If the Army is to get a handle on the two most serious problems facing its personnel – suicide and sexual assault – the service’s non-commissioned officers must play a key role, Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III said during a speech at the 2014 Association of the U.S. Army annual meeting and exposition in Washington Oct. 13. “Our inability to recognize that our duty, our profession, is tied to these challenges,” is unacceptable, Chandler said. The sexual-assault and suicide issues could be “easily solved if we understand not only our ethic, but our duty tied to our profession,” he said.