LONGRIFLEs WEEKLYA  publication  of  the  2/138th  FAR

UBIQUE. It’s Latin for “Everywhere”, and is the motto of Great Britain’s Royal Regiment of Artillery. Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem with that title about the Royal Artillery in the Boer War. !e Royals’ experience in the Boer War mirrors the FA experience in the

Global War On Terror; non-standard deployments, constant changes in mission and focus, along with a steep learning curve for leaders and subordinates alike.A large portion of 2nd BN is wrapping up a third mobilization in the last 10 years; Noble Eagle, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom. We haven’t been allowed to bring our cannons yet. If we aren’t "ring rounds, why mobilize? I think that in the last decade, the DOD has found that the National Guard brings enormous capability to the table, because for every Guard Artilleryman they mobilize, they are also mobilizing a carpenter, or forkli# driver, or accountant. What better force to mobilize for a non-standard mission than one who has capabilities far beyond their MOS pool?BTRY 4 Fire for E$ect? Done. Landowners in Afghanistan? Done. Convoy and detainee security in Iraq? Done . Recover/Stabilize a#er a tornado/%ood/ice storm? Done. Train local troops all over Africa? Done. Repair a local clinic? Done. Guard a gate here and there? Done and Almost Done.Maybe more so than any other force, I think we "t the Brits’ motto. We are everywhere. Blackbeard 6 out.~ Capt. Sta!ord

CPT’s Corner

Sexual assault is a reccurring issue that is front page news in the military today. I heard numerous gripes and complaints about attending the SHARP training and that is the wrong attitude. We as Soldiers must be proactive in combating this.

Don’t be afraid to report it; don’t be afraid of a commander’s potential reprimand or possible retaliation by reporting. If a commander fails to act, then he is a liability to any mission and isn’t worth the paper his/her commission was written on. Too many senior leaders worry about the reaction from the next man on the totem pole. If you are doing the right thing, then don’t worry about the next guy. !is is a problem and we have to stop it. So the next time you whine and cry about attending another SHARP training, think about if an assault happened to your loved ones or a battle buddy. !e training is designed and implemented not to be burden to you, but to educate you and inform you on a serious problem and ways to prevent it. We are our brother’s/sister’s keeper and this behavior cannot and will not be tolerated. ~ 1st Sgt. Sean Russell

1SG !oughts

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OCS Insructor Leaves a Major Mark on His Soldiers

Story and photo by Capt. Daniel Van Horn, 2-138th FAR PAO

May 25, 2013Volume 1, Issue 31

CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – If you’ve ever wondered what a typical weekend is like for National Guard Soldiers attending O&cer Candidate School (OCS), simply watch an episode of the History Channels’ “Surviving the Cut: Ranger School” and multiply the amount of exercise in the episode by a factor of 10.OCS is one weekend a month for 18 months and a two-week summer session that combine for one huge course of instruc-tion. For the Kentucky Army National Guard, it’s conducted every two years from March to August of the following year at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center (WHFRTC), in Central City, Ky.A#er completing the course the candidates have earned the title of 2nd Lieutenant and are commissioned as o&cers during a pinning ceremony. !e school is both mentally and physically exhausting and is designed to stress candidates to the maximum, so if they are ever in combat they will have learned how to work through the stress and still be able to lead.!e course is managed by the 238th Training Battalion which provides Train, Assess, Counsel (TAC) O&cers from around the state to oversee each OCS class from start to "nish.Of all the Task Force Longri%es o&cers currently in the bat-talion, 23 have completed OCS, and many of them can tell you about one TAC o&cer in particular, Major Joseph Sallee. A native of Lexington, Ky., Sallee has been in the National Guard for 26 years and will tell you that the fondest memories of his career were while he was a TAC o&cer for OCS.“I loved being a TAC instructor because we were working with the best and brightest the Kentucky National Guard had

Chaplain Re"ections“Slow down. Take a deep breath. What’s the hurry? Why wear yourself out? Just what are you a#er anyway?” Jeremiah 2:25(MSG)Have you ever been in such a hurry you missed the good in life, lost sight of what is important? I am reminded of a story.

!ere once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in a hay stack in his barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had great sentimental value for him. A#er searching high and low; he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside his barn. He promised whoever found it would be rewarded.Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not "nd the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up looking for his watch, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance.!e farmer looked at him and thought, “Why not?”A#er a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! !e farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.!e boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”A peaceful mind can think better than a worked up mind. Allow a few minutes of silence to your mind every day, and see how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you expect it to be! ~ Chaplain Mark Slaughter

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to o$er. Sure the hours were long, but nothing is more re-warding than to see the Soldiers you have mentored for 18 months graduate and pin on their butter bar.” He continued, “Soldiers to this day come up to me and tell me how proud they were to have gone through the program and complete it, how tough it was.”In addition to his requirements with the National Guard, Sal-lee is also a Lexington Police Department veteran with over 14 years of experience and attributes much of his success in the military to his time with the department.1st Lt. Oscar Ortiz, a native of Bowling Green, Ky., and gradu-ate of the OCS 51-09 class recalls seeing Sallee as his TAC in-structor for the "rst time while he was bear-crawling around the Tree of Woe (ask any OCS candidate about this for more information).“Maj. Sallee stopped by and asked for volunteers to lead a se-nior OCS group on a 2-mile run, since anything was better than the current situation, I immediately volunteered.”Ortiz remembers that out of all the TAC instructors he was by far the strictest, “He never allowed you to take a shortcut and that has stayed with me throughout my career.”

Photo of the Week!

CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti - Sgt. Cameron Barrientos and Sgt. Ryan Stull were each presented a Horn of Africa Senior Enlisted Coin on May 24, 2013, for their quick-thinking and selfess e$orts during a real-life emergency in Ethiopia. (Photo by Sta$. Sgt. Steve Tressler)

Quotations to live by...• “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good

commander.” -Aristotle• “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”

- Brian Tracy• “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is

not enough; we must do.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” - Booker T. Washington

CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti -12 Task Force Longri%es o&cers team up and ‘order’ their former O&cer Candidate School Instructor, Maj. Joseph Sallee, to do push-ups. !e o&cers said Sallee was always making them ‘push’ in OCS. Push-ups are famously known throughout all military branches as a form of punish-ment for bad behavior. (Photo by Sgt. Alexa Becerra, 2-138th PAO)