Next Tuesday, five Innovators will congregate on Ft Bragg to pitch their ideas to a panel of experts for Dragon's Lair, Episode 2. One will emerge victorious.
After watching this video, who's with #TeamAshley?
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Lisa Bailey is doing it for the culture, she's doing it for her 6-month-old boy Isaac, she's doing it for every overworked Behavioral Health specialist in the Army, she's doing it for every Soldier suffering in silence.
"Sergeant Major Colon is a real one. Always has been. He's going to win the this thing for us," Specialist Sean Deblieck, a Fort Bragg line medic speaks for every medic in the Army.
#TeamRafael is strong and will be watching on Tuesday.
First let's hear his idea.
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Next Tuesday, the eyes of Fort Campbell, of one of our Nation's most storied military units, of every Warrant Officer in the Army, turn to Erin Silden.
Expectations are high.
Good news for the 101st: Erin's ready for the spotlight.
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Trevor Cross is a Rakkasan through-and-through: confident, brash, fearless.
Next week, the 28-year-old will look General Kurilla, Command Sergeant Major Holland, and @WTFIOGuy in the eyes and pitch his innovation.
We know this about the young man: Trevor won't blink.
55 years ago this morning [Nov 14, 1965], Lt Col Hal Moore’s 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry conducted an air assault into LZ X-Ray in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. So began the first battle of the Vietnam War between the @USArmy and large-scale North Vietnamese units.
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Even for this war, this first major battle was stunning in its brutality. During 4 days of fighting, each side inflicted heavy casualties on the other. Both sides claimed victory; N. Vietnamese peasants withstood a US high-tech firestorm, convincing them they could win.
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After Ia Drang it was clear to both sides that the war had changed. For the Americans, the enormous number of casualties inflicted on the enemy validated the concept of airmobile warfare (remember, the @1stCavalryDiv had just converted to an airmobile formation).
On November 7, 1918, in the early afternoon, a rapid succession of fevered emotion exploded across the country: euphoria was followed by confusion, confusion followed by anger, anger followed by sorrow.
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the False Armistice.
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At 11:59 AM Eastern, a cablegram from the port of Brest on the Brittany coast of France from this guy, Roy Howard, the president of United Press [sent just before 4:30 pm French time], reaches the NY United Press office.
The message: Germany surrendered. WWI is over.
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Within an hour, the message races throughout NYC.
Hundreds of newspapers subscribe to the United Press. Editors of these paper print out the end of war announcement as fast as they can.
#TDIDCH: Nov 6, 1957 – The Gaither Report [a report from a special committee chaired by corporate titan Horace Gaither to review the nation’s defense readiness] is released to President Eisenhower.
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Formal name of the report: Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age.
Formal name of the committee: the Report the Security Resources Panel of the Science Advisory Committee.
The report paints Soviet missiles as a mortal threat to the United States
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The report indicates that the US is falling far behind the Soviets in missile capabilities. In fact, the "the threat posed to SAC [Strategic Air Command] by the prospects of an early Russian ICBM capability, call for prompt remedial action."
37 years ago today, the US invaded a teeny-tiny Caribbean island, rescued a bunch of medical students, and rounded-up a group of gang members, along with their Cuban communist backers. Remember that? No? Well, read on.
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It was Operation Urgent Fury, the US invasion of Grenada, and it began on the morning of October 25th, 1983 with assaults on airstrips at Point Salines and Pearls.
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Over the next 4 days, US troops rescued US citizens, restored a popular native government, & eliminated a threat to the stability of the Caribbean & US strategic interests there.
Earlier today we explained that the XVIII Airborne Corps was alerted for a possible invasion of Cuba in the frenzied first four days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Now let’s take a look at the proposed plan presented to JFK.
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It was a contingency plan developed after the April 1961 Bay of Pigs disaster: OPLAN 316, a simultaneous airborne insertion by the Corps and an amphibious assault by II Marine Amphibious Force.
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Contingencies never arrive at a perfect time, and this one developed at a particularly complicated period for the XVIII Airborne Corps. First, a large portion of the corps was in the process of changing its basic organizational structure under the ROAD reorg.
This is the story of the genius of the American Soldier. It’s is a true story. It’s a good story. Most importantly, it’s a story that reveals why the Dragon Innovation Program is so important.
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The Dragon Innovation Program that we’ve been promoting focuses on developing a Culture of Innovation across the corps. By that we mean we’re looking to all Soldiers across all formations and all installations to constantly generate new ideas.
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Some of the best ideas are trapped inside formations. In some cases, the best ideas are buried under layers of bureaucracy and process. In others, Soldiers are just waiting for someone to ask them what they have to offer.