8 • THE GRIFFON • Summer 2015
From the Command Chief Warrant Officer
Eagle Migration to Support the Force of 2025 Those who have kept pace with training, education and leader development opportunities. Once poised, we are now prepared and ready for migration.Wilson has drafted The Army Warrant Officer Strategy 2025 that will be published later this year.The strategy is a planning tool that provides insight and outlines a forward course “Eagles Masters of the Sky” Rebecca L. Grambo – Editor 1997 for warrant officers to maintain relevance and to excel as technically Published by Voyageur Press, Inc. agile, adaptive and innovative leaders who have the capabilities to support Transition.”The Warrant Officer accession quotas were increased the Army’s future force objectives. Surely, the future is wrought Continuum of Learning Study had and accession bonuses were offered with changes and challenges.These been completed and the study for low density WO MOSs. Renewed emphasis on can be likened to the atmospheric with recommendations had been mentorship. The Warrant Officer conditions that create thermals. published. A paradigm shift of Candidate Program Guidance was (Thermals are columns of rising WO education, training and leader air in the lower altitudes of the development was on the horizon.To revised to include appointment of a support these changes, Chief Warrant Warrant Office Mentor to each WOC. earth’s atmosphere that are caused Furthermore,Wilson took the lead by unstable air generated by the Officer 5 Phyllis Wilson, USAR and established a highly successful uneven heating of the earth’s Command Chief Warrant Officer, WO Mentor, Educate,Train (WOsurface.) Therefore, I encourage set in place four cornerstones for you not to view change and enhanced WO life-cycle management. MET) program. Focused recruiting. This Expanded warrant officer challenge as obstacles; rather, see initiative linked recruiting promotion opportunities. Time them as opportunities and use efforts to warrant officer Military in Grade (TIG) requirements for them like the migrating eagle Occupational Specialty (MOS) promotion to Chief Warrant Officer uses the thermals to rise to a high shortages.Additionally,WO 3, Chief Warrant Officer 4, and Chief altitude and glide the long distance Warrant Officer 5 were extended in the direction of the migration. As I write this article,Wilson’s and Chief Warrant Officer 4’s slotted in branch immaterial positions could tenure as the USAR CCWO is near completion. Her accomplishments as compete for promotion outside the USAR CCWO are numerous. She their WOMOS. has been both builder and architect Reinstatement of Two-time for the Corps.Wilson will continue Non-select. While expanding to serve as a Military Fellow in the promotion opportunities was Strategic Studies Group for the Chief important, it was equally important of Staff of the Army.Wilson left it to ensure that those promoted were better than she found it – as should expressly competent, committed and professional leaders of character. each of us.
“Not all eagles migrate; those that do have complex migratory patterns. While migrating, eagles ride columns of rising air called thermals and can average speeds of 30 mph. Effortlessly, an eagle can circle in a strong thermal to a high altitude, and then glide long distances in the direction of its migration until it finds the next column of rising air.”
By Chief Warrant Officer Karen Kay Command Chief Warrant Officer 108th Training Command (IET)
This edition marks the two-year anniversary of writing articles for the Griffon. My first article was entitled,“Eagles Rising – Poised for
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