REVOLUTIONARY REGIMENTAL
STAFF
• Three field officers.
• Six staff officers.
• Four staff NCOs:
A sergeant major.
A quartermaster sergeant.
Two lead musicians.
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THE COLOR SERGEANT
• Led the color guard.
• Maintained proper alignment and
cadence.
• Focal point on which men dressed.
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REVOLUTIONARY
COMPANY
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Four officers.
Four sergeants.
Two musicians(A fifer and a drummer).
Eighty “rank and file” soldiersFour corporals
Seventy-six privates
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CIVIL WAR REGIMENTAL
NCO STAFF
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A sergeant major.
A quartermaster sergeant.
A commissary sergeant.
A hospital steward and,
Two musicians.
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GENERAL PERSHING’S
MESSAGE
“NCOs must love initiative and hold what
ground they gained to the utmost. It often
happens that a sergeant or even a corporal
may decide a battle by the boldness with
which he seizes a bit of ground and holds
it.”
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NCOES 1971
• The Basic Noncommissioned Officer
Course(BNCOC).
• The Advanced Noncommissioned Officer
Course(ANCOC).
• The Sergeants Major Course(SMC).
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PREREVOLUTIONARY
PERIOD MILITIA
• Created for protection against Indians on
the frontier and warring European powers.
• Blended French, British, and Prussian
traditions.
• Involved in first fighting between colonists
and British in American Revolution.
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THE BLUE BOOK
• NCO selected by and responsible to the
commander.
• No NCO could transfer and retain grade.
• Stressed NCO responsibility for the care,
discipline, and training of soldiers.
• Initiated a Company Descriptive Book.
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CIVIL WAR RESULTS
• Deadlier weapons ended the use of linear
formation tactics.
• Eliminated the color sergeant’s role.
• All NCOs to receive training in giving
commands.
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WORLD WAR I
• Raised the status of the NCO corps.
• Reemphasized the the use of small unit
tactics.
• Prepared NCOs for the age of modern
warfare.
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WORLD WAR II
• Placed greater demands on NCO leadership
skills.
• NCO retained grade upon transfer
• Forced the creation of a new specialist rank
“techs.”
• These technical specialists proved essential
to winning the war.
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KOREAN WAR
• Opening months of war demonstrated the
neglect in training.
• Majority of fighting took the form of small
unit actions.
• Emphasized the need to maintain a well
trained minimum amount of forces to meet
the worldwide Communist threat.
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VIETNAM WAR EFFORT
• First forces used as military advisors.
• Success depended on small unit leadership.
• Airmobility made the role of the NCO more
effective and of greater importance.
• This war belonged to the platoon sergeant,
squad, patrol, and fire team leader.
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TRIUMPH OF
PROFESSIONALISM
• Elimination of the draft.
• Implementation of an all volunteer force,
the Modern Volunteer Army(MVA).
• Created a new enlisted rank structure.
• Noncommissioned Officer Education
System(NCOES) initiated.
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TRIUMPH OF
PROFESSIONALISM (Cont)
• Implementation of the Enlisted Personnel
Management System(EPMS) to regulate all
career development for enlisted personnel.
• Evolution of the Noncommissioned Officer
Development Program(NCODP) which
emphasized “doing” rather than “testing.”
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