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Initial Entry Training Cadre Spouse Guide Handbook

This handbook is designed to help you as a new cadre spouse member to become ―Family Strong. It provides basic knowledge about Initial Entry Training (IET), new responsibilities of your cadre member, and advice to prepare yourself better for the …Read More

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Establishing a Lessons Learned Program Handbook

This handbook provides leaders and members of an organization with a “how-to” guide for establishing a lessons learned (LL) capability. It promises to detail what the LL process is and how to apply all the available tools to establish your …Read More

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Unit Commander’s Guide to Paying Agents Handbook

Unit commanders have a valuable “bullet in their ammo pouch” of money as a weapons system resources to win on the battlefield—the paying agent. This handbook provides unit commanders, paying agents, and field ordering officers (FOOs) a reference guide on …Read More

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Developing a Performance Work Statment in a Deployed Environment Handbook

This first edition (version 1.0) of the performance work statement (PWS) handbook contains a summary of how to develop a PWS. Contingency contracting officers (KOs) frequently perform this task in a deployed environment. Information from numerous sources within the defense …Read More

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Commander’s Guide to Money as a Weapons System

Warfighters at brigade, battalion, and company level in a counterinsurgency (COIN) environment employ money as a weapons system to win the hearts and minds of the indigenous population to facilitate defeating the insurgents. Money is one of the primary weapons …Read More

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Torniquet

Class / briefing: Combat application tourniquet instruction for use.  Easy one-handed operation occludes blood flow in 5 quick steps. Warning: This product is intended for qualified medical professionals in the  application of a tourniquet.  It is not intended for the …Read More

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Company Command: The Bottom Line - Army Leadership Guide
The comprehensive guide to the Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)

Tanzania

Class / briefing: Objective: Action: Identify Tanzania’s struggle for independence and self-sufficiency. Conditions: Without references Standards:  Identify Tanzania’s struggle for independence and self-sufficiency with student checks.

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Sudan Class/Briefing

Class/briefing: Action:  Identify aspects of Sudanese geography, ethnic groups, and the cultural dimensions of regional conflicts within Sudan Condition: Given maps and descriptions of Sudanese culture in this presentation Standard: -Identify 7 principal terrain regions -Identify 8 of Sudan’s principal …Read More

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Somalia

Class / briefing: ACTION:  Identify key aspects of the History, Geography, Culture, and Government of Somalia. CONDITION: Without reference. STANDARD:  Achieve a score of 17 out of 20 on Somali Workbook.

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Request Medical Evacuation

Class / briefing: Conditions: You have a casualty requiring medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) and you will need a patient pickup site. You will need operational communications equipment, MEDEVAC request format, and unit signal operation instructions (SOI). Standards: Transmit a MEDEVAC request, …Read More

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React to Chemical or Biological (CB) HazardAttack

Class / briefing: Conditions: You are in an environment in which C/B weapons or unknown toxic industrial chemicals have been used by the enemy.  You are given a protective mask, an individual decontamination kit, and any one of the following …Read More

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Protect Yourself From Chemical and Biological (CB) Contamination Using Your Assigned Protective Mask Class/Briefing

This is a class/briefing on how to protect yourself from chemical and biological (CB) contamination using your assigned protective mask. It teach how to know when you need to put on your protective mask, and how to put on your protective mask. NOTE: …Read More

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