U.S. Army South Senior Enlisted Advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald Graves, speaks to members of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Fla., November 18, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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Colombian and Mexican military senior enlisted advisors tour the U.S. Coast Guard Manowar, an 87-foot marine protector class coastal patrol boat, in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) on the in Miami, Fla., November 16, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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DORAL, Fla. – The U.S. Army South led “Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía,” or PISAJ, concluded at the moment after 13 days of coaching, briefings from war-fighting capabilities and excursions of amenities between Washington, D.C. and Miami.
“PISAJ is not only an change centered on private improvement of the Colombian noncommissioned officers (NCO), but in addition the development of the complete Colombian NCO corps,” stated Command Sgt. Maj. Ronald J. Graves, the U.S. Army South senior enlisted advisor. “It’s repetitive engagements like PISAJ that assist us create a shared understanding by means of relationships and belief.”
PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia. This system is concentrated on the skilled improvement of NCOs and is designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries.
Senior enlisted advisors of the Colombian and Mexican armies attend and converse in a breakout session in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Fla., November 17, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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Colombian military sergeants main tour U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Miami in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) in Miami, Fla., November 16, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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With this iteration’s deal with modernization and chief improvement, 30 college students and observers from each the Colombian and Mexican armies attended briefings from senior enlisted advisors from U.S. Army Fight Capabilities Growth Command, Protection Intelligence Company, Ladies’s Peace and Safety, Inter-American Protection Faculty, Western Hemisphere Institute for Safety Cooperation, and different navy organizations.
Throughout this system, the category visited the Pentagon, the Nationwide Protection College, Particular Operations Command South, Joint Interagency Process Drive South, U.S. Southern Command and a number of other different navy amenities.
Colombian military soldier, Sgt. Maj. Eli Mosquera Cruz, listens to a briefing in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) on the U.S. Coast Guard District 7 headquarters in Miami, Fla., November 16, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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The impression this iteration of PISAJ has left on attendees will additional progress their private navy improvement in addition to the modernization of their militaries total, stated Colombian military Sgt. Maj. Eli Mosquera Cruz.
“This expertise with the U.S. Army has helped me higher perceive the function a sergeant main performs in growing particular person troopers and the military as an establishment,” stated Mosquera. “The knowledge gained and success we’ve got achieved right here will not be just for the people attending however additionally for the sergeants main who will serve after us.”
One of many 4 feminine senior NCOs attending this iteration of PISAJ is the primary feminine Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of Joint Chief of Employees of the Colombian navy forces, Command Sgt. Maj. Consuelo Díaz Álvarez. She stated every single day her troopers strengthen the capabilities of the Colombian NCO corps.
Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of Joint Chief of Employees of the Colombian navy forces, Command Sgt. Maj. Consuelo Díaz Álvarez, listens to a briefing in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) on the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station in Miami, Fla., November 16, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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“Our sergeants main are leaving right here stronger with knowledge and expertise that may empower them to be higher folks and higher leaders,” stated Díaz. “Each day of PISAJ, we shared doctrine, strengthened our capabilities and realized classes that may make us higher advisors to the commanders of the Colombian military, and I do know they are going to implement what they realized right here to make our military stronger.”
Sgt. Maj. of the Colombian Army Mauricio Páez Acosta stated the experiences and classes realized throughout PISAJ are invaluable in offering a degree of essential considering obligatory to guide troopers.
“When a sergeant main involves this program, they carry with them a unique imaginative and prescient of easy methods to lead their troopers, facilitate the commander in addition to easy methods to affect the Colombian NCO corps,” stated Páez. “As an advisor to the commander, we see issues from a unique perspective and we shine an opportunistic gentle on challenges she or he could face.”
Sgt. Maj. of the Colombian Army Mauricio Páez Acosta, speaks in the course of the seventeenth iteration of Programa Integral para Suboficiales de Alta Jerarquía (PISAJ) at U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami, Fla., November 17, 2022. PISAJ is a military-to-military engagement performed semi-annually with the Colombian military and different invited members as part of a biannual agreed-to-action between the U.S. and Colombia centered on the skilled improvement of NCOs and designed to extend the capability and regional collaboration between each militaries. (U.S. Army picture by Pfc. Joshua Taeckens)
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Each Páez and Graves envision the growth of involvement and planning from associate nations with a higher deal with joint and mixed operations.
“We need to amplify PISAJ and supply a chance for different elements and our associate nations to take part so as to strengthen this system, all of the NCOs who attend and their navy forces,” stated Páez.
The following iteration of PISAJ is within the planning course of and can happen within the Spring of 2023.
