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Michele S. Jones was the first woman in the United States Army Reserve to reach the position of command sergeant major of the U.S. Army Reserve. She was the first female non-commissioned officer to serve in the highest enlisted position of a component of the U.S. Army, active or reserve, and was at one time the highest-ranking African-American female enlisted person in any branch of the United States military, as well as the highest-ranking enlisted African American in the Army Reserve. Jones serves as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. ==Army career== Jones was born 24 November 1963 in Randallstown, Maryland.〔 She grew up in the Baltimore area. She is a graduate of Milford Mill Academy. She was for a time a Baltimore Colts cheerleader.〔 At Fayetteville State University, she graduated ''cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.〔 Jones originally joined the U.S. Army because she "liked the uniform"〔 and because none of her friends were joining—she reports that she has "always been an independent thinker".〔 She said she took the advertising slogan to heart, "Be All You Can Be In The Army",〔 and enlisted in September 1982.〔 In her 1997–1998 class of the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy, she became the first female selected as class president.〔 On 28 October 2002, Jones stepped into the role of Command Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army Reserve, to serve as the principal representative of the enlisted ranks, adviser to the chief of the Army Reserve.〔 In that role she successfully championed the right of the Reservist to have the same commissary privileges as the Regular Army soldier.〕 She traveled the world, seeking out and initiating solutions to U.S. Army and Army Reserve enlisted personnel resource problems. She served state-side on active duty assignments during the Kosovo War as well as during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and the Global War on Terrorism.〔 ''Ebony'' magazine featured a portrait and short biography of Jones in June 2003, on a one-page monthly feature entitled "Speaking of People". The next month, Jones was honored with the Meritorious Service Award by the NAACP. Jones was pictured in ''Essence'' magazine in April 2005 in a photographic essay entitled "The Beautiful Ones: 35 of the Most Remarkable Women in the World", showing 35 African-American women worthy of note. In her meetings with Army Reservists, Jones often emphasized the basics, such as physical fitness, even for those soldiers who were able to complete their assigned tasks without passing physical fitness examinations. At the Sheridan Army Reserve Center in northwest Baltimore in 2006, she actively demonstrated her stance on the matter to the enlisted leaders of the 80th Division. She slid her body underneath a chair and addressed them from that position: "Let's say you're a soldier and you're a mechanic and you need to get under this Humvee. If you're not physically fit, you may not be able to fit under the vehicle." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michele S. Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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