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A few months ago I attended the Army’s new course on Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and prevention (SHARP). I had spent a few years as a unit victim advocate for sexual assault and I understood the importance of this new program, so I volunteered for the training and became the Battalion Senior SHARP specialist. This week units across the Army will begin the first approved iteration of training on this program. Hopefully, most units will have a trained SHARP...read more
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social media: Connecting America's Army with America's people
May 10, 2011
By: First Sergeant Terrence Hynes
Wow, many of you have provided great feedback from my post that was published in the NCO Journal this month (APRIL 2011 pg 42-43, Recruiting the All-Volunteer Force). I was a little disappointed that it was not pointed out to readers that it was actually a blog from armystrongstories.com. That would have been great exposure for the site Army-wide and perhaps captured new readership. After my PCS move to California is complete, I am thinking of writing an article for the Recruiter...read more
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Well, I've been away for a few months focused on work. It has been a challenging year compared to last year to say the least. Recently I discovered I will be PCSing to Redding Recruiting Company in Northern California, where I will serve as the First Sergeant. We were taken by surprise, as we expected another year here in Minneapolis. We are getting excited though and dealing with all of the usual headaches that go with moving to a new place. My daughter is excited, but a little nervous...read more
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Hi. I am new to the board, so I do not much to say right now but looking forward to meeting everyone.
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Hi again, yesterday I experienced one of the greatest feelings a NCO can have. The SFC selection list was released yesterday and when I reviewed it to see if any of my current NCOs had made it, I found out that one of them was selected. That was a great feeling right there, but as I reviewed it for more NCOs that I knew, to my delightful surprise two of my former NCOs made the list as well. Both of those NCOs worked for me at Fort Hood and I was very happy to see that they were selected to be...read more
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Completion of Our Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills Training- NATO
March 21, 2011
By: First Sergeant William Howell
Hi there, I last talked about our upcoming Battalion Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills training exercise. We conducted the training exercise last week Mar 14-16 and it was a big success. The battalion S3 and the staff worked hard to put together a good three day exercise and all in all in went very well. I believe all of the Soldiers and NCOs who participated in the training learned a great deal and had a good experience. We had seven squads of about 7-10 personnel and they completed the three...read more
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University of Incarnate Word Educator Briefing
March 21, 2011
By: Sergeant First Class Jacques Vercautrin
On 21 March 2011 the San Antonio Recruiting Battalion, AMEDD, and ROTC conducted and Educator Breakfast for local area Educators. The goal of briefing was to inform local area Educators about the numerous opportunities that the US Army has to assist students. The topics covered were ASVAB Career Exploration Program, March 2 Success Program, ROTC Scholarships, and AMEDD Officer Programs. During our event we partnered up with the University of Incarnate Word, who hosted the event and provided...read more
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Today marked the first day of 'Texas Week' on South Padre Island and we must have had 20,000 plus students pass through our booth. We continue to award three Amazon Kindle's daily to anyone that competes in the Warrior Challenge. We also conduct a random drawing daily to give out a Kindle. When promoting the drawing onsite we hear three common responses. 1. "Where do I sign up?" 2. "What's a Kindle?" 3....read more
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The transition to Texas Week officially started this afternoon for the Spring Break Warrior Challenge. The team nearly doubled the amount of student contact thus far in the operation in a single day. Simply Amazing!! The team was also fortunate enough to meet two former cast members from MTV's The Real World. In the pictures below Syrus (Red Shirt) was on Real World Boston, and Bronne (Green Shirt) was on Real World Cancun.
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Spring Break Warrior Challenge officially kicked off yesterday on South Padre Island. The recruiting team projected the Army message to countless students in attendance where they were afforded the opportunity to represent their school by competing in a push-up contest. On day 1, I witnessed somebody knockout 96 pushups and didn't think anybody would beat that record for the rest of my time here. It didn't take long before I was eating my own words....on day 2 we had somebody...read more
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