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SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii -- Chief warrant officers are highly regarded as adaptive technical experts, combat leaders, trainers, advisors, and in the words of the Pacific's senior logistician, Maj. Gen. Edward F. Dorman III, "the miracle workers of our Army."
With these critical characteristics and proven impact across the full spectrum of operations, creating a top chief warrant officer position and naming Chief Warrant Officer Five Michael B. Martin as the first to fill that leadership role was a natural and necessary move for Dorman's 8th Theater Sustainment Command.
Martin assumed the Command Chief Warrant Officer responsibility during a ceremony here, Oct. 31.
During the symbolic event, Dorman said, "Today, we celebrate a phenomenal Soldier, the technical expert, the logistics warrior and war fighters' logistician."
As the senior Army logistics command in the Pacific, 8th TSC troops are the subject matter experts on logistics and supply for land operations throughout the theater, and the organizations 125 warrant officers, representing 25 different Military Occupational Specialties, provide the technical leadership and experience to make that massive mission possible.
"The senior warrant officer plays a critical role in the professional development of the Warrant Officer Corps within this two-star command," Martin said. "This is the first time outside of aviation and special forces in the Pacific where we have had a Command Chief Warrant Officer for an organization of a two-star commander or higher."
Martin joined the Army in 1983 and earned the rank of warrant officer one in 1993. During his 21 years in the Warrant Officer Corps, he has served with a variety of units to include 7th Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
Dorman emphasized the impact that Martin's years of experience will have on the command, and the overall important role that all warrant officers play in our Army.
Martin said the new position, "makes me feel honored, privileged, excited, nervous, apprehensive, but my goal is to work with each and every warrant officer of the command, to get involved in their careers, to help with their professional development and overall to bring warrant officers to the leading roles in this Theater Sustainment Command's mission, impacting logistics throughout the Pacific."
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