“This document is so Public Affairsy! … No, no, I don’t mean any offense. It just doesn’t help me!” – A respected colleague’s exclamation, in the JOC, while researching information
“This document is so Public Affairsy! … No, no, I don’t mean any offense. It just doesn’t help me!” – A respected colleague’s exclamation, in the JOC, while researching information
Every section in your organization wants their own unique logo designed by the PAO. Many of these sections have specific ideas of what they’d like to see in their own
Drinking a beer with my father-in-law, he mentioned one of his North Carolina-based human resources employees stopped in “to see” one of the company’s distribution centers in Texas while on vacation
Platoon leaders want to have the highest physical fitness scores in the company. Company leaders want to out-shoot their fellow companies on the range and battlefield. Battalion leaders want to
As kids, if we were going to be out of place, we needed a hall pass or permission slip — something to validate and explain our actions. “I am in
There’s a bungee cord sitting between your organization and your commander’s end state. Keep following it, and eventually you’ll get there. Along the way, things will pull the bungee cord
The under-funded and forgotten parts of your organization know the Public Affairs Office is an internal, free-of-charge way to highlight their potential, and publicly lobby your commander and higher headquarters
‘”Well, Sir, the Public Affairs Office is short-staffed right now so I don’t think we’ll be able to support that request.” Gross. Nobody wants to work with the Public Affairs
Dear Bureaucrat, It’s me, your Public Affairs Officer. I know you don’t understand my role in this organization yet, but you will. What I’m about to say is going to
Teams and units become elite, and develop absolute trust, when they execute the basics to perfection. Combat soldiers must be able to hit a target with their weapon and communicate