He also instituted the Sergeant Morales competition in 1973, a program to designed to improve the morale and performance of the NCO corps.
The professional NCO corps was founded again in 2007, and these ranks were reactivated.
The overhaul of the NCO corps involved rewriting Field Manual 22-100: Leadership.
This system has often been criticised as one that encourage careerism in the officer and NCO corps.
The Vietnam War was very expensive for the NCO corps.
An experienced NCO corps is a key component of Western armies.
In 2009 a similar system as the NCO corps was re-established, called "specialist officers".
An important element of the reforms is the creation of a professional NCO corps.
The NCO corps will consist of specialists with almost 3 years (2 years and 10 months) of training.
"Hey, Top," I replied, "we've fought bigger wars than this without destroying our NCO corps."
