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Article: Distance Learning Battle Staff NCO Course Full-Time to USAREUR.
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- May 1, 1999
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FORT MONROE, Va. -- United States Army Europe will begin using distance learning courses to fill a training need in 2000.
Annual personnel rotations create a constant shortage of NCOs qualified for battle staff positions.
"Currently, there are 697 25 (battle staff NCO) coded positions in USAREUR. USAREUR is short 215 qualified personnel to fill these slots," said Lt. Col. Carolyn Smith, Chief, Combined Arms Training Center for 7th Army Training Command, at Vilseck, Germany.
"Distance learning, once fully operational, should produce 240 BSNCO-trained soldiers a year."
USAREUR officials say these qualified NCOs can be produced in three ...