Public Affairs

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Jan. 4, 2023) The Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood will host a change-of-responsibility ceremony at 9 a.m. Jan. 6 in Lincoln Hall Auditorium.

During the ceremony, Command Sgt. Maj. Randolph Delapena will transfer responsibilities of the MSCoE to Command Sgt. Maj. Jorge Arzabala.

Delapena’s next assignment will be serving as the 82nd Airborne Division Command Sergeant Major at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Arzabala comes to Fort Leonard Wood from Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where he was the Command Sergeant Major of the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives Command.

The event is scheduled to be streamed live on the Fort Leonard Wood Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/fortleonardwoodmissouri/.

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood is a thriving and prosperous installation that has evolved from a small basic training post 80 years ago to a premier Army Center of Excellence that trains nearly 80,000 military and civilians each year.

Fort Leonard Wood is home to the U.S Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and three U.S. Army schools: the U.S. Army Engineer School; U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School; and the U.S. Army Military Police School. In addition to training engineer, CBRN and military police specialties for the Army, Fort Leonard Wood also provides gender-integrated in-processing and Basic Combat Training for new Soldiers.

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission