The unprecedented challenges facing the U.S. military at home and abroad have highlighted the need for officers to be educated and trained in joint matters so that they are prepared to take on the new roles and responsibilities that the current environment demands. In his 2005 Vision for Joint Officer Development, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) Peter Pace emphasized the need for all colonels and Navy captains ...
Following the recommendations of the 2005 BRAC Commission, a joint medical education and training campus (METC) is being established at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to provide training for enlisted medical specialties in the Air Force, Army, and Navy. Currently, the idea is to collocate the three service schools and to consolidate medical training for all services to the extent feasible. The shorter-term objective is efficiency?to reduce the overall costs of ...
Since 1991, successes in Iraq (Operations Desert Shield and Storm), Bosnia, and Afghanistan (among others), and more recently in Operation Iraqi Freedom, have testified to the effectiveness of the joint military force and its warfighting potential. The ways in which joint officers are currently educated and trained are largely governed by Title IV of the Goldwater-Nichols Act of 1986 (GNA). However, it is increasingly recognized that the current approach to ...
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