Picture of the Day




Naval Air Crewman 2nd Class Bret Pembleton, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat
Squadron (HSC) 12, greets his son after a six-month deployment aboard the aircraft
carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). HSC-12 is part of the
Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, which was deployed to
the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Benjamin Crossley
(Released) (Photo by U.S. Navy)

 

7th Annual Tactical C4 Conference & Exposition 2011, April 19-21, Atlanta, GA

Brigadier General Brian Donahue
speaking at last year's conference

The Tactical C4 Conference offers an opportunity for experts and leaders from across the Army to address various sides of the tough, controversial issues facing the Army's tactical signal community. The
conference aims to build solutions and create future "road maps" while
providing a unique opportunity for differing opinions and positions to
be expressed and debated.

This year's theme, "ARFORGEN for joint and coalition full spectrum operations," addresses how the tactical C4 community will conduct full spectrum operations within the context of the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) Model.  The ARFORGEN process aims to provide combatant commanders and civil authorities with a steady supply of trained and ready units that are task-organized in modular expeditionary force packages and tailored to joint mission requirements.

Who Should Attend?  

Happy St. Pat's!

The Little Man in the Spirit of the Day

The Littlest Leprechaun, Miss Rory's 1st St. Patrick's Day

Rules for High School Students

Got these from Neal Boortz who got them from a book by Charles J. Sykes called Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add. 

Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the phrase "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule No. 1.

Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated self-esteem meets reality, kids complain that it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school. And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Update: Senate Committee Confirms Dempsey as Army Chief

See previous post on this.

The Army Times is reporting that General Dempsey's nomination as the nation's 37th Army Chief of Staff cleared the Senate Armed Services Committee today.

Upon confirmation, Dempsey will replace the retiring General George Casey who is retiring in April.

New TRADOC Commander Announced

LTG Robert Cone

 Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone has been nominated for a fourth star and will be commanding general, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Va. He will succeed Gen. Martin Dempsey, the incoming Army chief of staff.

Cone's nomination proves that the author of this blog has absolutely no clue when it comes to predicting top general officer assignments.

The North Carolina Tar Heels: 2011 ACC Regular Season Champions

Storm the court!

This was no Bus Accident!

New Digs

At work, a cieling pipe burst over the weekend and flooded the room that houses our cubicle farm.  Yesterday, people reported to work only to find themselves sloshing in and out and between cubes.  The leadership had to relocate 20 people.  Fortunately, I had yesterday off.  But by this morning, though the water had dissipated, the carpet was still soaked and the place was beginning to stink.