JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. –
U.S. Army Sgt. Shannon Scott, center left, 221st Military Police Detachment police officer, and U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Kirk Carlton, center right, Army Training and Support Center senior enlisted advisor, cut a cake during the NCO Corps birthday celebration at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., Dec. 16, 2016. Inspector General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben created training objectives that constituted the first written plan for NCO standards, discipline and duty for Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army in Dec. 1777. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Derek Seifert)