FORT RILEY, Kansas – The 1st Infantry Division will bid farewell to its
senior noncommissioned officer and welcome the newest division command sergeant major to the “Big Red One” in a 4 p.m. ceremony March 21 at the division’s headquarters building on Fort Riley.

Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph Cornelison, the division’s senior noncommissioned officer, will transfer responsibility of the 1st Inf. Div. to Command Sgt. Maj. Craig Bishop during the ceremony.

Cornelison assumed responsibility of the Big Red One on Sept. 25, 2015. He
entered the Army in January 1990 as an infantryman. He previously served at
every level of leadership, including as the command sergeant major for the
2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment in Grafenwohr, Germany, and as the
senior enlisted advisor for the Combined Joint Force Land Component Command
in Baghdad, Iraq. He was the 28th Big Red One command sergeant major.

Bishop enlisted in the Army in September 1992 and is from Sweetwater,
Tennessee. He comes to the division from Fort Benning, Georgia, where he
served as the 75th Ranger Regiment’s command sergeant major.