Individual Augmentation Knowledge Program Launched

The Individual Augmentation (IA) program is a joint-service operation between the Army and the Navy at Fort Jackson, S.C., where the Army is training Sailors to augment their troops on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq. Until the IA Community of Practice (CoP) was launched Feb. 10 on Navy Knowledge Online (NKO), Sailors who received orders to report for IA training or who wanted to request participation in IA had no “one-stop shop” for IA information. The IA CoP has changed that. For example, one link explains the requirements for obtaining orders to Fort Jackson. Another section offers a pre-deployment checklist and another gives cultural information about the countries where IAs are deployed. For more information, click the link that follows and log on to NKO. https://wwwa.nko.navy.mil/portal/page?paf_communityId=co40220014.