Moving On To The Netherlands
Well my time as the 1SG of HHC, 171st Infantry Brigade at Fort Jackson, South Carolina is over and it is time to move to my next assignment. I will be the 1SG of A Co, Brunssum, Netherlands as of July...
View ArticleHaving Pride In What You Do
I have always stressed to my Soldiers that they should have pride in everything they do. Whether it is in their personnel life or professional life. The Army is a great organization and yes it comes...
View ArticleLiving And Working In The Netherlands
For those of you that do not know we have some bases in the Netherlands. I did not know this until I started working at the AG Proponent a few years back. I am now stationed at the Joint Forces Center...
View ArticleTaking Advantage Of Overseas Assignments
I know many of you out there have been assigned to an overseas location and they can be challenging, but they can also be a great experience. Being stationed here in the Netherlands has and will give...
View ArticleWorking In a NATO Unit
Happy Holidays to everyone, I hope that you had a great Christmas and that you have a better New Year! Today I want to tell you how it is to work in a NATO unit. If you did not know the Army has...
View ArticleMy Army Career In Review
Hey everyone, hope your new year is going well. I just wanted to take a little time to reflect on my career as I am entering my 18th year (as of March 2.) Well lets see, I enlisted into the Army on 2...
View ArticleWhy It Is Great To Live Overseas
Hello everybody, I just wanted to tell you why it is great to live overseas with your family. I have a 14 year old daughter and a 12 year old son, and a 3 year old son. The 14 year old and 12 year old...
View ArticleWarrior Tasks And Battle Drills In NATO
Hello again, it has been a while since I posted something and that is because my company and the battalion have been very busy putting together our annual Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills training...
View ArticleCompletion of Our Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills Training- NATO
Hi there, I last talked about our upcoming Battalion Warrior Tasks and Battle Drills training exercise. We conducted the training exercise last week Mar 14-16 and it was a big success. The battalion...
View ArticleWhat A Great Feeling
Hi again, yesterday I experienced one of the greatest feelings a NCO can have. The SFC selection list was released yesterday and when I reviewed it to see if any of my current NCOs had made it, I...
View ArticleVisiting Soldiers In Norway
My company is the most disbursed in US NATO Brigade as I have Soldiers in four different countries. My company has 86 Soldiers and we have them in Norway, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. I just...
View ArticleMemorial Day Ceremony, Margraten, The Netherlands
TodayI was a beautiful day to attend the Memorial Day Ceremony at the Margraten, The Netherlands American Military Cemetary. This cemetary is the final resting place for 8, 301 military service...
View ArticleNRDC Family Day in Munster, Germany
I have seven personnel assigned to my company that work in Munster, Germany for the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps (NRDC), this is an international unit that has about 450 international Soldiers assigned...
View ArticleUSANATO Brigade's Ultimate Warrior Competition
Hi again, today I will be talking about the USANATO Brigade's Ultimate Warrior Competition also known as the Soldier and NCO of the Year. This is the second year that they have ran this training and...
View ArticleNCOs-Back to the Basics
Hello to everyone, the past month our senior leadership has been briefing us and talking about the Army Values and how NCOs need to go back to the basics. At first I was a little confused and was not...
View ArticleArmy Values- LOYALTY
Hello, I am doing a series of blogs in which I talk about each of the seven Army Values, what they should mean and what they mean to me. Obviously the first one I am going to talk about is Loyalty....
View ArticleArmy Values- DUTY
Continuing my blog series on the seven Army Values, I will now talk about Duty, the Army defines it as to Fulfill your obligations. Doing your duty means more than carrying out your assigned tasks....
View ArticleArmy Physical Readiness Test- a Family Affair
The USANATO Brigade (my brigade) was chosen to be one of the test units for the new Army Physical Readiness Test (APRT), so this past week in Brunssum we gave and took the APRT to about 25 personnel....
View ArticleArmy Values-Respect
Continuing with my Army Values series today I am talking about Respect, respect to me means being respectful to your seniors, your peers, subordinates and the Army. Being respectful means listening...
View ArticleNATO Intermediate NCO Course- Command Relationships
I am a little late on blogging about this being that the briefing was on 22 July, but here it is. Switzerland is a member of the Partnership for Peace, and they have established an NCO school in...
View ArticleArmy Values- SELFLESS SERVICE
In my continuing series on the Army Values, today I am talking about Selfless Service. To me this me giving yourself to the Army and if the mission comes first above all else. The Army mission has to...
View ArticleAnnual Turkey Bowl in the Netherlands
Hello everyone, hope you are having a great Thanksgiving! Today in Brunssum, The Netherlands players from my battalion and I played in the Annual Turkey Bowl flag football game. Our opponents were the...
View ArticleUSANATO Brigade's Ultimate Warrior Competition 2012.. the winner is.....
I am back, it has been a while since I have posted due to being very busy lately. I am posting today to talk about this year's USANATO Brigade's Ultimate Warrior Competition (NCO and Soldier of the...
View ArticleVeteran's Day Remembrance
In honor of Veteran's Day this year our battalion commander decided that we would have ASU day to honor all of those veteran's past and present for all of thier sacrifices to keep our great country...
View ArticleLife as an Equal Opportunity Advsor
Hello, it has been a long time since I posted on here, have been very busy over the last few years and am now going to get back into writing these stories. The last few years have found me going back...
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