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    New NCOs inducted into corps

    New NCOs inducted into corps

    Photo By Sgt. 1st Class David Bruce | Indiana Army National Guard Sgt. Jamie Sink, of Brazil, Ind., with 138th Quartermaster...... read more read more

    INDIANAPOLIS, IN, UNITED STATES

    06.10.2012

    Story by Sgt. 1st Class Jeff Lowry 

    38th Infantry Division

    INDIANAPOLIS - Approximately 65 newly-promoted, Indiana Army National Guard sergeants with the 38th Sustainment Brigade were inducted into the non-commissioned officer corps during a ceremony at Stout Field, Sunday, June 10.

    According to the NCO Creed, NCOs, from corporal to the sergeant major of the Army, have two basic responsibilities – mission accomplishment and soldier welfare. Those tasks are responsibilities the new sergeants said they will take to heart.

    “I feel like everything is starting over again,” said Sgt. Chris Young, a 1438th Transportation Company truck driver from Indianapolis. “Because it’s a whole new set of responsibilities – taking care of soldiers and making sure the mission is accomplished with all the tools available to each soldier.”

    During the ceremony Command Sgt. Maj. Karolyn Peeler, the brigade’s senior enlisted soldier, commented on the dual nature inherent in the sergeants’ new roles.

    “Don’t be single-minded; you are now dual-hatted,” said Peeler, warning the sergeants that not only do they have their job to do but also the added responsibilities of non-commissioned leaders.

    Peeler said the induction ceremony was special to her.

    “It’s a rite of passage from a junior soldier to a leader,” she said. “It’s the first stage of taking ownership and learning responsibility.”

    During the ceremony the new sergeants recited the NCO Creed, they repeated the Charge of the Noncommissioned Officer, they signed a ledger, and they walked under a wooden, post-and-lintel structure adorned with the Army ranks of non-commissioned officers.

    Besides the dual nature of their job, another sergeant looked to the NCO Creed as a guide on how to do her job.

    “It’s a good explanation of our job,” said Sgt. Sarah Rushing, a 1438th Transportation Company truck driver from Bloomington, Ind.

    Rushing said the number one aspect of the creed she likes is from the line, “Officers of my unit will have the maximum time to accomplish their duties; they will not have to accomplish mine.”

    “No one will have to do my duty for me,” said Rushing. She said she is scheduled to be a team leader of five soldiers and said she’d take care of her soldiers too.

    Another newly promoted sergeant, and future team leader, said he will see his soldiers as a family.

    “It’s similar to family; they are your family in a sense and you put their needs before your needs,” said Sgt. Andrew Rodriguez, a 1538th Transportation Company truck driver from North Vernon, Ind. “If you keep that in the forefront of your thinking, you’re bound to do the right thing for your soldiers.”

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    Date Taken: 06.10.2012
    Date Posted: 06.11.2012 11:56
    Story ID: 89765
    Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN, US

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