So, what can you expect to see at Dragon's Lair, Episode 3 this coming Monday?
There is a lot happening with this episode, so let's break it down.
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First up, starting at 8:30 AM, six Soldier-innovators will present their ideas to this panel.
The innovations range from new technology to mobile apps to updated processes and touch on virtually every aspect of life and service in the Army.
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The panel will select a single winner from those six presentation. Each idea, however, will be considered for possible implementation across Corps.
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Then, we'll reset and introduce a new panel consisting of leaders across each echelon within the Corps. This panel, which is representative of the full diversity across our Army, will hear pitches from these seven Soldiers.
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We are not selecting a "winner" from this second group; each of these seven Soldiers have already won.
Instead, we'll focus on how we can scale each idea and implement and enforce across all of our 92,000 Soldiers and 14 installations.
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This second portion is not a contest; it's about putting People First, about protecting our men and women from sexual violence, from assault, from harassment, from the daily terror of abuse. The stakes here are much larger than a Dragon's Lair competition.
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The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in the early morning of April 26, 1986 ushered in one of the greatest international disasters of the post-WWII world.
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The resulting radioactive fallout caused massive suffering and the deaths of thousands and thousands, young and old.
But the events of that morning and the preceding evening remain largely misunderstood.
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The failures that led to the Chernobyl disaster were locked behind the Iron Curtain for years. After the fall of the Soviet Union, much of the initial misreporting remained unchallenged.
With advisement from experts, we've selected these seven Soldiers to present their ideas to improve the Army's SHARP program and end sex assault / sexual harassment.
The presentations are part of Dragon's Lair, Episode 3, next Monday.
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These seven Soldiers will present to Lt General Kurilla and Command Sergeant Major Holland plus a separate panel of leaders.
This separate panel is representative of the diversity across our Army and is not tied to the innovation portion of Dragon's Lair, Episode 3.
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Since opening DL3 to this command-driven focus on Feb 8th, we've received 40 submissions! You can read all 40 here: innovatedefense.net/xviii-airborne…. The ingenuity and scope of change in here are inspiring.
The Corps will implement some element from almost all of these ideas.
One thing we haven't mentioned at all lately: Dragon's Lair, Episode 3, which airs on Monday, Feb 22nd.
Every day until then, we're releasing a new story about Soldier-driven innovation that has transformed the way the @USArmy operates.
[2/7] One innovation developed by Soldiers out of necessity during combat: body armor
In the months after they were rushed onto the Korean Pen. to fight the North Koreans in June '50 after the surprise invasion of the South, dozens of US troops were fatally wounded from shrapnel
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1st Lieutenant Rodney Brigg, a platoon leader with the 40th Infantry Division (this is the unit insignia), thought that a body-armor jacket made of nylon holding a curved armored plate would save many of his troops.
Here's an interesting footnote to this morning's #TDIDCH about the reactivation of the 10th Mountain Division 36 years ago today [at least WE think it's interesting]
The Division was set to reactivate on Fort Drum as the 10th Division.
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No Mountain Tab for you!
According to Secretary of Army John Marsh, adding in the "Mountain" made no sense. After all, the 10th Division would be a standard division without any special capability.
Well, this infuriated10th Mountain Division veterans from WWII.
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Their argument made sense: This reactivated division in northern NY was going to carry the lineage of the WWII 10th Mountain Division. Therefore, it needed the WWII Mountain tab.
The Army's response was simple, direct, to-the-point: No
Happy Friday! Today is Day 9 of our series of daily stories of Soldier ingenuity throughout Army history.
Every day until Dragon's Lair, Episode 3 (Monday, Feb 22), we're highlighting another Soldier innovation from our past.
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During the Vietnam War medical care evolved rapidly out of necessity. Industrious medics and docs in the field rapidly developed news methods of keeping Soldiers alive for longer.
One such doc: Captain Norman Rich with the 2nd Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH).
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The 2nd MASH stabilized wounded patients before transporting them to a General Hospital in Japan.
Norman's primary responsibility in many cases was to preserve a limb that had been shot.
Not sure we've mentioned this, but on Monday, February 22nd, we'll premiere Dragon's Lair, Episode 3.
This will be the biggest, wildest, most innovative Dragon's Lair to date.
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As usual, Soldier Innovators [this time six] will present their ideas to our panel of experts.
What's different this time: in addition to these six innovations, we will add a command-driven focus specific to the plague of sexual assault and sexual harassment.
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We're looking for Soldiers to submit their ideas to improve or refashion the Army's SHARP program, to resolve the scourge of sexual assault and sexual harassment across the force. We've built a microsite for those submissions.