EL PASO, Texas — Army Master Sgt. Travis H. Bean graduated from the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas.

The nine-month course is considered to be the capstone of noncommissioned officer training, preparing new and prospective sergeants major for duties as senior noncommissioned officers in positions throughout the Department of Defense and allied nation forces. Course completion is mandatory for promotion to the ranks of sergeant major and command sergeant major for members on active duty, National Guard or Reserve.

The curriculum focuses on leadership, communications, resource management, training management, military operations and professional skills at the highest levels throughout the Army. The joint and combined arms perspective is enhanced through course attendance of members from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and international military services. The class consists of noncommissioned officers in the ranks of master sergeant, sergeant major, command sergeant major and equivalent ranks from other branches of the military and allied nations.

Bean is an armor senior sergeant and has served in the military for 19 years.

He is the son of Cynthia I. Buzzell of Whitehorse Street, Deltona, Fla., and Kenneth H. Bean of Birch Street, Bryant Pond, Maine.

His wife, Jan, is the daughter of Roger and Sarah Hooks of Atlantic Avenue, Vidalia, Ga.

The master sergeant graduated in 1991 from Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine, and received a bachelor’s degree in 2011 from Excelsior College, Albany, N.Y.

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