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 Petty Officer 1st Class Lynn Andrews
Celebrating Naval Special Warfare Culture
Naval Special Warfare Command
Jan. 10, 2018 | 1:16
SLUG: Navy SEAL Heritage
RUNTIME: 01:25:17
DOWNSTREAMS:
Former President John F. Kennedy
PO1 Lynn F. Andrews

NARRATOR: PO1 Lynn F. Andrews
Before a special session of congress - May 25th, 1961 – President Kennedy revealed his intentions to create what is now known as the world’s elite, clandestine maritime military force - the Navy SEALs.

SOUNDBITE: Former President John F. Kennedy
I am directing the Secretary of Defense to expand rapidly and substantially, in cooperation with our Allies, the orientation of existing forces for the conduct of non-nuclear war, paramilitary operations and sub-limited or unconventional wars.

In addition our Special Forces and unconventional warfare units will be increased and reoriented.

NARRATOR: PO1 Lynn F. Andrews
Kennedy’s remarks opened the door for SEAL TEAMs ONE and TWO to be established.
Many of the first SEALs came out of the Underwater Demolition Team units who fought in the Korea war. Since their founding in 1962 - SEALs have been part of nearly every military operation spanning from the Vietnam War to present day conflicts in the Middle East.

Today’s Navy SEALs, armed with the most modern war fighting techniques and hardware - carry on a legacy of more than 5 decades of naval heritage.
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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