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As Public Health Service Officers and America’s Health Responders, we stand ready to preserve public health and national security during national or global health emergencies. Our mission is to be out the door as soon as requested, as this is an “all hands on deck” situation. All Corps officers were placed on involuntary deploy or "alert" status effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, irrespective of the 'on-call month' status. Under Commissioned Corps Directive 121.02, "Deployment and Readiness," as directed by Assistant Secretary for Health, Commissioned Corps Headquarters will deploy Commissioned Corps officers assigned to HHS OpDivs/StaffDivs, either voluntarily or involuntarily and without supervisory approval, who are not considered mission critical, for deployments, under the current National Emergency. Mission critical requests sent to CCHQ are not final until the request is approved by the CCHQ Director as per the POM 821.76 ”Deployment Procedures”. An officer with a non-HHS organization may be deployed in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding between the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the non-HHS organization.
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Training
Command General Staff Officer Course - (CGSOC)
Effective February 2020, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College to authorize Commissioned Corps Headquarters to send officers to participate in the U.S. Army Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC).
BACKGROUND
The CGSOC is one of the oldest and largest military leadership courses for senior O-3s and junior O-4s to assist in transitioning Public Health Service officers from a tactical-level focus to an operational-level perspective. The goal of the CGSOC is to: Educate and train field grade leaders to serve as staff officers and commanders with the ability to build teams, lead organizations, and integrate unified land operations with joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational partners in complex and uncertain environments.
PURPOSE
The Commissioned Corps Headquarters has been granted training seats for the CGSOC. Selected Commissioned Corps officers have the option to attend the course at one of the four satellite campuses (Fort Belvoir, VA; Fort Lee, VA; Fort Gordon, GA; and Redstone Arsenal, AL). The satellite course is a full-time, 14-week course, requiring on-site attendance. There is no tuition associated with this training; however, travel costs associated with residential versions of the course will be negotiated during registration.
Command and General Staff Officer Course consists of courses offered in an experiential learning environment which yields adaptive, self-aware, field-grade leaders of character and competence who are capable of shaping the joint operational environment.
OBJECTIVES
The Core Course curriculum includes eight blocks of instruction:
- Foundations
- Strategic Context of Operational Art
- Unified Action
- Operational Art & Planning
- Managing Army Change
- History: Rise of the Western Way of War
- Leadership: Developing Organizations and Leaders
- Apply U.S. Army Doctrine
The Foundations block establishes a foundation and sets the conditions for all subsequent learning within the Command and General Staff Officers' Course Common Core and elective courses.
The Strategic Context of Operational Art block introduces students to the joint, interagency and multinational environment and the doctrinal and theoretical concepts required to perceive, understand, and analyze strategic-level military problems and challenges.
The Unified Action block helps students to understand the strategic and operational level joint force capabilities and limitations, operational level joint force capabilities, national, and legal considerations. It includes an examination of the roles, functions, capabilities, and limitations of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army, U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF), U.S. Space Forces, interagency capabilities and issues, multinational considerations, and operational legal issues.
The Operational Art & Planning block integrates U.S. Army doctrinal concepts and principles as they apply to tactical units executing full-spectrum operations through participation in classroom discussions and practical exercises. These lessons require students to recognize that one's understanding of an operation, situation, or problem involves a mental process or model, and helps them analyze complex problems, determine requirements, capabilities, and shortfalls, and to then develop feasible plans for developing and executing solutions.
The Managing Army Change block serves to familiarize students with the higher-level (strategic) agencies and the complex/interdependent force management processes used to change the Army to meet DoD transformation and the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review goals of the contemporary operational environment.
The History: Rise of the Western Way of War block covers the history of the evolution of warfare and its applicability to current military planning. It explores the relationship between war and society from 1300 to the present, and assesses how the social, political, and economic changes in the larger society force changes within military organizations.
The Leadership block introduces students to the challenges of organizational leadership in a changing and uncertain environment. It also focU.S.es on the concept of leadership styles and their underlying theories or strategies. Specifically, students discuss the relationship between leadership style, climate, and performance, and then conclude with a discussion to develop an understanding of the complexities of leading a change management process.
The Apply U.S. Army Doctrine block focuses on two primary doctrinal subjects: What the Army does: Unified Land Operations and How the Army does it: Mission Command. These lessons will build further on the previous blocks of instruction. This theme of instruction will address significant portions of each of the six Joint Learning Areas and Objectives of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Officer Professional Military Education Policy (OPMEP) Learning Areas for CGSOC.
Throughout the entire Core Course, the student is taught "How to Think" instead of "What to Think" while using the Military Decision-Making Process, thereby enabling him/her to develop focused solutions to entirely new problems that evolve in today's uncertain and volatile world. This is done with a balanced focus on Current Operations, Future Operations, and Planning functions, along with an attempt to teach students how to synchronize actions to attain the effects desire.
Schedule:
August 29 – December 14, 2023
Location:
Fort Belvoir, VA
(Location of training may be subject to change)
Course length:
14 Weeks
Limited to:
5 participants (subject to change)
Ranks Eligible:
O-3 to O-4
Selecting official:
CCHQ Director (w/DSG concurrence)
The officer's agency pays for travel, lodging and per diem. CGSOC pays for training.
Application for Admission opens: May 8, 2023
Application deadline: June 9, 2023
All officers interested in participating this training opportunity must complete an application using the link below.
Command General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC)
Participation in the CGSOC training opportunity is dependent on submission of required documents, supervisor approval, and nomination by the Deputy Surgeon General.
REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS FOR CGSOC PACKET:
- Letter explaining why the officer would be a good fit for the Program, how the officer plans to use the skills/knowledge gained to advance the mission of the Corps, and attesting the officer meet all conditions of service.
- CV
- COER scores for 3 previous years
- Supervisory approval (email or letter)
- Full-length photos in uniform (ODUs and SDBs)
- Standing at attention. Professional photos not required.
- Officers applying must have a valid security clearance and upload their clearance as part of the packet.
- No adverse action & must be basic ready qualified.
REQUIRED ADDITIONAL APPLICATION MATERIALS FOR USPHS LONG-TERM TRAINING PACKET:
With questions on completing the required long-term training forms, please contact your agency liaison: https://dcp.psc.gov/ccmis/PDF_docs/liaison.pdf
If you need additional assistance or clarification, please email phslongtermtraining@hhs.gov using the subject line: "CGSOC Questions".
If the officer's application for training is approved, the officer will receive notification of selection. Notifications may inadvertently be delivered to your email's Spam folder. So please be sure to check there as well.
The application packages and questions for this opportunity must be submitted to phscota@hhs.gov using the subject line: “CGSOC Application”.
Last Updated: 5/17/23