{"id":366972,"date":"2025-02-03T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=366972"},"modified":"2025-02-04T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T16:12:08","slug":"405th-afsb-csm-meets-with-basic-leader-course-students-speaks-at-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=366972","title":{"rendered":"405th AFSB CSM meets with Basic Leader Course students, speaks at graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Marrill, the command sergeant major of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, provides guest remarks at the Basic Leader Course, Class 03-25, graduation in Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany, Jan. 31. Pictured here sitting to the left of Marrill during the graduation ceremony is Command Sgt. Maj. Errol Brooks, the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy commandant. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)
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GRAFENW\u00d6HR, Germany \u2013 Good leaders understand the importance of passing their knowledge and expertise onto the next generation, and Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Marrill took the opportunity to do just that when he visited the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy in Grafenw\u00f6hr Jan. 30-31 and served as a guest speaker for the Basic Leader Course, Class 03-25, graduation on his second day there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was truly honored to be asked by the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy to be the guest speaker, as I think that it is important as a senior NCO to give back your time, energy and resources to the next generation of leaders,\u201d said the command sergeant major of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to provide the next generation of leaders with leadership nuggets they can use when they return to their units,\u201d said Marrill, who in addition to speaking at the graduation spent over an hour and a half talking to the BLC students the day prior.<\/p>\n

\u201cI talked about things I wish I knew when I was a young leader, and then we had a question-and-answer session where I provided my opinion on different topics pertaining to leadership \u2013 sometimes where I got it right and other times when maybe I didn\u2019t,\u201d Marrill said.<\/p>\n

Marrill said BLC is crucial to the NCO Corps because it prepares junior leaders for the challenges of training, leading and executing operations at the team level. He said after completion of the 22-day course comprising 169 academic hours, graduates return to their units with a foundational understanding of leadership at the team level.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut BLC is only a course,\u201d said Marrill. \u201cThe true challenge will be when the graduates return to their units and stand in front of their Soldiers. How they execute day-to-day operations and how well they take care of their Soldiers and their Families while simultaneously completing the mission will be the real test.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Marrill, the command sergeant major of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, provides guest remarks Jan. 31 at the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer Academy\u2019s Basic Leader Course, Class 03-25, graduation in Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany. \u201cIt\u2019s important to provide the next generation of leaders with leadership nuggets they can use when they return to their units,\u201d said Marrill. (U.S. Army courtesy photo)
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According to the Army\u2019s NCO Leadership Center of Excellence website, BLC prepares sergeants, promotable specialists and corporals to lead team-level size units by providing an opportunity to acquire the leader skills, knowledge and experience needed to be successful as NCOs. BLC focuses on things like group dynamics, critical thinking, problem solving, physical readiness training, communications, and training management, and is the foundation for further training and leader development.<\/p>\n

For more information on BLC, go to the NCO Leadership Center of Excellence\u2019s webpage<\/a>. Go here for more information on the 7th Army NCO Academy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to U.S. Army Sustainment Command and headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany. The brigade provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. forces throughout Europe and Africa \u2013 providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging U.S. Army Materiel Command\u2019s materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website<\/a> and the official Facebook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Command Sgt. Maj. Patrick Marrill, the command sergeant major of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, provides guest remarks at the Basic Leader Course, Class 03-25, graduation in Grafenw\u00f6hr, Germany, Jan. 31. Pictured here sitting to the left of Marrill during the graduation ceremony is Command Sgt. Maj. Errol Brooks, the 7th Army Noncommissioned Officer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366974,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366978,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366972\/revisions\/366978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/366974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}