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Sgt. Audie Murphy Club inducts two hospital Soldiers
Two Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Soldiers were inducted into the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club at a ceremony held at
Wallace Theater Aug. 24. Army Staff Sgt. Gracie Best, medical laboratory technician Phase II coordinator, and Staff Sgt. Amanda Calle, senior enlisted leader of Executive Medicine, joined the elite organization of noncommissioned officers. (U.S. Army photo)
by Kristin Ellis, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Public Affairs
FORT BELVOIR, Va. (Aug. 29, 2012) -- Two Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Soldiers were inducted into the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club at a ceremony held at Wallace Theater here Aug. 24.
Army Staff Sgt. Gracie Best, medical laboratory technician Phase II coordinator, and Staff Sgt. Amanda Calle, senior enlisted leader of Executive Medicine, join the elite organization of noncommissioned officers whose performance and leadership qualities distinguish them among their cohort, as those of the club’s namesake did on the battlefields of World War II.
The club is named after Sgt. Audie Leon Murphy who is one of the most decorated Soldiers in American history. Though he was only 21 years old at the end of WWII, he had killed 240 German soldiers, been wounded three times, and received 33 awards and medals, including the Medal of Honor.
The Northern Regional Medical Command’s newest chapter of the club, the Command Sgt. Maj. Jack L. Clark Jr. Chapter, was activated at Fort Belvoir in August 2011.
Both inductees said they had hoped to become leaders worthy of this recognition since the beginning of their military careers.
“[Sgt. Audie Murphy Club members] were the ones always leading the way, taking time to show others the right way to do things,” Best said. “They always held others to the standard and they themselves exceed it. I have always tried to emulate that. I want my Soldiers to see me as the example of what the ideal NCO is.”
“[The induction] is affirmation that I am headed in the right direction towards being a great leader,” Calle added.
Best and Calle, who have been friends for the last six years, leaned on one another through the endless hours of studying, reciting Murphy’s biography, and immense stress throughout the board process. They were drilled with questions that challenged their knowledge as Soldiers in the U.S. Army and as leaders.
“Being a member of [the Sgt. Audie Murphy Club] is an accomplishment that will forever remind me of what I am to embody as a leader,” Calle said. “I will work to become even better still to ensure I leave behind a legacy of young leaders to one day take my place among the ranks.”