At the end of today's drill, I went to the auditorium in the training center at Fort Indiantown Gap (Building 8-80) to watch an NCO Induction Ceremony. Command Sergeant Major Worley of the 628th Aviation Maintenance Battalion decided he would have a formal ceremony after NCO Development Training for 11 new sergeants.
The eleven new sergeants stood in front of the the rest of the battalion's NCOs (about 150 of 256 were able to attend the ceremony) and recited the NCO creed.
One of the best parts of the Public Affairs job is that people ask me to go to the things they are proud of. CSM Worley wants to make this ceremony part of the quarterly training for the NCOs in the battalion. It reminded me how serious I was about making sergeant--before any of the sergeants in the photo above were born.
