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Photos : Welcoming new leaders - 1st Sustainment brigade inducts newly promoted NCO's
By Spc. Andrea Merritt, 1st Sustainment Brigade PAO
Jul 8, 2008 - 9:49:02 PM

Blackanthem Military News
CAMP TAJI, Iraq -

Newly-promoted sergeants of the Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, recite the Charge of the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer as it is administered to them during an NCO Induction Ceremony on June 28. At the ceremony, 24 new NCOs were officially inducted into the time-honored NCO Corps. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrea Merritt, 1st Sust. Bde., PAO)

During the NCO Induction Ceremony on June 28, the new NCOs had to step over a line symbolizing their cross-over from a junior enlisted Soldier into the ranks of a noncommissioned officer. By stepping over the line, each inductee officially accepted their roles as NCOs. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrea Merritt, 1st Sust. Bde., PAO)

Sgt. Jasmine Burks, a medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Sustainment Brigade, receives her induction certificate from Sgt. Maj. Steven Kramer, the NCOIC of the 1st Sust. Bde. support operations contracting cell, at the NCO induction ceremony June 28. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrea Merritt, 1st Sust. Bde., PAO)

Twenty-four new NCOs from STB, 1st Sust. Bde., were inducted into the NCO Corps during a ceremony June 28. During the ceremony, the inductees had to recite the Charge of the U.S. Army Noncommissioned Officer, step over a line symbolizing their cross-over into the ranks of an NCO, and sign the NCO Charge before receiving their NCO induction certificates. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andrea Merritt, 1st Sust. Bde., PAO)