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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Illinois National Guard helps slow spread of COVD-19 in Chicagoland's vulnerable homeless population (b-roll)
182nd Airlift Wing
April 23, 2020 | 2:24
Units Featured: 634th Brigade Support Battalion (Sullivan, Ill.); 182nd Airlift Wing (Peoria, Ill.)

Date: April 23, 2020

Location: COVID-19 alternate care facility in Schaumburg, Ill.

Description: Force support and logistics Airmen with the Illinois Air National Guard’s 182nd Airlift Wing under state active duty provide isolated shelter services to the Chicago suburb’s homeless population in a alternate care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic, helping mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. Also on-site was an Illinois Army National Guard Unit Ministry Team, whose mission is to providing morale, spiritual and religious support to Soldiers and Airmen Illinois National Guard teams activated for the COVID-19 response.

00:00:00 - U.S. Air Force Airman Amari Burton, a personnel specialist with the 182nd Force Support Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, delivers food to residents in the alternate housing facility.

00:00:15 - U.S. Army Spc. Bryan Neice, left, a religious affairs specialist, and Chaplain (Capt.) Jeffery Nelson, second from left, a battalion chaplain, both with the 634th Brigade Support Battalion, Illinois Army National Guard, visit with 182nd Airlift Wing Airmen providing COVID-19 alternate care facility services.

00:01:42 - Airmen with the 182nd Airlift Wing, Illinois Air National Guard, prepare meals for distribution to residents in the COVID-19 alternate care facility.

00:01:57 - U.S. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. David McMullin, the air transportation chief enlisted manager with the 182nd Logistics Readiness Squadron, reconditions his team’s work station during meal deliveries.

00:02:16 - Cutaway shots of work center signs.

(U.S. Air National Guard video by Tech. Sgt. Lealan Buehrer)
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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