Next CSA: If You Can Make it at TRADOC, You Can Make it Anywhere
01.16.2011 at 08:46pm
General Martin E. Dempsey; Commanding General of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Chief of Staff of the Army nominee, and SWJ blogger; sings “New York, New York” at the International Reception, 23 April 2010, Bay Breeze Community Center, Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today…
These corfram shoes, are longing to stray…
I wanna wake up in a building, that doesn’t sleep…
These Ft. Monroe blues, are melting away…
I’ll make a brand new start of it…
If I can make it there, I’ll make anywhere…
If this was a first take, I’m impressed. I wonder how many of our national leaders are frustrated because they didn’t make it big in the entertainment industry? 🙂 Good to know our senior Army leadership still knows how to throw a good party. That gentlemen is a very American thing to do.
Who says they’re not in entertainment?
If you have ever been around GEN Dempsey at a social event, you know the man can sing. Of course, he is normally leading the crowd in rousing renditions of Irish drinking songs…
The guy can sing but I must admit I was hoping for the one with the Ft. Monroe blues, darn it.
Hello enlightened souls, what is TRADOC? I know the textbook definition, but if you were to explain to a average person?
It is the Army’s Training and Doctrine command. They determine the Army’s training stanards in all of our courses (for example, they determine what will be taught in Army Basic Training, Officer Training, NCO courses, all the Occupational skills, etc); they develop Army doctrine (how we fight, how we train, how we operate day to day, etc.), and they’re focused on transforming the force based on projected future needs. It is a very large bureaucracy that moves a snail’s pace most of the time, but they have some incredibly smart folks that have done wonders for the Army over the years.