Archive: Sergeant Major Micheal P. Barrett

Breaching the Summit launches on 28 May 2018! Take an inside look at how 6 people got their start and made their way to the highest levels of the Pentagon. For more information, visit breachingthesummit.wordpress.com

Breaching The Summit @BreachingSummit launches on 29 May! Follow the journeys of six senior enlisted leaders to the top of the Pentagon. Follow us on Twitter for updates and events. @SMMC17 @RickWest01 @SkipBowen10 @DJelinskiHall Jim Roy @SMAPrestonAUSA @HollandDennis

The focus of the book is to help aspiring leaders improve their leadership ability by using the skills, techniques, and experiences gained from military service, post-military corporate careers, and quite frankly hard work, commitment, integrity, and respect for others.

Jim Roy, former Chief Master Sergeant of the @usairforce; Denise Jelinski-Hall @DJelinskiHall, former Senior Enlisted Advisor to the @USNationalGuard; and Skip Bowen, former Master Chief Petty Officer of the @USCG.

The six authors of @BreachingSummit are Ken Preston @SMAPrestonAUSA, former Sergeant Major of the @USArmy; Mike Barrett @SMMC17, former Sergeant Major of the @USMC; Rick West @mcpon12, former Master Chief Petty Officer of the @USNavy; ...

Breaching the Summit launches on 28 May 2018! Take an inside look at how 6 people got their start and made their way to the highest levels of the Pentagon. For more information, visit breachingthesummit.wordpress.com

Representing over 190 years of proven leadership experience, this group of senior enlisted leaders served as the champions for a force of more than 2 million Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen, and Coast Guardsmen.

They are selected by the military’s most senior leadership to represent the workforce and provide a “field reality check” to senior leadership at the top of their respective services.

The senior enlisted leadership role that has evolved in the armed services is unique to the military. Service level Senior Enlisted Leaders came from what other organizations might call the “rank and file.”

"I don’t think a book written by senior enlisted leaders from every military service has ever been written. Even though we are now retired we should share our leadership experiences."

So why this book? And how is it different from other books focused on leadership? At a @veteransunited meeting last year Rick West @mcpon12 posed the question, “Why don’t we collectively write a leadership book? ...”

Thank you for you attendance @HopeSeck RT @Marinetimes: Green becomes Corps' new sergeant major as Barrett retires. ow.ly/2UWzux

ICYMI: Watch my Relief & Appointment Ceremony here ow.ly/JhyP9 via @USMC & @DVIDSHub

"The Corps is in great hands because there is no shortage of young men & women to wear the nation's cloth." —@SMMC17

Just Now SgtMaj Green relieves SgtMaj Barrett as SgtMaj of the USMC Semper Fi, @SMMC17 Welcome aboard, SgtMaj Green

Early morning preparing for the SMMC Relief & Appointment at the Marine Corps War Memorial. @USMC @ArlingtonNatl

Can’t be at tomorrow’s Relief & Appointment Ceremony? Watch it on @DVIDSHub live at 10am EST dvidshub.net/webcast/5895#.…

Congrats @chiksdigscars, @SMMC17, @PhilKlay & other #Marines in @WeAreTheMighty HillVets 100. ow.ly/IyXLZ

Earlier Today SgtMaj Kasal relieved SgtMaj Green as @1stMEF SgtMaj. Green scheduled to take over for @SMMC17 Feb. 20

@anette_engman @JessieJaneDuff Yes, we plan on live streaming the R&A on @DVIDSHub. We will post details closer to the event. @DVIDS_Marines

@JessieJaneDuff The relief & appointment ceremony is scheduled for Feb 20 at the Marine Corps War Memorial. marines.mil/News/Messages/…