Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

11 [2/2] - Dr. Whiteside - Defining the Grey Zones

Naval Postgraduate School

Video by Courtesy

Aug. 19, 2020 | 31:27

Episode 11, Segment 2 of 2 - Defining the Grey Zone
NPS Students Mike Morris and Brian Pajarillo sit down and have a drink with co-author of The Isis Reader – Dr. Craig Whiteside.
This episode was recorded on August 19, 2020.

Dr. Craig Whiteside is an associate professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College as part of the resident program, Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a senior associate with NWC’s Center on Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups and a fellow at the International Centre for Counter-terrorism – The Hague’s and the George Washington University’s program on extremism. He is a co-author of “The ISIS Reader” (Hurst/Oxford-2019). He holds a doctorate in political science from Washington State University and is a former U.S. Army officer.

Areas of Expertise:
Counter-terrorism
Information Operations
Irregular Warfare

Dr. Whiteside’s Publications: usnwc.edu/Publications/Faculty-Publications?filter=Craig%20Whiteside
Email: CaWhites@nps.edu
Faculty Webpage: usnwc.edu/Faculty-and-Departments/Directory/Craig-A-Whiteside
The ISIS Reader Information: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-isis-reader/

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