Warrior Leader Course
For the last month I was attending Warrior Leader Course, or what the Army used to call Primary Leadership Development. It was in Hawaii so I had to pack up everything and have it down there. The packing list for this class was a mile long, and EVERYTHING needed to be on it.
The first two weeks was pretty much classroom stuff. The primary goal of the non commissioned officer is the soldiers so alot of time was directed on how to teach, counsel and help develop young soldiers. The came the 2 weeks where we were in the field. It first started with Land Navigation where we had to make our way around a 6000 sq m area looking for little markers at given coordinates. We then took to our situational training excercises where we were graded on how well we acted as leaders in given scenarios.
I dont know how it happened but for the first two weeks the weather was beautiful and the last wo the rain never seemed to stop. We even once had a small tropical storm come in and black out the academy.
Overall I think it helped out a little for my professional development. Alot of the stuff was redundant to me because I have had good leaders in the past and everyhting they did for me was mentioned here in the class. They say that your first couple of NCO's help curve what type of NCO we are going to be. I was blessed to have some good ones AND some bad ones. I have repeated the acts of the good and have learned from the decisions of the bad. Hopefully after I tie all this in together and get to use it back here I can become one of the good ones.
Small World Note: At the airport last night I have two strangers come up to me and ask about my 'KANSAS JAYHAWKS' sweatshirt. After talking with them a little bit I find out they are living there attending school in Kansas: McPherson CC and Washburn U. Both of them had plans to attend KU next fall.They had returned to Japan to vist their family for Christmas. Pretty cool, well for me :)
The first two weeks was pretty much classroom stuff. The primary goal of the non commissioned officer is the soldiers so alot of time was directed on how to teach, counsel and help develop young soldiers. The came the 2 weeks where we were in the field. It first started with Land Navigation where we had to make our way around a 6000 sq m area looking for little markers at given coordinates. We then took to our situational training excercises where we were graded on how well we acted as leaders in given scenarios.
I dont know how it happened but for the first two weeks the weather was beautiful and the last wo the rain never seemed to stop. We even once had a small tropical storm come in and black out the academy.
Overall I think it helped out a little for my professional development. Alot of the stuff was redundant to me because I have had good leaders in the past and everyhting they did for me was mentioned here in the class. They say that your first couple of NCO's help curve what type of NCO we are going to be. I was blessed to have some good ones AND some bad ones. I have repeated the acts of the good and have learned from the decisions of the bad. Hopefully after I tie all this in together and get to use it back here I can become one of the good ones.
Small World Note: At the airport last night I have two strangers come up to me and ask about my 'KANSAS JAYHAWKS' sweatshirt. After talking with them a little bit I find out they are living there attending school in Kansas: McPherson CC and Washburn U. Both of them had plans to attend KU next fall.They had returned to Japan to vist their family for Christmas. Pretty cool, well for me :)
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