NCOs play key role in groundbreaking exercise

Photo By Sgt. Jeff Shackelford | Senior enlisted, Canadian Chief Warrant Officer Daniel T. Moyer, command sergeant major, NATO Allied Land Command, congratulates members of the Pennsylvania National Guard during NATO Exercise Trident Lance 2014. Trident Lance is an Allied Command Transformation exercise to train NATO Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) as its land component command at the Joint Multi National Training Command in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Nov. 30 through Dec. 12.  

GRAFENWOEHR, GERMANY

12.17.2014

Story by Cpl. Jeff Shackelford 

343rd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - It takes leaders at all levels to successfully support an exercise with 3,700 service members and 23 nations. One of those leaders is the senior enlisted, Canadian Chief Warrant Officer Daniel T. Moyer, Command Sergeant Major NATO Allied Land Command. In a bit of NATO adaptation for U.S. service members, Chief Warrant Officer is the highest enlisted rank in the Canadian Army.

Moyer, is the senior enlisted for NATO exercise Trident Lance (TRLE14), an Allied Command Transformation exercise to train NATO Allied Land Command (LANDCOM) as its land component command at the Joint Multi National Training Center in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Nov. 30 through Dec. 12.

Moyer, has over 32 years of military experience and assumed his position for NATO (LANDCOM) during the summer of 2014. As the senior enlisted, Moyer is the main link between the commanding officers and the enlisted service members. He says that he and the NCOs are proud to be a part this groundbreaking exercise.

“A major joint operation plus is really something that we don’t get to do. In fact this is the first one in a long time that NATO has done this (1990),” said Moyer. “These guys are experiencing an exceptional exercise that not many people get to experience.”

Moyer says he is proud of the NCOs, with in the headquarters, at TRLE14 and that they are defiantly an integral part of the headquarters and quite capable of carrying out staff duties.

“They are the technical experts on all the systems that we use. They are always ready to step-up and work beyond their current rank level. All of that not withstanding, they are all exceptional leader as well.” Moyer continued, “We have NCOs briefing at the commanders shared visualization; they are briefing the commander on a daily basis. We have NCOs in the ops center doing all the briefings they are required to do. It’s not just guys pressing buttons and running systems; it’s guys doing things above and beyond what they’re normally expected to do.”

“There are always challenges that we have to overcome but LANDCOM is a great team period; it’s a great team of Officers and NCOs that are quite capable of overcoming, I think, any obstacle we would ever face,” said Moyer.

Although this is a complex operation, NATO nations and LANDCOM have grown familiar through military operations over the last decade.

“This experience will be exceptional for their future employment in their own counties,” said Moyer.

• Date Taken: 12.17.2014
• Date Posted: 12.17.2014 08:44
• Story ID: 150533
• Location: GRAFENWOEHR, DE