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SFTVR Announces another 1st in The Soldiers Family Radio & TV History. SFTVR presents:: The Sergeant of the Army on The Soldiers Family TV & Radio "LIVE Friday 8:30am cst with Steve Tomaszewski. Following this Interview The Sergeant Major will be a Guest Speaker at The Union League Club of Chicago. Army senior leadership announced Feb.7 that Command Sgt. Maj. Raymond F. Chandler III will serve as the 14th sergeant major of the Army. Chandler, who enlisted in the Army in 1981 as an armor crewman, currently serves as the 19th commandant of the Army Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is the first noncommissioned officer to serve as the academy’s commandant. He will replace Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston as the Army's senior enlisted adviser and spokesman of the enlisted corps. Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA, Ret., president of the Association of the United States Army said, “The Army has selected an outstanding noncommissioned officer to become the sergeant major of the Army. Command Sergeant Major Chandler has, throughout his distinguished thirty-year military career, served his nation, his Army and the NCO Corps as a warrior, leader, trainer, educator and mentor.