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With over 30,000 registered runners and over 540 teams from around the world, the 27th Army Ten-Miler took place Oct. 9 at the Pentagon, the day before the 2011 Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition.

The first male runner crossing the finish line, Tesfaye Sendeku Alemayehu, from Antioch, Calif., completed the run in 47:51.

Second place went to Spc. Robert Cheseret, from the Army World Class Athlete Program, Fort Carson, Colo., and a member of the All Army Team, with a time of 48:21.

Third place runner, who tied with Cheseret, was Spc. Augustus Maiyo...

  Tesfaye Sendeku Alemayehu ran away with the men’s division, Tezata Dengera led the women, and runners from the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) and All Army Sports successfully defended the International Cup in the 27th running of the Army Ten-Miler Oct. 9 at the Pentagon.Alemayehu bolted to the front during the first mile, stretched his lead to 80 meters in the second, and ran uncontested to victory in 47 minutes, 51 seconds on the new course that started and ended on the north side of the Pentagon.Dengera led the women with a time of 56:35.WCAP runners Spc. Robert Cheseret and...

 Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffery T. Stitzel, regimental sergeant major for the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), was the Army’s first NCO of the year in 2002 while serving as a sergeant first class.Since that inaugural competition – now known as The Best Warrior Competition and held at Fort Lee, Va. – Stitzel has seen the status of the noncommissioned officer evolve into having a more crucial role in the Army."We’re asking noncommissioned officers to do things now at the staff level that we entrusted career course-graduate captains to do," Stitzel said.Adding, "You’ve got noncommissioned...

 Last month I reported that neither the Defense Authorization Bill nor the Defense Appropriations Bill were completed and that it began to look like another continuing resolution would be necessary to continue to fund the government at last year’s levels.At this writing, it appears that the continuing resolution that expires on Nov. 18 will have to be extended into December to keep the government "running on fiscal fumes."As I have said in this column so many times, it is not as if the Congress didn’t know back in January that the deadline was Sept. 30.Of course, election politics plays an...

 The Army must come to terms with an increasing number of ill, combat-wounded or injured soldiers who are not fit for deployment, the service’s chief medical officer said at an Oct. 10 symposium during the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington.After more than 10 years of conflict, and in anticipation of potentially lower strength levels, "Every soldier added to the pool of non-ready soldiers taps into the pool of soldiers who are," said Lt. Gen. (Dr.) Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general and commanding general of U.S. Army Medical Command."...

On the opening day of the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition, several hundred Army ROTC cadets received a preview of the Army they will be leading as platoon leaders from the officer responsible for forging how they will operate.Gen. Robert Cone, commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, spoke on "Shaping the Army of 2020" at the annual ROTC luncheon.Cone said how this generation of incoming Army leaders, combined with 10 years of constant fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is shaping how the Army is looking toward the future."Our world has...

The best ways to view the Army’s Force Generation model is to see it as "a process," "a verb, instead of a noun," "a rheostat" or even a gear box, senior Army officials from all components told attendees at an Institute of Land Warfare Contemporary Military Forum.Speaking Monday Oct. 10 at the Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition, Lt. Gen. Howard Bromberg, deputy commanding general of Forces Command, said, "It is a way of building readiness over time" and it is a model that can change.Current Army plans would have active component soldiers be in a reset phase...

The Army is transforming into a force that relies upon a single, integrated network, the chief information officer for G-6 (operational test command) said during a Tuesday, Oct. 11 LandWarNet seminar.No longer will intelligence, fires, logistics, and mission command operate on disparate systems that, in the past, failed to facilitate communication with each other at critical moments."If you want to ride this network, you’re going to meet these technical standards we’re going to put out," said Lt. Gen. Susan S. Lawrence, the chief information officer for G-6, who moderated a panel of peers from...

 The Senate has confirmed Maj. Gen. William Ingram, former adjutant general of the North Carolina National Guard and current special assistant to the Army vice chief of staff for promotion to lieutenant general and director of the Army National Guard.Ingram’s confirmation occurred during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Nov. 10, the first ever when all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified to the full committee.The testimony, for which the Joint Chiefs were joined by Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, was on the matter of whether the guard...

Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, was confirmed by the Senate Nov. 10 to be the Army vice chief of staff succeeding Gen. Peter Chiarelli who has served in this position since August 2008.Austin, serving as the commanding general, United States Forces – Iraq, since Sept. 1, 2010, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as the Army’s 33rd vice chief of staff pending Senate confirmation.The Senate also confirmed Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell to be the commanding general, U.S. Army North and Fifth U.S. Army.Caldwell recently served as the commander, Combined Security Transition Command —...

 Damage to the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps could be irreversible if the Budget Control Act's "sequestration" provision takes another $600 billion from the defense budget, the military service chiefs testified Nov. 2.Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James F. Amos testified before the House Armed Services Committee on the future of the military services.A bipartisan congressional committee is working to identify $1.5 trillion in federal...

Story and photo by Sgt. Keven Parry, Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Inf. Div. Public AffairsThe Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, held a community day at Fort Riley’s Marshall Army Airfield Nov.16. Leaders from the communities the CAB is partnered with attended the event to learn more about the brigade.The event allowed partnership members to interact with each other and discover the extent of the brigade’s community involvement while learning about the unit from CAB Soldiers.“I was surprised at how many other groups were partnering with the brigade,” said Jeff Chapman, a...

Story and photo by Sgt. Keven Parry, CAB, 1st Inf. Div. Public AffairsSoldiers from various units throughout the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, joined together to form Task Force Nightmare in order to support 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, during their rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La. from Nov 4 to Nov 18.The aviation task force brought the strengths of Soldiers throughout the brigade together into a single team in order to accomplish full spectrum air missions that will be necessary at JRTC.All aspects of aviation operations...

It’s the right thing to do. This simple yet cogent statement is the motto of the Missing in America Project (MIAP), a national effort to locate, identify and inter the unclaimed cremains of veterans across the United States.Cofounded by Vietnam War veterans Richard Cesler and Fred Salanti, the project first came about in 2005 after Cesler, who was working as Idaho’s Veterans Cemetery Director at the time, came across the cremains of Sgt. Richard Trueman and his wife, Martha, locked away in a storage unit for five years.In 2006, Cesler helped organize interment ceremonies, with full military...

The high incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) within the U.S. Army is an issue that must be properly addressed, according to Vice Chief of the Army Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli."This is the kind of thing we’ve really got to get a handle on," Chiarelli said. "There is still a lot more work to do."Chiarelli outlined his concerns with PTSD and TBI—along with problems he believed were related to these conditions such as substance abuse and suicide—during his speech at Sergeant Major of the Army’s Best Warrior Competition Awards Luncheon at the 2011...