Cody Tebbitt - Army Strong Stories

Field Training Exercise

Cody Tebbitt — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:41:00 GMT

By: Cody Tebbitt
This weekend is the fall FTX for University of Iowa Army ROTC. Some programs maintain squad integrity throughout the weekend, but we split up the MS Is/IIs and the MS IIIs for a portion of the training to increase the focus and eliminate most of the learning curve for incoming cadets because the MS IIIs are eaxpected to be preparing for LDAC and the MS Is/IIs will focus on basic soldiering skills and battle drills. The MS III's focus on the Leadership Development and...read more

Army Writing Style

Cody Tebbitt — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 22:50:00 GMT

By: Cody Tebbitt
In today's class we learned to effectively speak and write in the Army. You are supposed to put the bottom line up front, BLUF. This concise form of communication is very blunt and very effective. That is why business has also adopted this form of writing. To look professional and uniform in the Army style of writing, we are familiarizing ourselves with AR 25-50. This regulation describes the format for memorandums and describes how letters are written....read more

Suicide Prevention Training in ROTC

Cody Tebbitt — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 07:31:00 GMT

By: Cody Tebbitt
Today in our military science class we talked about suicide prevention for the third time in 6 weeks of class. Suicide is becoming more common in the Army and becoming more of a problem than ever before. Suicide prevention classes in ROTC have been very basic until today. We have learned to identify signs that people give who are considering suicide. Today we learned about how to utilize a huge resource that is available to every soldier in the Army: the...read more

University of Iowa ROTC

Cody Tebbitt — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:30:00 GMT

By: Cody Tebbitt
I am a four year scholarship cadet at the University of Iowa. I am a senior this year and will commission into the Active Component. As a cadet in the top 10%, I will get my first branch choice. I am going to commission into the Corps of Engineers. I am a neurobiology student....read more