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REVOLUTIONARY REGIMENTAL STAFF
• Three field officers.• Six staff officers.• Four staff NCOs: A sergeant major. A quartermaster sergeant. Two lead musicians.
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THE COLOR SERGEANT
• Led the color guard.
• Maintained proper alignment and cadence.
• Focal point on which men dressed.
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REVOLUTIONARY COMPANY
• Four officers.
• Four sergeants.
• Two musicians(A fifer and a drummer).
• Eighty “rank and file” soldiers-
Four corporals
Seventy-six privates
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CIVIL WAR REGIMENTAL NCO STAFF
• A sergeant major.
• A quartermaster sergeant.
• A commissary sergeant.
• A hospital steward and,
• Two musicians.
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GENERAL PERSHING’S MESSAGE
“NCOs must love initiative and hold what ground they gained to the utmost. It often happens that a sergeant or even a corporal may decide a battle by the boldness with which he seizes a bit of ground and holds it.”
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NCOES 1971
• The Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course(BNCOC).
• The Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course(ANCOC).
• The Sergeants Major Course(SMC).
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PREREVOLUTIONARY PERIOD MILITIA
• Created for protection against Indians on the frontier and warring European powers.
• Blended French, British, and Prussian traditions.
• Involved in first fighting between colonists and British in American Revolution.
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THE BLUE BOOK
• NCO selected by and responsible to the commander.
• No NCO could transfer and retain grade.
• Stressed NCO responsibility for the care, discipline, and training of soldiers.
• Initiated a Company Descriptive Book.
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CIVIL WAR RESULTS
• Deadlier weapons ended the use of linear formation tactics.
• Eliminated the color sergeant’s role.
• All NCOs to receive training in giving commands.
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WORLD WAR I
• Raised the status of the NCO corps.
• Reemphasized the the use of small unit tactics.
• Prepared NCOs for the age of modern warfare.
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WORLD WAR II
• Placed greater demands on NCO leadership skills.
• NCO retained grade upon transfer
• Forced the creation of a new specialist rank “techs.”
• These technical specialists proved essential to winning the war.
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KOREAN WAR
• Opening months of war demonstrated the neglect in training.
• Majority of fighting took the form of small unit actions.
• Emphasized the need to maintain a well trained minimum amount of forces to meet the worldwide Communist threat.
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VIETNAM WAR EFFORT
• First forces used as military advisors.
• Success depended on small unit leadership.
• Airmobility made the role of the NCO more effective and of greater importance.
• This war belonged to the platoon sergeant,
squad, patrol, and fire team leader.
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TRIUMPH OF PROFESSIONALISM
• Elimination of the draft.
• Implementation of an all volunteer force, the Modern Volunteer Army(MVA).
• Created a new enlisted rank structure.
• Noncommissioned Officer Education System(NCOES) initiated.
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TRIUMPH OF PROFESSIONALISM (Cont)
• Implementation of the Enlisted Personnel Management System(EPMS) to regulate all career development for enlisted personnel.
• Evolution of the Noncommissioned Officer Development Program(NCODP) which emphasized “doing” rather than “testing.”
P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-14(cont.)