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HONOLULU—Some of Indo-Asia-Pacific region’s senior most enlisted advisors participated in the second annual Senior Enlisted Leaders forum held in conjunction with the fourth annual Land Power in the Pacific Symposium and Exhibition in Honolulu, May 24.
LANPAC is a three-day professional development forum sponsored by the Association of the United States Army Institute of Land Warfare. This year's overall conference’s theme is “Assuring Stability and Security—Strengthening Land Force Teams.”
The SEL forum, hosted by U.S. Army Pacific Senior Enlisted Advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. Bryant Lambert, was a one-day panel of discussions. Nearly 300 noncommissioned officers ranging from junior sergeants to special attendee, retired Sergeant Major of the Army Kenneth O. Preston, filled the room.
“At the heart of the LANPAC Symposium and specifically the Senior Enlisted Leaders forum, you see it’s all about professional development,” said Preston, Director of Noncommissioned Officers and Soldier Programs for AUSA. “We have experience coming in from all around the Pacific Rim. This combined environment creates a sharing of knowledge. It helps us to become better overall; it creates new ideas and fosters innovation. It allows us to improve on where we are now and where we think we want to go in the future.”
Panel members included: Fleet Master Chief Mark Rudes, Senior Enlisted Leader, U.S. Pacific Command; Command Sgt. Maj. David S. Davenport Sr., Command Sergeant Major U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command; Warrant Officer Class One David Allen, Regimental Sergeant Major of the 1st Division and Deployable Joint Force Headquarters, Australian Army; Leading Sergeant Oyunbold Daribish, Senior Enlisted Adviser to the Chief of General Staff, Mongolian Armed Forces; Command Sgt. Maj. Steven Payton, Command Sergeant Major of United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, United States Forces Korea; Sergeant Major Paul G. McKenna, Sergeant Major, U. S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific; Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston, Command Sergeant Major I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Kamane, Forces Sergeant Major Papua New Guinea; Warrant Officer Class One Dirk Millar, Land Command Sergeant Major New Zealand; Chief Warrant Officer Class One Mohamad Fairuz bin Medon, Regimental Sergeant Major, Malaysian Army; Senior Warrant Officer S. P. Ng, Sergeant Major of the Army, Singapore Armed Forces.
The experienced senior noncommissioned officers, who provide advice to two-star generals and above throughout the U.S and the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, not only brought a unique combined country perspective but also provided a joint aspect on topics from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines. The panelists covered topics: partnership and working relationships between multinational forces, gender integration and women in the armed forces, and the institutional concept of change.
The forum presented an opportunity for NCOs to come together and learn from one another, as well as learn from the most successful senior NCOs across the region.
“In this type of combined environment, we’re learning from each other,” said Lambert. “We’re building relationships before anything escalates so that we already have an understanding of each other’s capabilities, limitations and strengths.”
Lambert said that some of the nations have a small number of officers and it is essential that they empower their NCOs to take the lead as they were trained to do.
“We are assisting in developing our partner nations’ armies’ NCO Corps in their professionalization, accommodating and utilizing their noncommissioned officers,” said Lambert. “We all are here to learn from one another and learn from each other’s best-practices. The Senior Enlisted Leaders forum is a great opportunity to develop our noncommissioned officers in a capacity to help them learn to flourish in austere environments, deal with uncertainty and adapt to change or complexity based on the decades of experiences of our panel members.”
Lambert also said although the SEL forum only lasts one day, the affects of strong NCOs can last generations.
| Date Taken: | 05.24.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 05.26.2016 11:07 |
| Story ID: | 199162 |
| Location: | HONOLULU, HI, US |
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