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INSIGHT
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Shelby Johnson, 4th
Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain
Division, scans the horizon, 18 November
2013, during a dismounted patrol from
Forward Operating Base Torkham to an
Afghan Border Police checkpoint near the
village of Goloco.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Eric Provost, Task Force Patriot PAO)

Noncommissioned
Officers and Mission
Command
Sgt. Maj. Dennis Eger, U.S. Army
Sgt. Maj. Dennis A. Eger is the senior enlisted advisor for the Mission Command Center of Excellence at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan. He holds a bachelor’s degree in behavioral science and a master’s degree in human resource management. His previous assignments include Fort Hood, Fort Huachuca, Korea, and Belgium. Sgt. Maj. Eger deployed
twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan.

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rmy leadership recognizes the importance
of forces being grounded in doctrine;
doctrine contains the fundamental guiding principles for conducting current operations.
Soldiers, on the other hand, may feel that the ideas in
doctrine are theoretical and not applicable to their
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everyday tasks. However, today doctrine is more
accessible and relevant to soldiers than ever.
Since 2011, an effort known as Doctrine 2015 has
been guiding a major reorganization and rewriting of
Army doctrine to make it more useful to the force.1
Not only has the content of doctrine been updated,
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