Building future Soldier leadership through broadening assignments

  While enlisted Soldiers and noncommissioned officers, or NCOs, may have heard talk that diverse broadening assignments are in their Army futures, many do not know where to go for information and guidance on making them part of their career planning.

While such documents as Army Regulation-621-7 and AR-621-1 lay out guidelines for specific educational opportunities, there is no overarching policy or regulation equivalent to Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-3, published in late 2014.

However, broadening for enlisted Soldiers, a parallel concept, is "the purposeful expansion of an NCO's core military occupational specialty, or MOS, proficiency and leadership provided through diverse developmental positions, opportunities and assignments both within and outside their career management field," said Aubrey Butts, director of Training and Doctrine Command's Institute for Noncommissioned Office Professional Development.


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