USASMA graduates Class 66

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USASMA graduates Class 66
476 students celebrate tough curriculum, new leadership role
By David Crozier
USASMA Command Communications
The U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy
celebrated the accomplishments of the 476 students of Sergeants Major Course Class 66 – a
class that had within its ranks 47 international
students from 33 different countries as well as
members of the Marine Corps, Air Force and
Coast Guard. The academy assisted in handing
out 150 degrees during a Black and Gold Ceremony June 13, followed by the International
Military Student Badging and Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 16.
Friday, the graduates, accompanied by their
family members filled the Abundant Living Faith
Center in El Paso to complete their 10-month
educational experience at USASMA. Command
Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese, commandant of USASMA, welcomed all of the special guests and
thanked all for attending.
“What a beautiful morning for a graduation,”
he said. “This class is special for a couple of reasons – first, although I love the Air Force and our
Airmen, the last class allowed them to win two
of the three writing awards and there were only
three Airmen in the class. The Soldiers of Class
66 reclaimed some honor this year and swept all
See FAREWELL Page 2A
inside this issue
USASMA recognizes int’l students,
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Warrant Officer Don Spinks, the 10th Regimental Sergeant Major of the Australian army, hands Command
Sgt. Maj. Shahzad Khan Totakhil of Afghanistan, left, his diploma during the U.S. Army Sergeants Major
Academy Sergeants Major Course Class 66 graduation ceremonies Friday held at the Abundant Living Faith
Center in El Paso. Also in the picture is Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese, commandant of the academy.
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Army develops components for LMAMS
By Carlotta Maneice
AMRDEC Public Affairs
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. –
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and capable of neutralizing or eliminating combatants? The U.S. Army
Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center
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critical components exist for potential vendors.
More than 40 AMRDEC researchers and scientists developed
and tested six critical component
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Precision Munition Program to
support the LMAMS requirement.
The six government-owned critical
components are: the Small Warhead, the Small Electronic Safety
and Arming Device, Power, Secure
Micro Digital Data Link, Image
Stabilization/Autotracker, and the
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The original intent for LMAMS
-- a small, Soldier-launched loitering precision weapons system -was to destroy combatant enemies
such as snipers or those emplacing
improvised explosive devices. This
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See LMAMS Page 2A
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Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese, commandant of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy,
hosted several dignitaries and international partners in the Friday graduation ceremony of Sergeants Major Course Class 66. Above, Defreese,
as viewed on one of two large video screens,
talks to the capacity crowd at the Abundant Living Faith Center in El Paso. USASMA celebrated
the accomplishments of the 476 students of Sergeants Major Course Class 66 – a class that had
within its ranks 47 international students from
33 different countries, as well as members of the
Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.
Photos by David Crozier / USASMA Command Communications
Warrant Officer Don Spinks, the 10th Regimental Sergeant Major of the Australian army, hands
Ganchimeg Tsetseg of Mongolia, left, her diploma during the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy Sergeants Major Course Class 66 graduation ceremonies Friday held at the Abundant Living Faith Center in
El Paso. Also pictured is Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese, commandant of USASMA.
FAREWELL Continued from Page 1A
three awards. So good job. Second, and this
may have happened before, but not recently
and not in my memory, despite the fact that
I increased the complexity and rigor of this
course we did not have a single academic failure.”
Upon concluding his remarks, Defreese introduced Warrant Officer Donald Spinks, the
10th Regimental sergeant major of the Australian army, as the keynote speaker who after
thanking all for their attendance and allowing
him to speak, turned his thoughts to the prominence of the day.
“Fifteen years ago this month I graduated
with my fellow classmates of Class 51. I do
feel privileged to return here to witness the
graduation of this class,” Spinks said. “Today
we join the 476 members of Class 66 to celebrate their achievements and recognize their
hard work.”
After congratulating the academy and its
staff for their efforts to support Class 66,
Spinks said he wanted to leave the graduates
with a few words of wisdom from his experience as a graduate himself.
“Today is all about you and your classmates
and rightly so. Enjoy that. I ask that you enjoy
life and reflect on what has been for most a
hard slope over the last few months,” he said.
“However sergeants major, come tomorrow
and into the beyond, it will be all about others.
You will be the one they look to for guidance
and leadership. It is on you to be ready. Your
Soldiers, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guard
will be looking to you so lead wisely.”
Spinks gave a special shout out to the international students for their accomplishment.
“I offer you a special congratulations for
your achievements. For many of you English
is a second or third language. The doctrine,
the policies, the military function may also be
very unfamiliar,” Spinks said. “Together these
factors have made your year a little harder for
one. You all should take great pride in accepting your scroll here today.”
To the class he encouraged all to know their
jobs, become the expert; be proficient in the
profession of arms; establish and maintain
good routines; be responsible and accountable; live by the service values; report accurately and honestly; encourage and support
education; look after one another and take
care of their families.
“Your journey starts tomorrow,” he said.
“USASMA has given you the skills, the
knowledge … The rest will be up to you.”
Following Spink’s remarks, the sergeant
major was joined on stage by Defreese, Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey and
Command Sgt. Maj. David Davenport, Training and Doctrine Command, command sergeant major, to hand out awards and diplomas.
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The graduates of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy Sergeants Major Course Class 66, join the
crowd in singing the Army Song at the conclusion of the ceremony held Friday at the Abundant Living
Faith Center in El Paso. The 476 graduates, which included 45 international students from 33 partner
nations, as well as members of the sister services, completed their 10 months of studies at the academy and will now leave for parts unknown to lead Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coast Guardsmen and international militaries.
Earning class awards were:
Sgt. Maj. Thea E. Ray earned the Association of the United States Army Award for
Military Writing; Sgt. Maj. Deflin J. Romani earned the Association of the United
States Army Award for Military Excellence in Leadership; Sgt. Maj. Marissa M. Cisneros and Ramon Baca earned the ULTIMA Physical Fitness Excellence Award; Sgt.
Maj. John C. Black earned the Military History Award; Sgt. Maj. Diane G. Cummings earned the Ralph E. Haines Jr. Award for Research; Sgt. Maj. John J. Knight
earned the William G. Bainbridge Chair of Ethics Award; Sgt. Maj. Anazia AndrusSam earned the National Association for Uniform Services Award; and Master Sgt.
Andre Torre of Italy earned the International Student Excellence Award.
technology also allows us to operate in colder
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operator needing to have a security clearance
to operate the system,” Hudson said.
AMRDEC also developed an autotracker
capability. “We’ve developed our own government software, algorithms and hardware.
We are trying to reduce the operator workload by making a tracker that is very robust,
and all the components will be Technology
Readiness Level 6 by FY16,” said Devin
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leaders. All potential vendors have the option of using AMRDEC’s critical component
technology.”
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Staff Sgt. Patrick Nault, 45th Security Forces
Squadron, Patrick AFB, Fla., gives his MWD Ivar a
drink of water during training here June 10.
Photos by Abigail Meyer / Fort Bliss Bugle Staff
Staff Sgt. Patrick Nault, 45th Security Forces Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., and his military working dog Ivar, conduct roadway detection training
here June 10.
(Middle left) Ivar, a military working dog assigned to Patrick AFB,
Fla., alerts on a simulated explosive during training here June 10.
(Left) Nault carries his MWD, Ivar,
during the training exercise.
Tech. Sgt. John Whisman, left, K-9 instructor,
briefs Senior Airman Paul Little, 27th Special Operations SFS, Cannon AFB, N.M., about the roadway detection lane he and his military working
dog Jackson must complete during training here
June 10.
(Above right) Staff Sgt. Joshua Lawson, 11th
SFS, Andrews Air Force Base, Md., replaces his
MWD Amor’s shoe to protect his paws from the
hot sand.
Senior Airman Paul Little, 27th SOSFS, Cannon Air
Force Base, N.M., checks the roadway for simulated explosives with his Jackson, his military
working dog, during the training exercise.
Military working dogs, handlers train
Desert Defender Readiness Training Center prepares teams for skills needed downrange
By Abigail Meyer
Fort Bliss Bugle Staff
CHIHUAHUAN DESERT – Getting sand
up your nose is never fun, but military working dogs training for deployment were on a
mission – find explosives – no matter how
gritty the conditions. The Desert Defender
Readiness Training Center here trains security forces Airmen before deployment and
those with military working dogs receive additional training.
“The purpose of them coming here is to
learn combat skills to utilize downrange,”
said Tech. Sgt. Michael Myers, military
working dog program manager, Desert Defender Readiness Training Center. “All of
our instructors here have that combat experience.”
The dogs and handlers have to be able to
do their jobs, in any environment. In about
90-degree heat, teams trained on roadway
detection in the training area here June 10.
“We focus on roadway detection because
most of the stuff we do downrange in Afghanistan and Iraq is search for IEDs (improvised explosive devices),” Myers said.
“So we want to train our dogs on roadway
detection specifically in this environment
where there’s a lot of sand, the heat, so they
get used to working with their dog tired.”
They have training classes every month
and dog teams come from all over to train.
This was their largest class yet, with 19 dog
teams and four kennel masters.
“I try to make sure that they can recognize
their dog’s change of behavior on explosives,” said Tech Sgt. Franklin Walton, K-9
instructor, who has six deployments under
his belt. “I want to make sure the handlers
can recognize it before the dog alerts.”
To do that, instructors sometimes place
training aids in a location the handler knows,
but the dog doesn’t, so the handler learns
their dog’s behavior as the dog finds it.
“The dog handler and the dog have to
learn how to work together. It’s a team effort. The dog cannot be doing everything by
himself and the handler can’t be doing everything by himself,” said Tech. Sgt. John
Whisman, K-9 instructor. “So they have to
come together as a team, build that rapport,
bond, foundation and obviously work as a
team to find explosives.”
Senior Airman Paul Little was figuring out
that teamwork piece during the training. As a
new dog handler, he said he has learned a lot,
some of it from his MWD Jackson.
“I’ve only been a handler just under six
months,” Little said, who is assigned to the
27th Special Operations Security Forces
Squadron, Cannon Air Force Base, New
Mexico. “Working with him is a blast. He’s
an older dog; he’s going to be eight this August. He shows me more than what I show
him.”
It was just day five of 27 training days
for the teams here, but the Desert Defenders
have already had them working hard, doing
a two-mile ruck march in full gear, in the
middle of the day to acclimate the dogs to
the heat.
“Yesterday with the ruck he (Jackson)
did really well, we only had to stop twice
throughout the entire day. I thought he was
going to be a little more smoked than what
he was,” Little said. “He beasted through it
and his nose is one of the best out here, I
think, but that’s me being biased.”
Air Force dog teams do a variety of missions and many times work with Army or
Special Forces units. The training course
here is designed to prepare them for any deployment.
“It’s going to help them survive, but it’s
also going to save them the lives of the platoon or squad that’s behind them,” Myers
said. “We take the lead on most of our patrols, because we have a dog that finds explosives … saving those patrols from stepping on IEDs, helping the mission succeed.”
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4A • June 23, 2016 • FORT BLISS BUGLE
Class 66 students participate in Black and Gold ceremony
FORT BLISS BUGLE • June 23, 2016 • 5A
By David Crozier
USASMA Command Communications
Black and Gold have been the U.S. Army
colors since the American Revolution. Black
represents a never ending search for knowledge and gold – the standard of achievement. June 13, the U.S. Army Sergeants
Major Academy celebrated the 150 students,
staff and family members who rose to that
standard by taking their place among their
fellow warrior-scholars who received college degrees during a Black and Gold commencement ceremony held in the Academy’s
Cooper Lecture Center.
Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese,
commandant of USASMA, presided over
the commencement ceremony and made a
few comments before introducing the guest
speaker, Judge M. Sue Kurita, County Court
at Law Number Six, El Paso.
“In the Army we have three domains of
learning. We have the institutional which is
what we have at the Sergeants Major Academy; we have organizational which is what
the unit does to train and educate their Soldiers; and then we have self-development.
What (these graduates) have done was self-
Photos by David Crozier / Command Communications
Judge Sue Kurita, County Court at Law Number
Six, El Paso, left, hands Command Sgt. Maj. Harold A. Reynolds Jr., director of the Sergeants Major Course, right, his Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal
Arts from Excelsior College.
development,” Defreese said. “What I want
to charge you with before you go out there
and be sergeants major and command sergeants major is to not forget that domain.
Don’t get so wrapped up in your organizational responsibilities that you don’t let your
Soldiers, or encourage your Soldiers to selfdevelop and that includes education.”
Defreese then introduced Kurita who
used the Class 66’s own motto of “Drive the
Force” and their class coin, an adaptation of
a historic U.S. route sign, as a catalyst for
her remarks saying they took the long road
to success.
“It took you a little bit longer to get your
degree. But everything happens in its own
perfect time. Let’s say you all didn’t take
the interstate, you took that scenic Route
66 way,” Kurita quipped. “That Route 66,
a road that has taken you to Germany, Iraq,
Korea, Afghanistan and other dangerous
places; a Route 66 that has taken you away
from your families at times; that Route 66
that has demanded great personal sacrifices
… But it is a road that ensures that I can do
my day job, because you do your job.”
Kurita said she thought the graduate’s
academic journey on Route 66 was really superior to the conventional way of obtaining
a degree because the students appreciated
learning and have experienced life along the
way.
“You appreciate education because you
have had to work for it. You had to squeeze
it into your busy lives. But you have tenaciously pursued that goal and tonight you
have reached it,” she said. “You had to do
that balancing act with the demands of the
academy, college and more importantly, the
demands and responsibility of your families. And you have reached your dream. …
As your military career proves, success will
come to you if you do your best. It goes
without question, we know that you are successful warriors, we know that you are successful leaders, and as of tonight you are
successful Soldier-scholars.”
To see more photos, visit https://www.
flickr.com/photos/133821783@N02/albums.
The U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy celebrated the students, staff and family members who rose
to the standard by taking their place among their fellow warrior-scholars during a Black and Gold
commencement ceremony held in the Academy’s Cooper Lecture Center. The students waited until the
last degree was awarded before they all moved their tassels from the right to the left signifying their
graduation from college.
Judge Sue Kurita, County Court at Law Number Six, El Paso, second from left, hands Class 66 student,
Master Sgt. Stevie Blue, second from right, his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Columbia Southern University. Blue was the first of 150 students to walk the stage June 13 to receive a
college degree.
photo/Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht
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6A • June 23, 2016 • FORT BLISS BUGLE
USASMA recognizes int’l students, inducts two into Hall of Fame
By David Crozier
USASMA Command Communications
The United States Army Sergeants Major
Academy ceremoniously recognized the academic accomplishments of 45 international
students of Sergeants Major Course Class 66
by awarding them the International Military
Student Badge June 16. The academy also
inducted two former international military
students into the International Military Student Hall of Fame.
Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese,
commandant, thanked everyone for attending the ceremony and honoring the international students.
“This morning we are going to one, recognize two outstanding leaders from their
countries. Two, we are recognizing our Class
66 international students who have spent the
last 12 months here alongside their U.S.
counterparts,” he said. “Our international
program has a lot of importance to us for a
few reasons – it helps us form partnerships
with countries from all over the world and it
helps broaden our sergeants majors and our
officers; it is as much for us as it is for the
international students. We get as much as we
give.”
Defreese said the international military
badging and hall of fame induction ceremony is one of his favorite events of the year as
it is the academy’s way of recognizing our
international partners.
Following Defreese’s remarks, the academy recognized the two inductees of the
International Military Student Hall of Fame.
Many of the international students who have
attended the Sergeants Major Course have
gone on to make significant contributions
to the lineage of their own NCO Corps and
education systems, but only a few have assumed the position of their respective coun-
David Crozier / USASMA Command Communications
Sgt. Maj. Miodrag Jokanovic, a Class 66 international student from Montenegro, is assisted by Command Sgt. Maj. Dennis Defreese, commandant of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, in unveiling
Sergeant Major of the Montenegro army, Sergeant Major of the Armed Forces Vladin Kojic’s International Military Student Hall of Fame induction plaque. Kojic, along with fellow inductee, Warrant Officer
Class One Don Spinks, Sergeant Major of the Australian army, were honored during ceremonies June
16 in the Academy’s Cooper Lecture Center.
try’s or armed forces senior enlisted adviser,
a position similar to that of the U.S. Army’s
Sergeant Major of the Army. The academy
recognized three individuals who have done
just that by inducting them into the International Military Student Hall of Fame.
The first honoree was Warrant Officer
Class One Don Spinks, Sergeant Major of
the Australian army and a graduate of Class
51. After unveiling his Hall of Fame plaque
with the assistance of Defreese, Spinks addressed the audience.
“It is an enormous honor for me to be here.
For an international student to come and attend the academy it is an enormous privilege, one that is not lost on any of us that
have walked that path,” he said. “There is
hardly a day that’s gone by where I haven’t
used or drawn on the experience, the understanding, or the knowledge that I gained
here … the academy set me up for success;
it gave me the foundation that I needed to be
successful.”
The next honoree was the Sergeant Major
of the Montenegro army, Sergeant Major of
the Armed Forces Vladin Kojic a graduate of
Class 65. Speaking on behalf of Kojic was
Sgt. Maj. Miodrag Jokanovic, a Class 66
international student from Montenegro who
read a letter from Kojic.
“It is a great honor for me to be a member of the International Student Hall of Fame
for the United States Army Sergeants Major
Academy. In my opinion this a reward for
all noncommissioned officers of the Armed
Forces of Montenegro,” Jokanovic read. “At
this academy I got the opportunity to get a
broader perspective and a better understanding of modern warfare. I also got a chance to
become more familiar with cultural diversity
and meet friends from different continents,
various religions and nationalities. The
unique knowledge and experience I gained
from this academy made me the leader I
wanted to be.”
Following Jokanovic’s remarks, retired
Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Huffman, the
director of the International Military Student
Office, joined Defreese on stage to present
the Class 66 International students with the
USASMA International Military Student
Badge signifying their successful completion of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major
Academy Sergeants Major Course.
To see more photos, visit https://www.
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