The Officer back issues from October 2001:
Editor's note
Oct 01, 2001; ... Rarely in our lives do we experience events of such a cataclysmic and overwhelming nature that they render all other events insignificant. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon were such events-events that stopped our world for a while on 11 September. Like the New ...
ROA: Now more than ever
Oct 01, 2001; ... As this issue of the magazine was being made ready for press, with my monthly address on membership included, the life we know and love in America suddenly changed. I know because I experienced it first hand at the Pentagon, where it will take years to piece the building back together and a ...
Reader feedback
Oct 01, 2001; ... UNITED, WE STAND Editors Note: On Wednesday, 12 September 2001, ROA Deputy Executive Director Col Walker Williams, USAF (Ret.), sent a message to all ROA members for whom we have an e-- mail address. In it, he noted that, although this day may be viewed as one of America's darkest, it ...
War on terrorism
Oct 01, 2001; ... On Tuesday, 11 September 2001, our world changed. So much has been said and written about the vile and despicable mass murders that there is hardly anything new I can add. As I write this on 24 September, America is mobilizing for war. President Bush has warned us that this will be a protracted ...
Legislative update
Oct 01, 2001; ... What had been intended as an update on the legislative process and a look at some of the details of the Senate's verification of the FY02 National Defense Authorization Act (S 1416) has undergone some changes in the past few days. As Stephen King would say, "the world has moved on," and, after ...
Attack on America: 11 September 2001
Oct 01, 2001; ... "I'M A MEDIC FIRST ..." The image has been seen in newspapers around the country and takes up almost a full page in a recent People magazine. An Army officer, a colonel, is kneeling on the grass outside the Pentagon. His hand is on the side of the head of a woman injured on 11 September when a ...
USERRA's impact on reservists
Oct 01, 2001; ... I am Being Recalled. What About My Civilian Job? Q: I have been notified that it is likely that I will be called to active duty, along with my Reserve unit. If that happens, will I have the right to return to my civilian job? A: Yes, provided you meet the eligibility criteria ...
LTC Cathey v. BancorpSouth: David beats Goliath in federal court
Oct 01, 2001; ... If there is the remotest possibility that your Reserve unit will ever get activated, reading this article could be the most important 10 minutes of your military career. Do you remember in all those deployment readiness briefings the information concerning the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief ...
Army Reserve aviation
Oct 01, 2001; ... THE ARMY RESERVE IN TRANSFORMATION This is the first in a three-part series on the Army Reserves role in Army Transformation, focusing on equipment used and needed by the Army Reserve to meet the Army's Vision. Part two will concentrate on land vehicles used by the Army Reserve to ...
Preparing for and responding to catastrophic terrorism
Oct 01, 2001; ... In the wake of the tragic terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, government agencies at every level have been re-examining their preparedness for such an incident. Policymakers have a heightened awareness of the danger posed by biological and chemical weapons. Fortunately, the planning to meet ...
Focus
Oct 01, 2001; ... Under the rubric, "Protecting the Homeland," the U.S. National Security Strategy document published in December 2000 addressed the potential for threats to our homeland. These threats, the document noted, are more likely as adversaries strike against vulnerable civilian targets within the ...
Symbolic missile strikes won't work; we need sterner measures
Oct 01, 2001; ... Throughout the 1990s, the United States has responded to acts of terrorism using only very limited means. After Iraqi efforts to assassinate former President George H.W. Bush and after previous strikes by the Osama bin Laden organization, the United States responded by launching cruise ...
No easy battle
Oct 01, 2001; ... In the wake of [the 11 September] terrorist attacks in the United States, the U.S. government is trying to decide how it can defeat its new style of enemy. The key to victory is finding the enemy's center of gravity, or what enables it to operate, and destroying it. But what has worked for the ...
America's center of gravity
Oct 01, 2001; ... Like everyone else in this great country, I am reeling from [the 11 September] attack on our sovereignty. But unlike some, I am not reeling from surprise. As a career soldier and a student and teacher of military history, I have a different perspective and I think you should hear it. This war ...
Weapons training strategy comes of age
Oct 01, 2001; ... As a member of the Army Reserve training community since 1970 and the Active Guard Reserve full-time support community for the last 16 years, I have seen many initiatives come and go. A training doctrine that made a lot of sense and that had the greatest impression on my early career was the ...
Integration through funding priorities: Naval Reserve information technology
Oct 01, 2001; ... This article, the second in a three-part series on the Naval Reserves most pressing funding issues, is an examination of Naval Reserve Information Technology requirements. In November, Part Three will highlight military construction. This fall, Naval Air Facility Washington became the ...
Update on Coast Guard Reserve equipment
Oct 01, 2001; ... Last December, as American families prepared for the holidays, Coast Guard Reservists left their homes and loved ones for the Arabian Gulf region, where they protected U.S. vessels in the wake of the attack on the destroyer USS Cole. The deployment of detachments from two of the Coast ...
ROA remembers "the forgotten war"--Korea
Oct 01, 2001; ... OCTOBER 1951 "Peace talks were making no progress at all. Negotiations had been going on for months. We would hear that peace may come tomorrow, that there was great progress, and tonight or tomorrow we must face the enemy again on patrol or in the attack. This was not at all good for ...
ROA's white knight
Oct 01, 2001; ... The only U.S. Army six-star general since George Washington, John J. Pershing heard Confederate bullets fired into his Union father's house, fought against Apache and Sioux, faced Spanish in Cuba and Moros in the Philippines, and led the Mexican raid against Pancho Villa. He also lost his wife ...
Family support
Oct 01, 2001; ... ROAL PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The military units system to help families of deployed soldiers is the Family Support Group. Mrs. Liz Plewes, wife of Chief of Army Reserve LTG Tom Plewes, spoke to National ROAL at the Mid-Winter Luncheon concerning the need for volunteers to help ...
Taps
Oct 01, 2001;