2019 Senior Enlisted Staff Ride

Photo By Stephen Perez | U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Billy S. Vetten, command sergeant major of U.S. Army Garrison Italy, walks across the historic Dragon’s Teeth, a line of of fortification put into place along the Siegfried Line to defend an allied invasion into Germany, Sept. 10, 2019, in Aachen, Germany. Vetten is part of a group of 20 senior noncommissioned officers selected to a attend the 2019 Senior Enlisted Staff Ride, which primarily focused on the Siegfried Line Campaign, an allied assault that took place at this site approximately 75-years ago. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Stephen P. Perez)  

GERMANY

09.14.2019

Story by Spc. Stephen Perez 

U.S. Army Europe and Africa     

AACHEN, Germany (Sept. 14, 2019) – Twenty senior noncommissioned officers from various U.S. Army Europe units attended the 2019 Senior Enlisted Staff Ride around the greater Aachen area Sept. 9 – 13.

James Scott Wheeler, the group’s instructor, led the sergeants major where crucial events of the Siegfried Line Campaign took place—an allied assault that happened in Aachen and The Hürtgen Forest approximately 75-years ago.

At the end of each day, the sergeants major met to discuss what they had learned about and how it relates to today’s U.S. Army in Europe.

• Date Taken: 09.14.2019
• Date Posted: 09.14.2019 16:03
• Story ID: 340891
• Location: DE