MISSION: The 205th Regiment coordinates and supervises leader training for Officer Candidate Schools (OCS) and Noncommissioned officer education system programs within Total Army School System (TASS), conducts regional OCS Phase III consolidated training and provides command and control for Washington Army National Guard school battalions.

This mission statement requires that we perform and/or accomplish the following:

Staff supervision of:

• All faculty training courses not proponent/MOS aligned.

• Standardization of conduct of NCOES among the NCOES/NCOA BNs.

• OCS coordination for TASS.

• All formal school training within the Washington Army National Guard.

• Certification of ITC/TAITC instructors.

• Compilation, coordination and presentation of SMDR data.

• Develop and publish policy, plans, SOPs and MOAs.

• Coordinate, direct, resource and conduct OCS Phase III consolidated training for.

• Ensure proper proponent SME coordination of new TASS organizations.

• Provide quality assurance (QA) for leadership courses.

• Coordinate issues and resolutions to problems between agencies and/or organizations affecting leadership training in the region or with OCS Phase III training.

• Moderate/coordinate USAR and ARNG NCOES interface and cooperation.

• Act as the intermediary between the battalions and the Regional Coordinating Element (RCE) or National Guard Bureau (NGB).

• Develop the Regimental Mission Essential Task List (METL).

• Access the Army's Automated Training Requirement Resource System (ATRRS) to monitor student load, instructor utilization and school capacity for leadership courses.

• Coordinate leadership courses, TDA structure and OCS Phase III with the six other leadership regiments, OCS battalions, RCEs, NGB, Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and the United States Army Infantry School (USAIS).

• Command and control the WA ARNG General Studies battalion.

Our mission in the 205th Regiment for the remainder of the 21st century will continue to be challenging and exciting. Under the Total Army School System (TASS), soldiers from all components of "America's Army" are working and training together while meeting the same standards. As full partners in this force, the Army National Guard has incurred additional responsibilities and our soldiers must be better prepared than ever before. As members of the 205th Regiment, our task is to fully commit to the continuing goal of producing highly trained, professional soldiers with the leadership talents and individual skills to necessary to accomplish their varied missions in peace and win on the battlefield. To master this challenge we must:

• Establish a flexible, efficient organization that is responsive to the needs of our units and soldiers, provides the necessary guidance and supervision for our subordinate units, and serves as a positive example for the rest of our country.

• Ensure all instruction meets or exceeds standards in order to guarantee our soldiers will be trained to the highest possible extent and their time is not wasted.

• Ensure quality, professional instruction for all courses, incorporating current technologies and multifaceted lesson delivery methods such as computer lessons, distant learning, video teleconferencing, distributive training, etc to augment the learning process.

• Train the way we fight maintaining battle focus to demonstrate to students how their training and new skills are applied in the conduct of war.

• Maximize time and resources to increase individual training for soldiers to allow their parent units to focus on collective training which will correspondingly increase their unit readiness while decreasing the unit's work load in tracking and training those individual tasks.

• Establish a professional, formal military school environment for staff and cadre as well as students attending any course that we conduct or for which we are responsible, setting an example for other schools to emulate.

• Institute/augment staff development and competency training to ensure the members of the Regiment and our WA ARNG units can lead and teach effectively.

To realize this vision we must lead the way, dedicating ourselves to the ideals of teamwork, quality and service to the soldier, while always maintaining the high standards, dedication and commitment to excellence that are the trademarks of professional soldiers.