Screaming Eagle Soldiers Attend CORE Recon Digital Assessment Tool Training

FORT CAMPBELL, KY - Soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) G6 team attended an instructional course facilitated by CORE Recon at Fort Campbell, Ky., March 01, 2023. The course instructed leaders on the CORE assessment tool, a digital assessment used to facilitate better professional relationships and assist leaders in how to communicate with members of their teams.

“We just teach people how to use temperament theory through a digital tool to help understand themselves and understand other people so they can connect better with one another,” said Alex Hail, one of the founding members of CORE Recon. “Connection to us equates with building trust. The better we connect, the more trust we tend to build with people.”

Throughout the process of the training, G6 soldiers were shown how they can implement the digital training platform tool, and how they can share the tool with others in their units and personal lives. The CORE Recon assessment tool has been utilized by the military on a small scale, primarily by the Chaplain’s Corps for over a decade, with very positive results.

“Prior to retirement I was introduced to the principles of CORE Recon and felt like the tool that came along with that was a tool that the Army needed,” said Bobby Whitlock, an independent contractor with CORE Recon and retired Army chaplain. “I spent my last years in the Army trying to introduce it to commanders and leaders at every level.”

After setting up a personal profile, soldiers take a word bank style assessment that takes about five minutes to complete. Based on the results of the assessment they are assigned a four letter sequence that reflects how the participant’s temperament impacts their personality.

“It’s not the end all be all, but it helps you understand a person in a very quick way, which is one of the unique things about what we do,” said Hale. “In just a few minutes you can get right down to ‘all right, these are the things that are important to me, this is how I operate’. It’s very practical information."

The goal of the CORE Recon training team is to provide the information for senior and junior leaders in the Army, so they can be self-sustaining in implementing the program in their own units. “Our mission is to help soldiers and families,” said Hale. “We hope that we can help soldiers and families both from a saving lives perspective, and by making the complex simple.”

Article by SGT Caleb Pautz, 40th PAD