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August 15, 2019
Belvoir Warrior Transition Brigade Soldier New Army chief of staff sworn in Friday, says flourishes at people DoD Warrior Games the fight taking care of key to winning cause your arms are not your legs By Mary Therese Griffin credits his –it’s father inspiring himbody. to join By Sean Kimmons Army Warrior Care and Transition all for arms and upper I’m the military.pretty much limited from the chest Army News Service After high school, McConville It’s hard, but once Ileft got Quincy, fitted in en. James McConville smiled as he gt. 1st Class Jay Martin, a up. a suburb of Boston, and attended the U.S. the bike, I realized I have to get in reminisced of when he wasplayer chosenin the Army’s trumpet Military Academy, where he graduated in there and keep going, because practo lead the 101st Airborne Division Old Guard Fife and Drum 1981. Sincetice then, hisperfect,” 38-year career has makes said Martin. (Air Assault), before Corps, he became its admits longest-he was openly never been marked with milestones and key asHe won a bronze medal for his serving commander. really athletic. “I was not athletic signments. classification in hand cycling for It was the same week in 2011 he comuntil my mid-forties and I started McConville has led multiple units in comTeam Army at this year’s Departmissioned his eldest son into Army believe it or racing BMXthe bicycles, ment of Defense Warrior Games after he graduatednot,” as an saidROTC Martin.cadet bat before most recently serving as the 36th Tampa. Martin about the vice chief of under Gen.knew Mark Milley, from Boston College. Biking was his new hobby un- instaff games before his accident butJoint now who will be the next chairman of the But, perhaps thetil most proud was an accident Jan.his 6, 2018, at an realized he could participate. He exof Staff. He also oversaw the Army’s father, a former enlisted who Martin had Chiefs indoorSailor bike park. knew implains whylegislative he believes the Warrior G-1 (personnel) liaison ofserved in the Koreanmediately War and on then spentthat his legs Gamesand impact are important. fices. nearly 50 years working at the Boston were not going to be the same. After T h e he i d e a o“Just f s e rlike v i n gsports t h e care o u nimportant try was Gear factory. immediate surgery he learned for kids with developing personality sparked by his father, who, now nearing 90 At Dominique the ceremony, his father, Joe, again. was would never walk andpassionately growth, sports at thisstories point for U.S Army photo by PFC Dixon years old, still shares of askedJune by a23local how he felt through the injured or handicapped individuAs he transitioned Sgt. 1st Class Jay Martin participates in the cycling event in newspaper his time in the military. about his an Family’s Warrior generations of mili-Battalion at als is the same kind of thing . . . it Transition Tampa, during the 2019 Department of Defense Warrior Games, amazed that a man who I taryService service.mem- Fort Belvoir, he decided not“Ito was give always shapes development and helps you adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured had tremendous respect for, who had treSixtyteams years ago, he told the and reporter, up on biking used it in his adapbers and veterans. Approximately 300 athletes representing mendous character, just really loved his time he was a junior seaman on a ship. And tive reconditioning. from U.S. and Allied military forces compete in a variety of athletic See Warrior Games,said. page A5 serving in the Navy,” the general today, his son was about to command a competitions. “Hand cycling is different, beCurrently with three children and a sonPhoto by Sean Kimmons famed Army division and his grandson in-law in the Army, McConville and his wife, Gen. James McConville, then Army vice chief of staff, was now a second lieutenant. Maria, a former Army officer herself, are con“’What a great country this is,’” McCoswears in recruits during a break in the Army-Navy tinuing the Family business. football game in Philadelphia, Dec. 8. McConville, who nville recalled his father saying. “I don’t think I could have said it better.” was sworn in as the Army’s 40th chief of staff Aug. 9, McConville, who was sworn in as the graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1981. See Chief of Staff, page A4 to senior with each of the military Credentialing, along with bachelor’s degrees Army’s 40thNCOs chief ofworking staff Friday, said he who attended the Sergeants Ma- centers of excellence to provide changes to promotion jor Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. technical skill training equitable to Partners Meeting at O’ Club boards, helps ensure the Dailey said the Army will provide academic skills. Soldiers with some college credit or “We thought we need to build on best are promoted and professional credentialing for each that more, because 60 percent of the level of NCO training. Army is combat arms, so what tanretained “The expectation is we give some- gible technical skills do they leave thing back for that service,” By Joe Lacdan By Margaret Steele Dailey with?” he said. said at Belvoir an Association Army News Service Eagle of the U.S. Army breakfast in Washington, Skilled labor required Photo by Luc Dunn, AUSA 26to is say an important day forcited Fort that Belvoir’s progress be able that Dailey 80 percent of he Army could add to its D.C. “Not just ugust Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel and future, as the long-awaited, new Lieber Gate opens for record retention numbers by you served and sacrificed, but (get- American jobs require skilled labor, Dailey speaks about retention Walker Gate closes for bridge reconstrucresults.August That’s 23 what and that Soldiers can become pro- and academic credentialing at the providing more incentive for ting) tangible traffic. tion. When Lieber opens, the hours at Tulley Gate, Fort Belvoir’s force AUSA Institute of Land Warfare Soldiers to stay on duty, the ser- we owe to the American people–is a ductive members of the work current 24-hour andproductruck gate, will only be open from 6 a.m. to better product, to be more after leaving the Army. vice’s top enlisted leader said. breakfast in Arlington, June 26. 6 p.m., weekdays. “There is a great opportunity The Army has been testing a pilot tive in their hometowns.” Photo by Gail Cureton Commercial truck installation will switch, once Dailey said the Army hastraffic been into forthe many of our Soldiers to fulfill program for academic credentialing late civilian-sector Maj.those Gen. to Omar Jones, com- skills, Lieber opens, from Tulley to Lieber. At the new access control at Fort Hood, Texas, and plans to working out the finer points of the the ranks of those skilled labor re- which we had not manding general, done.” JFHQ-NCR/ point, there are dedicated truck inspection lanes toward the right. to ensure higher quality quirements in our hometowns of extend the program to several ma- program Last discusses year, withthe theimportance help of ConMDW, Drivers who enter Fort Belvoir through Lieber Gate will then be jor installations by the end of 2019, training for Service members and America, and they have the tangible gress and the Army Continuing of collaboration during the PartMeade Road, where they can turnDailey left onto how agencies will get payskills,” said.Gunston “We justRoad need to to Education said Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel decidingon System, the Army ners’ Luncheon, Tuesday at the crereachprogram Fort Belvoir’s South or right toward North Post, the will also bePost; make it official. Dailey. The Army plans to spread ment. The ated the credentialing assistance O’ Club. Attendees learned Photo by Paul Lara school, Exchange and Commissary. to National Guard and “We saw the opportunity to be the program to all installations in available about the upcoming gate access Lieber Gate is scheduled to open Aug. 26, Army Reserve members. able to capitalize on the great skills fiscal year 2020. changes, military medicalpage readi- A8 See Credentialing, allowing access North Fort Belvoir and transSee have Liebernow, Gate, page A7 Recently, the to Army provided 110 from Dailey said the Army has been our Soldiers ness and other items of interest. Richmond Highway.
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