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Photo: Staff Sgt. Ryan McCarthy -TRADOC NCO of the Year

Staff Sgt. Ryan McCarthy, representing the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence at Fort Leonard Wood, receives a wooden sword from Command Sgt. Maj. David Davenport, the senior enlisted leader of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command after being named the TRADOC Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, today during a ceremony held on Darby Field at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. (Photo credit: Robert Timmons, Fort Jackson Public Affairs)

Press Release: Fort Leonard Wood Soldier claims TRADOC NCO of the Year title at Best Warrior Competition

Press Release 17-111 Fort Leonard Wood Soldier claims TRADOC NCO of the Year title at Best Warrior Competition

Fort Leonard Wood’s Staff Sgt. Ryan McCarthy, 1st Engineer Brigade, claimed the 2017 Training and Doctrine Command’s Noncommissioned Officer of the Year title today.

The Belgrade, Maine native, competed against noncommissioned officers from across Army TRADOC installations in the Best Warrior Competition held at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

Press Release: Fort Leonard Wood Dentist defines personal courage

Press Release 17-110 FLW Dentist defines personal courage

The Army defines personal courage as facing fear, danger or adversity. The Army Value of Personal Courage is built by standing up for and acting upon the things that are honorable and right.

One Fort Leonard Wood officer was demonstrating personal courage long before he raised his right hand and joined the Army, and continues to demonstrate the Army Values in all he does.

Maj. Giovanni Safdari, the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery chief at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, grew up in Iran dreaming of getting the opportunity to serve society.

Photo: DA Civilian Police Academy

Jason Miller, of Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, and Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Stephen Rizzo, Coast Guard Sector New York, ascend a stairwell with Rick Wheeling, instructor, back, during building-clearing operations Tuesday. Miller and Rizzo are on week three of training in the nine-week course at the Col. Roderick Demps U.S. Army Civilian Police Academy, where newly hired Department of the Army civilian and Coast Guard police officers are trained. (Photo credit: Stephen Standifird, Guidon managing editor)