The Center was established on 26 May 2006 as a spin-off from the popular websites Squad-leader.com and Firstsergeant.com, first started in 1997 as the NCO Website. From the earliest beginnings there was always a place on those sites dedicated to capturing and highlighting the history of the noncommissioned officer Corps. The sites were donated to the US Army in October 2005 to serve as the nucleolus of their professional forum effort as NCOnet.

A new site sprang up in the resulting months that was to be dedicated completely to capturing, storing and making available historical documents on the NCO Corps. The curator (and volunteers) scour numerous sources collecting, rendering and posting documents to the Center via its online repository.

This site is part of the larger suite of websites developed and owned by Topsarge Business Solutions.

The Curator, CSM-Ret Dan Elder, is the founder and developer of The Center and is a renowned expert on the history of the US Army Noncommissioned Officer Corps. He was general editor and co-author of the book Sergeants Major of the Army, published by the Center of Military History, and Educating Noncommissioned Officers, sponsored by The Center. He is currently co-authoring a new biography, to be released on a future date.

Elder has been consulted with on numerous books relating to the US Army Noncommissioned Officers Corps, including The Shake and Bake Sergeant, by Dr. Jerry Horton, Guardians of the Republic (2nd printing), by Dr. Ernest Fisher Jr., and the Three Meter Zone, by CSM-Ret J.D. Pendry.

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