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Army Reserve Reports Hitting Goal for Sergeants Amid Push to End Noncommissioned Officer Shortage

Porchea Taylor pins sergeant 1st class rockers on her wife, U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. 1st Class Lavasia Taylor, the training noncommissioned officer for Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 7th Mission Support Command, during her promotion ceremony at Kleber Kaserne, Kaiserslautern, Germany.

After years of a shortage of noncommissioned officers in the Army Reserve, the service component may finally be gaining ground on its leadership deficit. The Army Reserve has struggled for half a decade to promote junior soldiers to sergeant, a reverberating impact that has led to shortfalls in the senior NCO ranks. But now, the […]