ProTalk:The Future Soldier – Part Three
By Rick Welling, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Barbaresi, and Dr. David Dawson, USAREC, Doctrine Division
Oct. 2, 2015
"The Future Soldier" is the continuing saga of Jessica Carter, who is now Future Soldier Pvt. Carter."
After briefing Center Leader Sgt. 1st Class Carl Miller about the enlistment of Pvt. Jessica Carter, Staff Sgt. James Johnson and Sgt. Carla Morris evaluate Carter’s Future Soldier orientation.
Johnson is serious about his role as a mentor for the younger recruiters. He wants to do everything he can to develop them into successful leaders for the sake of the center and the Army.
Staff Sgt. Johnson: So, Sgt. Morris, how did you think that orientation went?
Sgt. Morris: That was awesome Staff Sgt. Johnson. You were so thorough and did a great job outlining expectations and making sure Jessi… I mean, Pvt. Carter… had a clear understanding of everything you were saying. I don’t know how you remembered everything you needed to talk about!
Staff Sgt. Johnson: A lot of it is just experience. I’ve completed dozens of Future Soldier orientations. But the key is proper preparation and making sure you have all the materials printed, ready, and organized before the Future Soldier arrives. It’s kind of like conducting an Army Interview; the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Remember, practice makes perfect!
Sgt. Morris: I thought you always say, “Perfect practice makes perfect”?
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Yes, you’re right, perfect practice makes perfect. Do you think you’d be able to conduct a quality Future Soldier orientation based on what you saw today?
Sgt. Morris: I don’t think I can do it as well as you did, but watching your method with Pvt. Carter will help me when it comes time to counsel a Future Soldier on my own. I really want to be able to mentor and take care of the center’s Future Soldiers as well as you do. It is obvious that you have a genuine concern for their wellbeing as if they were your Soldiers back in a line unit. Having Soldiers to train and develop is one of the things I miss most since coming on recruiting duty.
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Give it time Sgt. Morris, you know they say Rome wasn’t built in a day. Recruiting can be a very rewarding experience if you take it seriously. I’ve learned more about counseling and developing subordinates during my short time in recruiting than I did in all the years prior. Like you said, you just need to take it personally and actually care about the Soldiers you are enlisting, because they are, after all, your Soldiers.
Sgt. Morris: That makes sense now that you put it that way. Thanks Sgt. Johnson, you motivate me!
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Come on Sgt. Morris, it’s getting late and we’ve had a long and productive day. Let’s go AAR with Sgt. 1st Class Miller and call it a night.
The mission of USAREC dictates that every recruiter is proficient with the critical tasks of leading a Future Soldier or Future Health Care Officer.
Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers are definitely the future of the Army and represent the cumulative effort that each recruiting team strives to achieve each and every day.
Recruiters like Johnson and Morris perform initial orientations to ensure Future Soldiers, like Jessica Carter, are welcomed into the Army family and fully understand their new inherited responsibilities when they become a Soldier.
Scenarios like the one depicted above are only a small portion of the complete critical tasks associated with leading a Future Soldier or Future Health Care Officer.
Although every scenario will play out differently, following the performance steps outlined in the critical task is paramount to successfully leading the future force of the Army.
Lead a Future Soldier critical task performance measures:
https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/B094562D-D37B-4C90-A62E-DC08ECAFF50E-1423493242251/report.pdf
Lead a Future Heath Care Officer performance measures:
https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/28BF3BA2-1D7E-4AFA-9B56-289014CE8916-1423846038622/report.pdf
When this article was written, USAREC had 14,475 Future Soldiers and 500 Future Heath Care Officers waiting to access into the Army.
It is the end of the recruiting year and USAREC has already accessed over 78,250 Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers at this point. This number represents a lot of orientations that recruiters performed, and does not even include the many that were conducted on the Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers who were a loss and did not access.
If you do the math and think about the man-hours exhausted, this equates to several years of work by recruiters in securing the future of the Army.
By Rick Welling, Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Barbaresi, and Dr. David Dawson, USAREC, Doctrine Division
Oct. 2, 2015
"The Future Soldier" is the continuing saga of Jessica Carter, who is now Future Soldier Pvt. Carter."
After briefing Center Leader Sgt. 1st Class Carl Miller about the enlistment of Pvt. Jessica Carter, Staff Sgt. James Johnson and Sgt. Carla Morris evaluate Carter’s Future Soldier orientation.
Johnson is serious about his role as a mentor for the younger recruiters. He wants to do everything he can to develop them into successful leaders for the sake of the center and the Army.
Staff Sgt. Johnson: So, Sgt. Morris, how did you think that orientation went?
Sgt. Morris: That was awesome Staff Sgt. Johnson. You were so thorough and did a great job outlining expectations and making sure Jessi… I mean, Pvt. Carter… had a clear understanding of everything you were saying. I don’t know how you remembered everything you needed to talk about!
Staff Sgt. Johnson: A lot of it is just experience. I’ve completed dozens of Future Soldier orientations. But the key is proper preparation and making sure you have all the materials printed, ready, and organized before the Future Soldier arrives. It’s kind of like conducting an Army Interview; the more you do it, the easier it becomes. Remember, practice makes perfect!
Sgt. Morris: I thought you always say, “Perfect practice makes perfect”?
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Yes, you’re right, perfect practice makes perfect. Do you think you’d be able to conduct a quality Future Soldier orientation based on what you saw today?
Sgt. Morris: I don’t think I can do it as well as you did, but watching your method with Pvt. Carter will help me when it comes time to counsel a Future Soldier on my own. I really want to be able to mentor and take care of the center’s Future Soldiers as well as you do. It is obvious that you have a genuine concern for their wellbeing as if they were your Soldiers back in a line unit. Having Soldiers to train and develop is one of the things I miss most since coming on recruiting duty.
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Give it time Sgt. Morris, you know they say Rome wasn’t built in a day. Recruiting can be a very rewarding experience if you take it seriously. I’ve learned more about counseling and developing subordinates during my short time in recruiting than I did in all the years prior. Like you said, you just need to take it personally and actually care about the Soldiers you are enlisting, because they are, after all, your Soldiers.
Sgt. Morris: That makes sense now that you put it that way. Thanks Sgt. Johnson, you motivate me!
Staff Sgt. Johnson: Come on Sgt. Morris, it’s getting late and we’ve had a long and productive day. Let’s go AAR with Sgt. 1st Class Miller and call it a night.
The mission of USAREC dictates that every recruiter is proficient with the critical tasks of leading a Future Soldier or Future Health Care Officer.
Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers are definitely the future of the Army and represent the cumulative effort that each recruiting team strives to achieve each and every day.
Recruiters like Johnson and Morris perform initial orientations to ensure Future Soldiers, like Jessica Carter, are welcomed into the Army family and fully understand their new inherited responsibilities when they become a Soldier.
Scenarios like the one depicted above are only a small portion of the complete critical tasks associated with leading a Future Soldier or Future Health Care Officer.
Although every scenario will play out differently, following the performance steps outlined in the critical task is paramount to successfully leading the future force of the Army.
Lead a Future Soldier critical task performance measures:
https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/B094562D-D37B-4C90-A62E-DC08ECAFF50E-1423493242251/report.pdf
Lead a Future Heath Care Officer performance measures:
https://rdl.train.army.mil/catalog-ws/view/100.ATSC/28BF3BA2-1D7E-4AFA-9B56-289014CE8916-1423846038622/report.pdf
When this article was written, USAREC had 14,475 Future Soldiers and 500 Future Heath Care Officers waiting to access into the Army.
It is the end of the recruiting year and USAREC has already accessed over 78,250 Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers at this point. This number represents a lot of orientations that recruiters performed, and does not even include the many that were conducted on the Future Soldiers and Future Health Care Officers who were a loss and did not access.
If you do the math and think about the man-hours exhausted, this equates to several years of work by recruiters in securing the future of the Army.