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November 21, 2019
Belvoir Warrior Transition Soldier INSCOM celebrates newBrigade milestone Project marks 19 partnership flourishes at years DoDplanning, Warrior Games
Charles F. Sardo, INSCOM chief of staff, presided over the ceremony cause your arms not your legs By Mary Therese Griffin and told the audience the day has been in the works forare 19 years. –it’s all upper body. I’m Army Warrior Care and Transition “Today’s ribbon-cutting ceremony marks thearms mostand significant pretty much limited milestone, to date, toward achieving that goal,” said Sardo.from “It isthe chest It’s hard, but oncelike I got fitted in gt. 1st Class Martin, a toup. incredible how manyJay people it takes construct a facility this. the bike, I realized I have to in the Army’s Over trumpet the years,player from the initial collection of requirements, through get in there and keep going, because pracOld Guard Fife and design, Drum and the planning, programming, then finally the construction, tice makes perfect,” said Corps, openly admitshave he was never thousands of people worked together toward this effort.” Martin. He in won bronze medal for his really athletic. “I was not athletic INSCOM moved into the Nolan Building theasummer 1989. By classification in hand cycling for until my‘90s, mid-forties and I started the late personnel growth exceeded the facility’s capability, and Team Army at this year’s Departracing BMX bicycles, believe it orthe continual evolving information INSCOM struggled to incorporate ment of Defense Warrior Games not,” said Martin. technology and personnel into the existing space.Martin In 2000, INSCOM in Tampa. knew about the Biking wastohis new the hobby unbegan efforts expand facility. games before his accident but now til Immediately an accident after Jan. Sept. 6, 2018, at anINSCOM 11, 2001, underwent rapid realized he could participate. He exindoor bike park. Martintoknew im-an operational restructuring and growth become headquarters to meet plains why he believes the Warrior mediately on impact that his legs Enduring the intelligence demands of operations Freedom and Iraqi Games are important. were not going to be the same. After space Freedom. The growth drove immediate requirements, INSCOM “Just like sportsforced are important immediate surgery he learned to add staff to the Nolan Building,he and acquire off-post lease. personality for kidsan with developing would again. Maj.never Gen. walk Jeffrey L. Milhorn, commanding general, U.S. and growth, sports at Atlantic this point for As he transitioned through the injured handicapped Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, notedor this was a great individuWarrior Transition Battalion at is als isproud the same kind of thingto. . . it collaboration of partnership and he very of the teamwork Fort Belvoir, he decided not to give shapes development and helps you deliver a quality product. up“I’m on biking and used it in his adapso proud of our team efforts,” said Milhorn. “From the Baltimore tive reconditioning. District and all the professionals who See brought this to Games, bare, andpage was a A5 Warrior “Hand is very different, be- through design, contracting, and part of thiscycling from the beginning, construction, to our INSCOM partners, who are the beneficiaries of the hard work, and the tremendous dedication of the professionals that contributes, to the U.S. Army, the Intel Community at large, and our coalition partners.”
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From left, Michael Stearns, former INSCOM engineer; Col. Doug Henry, INSCOM assistant chief of staff G-4; Charles F. Sardo, INSCOM chief of staff; Gilda Brown, INSCOM management analyst; Maj. Gen. Jeffrey L. Milhorn, commanding general, U.S. Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Col. John Litz, commander, Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers; Lorne Johnston, Benham Designs senior project architect; U.S Army photoCompany, by PFC Dominique and John Reyhan, president, Manhattan Construction cut theDixon Sgt. 1st Class Jayduring Martin in the cycling event June 23 in ceremonial ribbon a participates ceremony at the Nolan Building, Friday. Tampa, during the 2019 Department of Defense Warrior Games, an By Jocelyn M. Broussard adaptive sports competition for wounded, ill and injured Service members and veterans. Approximately 300 athletes representing teams INSCOM Public Affairs from U.S. and Allied military forces compete in a variety of athletic he U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, INSCOM, competitions. celebrated a milestone, Friday, ending the construction phase of its new, state-of-the art, 382,000-square foot addition to its headquarters, with a ribbon-cutting at the Nolan Building on Belvoir. The new facility allows INSCOM to consolidate most of its headquarters personnel in one location.
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Academic program could boost Soldier retention
Credentialing, along with bachelor’s degrees to senior NCOs who attended the Sergeants Machanges to promotion jor Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. boards, helps ensure the Dailey said the Army will provide By Margaret Steele Soldiers with some college credit or best promoted and Belvoirare Eagle professional credentialing for each of NCO training. retained ore than 40 students can now level be called
working with each of the military centers of excellence to provide technical skill training equitable to academic skills. Sgt. Jewel King, another graduate, said, “We thought we need to build on “Education that more, because 60 percent of the is very important to open doors and Her new professional studies Army is combat arms, so opportunities.” what tanassociate degree is from Trident University ‘graduates,’ after a Joint Services“The expectation is we give some- gible technical skills do they leave International. “Getting an education is one thing back for that service,” Dailey with?” he said. By Joe Lacdan Graduation and recognition ceremony of the best ways you can have ‘self-care,’” she said at an Association of the U.S. Army News Service on Fort Belvoir, Nov. 14. Of the 42 students Skilled labor required said. King, assigned to the 249th Engineer Army breakfast in Washington, who graduated, 11 earned master’s degrees, Photo by Luc Dunn, AUSA Battalion, “Not just be able to say that Dailey cited that 80 percent of said she’s also set to further her he Army could add and to its 22 earned bachelor’s degrees nine D.C. earned Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel studies and get a bachelor’s degree in cyber labor, record retention numbers by you served and sacrificed, but (get- American jobs require skilled associate degrees. Dailey speaks about retention studies. ting) tangible results. That’s what and that Soldiers can become proproviding more incentive for One of the graduates, Sgt. 1st Class Anthony and academic credentialing at the Before degrees were conferred, we owe to the American people–is a ductive members of the work forcetheAUSA Soldiers to stay on duty, the ser-degree Institute of Land Warfare Bridgeforth, received an associate guest speakers celebrated the graduates’ better product, to be more produc- after leaving the Army. vice’s top enlisted said. breakfast in Arlington, June 26. in general studies leader from Columbia Southern accomplishments. “There is a great opportunity The Army has been testing a pilot tive in their hometowns.” University. Photo by Paul Lara Belvoir Garrison Sgt. Maj. Dailey said the Army has been for many of our Soldiers toFort fulfill program for academic credentialing late those toCommand civilian-sector skills, “It was very challenging and rewarding,” Master’s Graduates await their diplomas at a Jason Young said, “The Army’s Continuing working out the finer points of the the ranks of those skilled labor reat Fort Hood, Texas, and plans to which we had not done.” he said, after the ceremony. “Education is Joint Services Graduation ceremony at Thurman Education a long of helping program to ensure higher quality quirements in our hometowns of System extend the program toyou several Lasthas year, withhistory the help of Conso important, because needmaeducation Auditorium, Nov. 14. our military gress community get the support they training for Service members and America, and they have the tangible jor installations by the end of 2019, and the Army Continuing for promotion points in the Army and to be need to invest in their education, not Army only tocredeciding how agencies will get pay- skills,” Dailey said. “We just need to Education said Sgt. Maj. the Armyafter Daniel System, the marketable andofsuccessful you leave Bridgeforth is already working on his better their lives, but the lives of their families Dailey. The Army plans to spread ment. The program will also be make it official. ated the credentialing assistance the service.” bachelor degree and expects to graduate in the and our nation.” “We saw the opportunity to be the program to all installations in available to National Guard and “If I can study and do it, absolutely anyone spring. His mother, Maryable M. Wilson, said with Army Reserve members. to capitalize on the great skills fiscal year 2020. See Credentialing, page A8 outRecently, there can,” said.110 “Education a smile after the very proud Dailey said the Army has ceremony, been our“I’m Soldiers have of now, and transSee Graduates, page A4 theBridgeforth Army provided puts you years ahead.” my baby boy.”
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