• If you haven't already, Take a writing class. English Comp will do.
• Take a creative writing class;. it forces effective, vivid writing skills...
• WRITE!!! The more you do it, the better you get.
• Ask for HELP, the only person looking out for #1 is you.
• The only person looking out for your troop is YOU!
• Use various writing resources like Merriam-Webster Online
• Use a spell checker.  F7 works real fast in MS Word.
• Remember, Writing doesn't have to win to reward.

• Military Writing is different from Civilian writing. Wrong! Sentence structure, subject-verb-predicate, remains the same.
• I don't have to write until I am a (fill in a Rank). Wrong! If you haven't learned by now, most people are lazy! If you can give your supervisor a package, group of accomplishments, etc. the better off you will be.
• Each service branch has a different way to write. Wrong! Writing is writing. Each branch may look for a specific structure, but ultimately it follows Action-Impact.

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