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FROM THE FIELD

US Army Financial Management Command

(USAFMCOM) Corner (Cont’d)

Inaugural Finance, Sustainment Symposium charts future by Mark R.
W. Orders-Woempner

INDIANAPOLIS
It’s been said the only thing constant in life is change, and that’s true for the Army’s Finance Corps
since its inception just two days after the Army’s founding in 1775.

Now, as the Army rapidly transforms to meet shifts in threats around the globe, its senior finance,
comptroller and sustainment leaders joined nearly 180 other Soldiers and Army civilian employees
from around the globe to chart future transformational efforts during the inaugural Finance and
Sustainment Symposium at the MG Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indianapolis Nov. 7-9.
“[We need] to identify what is the right path to put the U.S. Army finance and comptroller
community and profession so that we can best support the U.S. Army as the Army continues to
move forward,” said LTG Paul. A. Chamberlain, Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Financial Management and Comptroller. “The Army is also transforming over the course
of the next several years into the Army of 2030 and then into the Army of 2040, so what is it that we
need to do in order to support the Army?”

Nearly two years ago, Army senior leaders determined that commanders’ reach from the battlefield
to the Joint Strategic Support Area for finance operations was not aligned to support large-scale
combat operations and multi-domain operations necessary for the 21st

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