ASSOCIATE Magazine FBINAA Q4-2023

NATIONAL OFFICE UPDATE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

FBINAA.ORG | Q4 2023

Jeff McCormick

H ello to the members of the World’s Strongest Law Enforce ment Leadership Network! I would like to start my first magazine article as the FBINAA’s new executive director by thanking your National Board for their trust and support in selecting me for this position. It is a responsibility I do not take lightly. While it’s been a busy first few weeks since I came aboard, it has been made easier by the fact that I already have some his tory with the FBINAA. I first became connected with the FBINAA nearly eight years ago, when I was selected to serve as the Unit Chief of the FBI National Academy. Over the next three years, I became immersed in the culture of the National Academy, inter acting with students from 12 Sessions during their 10 weeks at the NA. I have been fortunate to attend several Chapter and Na tional Retrainers since 2016 and meet people who had graduated from the NA years and even decades before. I saw the awesome bonds created by attendance at the NA, and how those bonds are maintained and even strengthened by continued engagement through membership in the FBI National Academy Associates. I became a vocal advocate for the FBINAA, using every opportu nity to encourage the NA students to continue their involvement long after graduation, and even longer into retirement. It is this lifelong commitment to the NAA by its members that makes me so proud of this organization.

In these first few weeks I have also seen that working for you in your National Office are talented and dedicated team members who share my admiration for this Association. We recognize our shared responsibility to help maintain relationships, provide op portunities for training and education, and provide benefits for our members. I look forward to strengthening relationships with our Strategic, Academic, and Training partners, as we continue to look for new ways to serve and support the members of our Associa tion. Please remember the National Office is here for you, and we look forward to hearing from and working with all of you!

Sincerely,

Jeff McCormick FBINAA Executive Director

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