Lady Eagles visit Camp Shelby

Photo By Staff Sgt. LaTasha Williams | Members of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Lady Eagles basketball team and their head coach Joye McNelis pose for a picture with Command Sgt. Maj. Steven Chancellor, CSJFTC Post sergeant major of Camp Shelby; Col. Timothy Damico, Mobilization deputy commander; Lt. Col. Brad Smith, CSJFTC Post deputy commander and Maj. Scott Lindley, assistant superintendent of Camp Shelby’s Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site at Camp Shelby, Dec. 20.  

HATTIESBURG, MS, UNITED STATES

12.20.2011

Story by Staff Sgt. LaTasha Williams 

Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center

HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The Lady Eagles of the University of Southern Mississippi’s women’s basketball team and their coach made a special visit to Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Dec. 20.

Lt. Col. Brad Smith, CSJFTC deputy commander discussed with the team different comparisons of being a leader and making decisions in the military as to being a part of a team sport. From a military’s leader standpoint, Smith explained that leadership comes from preparing the soldier.

He compared training for a mission to practicing for a game. He said that everything works right when you are looking a play book, but if one person does something wrong, everything is thrown off. Smith then explained that the players would have to reassess the plans as such is done in the military.

Joye McNelis, USM’s Lady Eagles head basketball coach, presented Smith and Maj. Scott Lindley, assistant superintendent of Camp Shelby’s Maneuver Area Training Equipment with an autographed USM women’s basketball team schedule.

• Date Taken: 12.20.2011
• Date Posted: 01.10.2012 13:20
• Story ID: 82220
• Location: HATTIESBURG, MS, US