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Jan 10, 2009
Army Times
Sergeants major, warrants may study at Leavenworth
The storied university campus environment at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., known as “the intellectual center of the Army,” could soon include the Sergeants Major Academy and the Warrant Officers Career College.
The move to relocate the schools may be a few years off, but the idea is getting official consideration. A feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis is underway at the request of Combined Arms Center commander Lt. Gen. William Caldwell.
The initiative is aimed at building a more diverse classroom at the Command and General Staff College by bringing together battlefield leaders with shared experiences and increasingly overlapping levels of responsibility.
“We’re really seeing NCOs operate at a much different level than they have traditionally done and we’re seeing interaction between our field grade officers taking on a whole new aspect of change,” said Dale Ormond, deputy to the commanding general of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth.
“We could do mutual training and education between our field grade officers who go to CGSC and our senior NCOs who go to the Sergeants Major Academy,” he said.
Five warrant officers are now taking the yearlong course with field grade officers at Fort Leavenworth, he noted.
The purpose of the feasibility study, he said, is to take a broad look at the considerations that would need to be addressed if one or both schools were moved.
The Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas, is largely a classroom environment but the Warrant Officer Career College Fort Rucker, Ala., involves some field exercises that require ranges and training lanes that Fort Leavenworth cannot currently accommodate.
Issues being addressed in the study include the number of soldiers, family members and civilians who would have to be relocated, the capacity of current facilities to handle the population influx, what would need to be built and how long it would take for such a plan to fall into the budget process.
Ormond estimates it would take until fiscal 2015 to get military construction money, depending on how high a priority it would be for the Army.
The study also will assess the benefit to the Army of having field grade officers, sergeants major and warrant officers co-located for all those educational activities at Fort Leavenworth.
That is is expected to bring better opportunities for future interaction and collaboration in the operational Army.
“A lot of our senior NCOs are doing things that we’ve educated officers in the past to be able to do and now we’re starting to move toward an educational process for our NCOs and warrant officers that is beyond what you typically would have done in a training scenario,” Ormond said.
The study is due in to Ormond in March.
Jan 10, 2009
Army Times
Sergeants major, warrants may study at Leavenworth
The storied university campus environment at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., known as “the intellectual center of the Army,” could soon include the Sergeants Major Academy and the Warrant Officers Career College.
The move to relocate the schools may be a few years off, but the idea is getting official consideration. A feasibility study and cost-benefit analysis is underway at the request of Combined Arms Center commander Lt. Gen. William Caldwell.
The initiative is aimed at building a more diverse classroom at the Command and General Staff College by bringing together battlefield leaders with shared experiences and increasingly overlapping levels of responsibility.
“We’re really seeing NCOs operate at a much different level than they have traditionally done and we’re seeing interaction between our field grade officers taking on a whole new aspect of change,” said Dale Ormond, deputy to the commanding general of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth.
“We could do mutual training and education between our field grade officers who go to CGSC and our senior NCOs who go to the Sergeants Major Academy,” he said.
Five warrant officers are now taking the yearlong course with field grade officers at Fort Leavenworth, he noted.
The purpose of the feasibility study, he said, is to take a broad look at the considerations that would need to be addressed if one or both schools were moved.
The Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas, is largely a classroom environment but the Warrant Officer Career College Fort Rucker, Ala., involves some field exercises that require ranges and training lanes that Fort Leavenworth cannot currently accommodate.
Issues being addressed in the study include the number of soldiers, family members and civilians who would have to be relocated, the capacity of current facilities to handle the population influx, what would need to be built and how long it would take for such a plan to fall into the budget process.
Ormond estimates it would take until fiscal 2015 to get military construction money, depending on how high a priority it would be for the Army.
The study also will assess the benefit to the Army of having field grade officers, sergeants major and warrant officers co-located for all those educational activities at Fort Leavenworth.
That is is expected to bring better opportunities for future interaction and collaboration in the operational Army.
“A lot of our senior NCOs are doing things that we’ve educated officers in the past to be able to do and now we’re starting to move toward an educational process for our NCOs and warrant officers that is beyond what you typically would have done in a training scenario,” Ormond said.
The study is due in to Ormond in March.
