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REVOLUTIONARY REGIMENTAL STAFF

• Three field officers.
• Six staff officers.
• Four staff NCOs
• A sergeant major.
• A quartermaster sergeant.
• Two lead musicians.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-1

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THE COLOR SERGEANT

• Led the color guard.
• Maintained proper alignment and cadence.
• Focal point on which men dressed.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-3

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REVOLUTIONARY COMPANY

• Four officers.
• Four sergeants.
• Two musicians(A fifer and a drummer).
• Eighty rank and file soldiers-
• Four corporals
• Seventy-six privates
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-2

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CIVIL WAR REGIMENTAL NCO STAFF

• A sergeant major.
• A quartermaster sergeant.
• A commissary sergeant.
• A hospital steward and,
• Two musicians.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-4

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GENERAL PERSHINGS 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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-5

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NCOES 1971

• The Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course(BNCOC).
• The Advanced Noncommissioned Officer
  Course(ANCOC).
• The Sergeants Major Course(SMC).
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-6

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-7

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-8

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CIVIL WAR RESULTS

• Deadlier weapons ended the use of linear
  formation tactics.
• Eliminated the color sergeants role.
• All NCOs to receive training in giving commands.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-9

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-10

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-11

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-12

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-13

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-14

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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.
• P205/MAR 98/PLDC/VA-14(cont.)