US Army's Top Sergeant on Future Readiness 💪

Readiness is the ability to close with and destroy any enemy, anywhere, anytime. The role of the Sergeant Major of the Army is to ensure readiness. Command Sergeant Major Dan Dailey was the 15th Sergeant Major of the Army and the youngest Soldier to ever hold the position. Today, he is the Vice President of Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier Programs at the Association of the United States Army.

SMA Dailey joined Creator and Host Fran Racioppi to define what it really means for the United States Army to be “ready” to fight and win our nation’s wars. To do so, they went deep on each of the components of readiness, including:
-Manning and the impacts of the recruiting crisis the Army has endured over the past several years.
-Training and the importance of the Combat Training Centers and our combined exercises across the components and with our allies.
-Equipping for the next fight and why the current procurement processes must change if America expects to remain ahead in the innovation race.
-Leader Development including why softening the messaging of warfighting hurts mission focus and how the Army is closing the experience gap as the Global War on Terror generation of Soldiers retire.

They also cover the important mission of the Association of the United States Army and how as the largest organization supporting our Soldiers their work only continues to grow. Watch, listen or read our conversation from the AUSA headquarters and don’t miss the rest of our AUSA series.

We Cover:
-The recruiting crisis and its impact on manning
-Training across echelons and allied forces
-Force modernization and procurement reform
-Leader development and closing the experience gap
-How the Army defines individual and unit readiness
-AUSA's mission to support soldiers

About the Guest:
SMA Dan Dailey served as the 15th Sergeant Major of the Army, becoming the youngest Soldier to ever hold the position. Today, he serves as the Vice President of Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier Programs at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).

Highlights:
00:00 - Introduction
03:06 - Becoming SMA
04:47 - Readiness Defined
09:12 - Army training across echelons
11:42 - Why become a Soldier?
20:19 - Everyone can't go to college
30:18 - Changing Army messaging
38:49 - Technology & modernization
52:05 - Training for evolving threats
1:08:27 - Next generation of Soldiers
1:12:47 - Leading AUSA

QUOTES:
“Individual readiness is when a soldier themself feels capable to accomplish their mission.”
“If you had one hour before your soldiers went to combat what would you train on.”
"The high percentage of people who serve today come from families who have served in the past….that funnel is getting smaller and smaller.”
“We have lost the value of service to our nation…is it actually a way to achieve the American dream?”
"If we send everybody to college, who’s going to do those jobs?”
“I think there’s a lot of young Americans out there who are fully capable to fight and win, they’re just not inspired.”
“If you create a standard that nobody in America can achieve, it’s not a standard.”
“This nation’s going to have an Army. America, not the Army, is going to decide how we do that.”
“The only more expensive thing than fighting a war is losing one.”
“Our first mission as the United States Military is to deter. Then to defeat.”
“Most people look at war as armed conflict between two entities. War is a conflict of wills.”

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