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News & Notes

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Hannah Zeigler
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2024-08-09

News & Notes

2024 Issue 2

Mr. Adam Stoffa, a labor and employment attorney advisor at U.S. Army South, donates blood in the Akeroyd Blood Donor Center’s mobile blood unit outside the U.S. Army South headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, TX. Mr. Stoffa has been consistently donating blood since he began working for U.S. Army South ten years ago. (Credit: SSG ShaTyra Cox)

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BG Karen Monday-Gresham, Commanding General of the 7th Mission Support Command, poses with newly promoted COL Jason Frankenfield, her staff judge advocate, following his promotion ceremony at the command headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Credit: SSG Jessica Forester)

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Members of Direct Commission Course (DCC) Class 002-24 commission into the U.S. Army during their DCC graduation in McGinnis-Wickham Hall at Fort Moore, GA. (Credit: Patrick A. Albright)

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MAJ Teisha B. Barnes (left), civil affairs officer with Civil Military Operations (G39, CMO), U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), and CPT Linda Atiase (right), operational law attorney, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, SETAF-AF, pose for a photo at the final planning event for Justified Accord 24 in Nairobi, Kenya. Led by SETAF-AF and hosted in Kenya, Djibouti, and Rwanda, this year’s exercise incorporated personnel 7 and units from twenty-three nations and five observer countries. This multinational exercise increases multinational interoperability in support of humanitarian assistance, disaster response, and crisis response. (Credit: MAJ Joe Legros)

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CPT Laura Bernier (seated right, opposite video camera), administrative law attorney at 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, KS, serves as a national security law attorney and participates in a mock-interview with the media to discuss rules of engagement and civilian protection in large-scale combat operations during a Warfighter exercise at Fort Riley. (Credit: LTC Craig M. Scrogham)

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CPT Brennan Vazquez (left), brigade judge advocate, Allied Forces South Battalion, U.S. Army NATO Brigade, engages in conversation with his spouse, Ms. Yuna Vazquez (center), and LTC Benjamin Steichen, division head, exercise production at Joint Warfare Center, Stavanger, Norway, during the Senior Army Leaders Meeting XXII in Garmisch, Germany. The U.S. Army NATO Brigade hosted the meeting to give leaders from eighty-two locations in twenty-two countries the opportunity to meet faceto-face and share knowledge and ideas on NATO operations and how best to support the roughly 800 Soldiers and their Families serving within NATO organizations in the United States and twenty-one NATO member nations in Europe. (Credit: Troy Darr)

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The 108th Training Command (TC) – Initial Entry Training (IET) Office of the Staff Judge Advocate hosted their first ever legal workshop to coincide with BG Gerald R. Krimbill’s Article 6 inspection of the 108th TC IET, which included a leader professional development event at Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg, SC. Members of the legal teams from the 104th Training Division (LT), 98th Training Division IET, 95th Training Division IET and the 134th Legal Operations Detachment – Charlotte Team attended and are pictured in front of the battlefield monument from 1880, which commemorates the fifty citizen Soldiers who died during the battle of Kings Mountain. (Photo courtesy of COL Kevin C. Frein)

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223d Officer Basic Course. (Credit: Billie Suttles, TJAGLCS)

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SSG Cyril Peters, paralegal and administrative law NCOIC, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, competes at the National Physique Kentucky Open Amateur Body Building Competition in Lexington, KY. (Credit: Barbara Gersna)

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Mr. Adam Stoffa, a labor and employment attorney advisor at U.S. Army South, donates blood in the Akeroyd Blood Donor Center’s mobile blood unit outside the U.S. Army South headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, TX. Mr. Stoffa has been consistently donating blood since he began working for U.S. Army South ten years ago. (Credit: SSG ShaTyra Cox)

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BG Karen Monday-Gresham, Commanding General of the 7th Mission Support Command, poses with newly promoted COL Jason Frankenfield, her staff judge advocate, following his promotion ceremony at the command headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Credit: SSG Jessica Forester)

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Members of Direct Commission Course (DCC) Class 002-24 commission into the U.S. Army during their DCC graduation in McGinnis-Wickham Hall at Fort Moore, GA. (Credit: Patrick A. Albright)

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MAJ Teisha B. Barnes (left), civil affairs officer with Civil Military Operations (G39, CMO), U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), and CPT Linda Atiase (right), operational law attorney, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, SETAF-AF, pose for a photo at the final planning event for Justified Accord 24 in Nairobi, Kenya. Led by SETAF-AF and hosted in Kenya, Djibouti, and Rwanda, this year’s exercise incorporated personnel 7 and units from twenty-three nations and five observer countries. This multinational exercise increases multinational interoperability in support of humanitarian assistance, disaster response, and crisis response. (Credit: MAJ Joe Legros)

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CPT Laura Bernier (seated right, opposite video camera), administrative law attorney at 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, KS, serves as a national security law attorney and participates in a mock-interview with the media to discuss rules of engagement and civilian protection in large-scale combat operations during a Warfighter exercise at Fort Riley. (Credit: LTC Craig M. Scrogham)

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CPT Brennan Vazquez (left), brigade judge advocate, Allied Forces South Battalion, U.S. Army NATO Brigade, engages in conversation with his spouse, Ms. Yuna Vazquez (center), and LTC Benjamin Steichen, division head, exercise production at Joint Warfare Center, Stavanger, Norway, during the Senior Army Leaders Meeting XXII in Garmisch, Germany. The U.S. Army NATO Brigade hosted the meeting to give leaders from eighty-two locations in twenty-two countries the opportunity to meet faceto-face and share knowledge and ideas on NATO operations and how best to support the roughly 800 Soldiers and their Families serving within NATO organizations in the United States and twenty-one NATO member nations in Europe. (Credit: Troy Darr)

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The 108th Training Command (TC) – Initial Entry Training (IET) Office of the Staff Judge Advocate hosted their first ever legal workshop to coincide with BG Gerald R. Krimbill’s Article 6 inspection of the 108th TC IET, which included a leader professional development event at Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg, SC. Members of the legal teams from the 104th Training Division (LT), 98th Training Division IET, 95th Training Division IET and the 134th Legal Operations Detachment – Charlotte Team attended and are pictured in front of the battlefield monument from 1880, which commemorates the fifty citizen Soldiers who died during the battle of Kings Mountain. (Photo courtesy of COL Kevin C. Frein)

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223d Officer Basic Course. (Credit: Billie Suttles, TJAGLCS)

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SSG Cyril Peters, paralegal and administrative law NCOIC, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 1st Theater Sustainment Command, competes at the National Physique Kentucky Open Amateur Body Building Competition in Lexington, KY. (Credit: Barbara Gersna)