DVIDS – News – Hussey to Cowan: two hundredth MP Command adjustments management

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey. – Household, mates and distinguished company have been current right here on a scorching Friday morning, August 26, as Maj. Gen. John F. Hussey relinquished duties because the commanding common of the two hundredth Army Police Command, situated at Fort Meade, Maryland, to Brig. Gen. Cary “Joe” Cowan Jr. throughout a change of command ceremony held at Sharp Discipline.

The two hundredth Army Police Command is a division-level headquarters which instructions 97% of the Army Reserve army police belongings and troopers. The command was activated on April 16, 2008, after being constituted two years earlier from the 220th Army Police Brigade. It’s house to roughly 14,000 troopers who make up 4 brigades, 22 battalions and 53 firms and detachments.

The ceremony commenced with the arrival of the reviewing celebration which carried out an inspection of the models shaped and their colours whereas the 78th Army Band performed the standard numbers related to this time-honored occasion.

Hussey took command of the two hundredth on November 2, 2019. He enlisted within the Marine Corps in June 1984. He then transferred to the Army Nationwide Guard in 1986, accomplished the Officer Candidate College in 1988 and branched as a Army Police Officer. It wasn’t till 1997 that Hussey joined the Army Reserve, the place he continued his profession which culminated along with his taking command of the two hundredth.

A few of his most notable prior assignments embrace serving as commander of the 306th Army Police Battalion on the Abu Ghraib jail Iraq in 2005, commander of the third Brigade Civil Affairs/Psychological Operations, and the deputy commander of Joint Process Pressure Guantanamo, which was his final project earlier than assuming command of the two hundredth.

Talking in his regular off-the-cuff method, Hussey started by thanking his spouse Janice for all she did for him and his household, as he handled demise in his household up to now yr, whereas not slowing down on mission necessities. He requested the viewers to offer a spherical of applause in appreciation of all spouses for what they do. He then talked about his time in command and listed a number of the missions and coaching occasions that models within the two hundredth are taking part in right here in the US and overseas. “Anyplace you go, the two hundredth MP Command is on the map to go,” he stated.

Hussey then talked about his imaginative and prescient for the command sooner or later, and the way the workers accepted his problem to examine the command’s position in future operations, creating plans, creating info merchandise and executing coaching occasions for detention and dislocated civilian operations, the latter which was simply concluded a number of days in the past.

“I’ve actually tasked this workers, and I wish to congratulate you for standing as much as it,” Hussey stated. “Generally you get that appear like ‘Why-do-we-have-to-do- this,’ however I by no means bought that from any of you.”

He additionally thanked a number of the company within the viewers who had guided him as mentors, and others with whom he had labored in some key assignments throughout his Army Reserve profession.

Lastly, he welcomed Cowan and his household to his new project. “I go away you with an awesome enterprise, and you understand that since you helped construct it,” Hussey stated. He expressed confidence within the incoming command group as nicely. Hussey signed off one final time along with his signature “Justice Six, Out!”

Maj. Gen. Gregory Mosser, Deputy Commanding Normal United States Army Reserve Command, presided over the ceremony, accepting the colours from Hussey as he relinquished command and handed them to Cowan, symbolizing the switch of authority. In his remarks, Mosser ran by means of the litany of Hussey’s tutorial {and professional} accomplishments in a profession that spanned 4 many years, taking particular be aware of his 5 grasp’s levels, doctoral diploma and quite a few revealed papers and dissertations on detention operations.

“Saying that John is educated is like saying Wyatt Earp participated in a number of regulation enforcement actions within the Eighties,” Mosser stated. “The unit’s success had an awesome deal to do with Hussey’s management and his excessive requirements.”

Mosser famous that every one three of Hussey’s kids had adopted of their father’s footsteps by getting into service-oriented careers, with two at present serving within the army. He then thanked Mrs. Janice Hussey for excelling as a soldier’s partner, noting that it was one of the crucial tough assignments within the Army.

Mosser then welcomed Cowan and his household to his new position because the commander of the two hundredth. “With all of your expertise and this nice group of boosters, all of us you’ll proceed to uphold the tenets of the two hundredth motto, commanding the perfect,” he added.

Mosser closed out his remarks by thanking Hussey for his service on behalf of a grateful Army and nation.

Final to talk was the brand new commander of the two hundredth. Cowan praised Hussey for pushing the command to new heights whereas additionally offering a imaginative and prescient for the command. “For myself, working for Maj. Gen. Hussey the previous couple of years has afforded me a graduate-level studying alternative, one anchored within the Army values and the need to be higher on daily basis,” he stated. To the troopers now below his cost, Cowan stated that the command will proceed to coach, put together and proceed to observe the imaginative and prescient laid out by Hussey.

“TRAIN TO FIGHT! COMMANDING THE BEST!”