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PAGE 12 NEWS LEADERJANUARY 13, 2011CASEY from P11strength.”Casey said keepingand maintaining a combatedge requires continuousadaptation due tothe uncertainty and complexityof the environment— weapons of massdestruction, technology,trends, safe havens — buthe feels confident in howfar the Army has come.“If you’d asked me in2007 if we’d have beenable to maintain the paceand the tempo that we domaintain, I’d have said,‘you’re nuts,’“ he admitted.“We’re still a volunteerforce, so it’s a greattribute to the men andwomen in our armedforces that we’re able todo that.”He praised the ReserveComponents, saying hehad never seen relationshipsbetween the componentsbetter than today,adding that half of ArmyReserve and NationalGuard Soldiers are combatveterans, “and thatmakes us a fundamentallydifferent Army.”Addressing Soldier andfamily issues, Casey saidthe ComprehensiveSoldier Fitness program,which started in Octoberof 2009, continues togrow and is a major partof the equation in buildingresilience for the longhaul.“We’ve been at wartoday for almost a decadeand the cumulativeeffects of war are stillwith us, and they’re goingto be for a while, so wehave to deal with thoseeffects,” he said. Caseyadded that active-dutysuicide rates for 2010were down for the firsttime since 2004, creditingthe efforts of Army suicide-preventionprograms.Casey also recognizedSgt. Maj. of the ArmyKenneth O. Preston asthe longest-serving sergeantmajor of the Army,with more than sevenyears as the Army’s topenlisted leader. Thatrecognition garnered astanding ovation forPreston, who was inattendance. Preston isslated to retire in Marchwith 36 years of service.“When you thinkabout the list of thingsI’ve talked about andthen throw in BRAC(base realignment andclosure) and the 398,000Soldiers, families andcivilians moving allaround, all to be done bySept. 15,” he said. “Noother organization in theworld could have done allthat at the same time,especially while we’redeploying 100 to 200,000Soldiers to Iraq andAfghanistan.”
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