Edward Morrell Email & Phone Number

Ft Bragg

I am currently working as an Adaptive Thinking and Leadership Coach at Fort Bragg, NC. I teach skills for adaptive thinking, critical thinking, awareness/avoidance of cognitive traps and biases, rapport building, interpersonal communications while synchronizing verbal and non-verbal skills, leadership development, negotiations, and mediation.I enjoy providing education and rationale for using these skills and developing self-awareness, as well as an awareness of others. It is exceptionally rewarding to coach and mentor Soldiers as they apply these skills in the field environment, in an applied setting. The flexibility to create practical exercises, team dynamics and adaptability challenges for the Soldiers is incredibly rewarding and fun!

Serves as a role player, mentor and tutor for AD focusing on individual and unit training, educational programs, system integration development, and operations support to support requirements in military, government and commercial sectors. We focus on leadership development; modeling and simulations; exercise planning and execution; computer-based training and education; intelligence and information operations; as well as studies and analysis. We train to ensure the end user has full capabilities in utilizing the scenario based exercises to enhance and enable their ability to prepare their operational environment. (OPE) This position requires a secret clearance.

Ft Bragg, Nc

Serves as the Command's Senior Enlisted Advisor for noncommissioned officer Proponent and Career Management of CMF's 18, 37 and 38; responsible for personnel lifecycle functions and professional development models; monitors force fill and structure alignment; develops accessions and recruit mission for each CMF and supports retention incentive programs; oversees promotion board guidance development for the DA Secretariat; serves as focal point for all NCO personnel plans, policies and programs impacting the personnel readiness of Army Special Operations units worldwide; serves as advisor to the Director on all NCO matters.

Served as the Special Operations Task Force Operations Sergeant Major deployed in a combat zone; advised the S3 on all operational, training and personnel management matters; oversaw daily S3 operations and served as the liaison between the battalion and companies for operations, training and support requirements in the USCENTCOM and USSOUTHCOM theaters; assisted, advised and mentored the task force ASO level IIIs and company ASO managers on collection plans and reporting; coordinated directly with the group S3 section for resources, mission requirements and tasking's; developed, implemented and updated regulations and Standard Operating Procedures for SOTF-73 and incorporated 2 Marine Special Operations Companies into the battalion; provided target and intelligence analysis including enemy vulnerabilities in support of more than 500 combat operations; de-conflicted joint battle space with Joint US, other government agencies and foreign military units with 100% mission success.

Served as the Company Sergeant Major for the Special Forces Company responsible for the conduct of Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS) of 3,500 candidate annually and the Special Forces Preparation and Conditioning Course for 900 Soldiers annually; supervised 48 senior NCOs and 5 civilians; provided trained and qualified assessors and instructors for the company which ensured the right candidate was selected for the future fill of the Special Forces Regiment; oversaw the maintenance of equipment worth $4 million; developed the Cadre Training and Selection SOP to ensure the right cadre were selected to be assessors; developed and implemented command directed changes to the SFAS course ahead of schedule, including a complete course revision.

Ft Bragg, Nc

Served as the Company Operations Sergeant responsible for the review, processing and management of all Advanced Special Operations (ASO) training, concepts and schools for a 68 man Special Forces Company; advised the Commander on all aspects of ASO; supervised, planned and prepared the Company to execute ASO and Counter Terrorism Operations in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) within the USSOUTHCOM and USCENTCOM areas of responsibility (AOR); conducted intelligence assessments to counter enemy threat or enemy collection in Paraguay during a Military Liaison Element (MLE); conducted all-source analysis during threat assessment throughout the USSOUTHCOM AOR while working as the MLE Paraguay. As the MLE, worked jointly with OGAs conducting threat assessments, course of action developments and initial intelligence collection on possible future targets in the tri-border region of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina. Developed future target packets focusing on terrorist financial support mechanisms and methods; Developed a training plan for the 63 man Paraguayan Special Forces Counter Terrorist unit. Established a collection plan and interagency reporting procedures enhancing the effectiveness to deter terrorist support cells in Paraguay.

Ft Bragg, Nc

Served as the Operations Sergeant of a Military Free Fall (MFF) Special Forces Detachment A; lead, planned, instructed and advised the Detachment and Host Nation Commanders on light infantry and special operations tactics up to battalion level in both English and Spanish; supervised, planned and prepared the Detachment to execute Special Reconnaissance (SR), Foreign Internal Defense (FID), Unconventional Warfare (UW), Direct Action (DA), and Counter Terrorism (CT) in support of USSOUTHCOM and USCENTCOM objectives. During Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), supervised 10 Advanced Special Operations (ASO) managers at 4 A-Camps which gathered actionable intelligence, conducted analysis and developed target packets resulting in the capture of more than 40 enemy. Developed and implemented the ASO managers collection plan and reporting procedures on ACM and Taliban forces in the Zabul Province of Afghanistan. Organized the Operational Control Element (OCE) at Battalion level which managed over 30 ASO managers conducting intelligence gathering through HUMINT, SIGINT and IMINT to develop the area of responsibility for future targeting.