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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Non-Commissioned Officers Academy held a change-of-responsibility ceremony Aug. 1, on the MSCoE Plaza. Command Sgt. Maj. Ricky Haralson, NCOA commandant, transferred responsibility of the academy to Sgt. Maj. John Vicars.
Haralson, who has served as the NCOA commandant since August 2010, will be retiring with 28 years of service in the U.S. Army.
Maj. Gen. David Quantock provided remarks during the ceremony and praised Haralson for her ability to strike the perfect balance between applying standards of discipline and caring for soldiers.
“Command Sgt. Maj. Haralson demonstrated one standard across all components, with no wasted resources, to develop the Army’s best non-commissioned officers,” Quantock said. “She [Haralson] is an ethical and moral role model—a soldier of character who always does the hard right—and this institution is better for it.”
Vicars, who has completed fourteen operational deployments and twenty years of military service, thanked Haralson for making the transition to NCOA commandant the smoothest battle hand-off that he can recall in his military career.
Preceding the change of responsibility, a retirement and awards ceremony was held for Haralson.
The mission of the MSCoE Non-Commissioned Officers Academy is to develop confident and competent small unit leaders, through demanding tactical, technical, and Army values-based training, enabling them to assure the mobility, freedom of action, and protection of the forces they support.
| Date Taken: | 08.01.2011 |
| Date Posted: | 08.08.2011 17:03 |
| Story ID: | 75055 |
| Location: | FORT LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI, US |
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