Sma dailey quotes
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From humble roots, Dailey now ensures Soldiers are educated, fit to fight and smiling
FORT IRWIN, Calif. (Army News Service) -- With the tables cleared, chairs folded and the floor vacuumed, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel Dailey was among the last people still inside a banquet hall after a ceremony at this secluded Mojave Desert training base.
About an hour before, he had given the keynote speech for the command's NCO/Soldier of the Year ceremony. In his speech, he praised the winners and underscored the importance of readiness and other Army priorities to the hundreds of people in attendance.
Shortly after, bands of Soldiers, Family members and civilians flocked to him like moths to a bright light. He shook their hands, cracked jokes and shared laughs. Anybody who wanted a selfie with him got one, even if that meant staying well after the event.
"I'm just trying to live up to my own expectations of what the sergeant major of the Army should be," Dailey said, when he finally left the banquet hall around midnight his time.
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Daniel Daly
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient (1873–1937)
"Dan Daly" redirects here. For the actor and comedian, see Dan Daly (comedian).
Not to be confused with Daniel A. Dailey.
Daniel Joseph Daly (November 11, 1873 – April 27, 1937)[1][2] was a United States Marine and one of nineteen U.S. servicemen to have been awarded the Medal of Honortwice. Daly and Major GeneralSmedley Butler are the only Marines who earned two Medals of Honor for two separate acts of valor.[3]
Daly is among the most decorated U.S. Marines in history, and over a thirty year career saw action in all the major Marine Corps campaigns from 1899 to the end of World War I. He earned his first Medal of Honor during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 and the second in Haiti in 1915. Butler described Daly as "the fightingest Marine I ever knew...It was an object lesson to have served with him."[4] General John A. Lejeune called Daly "the outstanding Marine of all time."[5]
In World War I, Daly became further cemented into Marine Corps lore
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SMA (Ret) Daniel A. Dailey
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey, U.S. Army retired, joined the staff of the Association of the U.S. Army, where he serves as vice president of Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier Programs.
A native of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, Dailey enlisted in the Army in 1989 and attended basic training and advanced individual training as an 11B (infantryman) at Fort Benning, Georgia. During his career, Dailey held every enlisted leadership position in the mechanized infantry, ranging from Bradley Fighting Vehicle commander to command sergeant major. Dailey has served with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Infantry Divisions stateside and overseas. In March 2009, he was selected as the 4th Infantry Division command sergeant major, where he served as both the command sergeant major of Fort Carson, Colorado, and U.S. Division‐North, Iraq. In 2011, Dailey was selected to serve as the command sergeant major of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Dailey was sworn in as the 15th sergeant major of the Army on Jan. 30, 2015, and relinquished the position on
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