8 When Command Sgt. Maj. William “Shane” Stockard first enlisted into the Army at age 24, he wasn’t even entirely sure what being an infantry Soldier meant. But 22 years later, Stockard will be helping forge the future of infantry as senior enlisted advisor at the U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command. Stockard was working in the restaurant business in Amarillo, Texas, when he realized he needed a change in his life. Besides a grandfather who passed away the year he was born, Stockard didn’t have any family members in the service. But he heard some people talking about the Army, and it sounded interesting.