Target Audience: Spouses of Nominative Command Sergeants Major (CSM) and Sergeants Major (SGM) attending the Nominative Leader Course (NLC).
Location: USAWC, Carlisle Barracks, PA
Duration: 1 week
Offered: Three times per year
Overview: Held in conjunction with NLC, the NSS promotes Total Force Readiness by preparing nominative sergeants’ major spouses for the opportunities and challenges of assuming informal leadership and advisory roles at the senior executive level. NSS represents an investment by the Army into the important unofficial role nominative spouses fill within organizations and for the Army at large.
NSS uses a small group, round-table format to encourage open discussion and debate of nominative spouse issues and opportunities. Participants engage with Army and civilian subject matter experts (SMEs) detailing leadership strategies, skills for both personal and community resiliency, and current Army plans, policies and initiatives, as well as interact with senior nominative spouse mentors. Sessions include experience-based vignettes, hands-on role playing, and take-away reference materials to assist nominative spouses in every facet of their lives. Attendees are encouraged to question and discuss topic areas or other areas of interest with the SMEs.
Nominative spouses are afforded the opportunity to attend NSS when their service member attends NLC
Funding for spouse travel (airfare or POV mileage) is provided at government expense by the Army Strategic Education Program (ASEP) office; spouses are not authorized to receive per diem while attending the course.
Course Details available at: https://apps.armywarcollege.edu/asep/nlc/nss/login.aspx