Army National Guard Leader Development Program

Enhance and support the State's and Territories' capability to develop Army National Guard leader's knowledge, skills, competencies, attributes, and behaviors to produce agile and adaptive leaders at echelon, who are able to operate and succeed in complex and dynamic environments. By Creating and providing leader development resources, opportunities, and content in the experiential and self-development realms of professional development, which deliver broadening experience or increased technical and conceptual competency in order to enable Leader Development across the 54 States and Territories.

Holistic Health & Fitness

H2F is a capabilities-based, task and environment focused, Human Performance Optimization (HPO) program. HQDA EXORD 149-19 directs the Total Army to implement the H2F System. For the Active Component (AC), H2F provides Soldiers direct access to specialized medical and mental health care providers, athletic trainers, and strength coaches at the brigade level. The ARNG model will not mirror the AC model, while still accomplishing the desired end state of improving physical fitness, injury avoidance and recovery, nutritional health, and mental/spiritual resilience.

The ARNG achieves H2F Systems goals of improving Soldier readiness and lethality, optimizing physical/non-physical performance, reducing injury rates, improving rehabilitation after injury, and increasing overall effectiveness through a Directorate enabled and State/Territory led approach which accounts for ARNG unique requirements, opportunities, constraints. The ARNG will accomplish this through a blend of material solutions, subject matter expertise, federal and state resources, and health care professionals.

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Video by Staff Sgt. Brendon Green-Daring
B-Roll: US, Tunisia conduct water purification at African Lion 2025
U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa
April 24, 2025 | 1:33
Tunisian Armed Forces join U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 240th Composite Supply Company, 95th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, based in Baumholder, Germany, to conduct water purification operations during African Lion 2025 (AL25) at the Port of Gabes, Tunisia, April 25, 2025. By extracting Mediterranean Sea water and purifying it into potable water, the joint team supports the needs of all units at the exercise. AL25 is set to be the largest annual military exercise in Africa, bringing together over 40 nations, including seven NATO allies and 10,000 troops to conduct realistic, dynamic and collaborative training in an austere environment that intersects multiple geographic and functional combatant commands. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) on behalf of the U.S. Africa Command, AL25 takes place from April 14 to May 23, 2025, across Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, and Tunisia. This large-scale exercise will enhance our ability to work together in complex, multi-domain operations—preparing forces to deploy, fight and win. (Video by U.S Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Brendon Green-Daring)

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(00:00:00) MEDIUM SHOT: US and Tunisian forces measuring chemicals
(00:09:28) LONG SHOT: Joint forces moving empty pool
(00:20:12) MEDIUM SHOT: Joint force repairing pool
(00:34:23) CLOSE SHOT: Repairing pool
(00:47:10) MEDIUM SHOT: Water pump
(00:57:26) MEDIUM SHOT: Solution mixing
(01:05:11) CLOSE SHOT: Excess valve
(01:14:21) CLOSE SHOT: Water sample collection
(01:20:14) MEDIUM SHOT: Water filling pool
(01:25:23) MEDIUM SHOT: Full water pool
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The ARNG will approach H2F as a three phased operation, including defining requirements, experimentation, and implementation. The ARNG H2F implementation strategy is not a universal “one size fits all” approach, States and Territories are afforded the flexibility to experiment through the planning process. FY21 is a planning year for States/Territories to establish those requirements; ARNG requirements will be determined through collaborative, scientific, evidence based research and experimentation. States/Territories conduct market research, small scale pilots, and analysis IOT determine their specific requirements for H2F implementation. Concurrently, ARNG G3 Training Division (TR) will institute a multi-functional working group of industry experts, collegiate human performance centers, and Army professionals to enable collaboration and requirements development. This targeted and individualized approach ensures the collective ARNG requirement possesses relevance, scalability, ease of implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency across the force. The ARNG will report the requirement findings to the Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) NLT 30 SEP 2021.

 

Application Information

Contact: ngbh2fstaff@army.mil
OIC: LTC William Palmer
NCOIC: MSG David Brooks