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The Art of Collaborative Counseling

For years, Soldiers have experienced counseling sessions, desk side conversations, and heart-to-heart discussions with mentors, raters, and commanders that provided them with the opportunity to discuss their goals and development. Often, they listen to how the leader thought they could improve themselves within the confines of the counselor’s vision or end state. Frequently, the subject leaves understanding the leader’s desires, but are no closer to understanding how to achieve the goals of the rater, the organization. They lack specific, tangible information on how to improve. In the Army, it feels that the science of counseling is more prescriptive, but the counseling art form is nebulous.

Tag: medical training

Operators assigned to 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) conduct medical evacuation training at Oahu, Hawaii, Aug. 9, 2024. This was part of Joint Training Exercise NAKOA FLEEK which saw 10th SFG(A) Operators train and evaluate Soldiers of 25th Infantry Division on warrior tasks and battle drills.

March 28, 2025

Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center: Transformation and Modernization

FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA — The United States Army special operations forces (SOF) operate in a near continuous state of transformation and modernization. During the last two decades of conflicts in the Middle East and the wider world, these transformations happened at a rapid pace, often placing significant strain on force generators, such as the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS) and the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Now, the U.S. military is requiring its commands to dramatically change their tactics and training in anticipation of large-scale combat operations (LSCO) against peer and near-peer adversaries.