For nearly a century and a half after the Revolutionary War there was no formal school system to pass along the collective wisdom of senior NCOs. -Time-Honored Professionals, 1989, no page number

This year, the Sergeants Major Academy class includes the first soldiers to have completed NCOES from bottom to top: PLDC, BNCOC, ANCOC, and now the Academy. That’s the wave of the future. -GEN Gordon R. Sullivan, "The Chief’s View of NCO Leadership Challenges." NCO Journal, Winter 1994, p. 7

As we...position the NCO Corps for the future, we must not lose sight of where we have been or where we need to go. Our azimuth is clear. -CSM G. Steven Blackwood, National Guard CSM, "Top NCO." NCO Journal, Summer 1991, p. 1