Continuing education and professional development. .

Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, April-June, 2004 by Harvey Crockett

Permissive Temporary Duty (TDY) Study. This program (20 weeks or less) is covered under AR 621-1, Training of Military Personnel at Civilian Institutions, 20 August 1999, Chapter 4-1.e, and AR 600-8-10, Leaves and Passes, 31 July 2003, Chapter 1 and Section XVI (para 5-31). The Commanding General (CG), HRC, will consider requests for permissive TDY for civilian training exceeding 31 or more days. The civilian schooling must be both sanctioned and approved by CG, HRC, and your commander must provide a recommendation. Participants will incur an active duty service obligation and the TDY must result in the award of a degree.

Postgraduate Intelligence Program (PGIP) and Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence (MSSI) Degree Program. Provided by the Joint Military Intelligence College (JMIC) at Boiling Air Force Base, in Washington, D.C., these programs afford you an advanced degree. This Defense Intelligence Agency(DIA) sponsored academic institution is now accepting applications for the PGIP and MSSI degree program. All Warrant Officer applicants accepted in the program are expected to finish the MSSI. The MSSI is a year-long program that runs from August through August of each year. The MSSI curriculum emphasizes developing the student's understanding of intelligence at the national level, military strategy, national security policy, and the planning and execution of joint and combined operations. The service obligation incurred is three times the length of schooling. Additional information about the JMIC is at http://www.dia.mil/Jmic.> Normally, in order to maximize employment of newly acquired analytical skills, Warrant Officers who graduate with the MSSI degree will have assignments to strategic- or theater-level jobs. Applications must arrive not later than 31 October at the Warrant Officer Division, which will in turn notify officers in writing of their selection or nonselection for the program by 30 January of the following year. (See also the article by COL Jensen in this issue of MIPB.)

White House Fellowship Program. A great but little known career-enhancing program is the White House Fellowship Program. In this program, selected officers receive an opportunity to serve for one to two years on the one of the White House staffs. Regular Army Warrant Officers with no more than 24 years of active warrant officer service and other than Regular Army warrant officers with no more than 16 years of active federal service may be eligible to apply. Check with your assignments officer at HRC to get complete details about this program.

Upcoming WO Boards

The next WO Promotion Board for CW3/4/5 is scheduled for the period 4-26 May 2004.

Enlisted Professional Development Opportunities

The POC for enlisted actions is Sergeant Major Mitchell; readers may contact him via E-mail at maurice.mitchell@hua.army.mil.

The current operations make it difficult to work on professional development; however, opportunities still exist. Although it is incumbent on the soldier to maximize his or her time and seek out these opportunities, commanders and other leaders should continue to remind soldiers of opportunities, and, consistent with unit mission requirements, allow time for soldiers to continue to develop. The time invested in the soldier's development will continue to yield a better-qualified soldier and noncommissioned officer (NCO).