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    ‘Durable’ Single Soldiers work towards building strong bonds

    Team Building

    Photo By Staff Sgt. Walter Carroll | Single Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade take a group photo...... read more read more

    KANSAS CITY, KS, UNITED STATES

    12.06.2019

    Story by Sgt. Walter Carroll 

    1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade

    KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Got your 6, or in the case of a group of Single Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, got your back. This was a phrase often heard during a recent Unit Ministry Team, Strong Bonds event, which was hosted by the Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, Kansas. Dec. 4 through Dec. 6.

    While there, the Soldiers were taught more about their personalities and the personalities of others. They were also taught more about communicating with their leaders and subordinates, as well as different communication skills that can potentially help them in personal relationships, current and future.
    Staff Sgt. Joshua Harvey, a religious affairs specialist with the 1IDSB, facilitated the event and conducted the training.

    “The strong bonds program is a government program funded by the Chief of Chaplains Office and is designed to help strengthen relationships of couples, families, and to help single Soldiers,” Harvey said. “It gives them things to look out for whenever they get into a relationship.”

    According to the training material provided during the event, there are six personality types that correspond to the primary color wheel and reflect a certain need. These needs differ from the need for accomplishment, attention and excitement, power and control, order, harmony, and approval.
    Harvey shared how he felt about using the color wheel to understand personalities.

    “The primary color tool is one of the biggest things used in the class because it gives them [the Soldiers] a different perspective on not just their personality trait, but also on other people’s personality traits,” Harvey said. "So, that in the future they know that whenever they’re clashing with somebody, they can look for those traits.”

    Sgt. Rogelio Vazquez, a nodal network systems operator/maintainer with the 1IDSB, participated in the training and reflected on how he felt it will benefit him as a leader as well as his Soldiers.

    “It [the training] helps us greatly as leaders when we communicate with our Soldiers because that’s what we’re supposed to do — communicate with our Soldiers,” Vazquez said. “As far as our Soldiers, it [participating in the training] will show them that we are trying. Trying to help them, and communicate better with them to make for a better work environment.

    As Vazquez continued to share his views on communication he reflected on both his professional and personal lives.
    “With the military, it is essential to have good communication,” Vazquez said. “To get any mission done you need to be able to communicate your intentions and what you want the outcome to be. For my personal life, that’s how we get to know everybody, we communicate. I feel that most of the conflicts come from not being able to communicate properly what your thoughts are and feelings to the other person."

    Although the event was meant for Single Soldiers, one of the Soldiers in attendance was a geographical bachelor.
    Sgt. Destiny Kendall, an intelligence analyst with the 1IDSB who earned the rank of sergeant this past August, is not a Single Soldier, however, she is a geographical bachelor. Kendall shared how she felt the training helped her as a new leader, and as a new wife who has only seen her husband a few times since getting married due to a recent deployment and separate duty stations.

    “We got married in January,” Kendall said. “I want to say I saw him three times this year.”
    “As a leader, the training helped me because I had an opportunity to learn my personality and learn what my ticks are so that way I can try to work on them for myself,” Kendall said. Also, I can identify what color, or what personality my Soldiers are and then learn to communicate and try to teach them things through that [the training] and work in ways that are more helpful to them, because everyone learns differently and everyone’s personality is different so what makes someone tick, I could learn that and then know where to draw the boundaries, where to draw the line.”

    Kendall added, “Marriage-wise, I think the same thing, It [the training] helps me learn about who I am, things that are good about me and things that are not so good, and what my pitfalls are. I can try to work on them for my marriage. I can identify in my husband too, what color he is (on the primary color tool) and what personality he has. I’m a red and my husbands a yellow. In my relationship I feel like, together we’re both a green because we have to learn to communicate and work together instead of me always being in charge, because we’re partners."
    For Soldiers interested in participating in future events, Harvey recommends they visit their Unit Ministry Team. They can also visit the Strong Bonds website to search for different events and opportunities.

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    Date Taken: 12.06.2019
    Date Posted: 12.16.2019 20:21
    Story ID: 355641
    Location: KANSAS CITY, KS, US
    Hometown: OXNARD, CA, US

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