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Command Sgt. Maj. Hu Rhodes Assumption of Responsibility, February, 2011 by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

Command Sgt. Maj. Hu Rhodes (left) greets well wishers before the Assumption of Responsibility ceremony Feb. 17 in Vicenza, Italy.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Hu Rhodes joined U.S. Army Africa as its senior noncommissioned officer in an assumption of responsibility ceremony today at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy.

“Thank you all for attending today,” said U.S. Army Africa Commander, Maj. Gen. David R. Hogg.

“This is an important ceremony for this command. I want to say thank you to our Italian host for being here, especially the Carabinieri. . . . the rest of the community, the command element from the 173rd and other members of the community,” Hogg said.

“I want to say thank you to Command Sgt. Maj. Miller . . . (he) has been the acting command sergeant major here for about three or four months. He has done a fabulous job.

“Now as everybody understands, the noncommissioned officer corps is the backbone of our Army, and the U.S. Army has the best noncommissioned officer corps in the world.

“The thing about a command sergeant major is, he embodies everything the noncommissioned officer corps is about. He’s got the experience, he’s got the credibility, and he understands Soldiers, and what it means to be a member of our Army.

“And so that’s what we have today when we bring in Command Sgt. Maj. Rhodes as the senior enlisted Soldier in this command. And so that everybody understands, Command Sgt. Maj. Rhodes was not assigned to this command — he was selected for this command. And he was selected on a list of about 10 highly qualified command sergeants major who applied and wanted to be the command sergeant major for U.S. Army Africa.

“And based on Command Sgt. Maj. Rhodes’ qualifications, he was the best man for the job, and subsequently he was personally selected by me to be our next command sergeant major,” Hogg said.

“Sir, thanks very much,” said Rhodes.

“I want to spend just a couple of minutes this morning talking about two things that matter to me as I come into this position. First thing I want to do is, I want to talk about just Soldiers, and the second thing I want to do is, I want to talk a little bit about leadership.

“When you serve in the forces that protect your country, and your way of life and your family — that is the most noble calling you can respond to. That’s what I see in Soldiers,” Rhodes said, pledging his commitment to the men and women of the command.

“I will always be open to time with you. My door is open. . . . Get on the calendar and you can come in, no appointment necessary through your chain of command; just get on my calendar so I’ll be in the office. I’ve got time for Soldiers. I care about the things you do because what you do is real work.

“The second thing I want to say this morning is about the leadership part: I believe in leadership. As the CG alluded to earlier, it’s not officer leadership or NCO leadership; it’s just leadership. If you’re in a position of responsibility, of command over someone else, you have a responsibility for your own ability before you have a responsibility for what they do. And you must not fail in that.

“Young Soldiers deserve leaders that like their job. If you don’t like what you’re doing, please get on my calendar and I will help you find another job; because if you don’t like leading Soldiers, we are not going to get along.

“There is nothing more precious in my world than the responsibility of mentoring those below us.”

“Sir, it is an honor to be here. We won’t fail. Thank you,” Rhodes said.

Rhodes served most recently as Commandant of the 7th Army NCO Academy in Grafenwoehr, Germany, and as the Command Sergeant Major of the Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, Ga.

Prior to that, he spent most of his 27-year service career with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Rhodes has deployed on combat operations to Panama, Kuwait, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star among numerous other awards.

To learn more about U.S. Army Africa visit our official website at www.usaraf.army.mil

Official Twitter Feed: www.twitter.com/usarmyafrica

Official YouTube video channel: www.youtube.com/usarmyafrica

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4 November 2014

Americon Precendent - J.F.K. by js

Address to the American Newspaper Publishers [delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York]

"My topic tonight is a more sober one -- of concern to publishers as well as editors.

I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future -- for reducing this threat or living with it -- there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security -- a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity.

This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President -- two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it's in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.

But I do ask -- But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort, based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In times of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security.

Today no war has been declared, and however fierce the struggle may be, it may never be declared in the traditional fashion. Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions -- by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence -- on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.

Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security -- and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.

For the facts of the matter are that this nation's foes have openly boasted of acquiring through our newspapers information they would otherwise hire agents to acquire through theft, bribery, or espionage; that details of this nation's covert preparations to counter the enemy's covert operations have been available to every newspaper reader, friend and foe alike; that the size, the strength, the location and the nature of our forces and weapons, and our plans and strategy for their use, have all been pinpointed in the press and other news media to a degree sufficient to satisfy any foreign power; and that, in at least in one case, the publication of details concerning a secret mechanism whereby satellites were followed required its alteration at the expense of considerable time and money.

The newspapers which printed these stories were loyal, patriotic, responsible, and well-meaning. Had we been engaged in open warfare, they undoubtedly would not have published such items. But in the absence of open warfare, they recognized only the tests of journalism and not the tests of national security. And my question tonight is whether additional tests should not now be adopted.

That question is for you alone to answer. No public official should answer it for you. No governmental plan should impose its restraints against your will. But I would be failing in my duty to the nation, in considering all of the responsibilities that we now bear and all of the means at hand to meet those responsibilities, if I did not commend this problem to your attention, and urge its thoughtful consideration.

On many earlier occasions, I have said -- and your newspapers have constantly said -- that these are times that appeal to every citizen's sense of sacrifice and self-discipline. They call out to every citizen to weigh his rights and comforts against his obligations to the common good. I cannot now believe that those citizens who serve in the newspaper business consider themselves exempt from that appeal.

I have no intention of establishing a new Office of War Information to govern the flow of news. I am not suggesting any new forms of censorship or new types of security classifications. I have no easy answer to the dilemma that I have posed, and would not seek to impose it if I had one. But I am asking the members of the newspaper profession and the industry in this country to reexamine their own responsibilities, to consider the degree and the nature of the present danger, and to heed the duty of self-restraint which that danger imposes upon us all.

Every newspaper now asks itself, with respect to every story: "Is it news?" All I suggest is that you add the question: "Is it in the interest of national security?" And I hope that every group in America -- unions and businessmen and public officials at every level -- will ask the same question of their endeavors, and subject their actions to the same exacting tests. And should the press of America consider and recommend the voluntary assumption of specific new steps or machinery, I can assure you that we will cooperate whole-heartedly with those recommendations.

Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history.

It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation -- an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people -- to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well -- the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.

No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support an Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers -- I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error doesn't not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment -- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution -- not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants" -- but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate, and sometimes even anger public opinion.

This means greater coverage and analysis of international news -- for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security -- and we intend to do it.

It was early in the 17th Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder, and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world's efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.

And so it is to the printing press -- to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news -- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."[1]

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1. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/jfknewspaperpublishers.htm

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4 November 2014

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UNC/CFC/USFK conducts Change of Responsibility ceremony by UNC - CFC - USFK

United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea conducted a change of responsibility and retirement ceremony March 25, 2022.

Gen. Paul J. LaCamera, the UNC/CFC/USFK Commander, hosted the change of responsibility where Command Sgt. Maj. Jack H. Love assumed responsibility from Command Sgt. Maj. Walter A. Tagalicud.

The ceremony also included Tagalicud’s retirement after 36 years of faithful and dedicated service. (U.S. Army photos by SSG Kris Bonet and CPL Seong-yeon Kang)

Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony – CSM Bronson – United States Army Africa - 090807 by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

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United States Army Africa

Assumption of Responsibility Ceremony

Command Sergeant Major Gary J. Bronson

7 August 2009

Hoekstra Field, Caserma Ederle, Vicenza, Italy

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Responsibilities by Priscilla Spencer

A young boy plays with his toy "trompo" while a young girl attends to her morning chores.

USADSA Change of Responsibility by U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy

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USS BATAAN (LHD 5)_140426-N-AO823-139 by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet

U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (April 26, 2014) -- Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Pedro Gonzales, from Brooklyn, N.Y., (left) and Lt. Darcy Endicott, from Lima, Ohio, (right) help Lt. Cmdr. Zachary Brown, from Branston, Mo., prepare for surgery aboard the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5). Bataan is the flagship for the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and, with the embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, is deployed in support of maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Michael J. Lieberknecht/ Released)

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2-15 FA Allons Change of Responsibility by Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division (LI)

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2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment held a Change of Responsibility Ceremony, January 25, 2019. The Allons bid farewell to CSM Carlan and welcomed CSM Sturgeon.

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State Command Chief Warrant Officer Change of Responsibility by New Jersey National Guard

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jeffrey T. Angle speaks at the State Command Chief Warrant Officer change of responsibility ceremony at the Army Aviation Support Facility, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, Jan. 7, 2023. Service members with the New Jersey National Guard, along with veterans, family members, and friends, gathered to bid farewell to Chief Warrant Officer 5, Frank R. Albanese, Jr., and welcome Angle as the New Jersey Army National Guard’s ninth State Command Chief Warrant Officer. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Michael Schwenk)

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Polar Bears Change of Responsibility by Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division (LI)

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Soldiers of 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, bid farewell to Command Sgt. Maj. Gavin Holmes, and welcomed Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry Heim, the Polar Bear battalion's new senior noncommissioned officer, during a Change of Responsibility ceremony, November 27, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer)

Change of Responsibility by Pennsylvania National Guard

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FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Gundrum takes responsibility for the Pennsylvania National Guard's entire enlisted force during a change of responsibility ceremony held at the installation July 15, 2012. Gundrum takes over the Pennsylvania National Guard's top enlisted position from Command Sgt. Maj. Nicholas Gilliland who has served in the position since late 2009. Gilliland will be deploying overseas to Afghanistan with the Pennsylvania National Guard's Company B, 2nd Battalion, 104th Aviation Regiment. Prior to this new assignment, Gundrum served as Command Sgt. Maj. of the Pennsylvania National Guard's 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Ted Nichols/Released)

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How many of us just put any waste items into the bin, what difference would a few more waste items make in the greater scheme of things, we assume our difference is minuscule and insignificant. Each and every one of us humans probably think that, so each day millions of us throw stuff away. Things that cost to produce, in man hours, energy and raw materials that cannot be easily replaced and are lost forever. Just think if we all changed our habits, responsibility and outlook what the immediate and collective impact would have on our daily lives, the environment and life around us. We should think twice before purchasing items and disposing of them, if we all contributed towards recycling, reusing and reducing waste our world would last that much longer and we may just be healthier and happier for it.

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After the Union victory at Fort Donelson, the area became a refuge for many African Americans seeking freedom and protection. By 1863, African Americans were joining regiments of the United States Colored Troops at Fort Donelson. Many sacrificed their lives for their country and their freedom.

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U.S. 5TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Sept. 5, 2013) - U.S. Marines assigned to Force Reconnaissance Platoon, Maritime Raid Force, 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), are transported in UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from Alpha Company, 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB), Montana Army National Guard to conduct parachute operations. The 26th MEU is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force forward-deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility aboard the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group serving as a sea-based, expeditionary crisis response force capable of conducting amphibious operations across the full range of military operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Christopher Q. Stone, 26th MEU Combat Camera/Released)

10th Mountain Division Change of Responsibility by Fort Drum & 10th Mountain Division (LI)

The 10th Mountain Division held a Change of Responsibility ceremony for incoming Division Command Sergeant Major, Command Sergeant Major Nema Mobarakzadeh (Mobar) and outgoing Command Sergeant Major, Sergeant Major Mario O. Terenas at Memorial Park on Fort Drum, N.Y. (U.S. Army Photos by Spc. Anastasia Rakowsky)

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Command Sgt. Maj. Hu Rhodes Assumption of Responsibility, February, 2011 by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa

Chaplain (Maj.) Allen W. Staley, U.S. Army Africa chaplain, delivers the invocation at the Assumption of Responsibility ceremony Feb. 17 in Vicenza, Italy.