The non-commissioned officer has always been the backbone of our Army. No matter what type of conflict America has faced, our Non-Commissioned Officer Corps has risen to the challenge each and every time. As our Army continues to refine our ability to conduct Large Scale Combat Operations, the non-commissioned officers of Operations Group at the National Training Center have truly risen to the challenge. Outlaw 40 and the senior NCOs from throughout Operations Group constructed this handbook specifically for NCOs, paying particular attention to rotational observations and current doctrine. They established a cross walk guide for numerous non-commissioned officer positions at echelon throughout brigade combat teams and clearly articulated how the great non-commissioned officers in a unit can help their team fight and win.
This tool is ideally suited as a developmental tool for non-commissioned officers as they come into a new position and learn their roles and responsibilities during tactical operations. Thank you again to the non-commissioned officers of the NTC’s Operations Group…we could not do our job without you.
TRAIN THE FORCE!
Col. Michael Simmering, Outlaw 01
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Non-Commissioned Officers,
Since 1982, the National Training Center (NTC) has provided observations and recommendations to the force in the effort to assist organizational growth. Most of these documents have focused on the organization in its entirety, but not specifically on the non-commission officers. In 2019, Operations Group (NTC) introduced a crosswalk that provided recommendations for both SGMs and CSMs. When developed, the intent was to act as a roadmap to identify roles and responsibilities that sergeants major often questioned during their rotation at NTC. This is still a document that we circulate throughout the force with the same goal as was intended during its production : preparing NCOs for Decisive Action rotations, or Large Scale Combat Operations (LSCO), at the National Training Center.
As the responsibility of the NCO continues to evolve, we wanted to extend this document to address the first sergeant, platoon sergeant, squad leader, and section leader positions. We acknowledge that many actions conducted by these professionals will often be dictated by unit SOPs and TTPs that have been developed during home-station training. We also recognize the disconnect that is often identified during NTC rotations: the ability to execute what has been taught at home-station, and the experience to identify when and how to employ those lessons during their rotation at the National Training Center.
The intent of this document and others we provide is not to discredit the hard work leaders are doing across the force. Our goal is to maximize training events by providing doctrinally-based observations we see each month as units conduct LSCO in the Mojave Desert. Understanding the challenges at home-station, we acknowledge how important the opportunity is to training you entire BCT (A/S/I) with professional observers and a thinking enemy (OPFOR).
This is why we continually emphasize the importance of being able to provide feedback that can assist in home-station training that directly correlate with the Operational Environment in which your soldiers and leaders will train.
As always, we are here to help leaders create the most effective war-fighting organizations possible. If there is anything that is needed in your formation in that reference, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
-Quentin (FEN) Fenderson, Outlaw 40
Click HERE to access the NCO Crosswalk Guide.
You can also find the NTC Ops Group CSM/SGM Crosswalk Guide HERE.
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