HOOAH

Certificate of Award
Presented to
"Matt"

To all who see these present greetings:
This is to certify that the Headquarters Company 114th Signal Battalion has authorized the award of the "Army Values Tag" for living up to the Seven Army Values of Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor Integrity, Personal Courage.

Signed this 3rd day of October 2005

Mark S. Stroh
CSM, USA
Command Sergeant Major


This is the Certificate that the men and women of the 114th Signal Battalion presented to our Webelos Den last night at there meeting. These fine soldiers were willing to come out and drill for our boys and teach them how to march so that when it is their turn to do the flag ceremony they can be the best at what they do. Pretty impressive for a bunch of 9 and 10 year olds don’t you think?

I have to admit, the Army has definitely changed in its culture over the last 10 years. When I was a trooper we didn’t have a program called the Seven Army Values, it was just expected of us. But I can see that this program is definitely working. In just under 2 hours these 5 NCOs were able to get 9, 9 and 10 year old boys to work together and march in ranks. And by the end of the night they were answering questions being thrown out by these NCOs with the standard Army, HOOAH! Of course at first the boys had no idea what Hooah meant, until one boy looked at the Command Sergeant Major (CSM) that was leading the drill team and asked, “What does hooah mean?” At first I thought the CSM was going to have a heart attack but he recovered nicely and explained that Hooah means, YES SERGEANT or SIR, Right Away, Got it, On my Way, and any other affirmative you can think of. Once that was covered, the boys were shouting Hooah at every opportunity.

So from the boys of Den 7, Thank You! Signal Masters of the Rock!