What’s new in the 2021 U.S. Army NCO Strategy? Last November following the Sergeant Major of the Army’s annual initiatives brief at the 2020 AUSA annual meeting, Soldier Today reached out to TRADOC to find out more about the Army’s ongoing efforts to modernize leader development for its Non-Commissioned Officer Corps. Today CSM Daniel Hendrex will provide an update on the Army’s NCO Strategy and a few other things TRADOC has been working on since the last time we met.

• Guest: CSM Daniel T. Hendrex, Senior Enlisted Advisor, TRADOC
  

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Money, money, money! Join us as we learn about the Army's new personnel and pay system and updates to the release timeline. Listen as COL Eggers, Division Chief, IPPS-A Functional Management Division, explains what the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A) is all about and when the program will be released to active Army and Army Reserve.  For more information on IPPS-A please check out the resource section below.

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• Guest: COL Rebecca Eggers, Division Chief, IPPS-A Functional Management Division

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Web: https://ipps-a.army.mil/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/armyippsa

Twitter: @IPPSArmy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipps-a/

Leaving Afghanistan. This is the first in a three-part series of exclusive interviews with members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division who describe for the first time what they saw, heard and felt as they completed the historic evacuation of more than 124,000 American citizens, NATO allies, and vulnerable Afghan partners from Afghanistan and closed out U.S. military operations after 20 years in country.

• Guests:

• MG Christopher Donahue, Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division, U.S. Army

• Gina Cavallaro, Senior Staff Writer, AUSA’s Army Magazine

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The holiday season is upon us and it can be a stressful time! Learn how to celebrate the holidays “Army style” and stay healthy. Hear from Mrs. McConville and Mrs. Grinston as they share stories on how they have celebrated the holidays, the importance of taking care of yourself, and helping others. Listen as Nicole Leth, Director of Fort Belvoir Armed Forces Wellness Center and Maria Reed, Founder of Moving with the Military share tips and resources on how Army families can stay healthy and enjoy the holiday season. For more information on the resources mentioned in the episode please check out our resource section below.

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• Host: Holly Dailey, AUSA’s Director of Family Readiness

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Fort Belvoir Armed Forces Wellness Center

Army Wellness Center Enterprise Website – Army Public Health Center:

Web:https://phc.amedd.army.mil/topics/healthyliving/al/Pages/ArmyWellnessCenters.aspx

Facebook: @FortBelvoirafwc

Instagram: @fortbelvoirafwc

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Science fiction can be a means grow as leaders, strategists and in dealing with conflict. Editors Jonathan Klug and Steve Leonard join AUSA’s Joe Craig to discuss their new book, To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond, which brings together expertly told stories tackling subjects like the burden of leadership, weighing experience against in intelligence in the pursuit of strategy, and the threat of depleted natural resources.

• Guests: Editors of To Boldly Go: Leadership, Strategy, and Conflict in the 21st Century and Beyond
  

• COL Jonathan Klug, Assistant Professor, United States Army War College
  

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