First Team trains new equal opportunity leaders

Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Leah Kilpatrick | Staff Sgt. James Jamerson, a retransmission team noncommissioned officer assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, calculates the value of the combination of chips he has during a game called "Star Power," during which the students are supposed to try to increase their value by trading red, blue, green, white and gold chips, where each color signifies a certain number of points. At the end of the game, the students realized that the points represented power, and that as people's power increased, they became less and less tolerant and sensitive to those with very little power. This was just one of the practical exercises during the 1st Cavalry Division's Equal Opportunity Leader's Course held from Dec. 8-16.  

FORT HOOD, TX, UNITED STATES

12.10.2014

Story by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick 

1st Cavalry Division

FORT HOOD, Texas — The 1st Cavalry Division Equal Opportunity Office hosted its second iteration of the Equal Opportunity Leader’s Course from Dec. 8 through 16 at the 1st Cavalry Division Soldier and Family Readiness Center at Fort Hood, Texas.

Fort Hood Soldiers usually have to wait until a slot is available in the 30-person III Corps EOL Course, but the First Team office had the assets to run its own, said Lt. Col. Shawana Mcknight-Brazzle, the 1st Cavalry Division EO program manager.

The content of the course is controlled by the Department of the Army and includes discussion on race, prejudice, power and authority, as well as the process of filing an EO complaint.

The First Team EOL Course is open to other units on post as well. The next class is scheduled for Feb. 9-20.

• Date Taken: 12.10.2014
• Date Posted: 12.15.2014 14:19
• Story ID: 150321
• Location: FORT HOOD, TX, US