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“It’s amazing what’s going on here. I don’t have to tell you how complex it is,” he said. “It’s one of the first things we talk about at the Pentagon every morning.” He also addressed some of the initiatives on the horizon, such as ensuring more certificates and licenses cross over between the military and civilian sectors through the future Army University, ensuring more Soldiers exiting service have smoother transitions to civilian life. He aims to get more courses at the Sergeant Major Academy to earn master’s degree accreditation, and noted the U.S. Army has the most trained and educated enlisted force in the world, even among sister services. He touched on the drawdown, which will see the Army shrink from 490,000 to 450,000 Soldiers in the next few years via standards-based quality assessments. “It will erode trust in our ranks if we tell the wrong Soldier to go home,” he said. But above all, he wants Soldiers to take care of their own and embody the ideal of being a “Soldier for Life” — a “billboard” — to combat the perception among the American public that Soldiers are low-skilled. “Not everyone in America likes a Soldier, but they know in their heart they need a Soldier,” he said. “It’s your job to project that presence every day.”
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Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey speaks to Soldiers at the Tony Bass Auditorium Sept. 8. “We have to take care of Soldiers every day until in the world.” the day they leave,” he said. “That happened to Spc. The stop was part of Dailey’s tour of the USAREUR Dailey in 1992 in Schweinfurt. Someone else saw theater. Dailey took questions from several of the 250 potential in me. You could fire me, you could kick me Soldiers in attendance, ranging from questions about out and I’ll still say this is the greatest organization maternity leave for Soldiers to the promotion process.
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“We realized we were no longer invincible to everyone, and everyone else knew it,” recalled Garrison Commander Col. Mary Martin, who was the keynote speaker. “But we are resilient. We pulled together to forge an unbreakable bond.” Martin took time to message the Strong Europe ethos as a reminder that “freedom isn’t free.” “Bad things happen but we’re ready to combat them together,” she said. “We’re excited to have Gen. Klink here to show our strong partnership with Germany.”
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