The 101st Airborne Division is saying farewell to its top senior enlisted leader. Sergeant Major Todd Sims will relinquish responsibility of the world’s only air assault division in a ceremony at Fort Campbell Wednesday morning.
Fort Campbell officials say Sims has held the position at the division’s senior enlisted leader since 2017. He will move on to become the senior enlisted leader for First Army, at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.
During Sims tenure as “Eagle 7”, the 101st Airborne Division deployed soldiers to combat, contingency and peacekeeping missions around the world, to include Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in Afghanistan, dozens of training and partnership missions on the African and European continents, and hurricane and disaster relief missions in Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Most recently, Sims and the division’s headquarters returned from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan, where they served at the fore of the conditions-based U.S. South Asia Strategy and the NATO-led, 41-nation Resolute Support mission.
Military officials say Sims’ replacement has not yet been identified. Command Sergeant Major Jason Osborne, the senior enlisted leader for the U.S. Garrison at Fort Campbell, has been named as the interim replacement.
Sims’ relinquish of command ceremony will be held at 10:00 Wednesday morning.
