army Futures Command will help
fulfill the Army Vision by addressing
the key shortcomings of the current
acquisition system, providing unity of
command, effort, and purpose to the
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Photo by Master Sgt. Jacob Caldwell, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark Milley speaks to 20 Phantom Warrior troops before re-enlisting them during a ceremony in
the East Atrium of III Corps Headquarters at Fort Hood July 12.
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of
resources
sions.”
WholeSol-
dier focuses
on three main
topics of eval-
Color Run
Fort Hood’s 5K Color Run is set
for 8 a.m. July 28 at Harvey Func-
tional Fitness Center. For more
information, go
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The Army must grow and modern-
ize to deter and defeat any potential
threats, the 39th Army Chief of Staff
Gen. Mark Milley told the general
membership of the Fort Hood —
Central Texas Chapter of the Asso-
ciation of the U.S. Army July 11 at
Club Hood.
Our intent is to set the Army on
a course to re-establish land power
dominance over any possible enemy
the United States could ever confront
on Earth at all, from anybody,” Mil-
ley said noting Defense Secretary
James Mattis’ National Defense Strat-
egy, which defined current potential
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uation.
The first is heart, which
includes subtopics such as
character, conduct and moti-
vation.
The second is mind, which
evaluates knowledge, judge-
ment and application.
Finally, there is body,
which focuses on fitness, ath-
leticism and health.
“It’s definitely going to
give the counselor the oppor-
tunity to actually to pick dif-
ferent kinds of skills with
their subordinates,” said 1st
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WASHINGTON — The U.S.
Army announced Friday that, after a
months-long review of potential sites,
its new Futures Command will be
headquartered in Austin.
Army Futures Command, which
began operations on July 1, will lead
the Army’s future force modernization
enterprise. The command is expected
to assess the future operational envi-
ronment, emerging threats, and new
technologies in order to develop and
deliver concepts, requirements, future
force designs, and modern materiel
solutions to meet our Soldiers’ war-
time needs.
The Army has worked hard increas-
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Changes to Soldier devel-
opmental counseling may be
on the horizon.
A new concept was pitched
to senior enlisted leadership,
which included the sergeant
major of the Army, at a con-
ference in El Paso recently.
The concept is
WholeSoldier and is
tic change from the
counseling system,
now uses
the Soldiers in the ranks and
then also helping them to
make personal decisions. At
the same time, WholeSol-
dier also provides data to
make personnel decisions.
He said at the end of the
day, the heart of this is that
there will be better coach-
ing and counseling conversa-
tions with Soldiers. He said
WholeSoldier uses concepts
which include measuring and
matching.
“Measuring is, obvious-
ly, assessing the talent we
have to understand who is
performing well and who
is perform-
ing poorly in
line with the
things that we
actually care
about,” Dees
said. “Match-
ing would be
using those
measures to
find, get the
right person in
the right job
at the right
time. That
could span
from recruit-
ing, to selec-
tion of MOSs,
to promo-
tion, retention
variety,
class
human
deci-
threats to the U.S. and priorities for
national defense.
“Most important, we are in the era
of great power competition,” he said.
“It signals to the chiefs to get their
services reorganized and refit, mod-
ernized, trained, manned, equipped
to deal with the higher end of warfare
against a near-peer great power,” Mil-
ley said. “We, the Army, we’ve got a
lot to learn, so they’re giving us the
money and the resources.”
Following the guidance in Mat-
tis’ National Defense Strategy, Mil-
ley and Army Secretary Mark Esper
rewrote the Army vision.
“That vision emphasizes high levels
of readiness in order to deter any
potential threats,” Milley said.
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To achieve the goals of the Army
vision, Milley is looking to grow the
Army to over 500,000 by 2028. He
also is calling to grow the National
Guard and Army Reserve over the
next 10 years, as well.
“That’s significant growth over
where we were three years ago,” he
said. “Now we are growing the Army,
steadily, surely.”
That growth will not include addi-
tional formations.
The Army will continue with the
establishment of six Security Force
Assistance Brigades, five in the
active Army, one of which has been
announced at Fort Hood, and one
called
a dras-
current
which
DA Form 4856,
the Developmental Counsel-
ing Form.
“The pur-
pose of
WholeSoldier
is to do a cou-
ple of things.
I’ll start with
a definition of
talent manage-
ment. It is a
talent man-
agement tool.
When I say
talent manage-
ment, I mean
that we would
better men-
tor, measure
and match
talent to task
and teams,”
said Lt. Col.
Rob Dees, III
Corps deputy
chief of opera-
tions and the
creator of the
new counsel-
ing concept.
“Those, the
activities,
mentoring, measuring and
matching are things that
are facilitated by WholeSol-
dier. In terms of mentor-
ing, the specific recommen-
dation with WholeSoldier
is that it replaces the DA
Form 4856 for counseling
and mentoring of junior
enlisted Soldiers. Routinely,
doing routine business. So
that mentoring is essentially
the activity of growing and
developing the talent that we
have.”
Dees said WholeSoldier is
aimed at mentoring, grow-
ing, developing, counseling
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