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Issue Date: November 17, 2003
Commanders to stay with deployed units
Policy change also stabilizes command sergeants major
By Jim Tice
Times staff writer
It’s official. Battalions and brigades supporting the war on terrorism won’t be changing commanders midtour.
The policy change, long anticipated by personnel officials, has been a priority of Gen. Peter Schoomaker since he became chief of staff Aug. 1. The Human Resources Command issued a directive on Oct. 29 ordering the change.
As a practical matter, the policy also requires that command sergeants major — the top enlisted soldiers in battalions and brigades — be stabilized during deployment.
Brigade and battalion commanders will continue to control the movement of leaders and soldiers within the unit, according to senior personnel officials who are designing policies for the unit-manning system.
For example, commanders will determine the time that subordinate officers serve in branch-qualifying jobs, such as company command and battalion executive officer, and when noncommissioned officers are rotated into leadership positions, such as squad leader and platoon sergeant.
Schoomaker’s directive applies to units led by colonels and lieutenant colonels who are on the command selection lists compiled annually by centralized boards. Additionally, it applies to officers who command units in which a majority of the members deployed and the commander resides with the unit in the deployed theater.
The standard, 24-month tour for brigade and battalion commanders remains in effect, except for Stryker Brigade Combat Team commanders, who will serve 36-month tours. The longer tour is designed to provide continuity as these new units are organized, trained and initially deployed.
Under the new stabilization policy, general officers with command authority over deploying battalions and brigades will determine whether to change commanders before or after deployment. Requests to change commanders must be routed through the appropriate major commander, usually a four-star general, to the Human Resources Command for final approval by Schoomaker.
“The chief of staff’s approval is mandatory for curtailment or extension requests greater than 60 days from the projected change of command date,” according to a directive sent to field commanders Oct. 29.
The new policy requires that commanders who are extended while deployed rotate to a new assignment “as soon as feasible” upon returning to home station.
“Extended commanders will have no more than 90 days stabilization upon re-deployment from theater,” according to the policy directive.
------------------------------------------------------------ Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. ------------------------------------------ 
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| I am beginning to realy like Gen. Schoomaker. It's such a refreshing change from Sh1tsuki to see a General who is actually concerned about combat effectiveness rather than ego driven Bullsh1t!!
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We had that idea first...it's called COHORT!!
Hhahahahahahahah
Hey cancer..."F" YOU!!! COHORT 1 1983-1985
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Its almost as if someone were using LOGIC!
Go with God, but make Him walk the point.
If you load a mudfoot down with a lot of gadgets he has to watch somebody a lot more simply equipped - say with a stone axe - will sneak up and bash his head in while he is trying to read a Vernier. - Robert Heinlein
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