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. Benjamin Bugenig
Raptor Rescue
9th Reconnaissance Wing
April 29, 2019 | 2:13
EOD Flight Chief, MSgt Jayson Wells saw an opportunity to help an injured owl in need of rehabilitation. After 6 weeks of recuperation and care, Wells was able to set Rex free to go back to his home.

RAPTOR RESCUE TRANSCRIPT:

MSGT JAYSON WELLS:
SO I LIKE TO THINK OF THE LION KING, THE CIRCLE OF LIFE, ESPECIALLY HERE ON BEALE. WE HAVE SO MANY ACRES OF WILDNESS.
SIX WEEKS AGO I WAS DRIVING INTO WORK ON CHUCK JAEGER AND RIGHT BEFORE DRIVING INTO GRASS VALLEY GATE I NOTICED WHAT APPEARED TO BE RAPTOR. WHICH IN THIS CASE TURNED OUT TO BE AN OWL, AND A TRUCK WAS DRIVING RIGHT OVER TOP OF HIM.
I THINK MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT BECAUSE I REALLY LOVE THESE ANIMALS. SO I PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, I DID A QUICK ASSESSMENT, AND DECIDED THAT THIS BIRD HAD A CHANCE TO RECOVER. AND I MET A WONDERFUL LADY, WHOSE NAME WAS KIM FRANZA, AND SHE ASSISTED IN… AND ACTUALLY DID THE BRUNT OF THE WORK IN REHABILITATING THIS OWL, A GREAT HORNED OWL BACK TO HEALTH.
SIX WEEKS LATER AFTER A LOT OF NURTURING IT’S REALLY NO DIFFERENT THAN OUR VETERANS WHO ARE RETURNING HOME AND ITS REALLY DEPENDENT ON THE RESILIENCY OF THE ANIMAL. SO IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE NAMED HIM REX, A LITTLE GREAT HORNED OWL THAT’S SMALLER THAN MOST, BUT IN SIX WEEKS WHEN I WENT TO GO HELP MS. KIM ASSESS HIM FURTHER SHE HANDED THE BIRD OFF TO ME AND I HAD TO DO A SECOND HANDOFF BECAUSE OF HOW STRONG HE WAS.
IT WAS LIKE NIGHT AND DAY.
AFTER A LOT OF WORK, TIME AND EFFORT, THEN YOU RE-INTRODUCE HIM TO AROUND TEN MILES OF WHERE YOU FOUND THE ANIMAL.
THEN DURING EARTH WEEK WE RELEASED HIM BACK INTO THE WILD.
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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