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FUELING SOLDIERS PAGE 14 the Official Magazine of NCO Professional Development From the CSM: Preserving History, NCOs at Natick Help NCO Creed is Our Guide Training Soldiers Improve Soldiers’ Lives PAGE 3 PAGE 22 PAGE 30 VOL. 21, NO. 5 · MAY 2012 FUELING SOLDIERS PAGE 14 The Official Magazine of NCO Professional Development VOLUME 21, NUMBER 5 Editorial Staff DIRECTOR & NCOIC Master Sgt. Antony M.C. Joseph EDITOR David Crozier CONTENTS WRITERS / EDITORS Staff Sgt. Jason Stadel Michael L. Lewis Clifford Kyle Jones Jonathan (Jay) Koester Christy Lattimore-Staple Jennifer Mattson PHOTOGRAPHY & GRAPHICS Sgt. Russel C. Schnaare Spc. Ashley Arnett Published monthly at the May 2012 United States Army Sergeants Major FEATURES Academy 14 Fueling the Soldier Editorial Board NCOs lead the latest efforts to make sure Soldiers have the best tools to gain COMMANDANT, USASMA nutrition knowledge and overcome health hurdles. BY JONATHAN (JAY) KOESTER Command Sgt. Maj. Rory L. Malloy 22 Preserving history, training Soldiers DEPUTY COMMANDANT Command Sgt. Maj. Wesley Weygandt A Fort Benning team works to give armor students a hands-on experience with history. BY CHRISTY LATTIMORE-STAPLE CHIEF OF STAFF Stephen L. Chase 30 Natick: Improving Soldiers’ lives DIRECTOR PERSONNEL & ADMIN. The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Systems Center’s NCOs help develop the best Jesse McKinney possible equipment to put in Soldiers’ hands and on their backs. STAFF REPORT The NCO Journal (ISSN 1058-9058) is published monthly by the U.S. Army DEPARTMENTS Sergeants Major Academy to provide a forum for the open exchange of ideas and information pertinent to the Noncommis- 3 From the CSM sioned Officer Corps; to support training, educa- NCO Creed the guide to our profession tion and development of the NCO Corps; and to BY COMMAND SGT. MAJ. CHRISTOPHER K. GRECA foster a closer bond among its members. Views expressed by individual authors are not neces- sarily the official views of or endorsed by the U.S. 4 In Front Government or the Department of the Army. News and information to help NCOs ‘Be, Know, Do’ The secretary of the Army has determined that the publication of this periodical is necessary in 38 In Action the transaction of the public business as required Stories of NCOs training, maintaining, leading and caring by the law of the department. Funds for printing this publication were approved by the secretary of the Army in accordance with the provisions of 46 From the Field Army Regulation 25-30. Dispatches from around the Army Unless otherwise indicated, material may be reprinted provided credit is given to the author and 51 Final Salutes The NCO Journal. Periodicals postage paid at Fort Bliss, Texas, and ON THE COVER: Sgt. 1st Class Elizabeth Yarbrough works on a dish for the additional mailing offices. nutritional hot food challenge during the 37th Annual Military Culinary Arts The NCO Journal Competition at Fort Lee, Va. Yarbrough and her teammate Spc. Tiffany Calma U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy won gold while representing the 602nd Brigade Forward Support Battalion at Attn.: ATSS-SCN, 11268 SSG Sims St. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Fort Bliss, Texas 79918-8004 PHOTO BY JONATHAN (JAY) KOESTER (915) 744-1046 · DSN: 621-1046 http://www.facebook.com/NCOJournal 2 MAY 2012 NCO Creed the guide to our profession BY COMMAND SGT. MAJ. CHRISTOPHER K. GRECA U.S. Army Combined Arms Center ur Army recently undertook an exhaustive from the battlefield to the home station. review of our status as professionals and what We are uniquely suited for this role, and it is embedded that term means for our Soldiers and leaders. in our creed: “I will know my Soldiers and I will always It is no coincidence that this review comes at a place their needs before my own.” This comes through time of great transition in our Army, where de- informed counseling, increased focus on the health and FROM THE CSM Ocreases in budgets, personnel, and operational tempo will welfare of our Soldiers, and a demanding training program present both challenges and opportunities for our force. that instills both pride and esprit de corps. By re-com- While difficult, this era of transition will offer us a mitting ourselves to these time-tested principles, we will chance to build an Army solidified in our core professional solidify the trust necessary to produce a professional force. values of competence, character and commitment. It is an The NCO Creed has been a source of inspiration to opportunity to re-focus NCOs on education and training our corps through other similar periods of transition. (competence), standards and discipline (character), and strengthening the bond of trust within our NCO Corps and our Army (commitment). To guide us through this transition, we need only to look to the NCO Creed. “Competence is my watchword.” This phrase was written into our creed and instilled within our corps fol- lowing a similar transition after Vietnam. It is a source of pride and a standard by which we measure ourselves. To meet our operational mission requirements in the past decade, we have taken necessary risks in our tradi- tional education and training programs. But our status as a professional NCO Corps requires that we now priori- tize these programs — the NCO Education System and other professional development and training programs — to provide young NCOs with the necessary context for their combat experience. Beyond that, a renewed focus on competency further instills within us a clearer under- standing of what it means to be a professional NCO. As NCOs, the Army looks to us to take the lead on the enforcement of standards and discipline to solidify Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher Greca (left), then the command sergeant the character of the profession. Our Soldiers expect it major of the 10th Mountain Division, visits with Soldiers from Task Force and our officers demand it. We are a self-policing pro- Falcon, 10th Combat Aviation Brigade, Jan. 18, 2011, at Bagram Air Field in fession, capable of taking care of our own on both the Afghanistan. PHOTO BY SGT. 1ST CLASS J.R. WILLIAMS battlefield and within garrison. However, as our force has been focused on meeting the With it, we will increase our competence by focusing on mission, there has been erosion of some standards of pro- the education and training of our Soldiers; we will rein- fessional discipline. Where discipline has been worn away force our professional character through increased aware- and standards have become unclear, our role as profes- ness and enforcement of our standards and discipline; sional NCOs is to reaffirm a single standard and enforce it and we will re-energize our commitment to our Army by equally across the Army. This begins with our affirmation continuing the strong bond of trust among our Soldiers to “at all times conduct myself so as to bring credit upon and within the NCO Corps. the corps, the military service and my country.” We have emerged from a decade of conflict as a force committed to each other, our Army and our nation. Our Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher K. Greca is the command Soldiers have developed bonds of trust in combat that will sergeant major of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center last a lifetime. It is important that we transition this trust and Fort Leavenworth, Kan. NCO JOURNAL 3 Sexual assault reporting is up Army officials explain procedures are working BY ROB McILVAINE “This is an all-hands-on-deck endeavor Army News Service that has required the time, talents and trea- sure of the entire force, Congress and subject- n an annual report released last month, matter experts from across our nation to the Army had a slight increase in reported usher in a program for our goal of eradicating Isexual assaults. However, an Army G-1 sexual assault to become a reality.” spokesperson said this slight increase means The Army, he said, is learning more about IN FRONT Soldiers have enough confidence in Army sexual assault, the psychology of assailants programs, the system and their chain of com- and how to treat victims to ensure they’re not mand to come forward and report a crime. victimized twice. News and In the Department of Defense Annual “Whereas we’ve made much progress, Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, the there is much work that remains on three information Army had 1,695 reported cases of sexual as- fronts: removing the stigma of reporting, NCOs need to sault. This was an increase of six cases from securing the trust of victims to ensure they the previous fiscal year, about one-tenth of aren’t victimized twice and ferreting out BE, 1 percent, said Brig. Gen. Barrye L. Price, the would-be and alleged perpetrators,” he said. KNOW, Army G-1’s director of human resources who “Finally, our focus remains on prevention, oversees the Army’s Sexual Harassment and intervention, investigations and prosecutions, DO Assault Response and Prevention program, with an emphasis on victim support and known as SHARP. protection,” Price said. The Army has a goal of eradicating sexual Medical professionals learn how to use the assault completely, but the effort had to begin Sexual Assault Evidence Collection kit Aug. 15 by encouraging reporting and changing the at Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan. PHOTO paradigm, he said. BY SGT. REBECCA LINDER 4 MAY 2012 CAPE completes study, Assault cases to receive releases first report The Center for the Army Profes- sion and Ethic at West Point, N.Y., higher-level attention released the Army Profession campaign’s first report April 2, BY KAREN PARRISH In the past, officials said, a victim in that which provides findings and American Forces Press Service unit might choose not to report an assault recommendations after a year because the commander liked the alleged at- of assessing and reviewing the enior Defense Department officials said tacker more, or because the victim’s perfor- Army profession.
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