During this time the 25th ID will provide a command cell in the Philippines, where a separate exercise will also take place. The Army Times wrote about this in its May 14th edition [Source].
That is what I'll be doing this summer. I'll be in the Philippines as a logistics liaison between the forward units and the 25th ID's headquarters in Hawaii.
On one hand, I look forward to it -- I've never been to the Philippines, with the Army or otherwise. Yet I'm also a little miffed that for the second year in a row the Army's made decisions that mess with my family's summer vacation plans. Last year, it was CJLOTs along the west coast of Korea.
As a Transportation officer, these exercises are fantastic professional opportunities and I'm really excited to be a part of them. Yet as a captain with -- at the moment -- little chance for promotion, it's too bad that they won't count for anything.
The Army talks about performance as the key to retention, but boards don't seem to care about *what* you did, as long as you did it well. Knowledge management is not their responsibility.
In any case, I'll do my best during the exercise, and hope that it will translates into something that will help me in the long term, too.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Pacific Pathways
With the drawdown in the Middle East and the "pivot" to the Pacific, the Army has been looking to build relationships with other countries' militaries. To do this, it developed the "Pacific Pathways" exercise.
And given current budget constraints, the Army has decided to do things efficiently. Rather than push out several units to different countries in parallel, it sends out a group from a single brigade to visit different countries in series. This year, the 2-2 Brigade Combat Team will leave Joint Base Lewis-McCord in Washington state and go to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
During this time the 25th ID will provide a command cell in the Philippines, where a separate exercise will also take place. The Army Times wrote about this in its May 14th edition [Source].
That is what I'll be doing this summer. I'll be in the Philippines as a logistics liaison between the forward units and the 25th ID's headquarters in Hawaii.
On one hand, I look forward to it -- I've never been to the Philippines, with the Army or otherwise. Yet I'm also a little miffed that for the second year in a row the Army's made decisions that mess with my family's summer vacation plans. Last year, it was CJLOTs along the west coast of Korea.
As a Transportation officer, these exercises are fantastic professional opportunities and I'm really excited to be a part of them. Yet as a captain with -- at the moment -- little chance for promotion, it's too bad that they won't count for anything.
The Army talks about performance as the key to retention, but boards don't seem to care about *what* you did, as long as you did it well. Knowledge management is not their responsibility.
In any case, I'll do my best during the exercise, and hope that it will translates into something that will help me in the long term, too.
During this time the 25th ID will provide a command cell in the Philippines, where a separate exercise will also take place. The Army Times wrote about this in its May 14th edition [Source].
That is what I'll be doing this summer. I'll be in the Philippines as a logistics liaison between the forward units and the 25th ID's headquarters in Hawaii.
On one hand, I look forward to it -- I've never been to the Philippines, with the Army or otherwise. Yet I'm also a little miffed that for the second year in a row the Army's made decisions that mess with my family's summer vacation plans. Last year, it was CJLOTs along the west coast of Korea.
As a Transportation officer, these exercises are fantastic professional opportunities and I'm really excited to be a part of them. Yet as a captain with -- at the moment -- little chance for promotion, it's too bad that they won't count for anything.
The Army talks about performance as the key to retention, but boards don't seem to care about *what* you did, as long as you did it well. Knowledge management is not their responsibility.
In any case, I'll do my best during the exercise, and hope that it will translates into something that will help me in the long term, too.
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