Day: 3/6/2010

  • Saving Afghanistan, One Advisor at a Time

    March 6, 2010

    By: Lieutenant Colonel John Cook


    American strategy in Afghanistan is built around an army of advisors. They are the key to every initiative and program here and they are everywhere, from the very top of the government in Kabul building ministries and infrastructure, all the way down to the districts building bridges and roads, to the battlefields in Helmand and Kandahar building effective Afghan fighting forces. There are thousands of them scattered across the country and, due to the increased emphasis Afghanistan is getting...read more

  • Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!

    March 6, 2010

    By: Colonel Dianne Pannes


    We celebrated the Army Dental Corps’ 99th birthday this week on 03 March! This is the best Army Ball that I’ve been to – and we’ve been to quite a few. The highlight of the week and the Ball was our guest speaker and Corps Chief, MG Czerw. We also had dentists visiting from Canada and New Zealand to teach at our annual Forensics Course. COL Trengrove is the Senior Staff Officer Health for all military medical services in New Zealand (first dentist ever to hold this prestigious position!!) and...read more

  • Week in review

    March 6, 2010

    By: First Lieutenant Bobby Luyties


    So this last week has seen a lot of different things happen at JAOBC. We had 2 short papers, 3 seminar classes (get a practice problem and answer specific questions or point out errors in it), and our first exam. Although it sounds like a lot of academia, it really wasn't to bad as we have good instructors, reference materials, and they don't hide the ball on the exams (they tell us what we need to focus on). Unlike lawschool, our exams were graded and returned to us within 2...read more

  • Gates of Babylon

    March 6, 2010

    By: Major Chris LeCron


    It seems like a lot of the media focus is on Afghanistan now.  However, this upcoming election in Iraq is truly a historic time.  It will be our real transition to stability operations there with Iraqis in the lead.  I follow Tom Ricks blog over at foreignpolicy.com - he really thinks that Iraq is unraveling and will erupt sometime soon.  He is a very smart and knowledgeable guy so let's hope he is wrong.   In an unclassified portion of a meeting, I came across a crazy figure about Iraq.  We...read more