Courtesy Photo | Command Sgt. Maj. David Lien, outgoing command sergeant major for the Bismarck-based...... read more read more
BISMARCK, N.D. - The North Dakota National Guard's 68th Troop Command welcomed a new senior enlisted leader during a change of responsibility ceremony Feb. 21 here at the Raymond J. Bohn Armory.
Command Sgt. Maj. Alan Grinsteinner assumed duties as the unit's senior noncommissioned officer from Command Sgt. Maj. David Lien, who has served in the position since January 2015. Lien's new assignment is with the Fargo-based 141st Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) as that unit's command sergeant major.
Lien, of Bismarck, has served with the North Dakota Army National Guard for 29 years to include serving as the command sergeant for the Minot-based 164th Engineer Battalion. Prior to that assignment, he had served in numerous positions within the Valley City-based 141st Engineer Battalion, including assignments as administrative noncommissioned officer, supply sergeant, section leader, training noncommissioned officer, squad leader, readiness noncommissioned officer and operations sergeant. Lien works full-time as the training and operations sergeant major for the North Dakota National Guard's operations section in Bismarck. He served overseas from 2003 - 2005 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom with the 141st Engineer Battalion and again, from 2009 - 2010, in support of NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo with the 141st MEB.
Grinsteinner, of Devils Lake, North Dakota, has served in both the active-duty Army and North Dakota National Guard over his 28-year military career. Within the North Dakota Army National Guard, he has held positions as the chemical noncommissioned officer for the 957th Engineer Company (Multi-Role Bridge), reconnaissance noncommissioned officer for the 81st Civil Support Team, operations noncommissioned officer-in-charge and first sergeant for the 191st Military Police Company and command sergeant major for the 1st Battalion, 112th Aviation Regiment. Most recently, Grinsteinner served as the command sergeant major/commandant for the 164th Regiment, Regional Training Institute in Devils Lake. An Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, Grinsteinner served as the operations noncommissioned officer-in-charge for the 191st Military Police Company, from 2008-2009, when the unit assisted with training Iraqi Police forces in Rusafa and Sadr City.
A time-honored tradition, the change of responsibility ceremony is an important military event that formally and visually demonstrates the transfer of duties, responsibilities and authority between incoming and outgoing senior enlisted leaders. A unit's command sergeant major is responsible for the enforcement of policies and standards of performance, training, appearance, conduct, health, morale and welfare of all assigned service members.
| Date Taken: | 03.09.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 03.09.2016 19:24 |
| Story ID: | 191807 |
| Location: | BISMARCK, ND, US |
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