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Army service pays off for new Soldiers
May 20, 2024 — A recent high school graduate may ask, “If I enlist in the Army, what’s in it for me?” The answers are wide-ranging yet simple: you get good pay and benefits, professional advanced training, the chance to travel, and the opportunity to build strength and character and be part of something greater than you might have thought possible... MORE

Army makes big changes to centralized promotion board system
April 22, 2019 — The Army is revising its centralized promotion board processes to deliver "the right person, at the right job, at the right time," according to Army G-1 officials... MORE

The Army will spend the next three to four years implementing an improved merit-based promotion system. The effort centers on a transition from time-based to merit-based policies and practices. Further, the change ensures that the best-qualified Soldier will be the first one eligible for promotion.

Soldier to Soldier: The Lost Art of Developmental Counseling
November 27, 2018 — When you hear the words developmental counseling, what comes to mind? Do you view the upcoming session as a "check the block" requirement from a laundry list of tasks? Do you often find yourself copying and pasting the same verbiage and bullet points from Soldier to Soldier? Or maybe, when you finally get around to conducting the session, it’s executed more as a formality, with the supervisor talking at the subordinate, rather than encouraging two-way communication... MORE

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Danielle Vaccaro, a career counselor for headquarters and headquarters battalion, 4th Infantry Division, explains reenlistment options to U.S. Army Sgt. Eric Glassey, a public affairs operations noncommissioned officer, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2013.