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Logo for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army. Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army ( IPPS-A) is a United States Army acquisition program that seeks to integrate human resources and pay for all Army Soldiers. It provides online tools and replaces older Army human resource systems. It also provides talent management capabilities ...
Recruiting Service Ribbon. The Recruiting Service Ribbon is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which is issued by every branch of service. The United States Army previously only had the Army Recruiting Badge but this has since changed as of 2023 with the Army Recruiting Ribbon. The Recruiting Service Ribbon recognizes those ...
Army Knowledge Online ( AKO) was a web application that provided enterprise information services to the United States Army, joint, and Department of Defense customers. AKO was sunset in 2021. [1] The remaining following information is historical in nature. Enterprise services were provided to those customers on both classified and unclassified ...
People's war or protracted people's war is a Maoist military strategy. First developed by the Chinese communist revolutionary leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the basic concept behind people's war is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside (stretching their supply lines) where the population will ...
The Military Personnel Records Center (NPRC-MPR) is a branch of the National Personnel Records Center and is the repository of over 56 million military personnel records and medical records pertaining to retired, discharged, and deceased veterans of the U.S. armed forces . Its facility is located at 1 Archives Drive in Spanish Lake, [1] a ...
Enlisted Professional Military Education. All branches of the United States Armed Forces use the general term Enlisted Professional Military Education (EPME) to describe the formal system of education which each branch provides to its enlisted personnel. Each branch has its own system and sequence of courses, with the overall focus on ...
The United States Army Signal Corps ( USASC) is a branch of the United States Army that creates and manages communications and information systems for the command and control of combined arms forces. It was established in 1860, the brainchild of Major Albert J. Myer, and had an important role in the American Civil War.
The Army NCO Professional Development Ribbon is a green ribbon inches (35 mm) wide. It has a center strip of inch (6 mm) of Flag Blue, bordered by inch (2 mm) stripes of yellow. Equidistant from the edge and center stripes on each side are inch (3 mm) stripes of yellow. The green and yellow of the ribbon represent the chevrons worn by NCOs.