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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TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 - Interview of Several Participants at Exercise Trident Juncture 18
Allied Joint Force Command Naples
Nov. 7, 2018 | 3:25
Several officers, participants at the Trident Juncture 18 Exercise speaks of their perspectives at the end of this exercise.

Exercise Trident Juncture 2018 brings together around 50,000 personnel, 10,000 vehicles, 65 ships and 250 aircraft from 31 NATO Allies and partner nations. Held in northern Norway, the NATO exercise starts on 25 October and continues through 7 November.

Video by Adjudant Sebastien Raffin / Major Michael Wawrzyniak

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SOUNDBITE (English),
Lieutenant Colonel Henning Homb, Royal Norwegian Air Force, Bodø Air Base Commander, speaks of his perspectives about exercise Trident juncture 18.
”From our perspective, the exercise went very well, actually extremely well and it was very nice hosting so many different countries and watching NATO as the Alliance working so closely together and doing what we’re here for, for our part being host base for Allied purposes, this time it was training and we’re prepared to if we need to in another framework.”
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Colonel Eric Moses, USAF, local operations control commander in Bodø, speaks of his perspectives about exercise Trident juncture 18.
“This exercise has been a success because we brought people from all the different Allied nations and a couple Partner nations together, we worked as a common group to solve problems and conduct missions in support of our army and navy brethren and we got to see how, in the joint environment, we can come together at short notice and make complex missions work on a daily basis. I’ve learned we have many,
many professional aviators from all the different Allied and Partner countries and that they can come together on short notice and conduct successful missions even in a complex harsh weather environment. The best part of this exercise was getting to meet different people and different aviators from all of our different partner nations and getting to experience the cordiality of our Norwegian hosts.”
01:13:08
SOUNDBITE (English),
Major Xenidis Kyriakos, Hellenic Air Force
“My experience here flying fro Trident Juncture 18 is really been great. I mean, being part of Hellenic Air Force, I’m used to flying in the southern part of NATO. Coming here, being a part of this major exercise, gave me the opportunity to fly in the northern part of NATO along with all these great airmen and as an experience I will really hold on to that for all of my career. Well, the best part flying here in the exercise had to be that I came to realize what I knew in theory, that being from different nations, speaking different languages, when we came here I understood that, as airmen, NATO neighbours, we speak the same language, the same language for all.”
02:05:22
SOUNDBITE (English),
Captain Julia, Italian Air Force, Tornado pilot
“Flying in this exercise for me was a great experience, was my first NATO exercise, so I had the opportunity to fly with other countries and in a new airspace, so I think it’s a good opportunity for everyone and in particular for all the NATO members to increase its standards.”
02:37:24
SOUNDBITE (English),
Colonel William Radiff, Royal Canadian Air Force Detachment Commander
“From a Canadian perspective, I feel very privileged to have been able to participate in exercise Trident Juncture 2018. It really allowed us to develop those relationships that we’ll take forward with us in future exercises and operational deployments with our allies and NATO."
02:51:02
SOUNDBITE (English),
Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Telle, French Air Force Detachment Commander
“It was just awesome, especially for the French. I’m very proud of all my team, they did a great work with especially the technicians, the pilots and all the others of course. And we worked very well with all the other nations. We had a great time in flight, on the ground, during the planning of the mission and it was, yeah, a lot of proudness from this exercise and belonging to NATO and to fight together with friendly nations.
03:29:04
SOUNDBITE (English),
Lieutenant Colonel Zafer Bayar, Turkish Air Force Detachment Commander
“It was a great experience, we were very successful.”
03:32:24
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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.

 

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