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Vol. 65 No. 33
August 21, 2015

CJCS, USA Basketball leaders enlighten Nellis Airmen

By Airman 1st Class Rachel Loftis

99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

DOD News photo NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. — Several
hundred Nellis AFB Airmen gathered for an
U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Jerry Colangelo, the USA Basketball chairman and inside look at a leadership panel held inside the
managing director; and Mike Krzyzewski, USA and Duke University’s head men’s basketball coach, hold a leadership panel 757th Strike Aircraft Maintenance Unit hangar
discussion with Airmen at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Aug. 13. here Aug. 13.

Among the panel was the highest-ranking
service member in the Department of Defense,
the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S.
Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey. Accompany-
ing him on the panel were two men who know
a thing or two on leadership: Mike Kryzewski,
Duke University head basketball coach, and
Jerry Colangelo, USA Basketball chairman and
managing director.

The panel shared their views and experi-
ences as part of the Hoops for Troops partner-
ship between USA Basketball and the Defense
Department.

The seminar began with Dempsey explaining
why the topic of leadership is important.

“In our institution, the United States military,
we consider ourselves to be the pre-eminent
leader development institution in the world,”
said Dempsey. “In our case it’s not about how
many battles we win, but how we conduct
ourselves, behave ourselves and represent our
country, and that’s why this setting is important
and this topic is important.”

_________ See LEADERSHIP, on page 3

Dempsey: U.S. forces must adapt to deal with near-peer competitors

By Jim Garamone Following meetings with Danish the Soviet Union. His first assignment peacekeeping missions and contingencies.
Chief of Defense Army Gen. Peter Bar- was as a tanker with the 2nd Armored But there was nothing that really threat-
DOD News, Defense Media Activity tram and his staff, Army Gen. Martin Cavalry Regiment on the border with ened the homeland during those years.”
E. Dempsey spoke at the Danish Army the Warsaw Pact.
COPENHAGEN — For the first time Academy about the changes he has seen Then 9/11 happened and the United
since the end of the Soviet Union, the in his 41 years in uniform. “We had one threat with which we were States military found itself fighting a
United States is facing a near-peer threat, confronted and with which we were deal- counterinsurgency/counterterrorism
and that is unsettling to many in the ser- The chairman said the first 15 years ing,” he said. “That threat went away with war from 2001 to 2011.
vices, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of of his Army career were dominated by the fall of the Soviet Union and we had a
Staff said here Aug. 17. confronting the security threat posed by 10-year period where we were doing small _______ See DEMPSEY, on page 3

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