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To make matters worse, it’s clear we must always adapt to meet the we always view the other services as challenges thrown at us especially in times supporting us and not us supporting them. of fiscal constraints. This means we have to This brings us back use the best resource – to the original question of blue, green or purple – to “What is jointness?” Jointness accomplish the task at Lawrence Wilkerson, hand as dictated by the the former assistant secre - is understanding situation. Each of us must tary of defense, describes broadly what your be knowledgeable about jointness as, “understand - the capabilities and limita - ing broadly what your fellow soldiers, tions of each service. fellow soldiers, sailors, sailors, airmen For the state mission, airmen and marines bring the National Guard remains to the battle and trusting and marines bring ready to serve Nevada’s them to do it right and well to the battle and citizens and to assist – and they’re feeling the the population in contin - same way about you. The trusting them to gency situations resulting essence of jointness is from man-made or natural understanding and trust.” do it right and disasters. Wilkerson’s statement well – and they’re In explaining our federal is among the best defini - mission, I like to use tions of jointness. Most feeling the same analogies from two popular By Brig. Gen. William Burks, Director of the Joint Staff importantly, it touches way about you. movies, “Patton” and upon the weak links in “Forrest Gump.” For those As the head of the joint staff, I often jointness: understanding The essence of of you from my generation, hear the term “jointness” bandied about my and trust. For the most jointness is Gen. George S. Patton Jr. office. Not found in Webster’s, the concept part, understanding and gives a speech during of jointness is perhaps best defined by trust may not exist understanding “Patton” stating his soldiers explaining what jointness isn’t. Jointness because of past misunder - and trust. aren’t there to die for their isn’t about all of the services or compo - standings. country; rather they are nents playing by Little League rules where As a result, each of the – Lawrence Wilderson there to make sure the everyone gets equal playing time. In the services has its own Former Assistant Secretary of Defense enemy soldiers die for their end, we all feel good about ourselves and memories of times when country. justify our budgets in Washington. other military branches responded with For the younger generation, the movie I sometimes wonder why jointness as a insufficient support. The dream of Sen. Sam “Forrest Gump” best describes the federal concept is hard for us to grasp and perhaps Nunn that jointness would be a mechanism mission. When Lt. Dan Taylor is saved by the answer is found in what is ingrained for eliminating redundant roles and missions Forrest Gump in the jungles of Vietnam, he into us as children. When I was growing up, still has not been achieved. is outraged that Gump denied him his I would play Army with my friends or fill a In reality, the Goldwater-Nichols Act of destiny – to die in battle. bathtub and float a battleship (no rubber 1986 has caused all services to aim to Our job is to deny all of the “Lt. Dans” duckies for me) or run around outside dominate all aspects of ground, air, sea and out there – regardless of branch of service holding an airplane pretending to shoot cyberspace. – their “destiny” and instead achieve the down some enemy coming out of the sun. This is visible in the recent Congressional national objective that enables us to save What we never did was deploy all the attempt to reduce redundancy in the military the nation’s most precious resource: its little green soldiers next to the bathtub full by mandating reviews of roles and missions people. I of battleships while we waved an airplane every four years. But since the services are overhead in some sort of integrated left to audit their own roles and missions, Bathtub battleships aside, Burks played the assault to achieve an objective determined many of the tough decisions required are accordion as a child and even appeared on by the national command authorities. unlikely to be made. several parade floats for Greco’s Music Unfortunately, we spend most of our Why is jointness important to me as a Center in Reno. Fall 2008 / BATTLE BORN / 3 By Capt. April Conway Managing Editor The Battle Born magazine has been up and running for nearly two years and it’s been a whirlwind experience. With the Nevada Guard involved in so many state and federal missions in addition to its extensive community involvement (see page 12), we table articles each and every quarter that simply don’t fit into our 28 pages. 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