Description
For this assignment, you are continuing your role as a senior staff officer working on a division staff. The CG on general JLTV program information using sources provided to you in the document this assignment and will need to provide authoritative and convincing analysis to help the CG make a decision.
For this assignment you are in the role of a Division Staff Officer taking a brief for your principal. View one set of video staff briefings (links below) for the MP battalion you are taking the briefing from or the other.
TOPIC: Incorporating points from one set of the battalion presentations and other authoritative sources, articulate your recommendation as a division staff officer on whether the division’s JLTV initial fielding plan should be changed or not. The recommendation analysis should include the number of vehicles, the “bill-payer” strategy, the potential impacts or pushback from other stakeholders, and the risks. Include at least two DOTMLPF-P domain considerations (doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, facilities and policy), and a recommendation for a TOE or for an MTOE change.
Do not provide a simple summation to the question. You must write an argumentative essay, and hence argue the senior staff point of view supported by specific examples and evidence to convince the CG.
GUIDANCE FOR WRITING THE ESSAY:
Must be typed and double-spaced
Must use Arial 12-pitch font and one-inch margins
Must be a minimum of three pages, but cannot exceed five pages.
Must use active voice and NOT use first person
NOTE: That information should not be repeated but can be incorporated into your analysis as you create your argument/position for the JLTV.