Command and General Staff College Foundation News - 8

PHOTO BY MARK H. WIGGINS

FEATURE

CGSC's School for Command Preparation staff and faculty take a group photo with TRADOC commander Gen. David Perkins (front, left of award), Lt. Gen.
Michael Lundy, commander of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth and CGSC commandant (front, right of award), and Maj. Gen. John Kem
(second row, left) after the ceremony for their Army Superior Unit Award on Dec. 1, in the Lewis and Clark Center.

CGSC '101' -
School for Command Preparation
by Mr. Michael C. Sevcik, School for Command Preparation
Who we are

The School for Command Preparation
(SCP) is one of three schools in the
U.S. Army Command and General Staff
College. The Command and General Staff
School (CGSS) is focused on teaching
the intermediate-level of education to
majors; the School for Advanced Military
Studies (SAMS) produces officers who
possess a world-renown ability to be
creative thinkers and strategic problem
solvers; and SCP is the Army's premier
leader development team for preparing
command teams.
The School for Command Preparation
prepares command teams from company
command level to assistant division
commanding generals, with a principal
focus on the battalion and brigade level
commanders and command sergeants
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major who attend SCP courses of
instruction at Fort Leavenworth.
Leadership in command is unique in that
a very small number of Army leaders are
selected to the privilege of command.
These leaders, especially at the battalion
and brigade level, have an extraordinary
influence on the Soldiers, civilians and
families in their units. This influence
is recognized by the Army leadership
starting at the Chief of Staff and Sergeant
Major of the Army, the Army staff
and twenty senior Army leaders who
trek to Fort Leavenworth monthly for
speaking engagements as part of our PreCommand Course (PCC) curriculum. The
unique legal authority and responsibility
of "command" is codified in Army
Regulation 600-20, which states "the
commander is responsible everything that

happens or fails to happen within their
command."
The SCP faculty is small, but truly
unique at CGSC in several aspects. The
SCP team organization is authorized
23 military, 19 Department of the
Army civilians and several contractors
who focus exclusively on our spouses
programs. With 29 personnel assigned,
the permanent teaching faculty team
consists of active duty (former battalion
commanders) and U.S. Code Title 10
civilian employees (all former brigade
commanders). Additionally, the school's
command sergeant major faculty are all
former battalion/brigade level command
sergeants major.
Another unique aspect of SCP lies
within its curriculum, mission and
learning objectives, which are more in
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