The honor guard arrives with the colors during the 101st Brigade Troops Battalion NCO Induction Ceremony.
101st Sustainment Brigade
Q-WEST BASE COMPLEX -- Fourteen newly-promoted noncommissioned officers of the 101st Brigade Troops Battalion were inducted into the NCO corps in an induction ceremony July 19 at the MWR Theater here.
The Soldiers inducted belong to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Company A, Company B, 620th Movement Control Team and 55th Postal Detachment.
After viewing a musical slide show depicting NCOs in action around the battalion, Command Sgt. Maj. Stephen D. Blake, 101st Sustainment Brigade, led the inductees in the “NCO Charge.”
Soldiers performed different skits, including the recitation of the Transportation, Signal and Ordnance Creeds.
Instead of simply reciting the “Soldier’s Request,” a staple of NCO induction ceremonies, junior enlisted Soldiers took turns reciting sections of the request, which were answered in turn by NCOs situated on the stage.
Spc. Lauren Witt, Company B, and Soldier of the Month, read her statement on the Army Values, which she presented at the board. She listed the values and described what they meant to her personally. “We do these things not for public gratification but [to serve],” said Witt. She added: “All the Army values are imperative to the mission.”
Command Sgt. Maj. Lorria P. Anderson, 101st BTB, gave her remarks to the assembled Soldiers, speaking to them of the “leadership transition” they have completed by joining the NCO Corps.
Anderson encouraged all NCOs to train their Soldiers to the standard. This training “can make the difference between life and death,” she said.
After lighting symbolic red, white and blue candles, the first sergeants of Headquarter and Headquarters Company, Company A and Company B took turns leading the inductees and audience in the NCO Creed.
Blake, Anderson and the first sergeants then presented the inductees with plaques recognizing their achievement.