For U.S. Africa Command’s new deputy director of operations and logistics, the words “I can’t do it” won’t cut it. Not from his soldiers, not from the people he serves with, and certainly not from himself. And this Army National Guardsman, Brig. Gen. Roosevelt “Rose” Barfield, knows what it means to be able to “do it.”
“You learn more about yourself in the military than any profession out there,” Barfield said. “This is both professional and personal. At the end of the day, you should feel good and believe in what you’re doing, or you should go do something else.”
Barfield is a father of three with a long resume after 31 years of service. His wife, Patricia, is an Army colonel. His eldest son, Galen, is a senior airman in the Air Force Reserve, and his younger son and daughter both are in the middle of high school.
“There are maybe one or two moments in your life where you get an opportunity to make an impact that will be universal and historical,” he said. “And we’re here. It’s hard for me to contain my excitement just thinking about it -- that I’m part of this. … History is being written, and we are the author. From private to the general, every one of us has a piece of that.”
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