Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy (AFSNCOA)’s Post

I attended this amazing session that provided some valuable (and actionable) insights. It's always good to expand knowledge and pick up new skills. Thanks to Maria Louise and Lauren Dodd for organizing! Appreciate the effort that goes into these learning opportunities. #ProfessionalDevelopment #ContinuousLearning #goarmybeatnavy

It is official, as of May 3, 2024, the Joint Advanced Warfighting School (JAWS) has successfully completed Milestone 2 in the CJCS’s new Outcomes Based Military Education (OBME) program. The OBME program represents a higher standard for professional military education (PME) in the U.S. and an “expansion in focus from content alone (covering statutory requirements) to content and outcomes (covering the content and demonstrating students have learned what they are supposed to learn).” Specifically, our program produces graduates who don’t just know about Joint Warfighting, but can do all the things that combatant commanders need their Joint Warfighters to do. Follow this link to read an in-depth explanation of the OBME program by Kristin Mulready-Stone in Joint Force Quarterly: “A New Form of Accountability in JPME: The Shift to Outcomes-Based Military Education” #Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University

In the military, we must attend PME - Professional Military Education. This is where we study rules, manuals, and previous wins and losses in the profession of arms. With this education, we can prepare for the known challenges that Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines may face. But how do we deal with the unknowns? How do we create fighting forces that can shift quickly adjusting to the newest threat? That’s where training comes in. Read the linked article to see my thoughts on training versus education.

If you didn’t go to the video on the link I posted yesterday, then here is an easy to follow video on what the USMC is doing to modernize marksmanship training and enhance the lethality of the individual Marine!

Military training instructors must graduate from an eight-week course where they relearn military basics and train their command voice.

Developing our nation’s next generation of warfighters! Surface Warfare Schools Command (SWSC) Commanding Officer, CAPT Joseph Baggett, meets with RADM Pete Garvin, President, Naval War College (NWC) to discuss efforts as warfighting enablers by the two premier training and education organizations located onboard Naval Station Newport. NWC and SWSC regularly collaborate, supporting each other’s leader development programs designed to ensure decisive advantage in a complex and rapidly changing global security environment. Both organizations are vital to the Navy’s strategic focus on increasing naval competitive advantage to effectively deter aggression and succeed in long-term competition that challenges our national security, and to prepare our naval forces to succeed across the full spectrum of conflict. U.S. Naval War College Naval Education and Training Command U.S. Navy

The Naval Education and Training Command continues to reimagine how we train our nation’s warfighters. Through Ready Relevant Learning (#RRL), the DON changed when we provide training, how we deliver training, and how we keep that training as relevant as possible to the real-world needs of the Fleet. RRL deploys modern training technology and methods that improves the way training is delivered today compared to the past with training front loaded early in Sailors’ careers, leading to atrophy of knowledge, skills, and abilities. Today, RRL supports the complex needs of individual Sailor training by improving individual performance and allowing trainers the space to conduct more complex, warfighting focused training.  #PEOMLB Christine Rodriguez, Mary Thoms, David K., Hank Reeves

A new article is up at The Maneuverist! In "Educate the Educators: Institutionalizing Wargames in the Marine Corps’ Training Command," Retired Marine Sergeant Major and Deputy OIC of the Marine Corps Center for Learning and Faculty Development-East Nick G. highlights a critical gap: Many staff and faculty members at formal learning centers lack a clear understanding of what educational wargames are or how to implement them in their programs. To address this, he proposes a wargame course open to all of Training and Education Command. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/evyT2dSN What challenges have you seen in implementing wargames at your schools or commands? What's worked? What hasn't? Let us know below or over at The Maneuverist! #wargames #wargaming #decisionmaking #learning #education #training #criticalthinking #marines #marinecorps #usmc

Today, I had the opportunity to expand my knowledge on the U.S. Naval Community College. I encourage all Naval Leaders to read these interesting facts and nominate a creditable Sailor from their command. USNCC provides naval-relevant associate degree levels and stackable certificates in naval-relevant fields to enlisted service members. It became established in 2021 in order to progress war fighting skills capability. Partnering with regionally accredited universities, its goal is to remain responsive to the fleet through emerging Navy programs and needs such as leadership, engineering, data analytics, cybersecurity, aviation and many more. It does not limit service members to in rate only specific classes. It does not touch TA or GI Bill funding. It does not require a specific time in service. It’s 100% funded. To enroll: -command nomination or apply online -application screened -command approves -candidate notified of admissions and next steps

The Air Force taught diversity and inclusion. Federally funded institutions should be robust in diversity. Leaders who are great don’t lead by their eyeballs but by their spiritual eye. Most people don’t know when they talk to me that they are talking to a first level spirit in other words. They just look at my skin color to make a decision. This is ashame. When the spiritual eye of a leader is blinded by motes and beams then he or she will never see. Motes can be removed from the spiritual eyes 👀. This brings spiritual awareness. Take similar courses like the one shown below to learn how to predict cultural situations or stay blind. The choice is yours. 😇🫡🧐 Dr. Christinia Scott