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Sergeants Major Course postponed, shortened

/noticias.info/ 27/03/2003
The resident Sergeants Major Course, Class 54, slated to start in August, has been postponed to January because of current deployments.

The course will also be condensed to six months from its usual nine-month curriculum, according to Lt. Col. John Kirby, assistant commandant at the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy.

"This is a one-time change to accommodate all the soldiers who are participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom," Kirby said. "Our folks in the Directorate of Training and Doctrine are currently reworking the program of instruction to accommodate the more condensed course schedule."

Prior to August 1995, the Sergeants Major Course was six months, but was extended to nine months after the Battle Staff Noncommissioned Officer Course was added, said Sgt. Maj. John Wyche, the Deputy Chief of Staff G3 sergeant major.

The Battle Staff NCO Course is used to prepare staff sergeants through sergeants major to serve in staff positions at battalion and higher level. The course will be removed for Class 54, Wyche said.

Class 54 starts Jan. 12, 2004 and runs through June 30. Students may report as early as Dec. 1, and no later than Jan. 5. However, they are authorized to move their families early to Fort Bliss. They can also request an exception to policy to retain housing at their current duty station. The losing installation commander will be the approving authority for those waivers.

"Affording students the opportunity to move their families early gives them a chance to move into government housing, stabilize exceptional family members and enroll children in school," Kirby explained. Children must be enrolled in El Paso schools by July 27, in order to attend the first day of school, Aug. 19.

Deployed soldiers scheduled to attend the 17-day resident phase of the Non-Resident Sergeants Major Course June 7 - 20, will be rescheduled to attend later this year. Those not deployed are still slated to attend the June course.

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