Acquisition Corps - Army Strong Stories

Army Educational Opportunities

Sat, 29 May 2010 21:19:00 GMT

By: Patrick Major
The Army always loves to tout that you can get educational benefits after Soldiers leave the services. I would like to see our Army expand their approach because young people interested in the Army do not realize that they also get educational benefits while they are still in. I had no idea that there were this many different opportunities besides just shooting M-16s and riding around in HUMVEEs. It took me a few years to figure out that there are additinal educational opportunities...read more

First Ever Blog

Fri, 28 May 2010 02:58:00 GMT

By: Patrick Major
Definetely been behind the times but social networking has never been my forte. I'd like to use this as a opportunity to tell some stories of the Army and how it has affected my life. More to follow once I get my account set up! ...read more

Army War College

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:40:00 GMT

By: Jonas Vogelhut
Recently, I was selected to attend the Army War College in Carlisle, PA. What a great organization. This college prepares selected military, civilian, and international leaders for the responsibilities of strategic leadership in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental and multinational environment. I know the Alumni of this great school have taken many supreme leadership positions throughout the globe, including President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chiefs of various other country militaries, and many...read more

What happen to policing up after ourselves?

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:50:00 GMT

By: John Pratt
I've been in the Army for awhile now and as a former junior enlisted, NCO, junior officer, etc, I've seen a number of changes in the Army in the last 25 years. Sure, our young soldier's and officer's are smarter and brighter these days. However, the Army has gotton very soft and undiscipline as well. The lack of discipline amongst the ranks is very disheartening. It's not a matter of being great Americans and deploying consecutively to...read more

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:11:00 GMT

By: Jonas Vogelhut
Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) Maryland is a wonderful place to live and work. Nestled between Baltimore and Philadelphia, we have an excellent workforce comprised of Soldiers, other service members, Government Civilians, and Contractors. Our base is unique in the extreme growth we are feeling now and will continue to have over the next two years. The Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005 mandated other bases close and send their jobs to APG. There are tremendous opportunities on...read more

Is Army culture vanishing with contractors?

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:35:00 GMT

By: John Pratt
Deploy down range today and you'll see a number of contractors working alongside the military doing a number of tasks. Estimates now say that there are approximately 7 to 1 ratio of civlian to military in combat. That is a significant amount. Why has the military and specifically from an Army perspective that there are so many civlilans in Iraq or Afghanistan? Has the Army lost it's ability to do our mission by ourselves? We have either downsized or consolidated specialized tasks that we no...read more

Thank you 82nd Airborne

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:03:00 GMT

By: Jonas Vogelhut
Thank you brave Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division for your dedication to our nation and willing support to those in need in Haiti. It always amazes me to see our young men and women ready in a few hours notice to leave there home and deploy to a foreign nation willing to support our neighbors and help the fallen. Working long days and sleeping in the open or in small tents, they show a tremendous positive attitude that things will get better and that our nation is here to support them. As...read more

Acquisition Workforce

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:02:00 GMT

By: Jonas Vogelhut
I, like most in the acquisition workforce, work each day striving to get capability to warfighters. Proven equipment Soldiers can use today to dominate on the battlefield. My current organization is unique because we handle a portfolio of different equipment, focusing on Situational Awareness, Force Protection, and Target Acquisition. The Soldiers, DoD Civilians and contractors in my organization work the development and sustainment of systems and rapidly transform...read more

Acquisition Corps - Hooah!

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:42:00 GMT

By: Jonas Vogelhut
If your reading this, either you stumbled to the wrong site or your interested in the Acquisition Corps. I will work each week to create a blog about the Acquisition Corps, the great work the Corps does to provide for Soldiers and Warfighters, and the opportunities the Corps provides for officers looking to work a functional area and make a tremendous impact to our Army. As an overview, I provide the Acqusition Corps Vision and Mission from our web site. ...read more