During this Year of the NCO, there will be many opportunities for NCOs to take care of our Soldiers who will fight our next great battles, and there will be many opportunities for our officers to ...

Listing the qualities of what makes a great NCO is a bit more difficult. It may be hard to list what makes them great, but we know them when we see them. 1st Sgt. Rietta Owens, ...

February 13, 2008: The U.S. Marine Corps is expanding from 186,000 troops, to 202,000 over the next three years. This has caused a shortage of NCOs, as many are needed for combat, recruiting and ...

On Jan. 1, 2016, the U.S. Army rolled out a new Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation Report, or NCOER, to replace the one the service had used to rate enlisted leader performance since the late 1980s.

To counteract the pitfalls of “good guy” NCO leadership, several practical solutions can be implemented: - NCOs should work to build mutual trust within the team to achieve effectiveness and ...

Ultimately, the lack of a well-trained NCO corps in the Russian military may very well be one of its greatest weaknesses, and in turn, one of the U.S. military’s greatest strengths if the two ...

Soldiers in a squad pull security at a landing zone during air assault tactics rehearsal in Rabkoot, Oman, Jan. 27, 2019. The Army is giving its soldiers a new path through NCO education, leader ...

The best swords available for when you need to stab someone wearing a denim jacket. Or a bag of meat wearing a denim jacket. Or a denim sleeve sewn up into a pocket and then filled with meat. Or a ...

NCO Group will issue about 1.8 million common shares to NCO Portfolio’s minority stockholders. Still, if NCO Group’s average closing stock price for the 10-day trading period ending on the ...

A century after his great-grandfather’s service, Norman capped a 35-year Army career as the top enlisted soldier for I Corps. The position gave him responsibility for tens of thousands of ...

Sgt. Garrett Paulson, combat medic from Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, returns to the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, Louisiana as the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer of the ...

A century after his great-grandfather’s service, Norman capped a 35-year Army career as the top enlisted soldier for I Corps. The position gave him responsibility for tens of thousands of ...