it's really a question for tradoc. but as chief of the army reserve, i've had this question with both the current command for tradoc and past. i've had discussion with the chief. so my opinion is, and this actually is two and a half years ago, i'm having breakfast with the general and he asked me, jeff, what did multicomponents fail? this will get to you. i said, a couple ropes. one i said the culture is the army. and the second is, it was just too hard to integrate. we've addressed a lot of those unintegrated processes over the last 13 years of fighting. but think about executive education. the best way to learn, and to change the culture of a large organization like the army, to make it a total force culture versus an ac centered culture is education. you need to have a one-school system where the faculty, active guard and reserve, in the student body are active guard and reserve. my opinion to the chief is, yes, we can get some operational functional commands, but the better place to put the energy is on multi-compo

army training and doctrine command, or tradoc. to our knneutral, nonpartisan podium. when they were directors of the national security agency. and, of course, the honorable chuck hagel, secretary of defense. at a time when our world is facing a multitude of challenges, a council seeks a better -- to better prepare ourselves and our children for the 21st century environment. general perkins graduated from the u.s. military and was commissioned in 1980. he completed the ranger and airborne schools and served in the sirmts from platoon leader to staff positions. his distinguished career included command of the fourth infantry at ft. carson from 2011 into 2014. in 2003, general perkins commanded the invasion of iraq. his unit was the first across the border and first to enter the downtown government areas of baghdad. the general is featured in the book thunder run, the armored strike to capture baghdad. he received the silver star for his part in that invasion. on march 14th, 2014, general perkins assumed command of trade ok. in 1988, he received a masters of science degr

thinking, you know what, maybe we ought to have a concept -- not all armies do -- they don't have a tradoc, some say that's a good thing. but they'll decide that. but we need to have a concept. we need to thing long term about what it is we do. we're being asked, actually, to go over to europe, many of us, to sit down with them and run through this intellectual exercise we're going through. it's not only valuable for them, but for the u.s. we're never going to do anything alone. this is a joint and coalition world. the army's never going to do anything as an army, single service. we'll have a joint role. you see the word joint in everything. the word joint is probably more prevalent than the word army in our document here. and the idea of a coalition is prominent, because there are very few things the united states is going to do by itself. what we don't do is focus on what you have to do is avoid some of the pitfalls, again, sometimes army folks have, which is the way we're going to get along is you just act like the army. well, that's not how they do things. okay? they do things differen