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Assignments and Promotions

• Second Lieutenant Gibson Sale, Jr. graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, 22 May 2010
  
  
  
• Two sons of Samoa selected for promotion to Colonel in U.S. Air Force - Stephen L. Su'a-Filo and Stanley Ulualofaiga Snow, Jr.
  
• LTC Leafaina Tavai-Yahn makes promotion list for Colonel
      
• CSM Foua Uini appointed Command Sergeant Major of 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery

  Command Sgt. Maj. Jimmie Nelson, left, the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade command sergeant major, gives newly appointed 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Command Sergeant Major Foua Uini, the command sergeant major appointment oath Jan. 6 at Tobin Wells.

  

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• PFC Daniel Maga Graduates Basic Training, Ft Jackson, SC
  
  Private Fist Class (PFC), Daniel Maga, Finance Specialist (44C), graduated from Basic Training at the US Army Basic Combat Training Center of Excellence, Ft Jackson, South Carolina, Friday, 27 March 2009. PFC Maga completed the first 9 weeks of Basic Training, where he was taught soldiering skills, and will continue for the next seven weeks of Advanced Individual training with classroom instruction in accounting techniques that dealt with accounting principles and procedures, preparation and maintenance of financial reports and budgets, statistical analyses in order to help interpret financial data, computation of pay and deductions.
  
  
• SSG Taumua Graduates Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course
  
  Staff Sergeant (SSG-E-6) Faasi'usiuga Taumua of Fagalii/Poloa, AS has graduated Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (BNCOC) class 92A 09-025, from the United States Army Quartermaster Noncommissioned Officer Academy at Ft Lee, Virginia, Friday, 20 MAR 2009. SSG Taumua graduated with honors and was listed amongst the top six soldiers who made the commandants list.
  
  
• Antoinette Ponafala promoted to Sergeant, E-5
  
  Antoinette Ponafala was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, E-5, on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in front of her unit, 3rd Brigade Special Troops Battalion at Ft Bragg, NC. Antoinette Ponafala?s mother, Anna Suani Ponafala Fuimaono was given the honor to promote her daughter. Chief Warrant Officer 1, Tauosose Tupua of Vailoatai and Sergeant Major John Letuli of Iliili accompanied Mrs Fuimaono in front of the formation before the promotion ceremony.
  
  
• CSM Charles M. Tobin Selected as the CSM for the Sustainment Brigade Special Operations (Airborne), Ft Bragg, NC
  
  Toa o le Vateatea Samoa Association (TVSA) Ft Bragg, NC, welcomes Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Tobin, a native of Lotopa, Samoa to his new post as the CSM for the Sustainment Brigade Special Operations (Airborne), Ft Bragg, North Carolina. CSM Tobin is the son of the late Michael and Barbara Tobin of Lotopa, Samoa. CSM Tobin came to Ft Bragg from the 377th Theater Sustainment Command (TSC), New Orleans, Louisiana.
  
  
• CSM Iuniasolua Savusa selected as the new Command Sergeant Major of NATO's International Security Assistance Force
  
  CSM Savusa will be leaving USAREUR and Seventh Army where he has been command sergeant major since May, 2006 to become the new command sergeant major for NATO?s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. With his new assignment, Savusa will take over as the Command Senior Enlisted Leader (CSEL) of NATO forces in Afghanistan. There, he will rejoin his former boss, General David D. McKiernan who recently took over as commander of NATO's ISAF in Afghanistan.
  
  
• Its official now, CSM Tuileama Nua 44th MEDCOM CSM has been selected for the CSM of the Pacific regional Medical Command. He will be heading to Tripler, Hawaii this summer.
  
  Congratulations!!!!!
  
  Command Sergeant Major Tuileama T. Nua
  44th Medical Command, Fort Bragg
  has been selected as
  Command Sergeant Major
  United States Army Pacific Regional Medical Command
  
  Please pass on your congratulations
  to CSM Nua and his wife Anita
  CSM Nua's email address is:
  tui.nua@us.army.mil