Noncommissioned Officers have recited from memory, immortalized in script, and proudly displayed The Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer for many years. NCOs can remember reciting the Creed during their induction into the NCO Corps. Many of us have a copy of the Creed hanging in our office or displayed proudly in our work place. Some have had the Creed etched into metal and wooden plaques, or printed on special paper with fine calligraphy. NCOs have so imbedded the Creed into their lives, that in the 1995, fall issue of the NCO Journal, SMA McKinney stated that he "launched each day with the NCO Creed ...and could recite it from any place selected" (14). However, if you would ask these same NCOs when and who wrote the Creed you would most likely get a silent answer. The Creed does not show the author's name at the bottom and we have used different versions over time. In this paper we will search for the history of the Creed of the Noncommissioned Officer, we will search the Army of 1990s, 1980s and 1970s.

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