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September 2012 I ARMY 5 training aids required, and the mess for each thing that goes “wrong” in his sergeant would order chow based on ARMY Magazine welcomes letters or her unit, there are hundreds if not feeding us out on the ranges for a to the editor. Short letters are thousands of things going “right.” The week. We would give refresher training more likely to be published, and troops will never let you down. They on firing positions, windage adjust - all letters may be edited. Please signed up to do things right, and most ments on our M14s and range safety. send letters to The Editor, ARMY of the time they do. Leading them is By Friday the 7th, we would be ready Maga zine, AUSA, 2425 Wilson Blvd., about recognizing those things done to spend a week on the range starting Arlington, VA 22201 . Letters may right and giving ever more freedom to Monday the 10th. Then, probably late also be faxed to (703) 841-3505 top performers while nurturing the or sent via email to armymag @ in the day on Friday, “change one” next level and not promoting those ausa.org . would come down, telling us to cancel who are limited. the week on the range and go into the Clearly, personnel selection is the field for platoon tactics instead. soldier of that era, unknown to most, single greatest contributor to the per - My company commander, CPT Ed - lived in Monroe, Mich., after World formance of any human enterprise, ward C. Meyer, went through the chain War II: LTC Matt Urban. and climate follows close behind. of command to speak to the division LTC Urban was not given the recog - It seems to me that Mission Com - commander, MG William C. Westmore - nition he deserved until he was mand has in its foundation the skill land, and told him that we were being awarded the by Presi - and knowledge mastery for the job as - ordered to do too many things and thus dent Carter in 1980. According to the signment and a healthy emotional not doing any of them well. He said Total Army Personnel Command [now component liberated by climate and this was inefficient, was not providing Army Human Resources Command] confidence from fear of failure. Our us the training we needed and was bad both Urban and Murphy were best development comes from short - for troop morale. Fortunately, CPT awarded 29 medals. (Urban claimed to falls at our limits followed by the Meyer had what it took to do that with - have received three more medals than leader’s patient addressing of the out damage to his own career. The divi - Murphy. The Guinness Book of World shortfalls—first in training and later in sion commander heard him out but re - Records gave “the record” to Urban in operations, maintenance, supply and sponded that Meyer was just a young 1989.) admin. For readers who may think my who did not understand the big At one time, Monroe, Mich., was opinions too idealistic or unrealistic in picture. Nothing changed then, and it also home to Tom Custer, the most the searing stress of wartime service, appears that it still hasn’t. decorated soldier of the Civil War, the best leaders I know attend to cli - Both MG Westmoreland and CPT with two Medals of Honor, and his mate as much if not more in combat. Meyer eventually became Chief of Staff brother George Custer, brigadier gen - Climate pervades every aspect of a unit of the U.S. Army. eral (brevet) at age 23. or school, and I believe the study of cli - The captains quoted in the Compa - COL R ICHARD M. S CHROEDER , mate, philosophy of command and the nyCommand article have the right USAR R ET . emotional component of leader devel - ideas: delegate, prioritize and develop Temperance, Mich. opment should be foremost for acces - good time-management techniques. sions, promotions and assignments in Also, you need to tell the battalion Mission Command every command and at every school. commander, or whomever you report I COL Tom Guthrie’s point in COL S COTT MARCY , USA R ET . to, about your over-scheduling prob - his excellent June article on Mission Eagle River, Alaska lems. Even if he is not normally recep - Command is: “Researching how to im - tive to such things, he should want to prove the network … will mean little if On Downsizing know about your problems before they we don’t focus our energies on com - I I always begin reading ARMY become his problems. Do be careful, mand climates and environments that with BG John Brown’s “Historically though, about telling your division develop the human foundation—trust, Speaking.” His August essay—“What commander that you don’t approve of initiative, dialogue and freedom of ac - if We Go Below 400K, Again?”—re - the way he is doing things. tion within intent.” The human factor counts our last bout of downsizing af - LTC T HOMAS P. M CKENNA , USA R ET . begins with how we treat people in ter the first Gulf War, with which I am Stowe, Vt. their institutional training and educa - well acquainted. He poses a number tion as well as in operational assign - of questions, and most important to Decorated Heroes ments. me is: “Who can contain a crisis while I It was enjoyable reading the SGT Arguably, Mission Command has al - we are generating the forces necessary Audie Murphy Club article in the Au - ways existed in our best units, led and to reverse it?” gust issue of ARMY. While Audie Mur - trained by people whose self-confi - As I read, I recalled a photograph I phy was one of the most decorated sol - dence derives from their technical ex - took of the 3rd Infantry Regiment’s diers of World War II, however, he was pertise, tolerance for ambiguity, judg - crest mounted in granite at the Bandera not the most decorated. Another great ment, patience and understanding that County Courthouse.

6 ARMY I September 2012 It took about three years of lost bat - naval forces, it takes time to build a tles to contain the British during that human-centric cohesive land combat war. Clearly militia, the preferred con - force—an army. Should a future en - gressional military establishment, was emy get a foothold on our territory, air incapable of containing the crisis until and naval power may distract but we beat the British in a defensive bat - won’t eject. Modern military capabil - tle at Baltimore. There was also the ity compresses available time. American victory in the Battle of New Downsize now and we won’t have Orleans. Most important, we didn’t the time to build and thus be inca - eject by force of arms; the British had pable of containing or ejecting. Hu - to focus on major distractions on the man history always repeats. European continent. LTC T. J. G ALLI , USA R ET . Unlike technology-centric air and Rockwall, Texas

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