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## Resources

Resources for Guardsmen, and other educational material.

 

                        - FREQUENTLY USED RESOURCES 
**Tour of Duty**ADOS and Title 10 Job Opportunities available here. Must be accessed from a DoD network.https://mobcop.aoc.army.pentagon.mil

**Army Publishing Directorate**The Army Publishing Directorate (APD) is the Army’s centralized departmental publishing organization in support of readiness. APD manages, authenticates, indexes, sustains, procures printing, distributes publications, forms, and digital media.https://armypubs.army.mil/**G1 Self Service Portal**Check the Status of your promotion or eligibility!https://arngg1.ngb.army.mil/SelfService/Careercenter/SoldierData.aspx**Federal Recognition Process**Slide which outlines the federal recognition process for Army National Guard Officers.https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/workforce/documents/WO_fed_rec_board_staffing_fy17.pdf
 
                        - TOOLKIT PRODUCTS 
TC 3-21.220 - Static Line Parachuting Tech. and Training

CALL Before Action Report - NTC

DTS Guide 1: Getting Started

DTS Guide 2: Authorization

DTS Guide 3: Voucher

BCT Staff Planning TTPs Master

Commander's Legal Handbook

Performance Evaluation Guide

Initial Counseling Expectations - Company 1SG Example

Initial Counseling Expectations - LTs Example

Initial Counseling - Readiness NCO Example

Initial Counseling - AGR Sustainment Officer Example

Initial Counseling Expectations - Company Commander

Command Philisophy - BN Example

Command Philisophy - CO Example

Company Synch Meeting Slides
 
                        - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES 
**Pre-Command Course (LTC-COL)**https://asc.army.mil/web/organization/aacoe/pcc/

**Army Center for Lessons Learned**https://usacac.army.mil/organizations/mccoe/call
 
                        - RECOMMENDED READING 
**US Army Chief of Staff Professional Reading List**https://history.army.mil/CSA-reading-list/index.html

**Center for Military History Reading List**https://history.army.mil/prlist.html

**Director of DIA, Reading List**https://www.dia.mil/Portals/110/DR%20Reading%20List/DR_ReadingList_2020.pdf/

**A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War by Azar Gat**Episode 5 - Col. Andy Dziengeleski - Understanding Strategic Planning

**The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity by Antoine Bousquet**Episode 5 - Col. Andy Dziengeleski - Understanding Strategic Planning

**Speed of Trust:****The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen M .R. Covey**Episode 3 - Brigadier General Janeen Birckhead - Maryland's Response to COVID-19

**The Transformation of War: The Most Radical Reinterpretation of Armed Conflict Since Clausewitz by Martin Van Creveld**Episode 5 - Col. Andy Dziengeleski - Understanding Strategic Planning

**The Fifty-Year Wound: How America's Cold War Victory Has Shaped Our World by Derek Leebaert**Episode 5 - Col. Andy Dziengeleski - Understanding Strategic Planning

**Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended by Chris Voss**Episode 25 - Maj. Tangen - The Reserve Component National Security Course - YouTube

**The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World by A. J. Baime**Episode 25 - Maj. Tangen - The Reserve Component National Security Course - YouTube

**Health of the Force Report**LRP Ep. 23 CPT Ryan Short - H2F Implementation Across the 54****https://phc.amedd.army.mil/topics/campaigns/hof/Pages/default.aspx

**2019 Army Modernization Strategy**https://www.army.mil/e2/downloads/rv7/2019_army_modernization_strategy_final.pdf

**To the Last Man: A National Guard Regiment in the Great War, 1917-1919 by Jonathan D. Bratten and Combat Studies Institute Press**Episode 10 - Cpt. Bratten - The Value of Unit Lineage and Honors

**Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein**Episode 21 - Brig. Gen. Adrian - The Division Alignment for Training

**U.S. Army Chief of Staff White Papers #1 and #2**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Air Force Doctrine Publication 1**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Joint Doctrine Note 1-19 (Competition Continuum) and 2-19 (Strategy)**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Joint Operating Environment 2035**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**This Kind of War by T. R. Fehrenbach**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**The American Maginot Line by Maj. Timothy M. Dwyer**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Baltic States Versus Russian Hybrid Threats by Bartosz Fraszka**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Belarus's Lawfare Against Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland by Matthew Anderson**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**How to Avert War in Ukraine by Lyle J. Goldstein**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Russia's Permanent War Against Georgia by Giorgi Shaishmelashvili**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Russia's Clash With the West is About Geography, Not Ideology by Benn Steil**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**What is Russia's Endgame in Syria? By Mona Yacoubian**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**What Makes Putin Tick, and What the West Should Do by Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Why Putin Took Crimea by Daniel Treisman**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Europe Must Reduce Its Dependence on Russian Gas by Mark Tyemnycky**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**The New NATO: Prepared for Russian Hybrid Warfare? by Safak Oguz**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**NATO 2030 Factsheet**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**The Third World War by General Sir John Hackett**36 - Future Strategic Leader Program with Maj. Gen. Rogers

**Pre-SAMS Recommended Reading**Pre-SAMS Reading List.pdf
 
                        - EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 
**ArmyIgnitED** The Army's one stop shop for educational benefits!https://www.armyignited.com/app/

**CIA World Factbook**https://www.armyignited.com/app/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

**International Military Education and Training (IMETs)**https://www.dsca.mil/international-military-education-training-imet

**NCO Creed**https://www.army.mil/values/nco.html

**Pentagon Library**Access one of the most prestigious libraries in the U.S. Govt!

**Staff Ride Requests**Walk through battles in person or virtually with the Army University Press.https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Educational-Services/Staff-Ride-Team-Offerings/

**Special Topics**  Read about world hot spots and hot topics with AUP.https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Special-Topics/

**Defense Travel Service Regulations**https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/travelreg.cfm
 
                        - EXTERNAL RESOURCES 
**Center for the Army Profession and Leadership**https://capl.army.mil

**Broadening Opportunities Program (BOP)** Army Website with all broadening assignments offered. Note: National Guard Personnel should reference the broadening opportunities listed on the page here and apply using information found in the BOP catalog. https://www.hrc.army.mil/content/Broadening%20Opportunity%20Programs%20Building%20a%20cohort%20of%20leaders%20that%20allow%20the%20Army%20to%20succeed%20at%20all%20levels%20in%20all%20environments

**Talent Management Taskforce Website** Army's innovation on talent management with updates.https://talent.army.mil

**Army Cool** Army Cool Website for information regarding educational credentialing opportunities which outlines the federal recognition process for Army National Guard Officers.https://www.cool.osd.mil/army/

**Army Aviation Recruiting Webpage**https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/current-and-prior-service/advance-your-career/warrant-officer/flight-warrant-officers.html

**Dept. of State: Travel Advisories**https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories.html/

**Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD)**https://evwhs.digitalglobe.com/myDigitalGlobe/login

**Small Unit Leader Tool**https://atn.army.mil/small-unit-leader-tool/small-unit-leader-tool

**GI Bill Comparison Tool**Use this to help calculate how each of the GI Bill chapters will pay you.
 

Resources

**State Partnership Program**The State Partnership Program has been successfully building relationships for over 25 years and now includes 85 partnerships with 92 nations around the globe. This cost-effective program is administered by the National Guard Bureau, guided by State Department foreign policy goals, and executed by the state adjutants general in support of combatant commander and U.S. Chief of Mission security cooperation objectives and Department of Defense policy goals. Through SPP, the National Guard conducts military-to-military engagements in support of defense security goals but also leverages whole-of-society relationships and capabilities to facilitate broader interagency and corollary engagements spanning military, government, economic and social spheres.https://www.nationalguard.mil/leadership/joint-staff/j-5/international-affairs-division/state-partnership-program/

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