Twitter
Facebook
“You are the ones who know what to do with the essential part, the hard part, the detailed part, of warfighting: supply and maintenance.”
With those words, Maj. Gen. Yves J. Fontaine, 21st Theater Sustainment Command commanding general, saluted honorees at the U.S. Army Europe and Installation Management Command – Europe maintenance and supply excellence awards ceremony at the Patrick Henry Village Pavilion in Heidelberg April 8.
The Army Award for Maintenance Excellence, established in 1982 and sponsored by the American Defense Preparedness Association, recognizes organizations for their expertise in running unit-level maintenance programs.
The Supply Excellence Award was first awarded to active Army units a decade ago for supply excellence at the unit level.
***image1***“The awards we present today are significant because they recognize superior logistics in USAREUR, from Kosovo, Italy and across Germany at all levels, all commands, Active and Reserve,” General Fontaine told attendees at the ceremony.
V Corps’ Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Special Troops Battalion earned an AAME for maintenance excellence in a large modified table of organization and equipment unit.
V Corps STB motor sergeant Sgt. 1st Class Anthony Q. Dawson said it took a “great team effort” to earn the award. That effort was spent maintaining STB’s vehicles; nuclear, biological and chemical equipment; weapons; and communications equipment, Sergeant Dawson added, and it took a sustained commitment from organizations throughout the battalion to provide the kind of service that earned the unit its AAME.
“We’ve got a solid base; a well-oiled machine,” Sergeant Dawson said.
Staff Sgt. Abdul R. Sadiq of Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Joint Multinational Training Command, was equally proud of his unit’s runner-up award for supply excellence.
“Everybody has to work hard all year just to get here. It’s really an honor,” Sergeant Sadiq said.
A local Army Award for Maintenance Excellence award recipient, the Maintenance Activity Kaiserslautern, Theater Logistics Support Center – Europe, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, was a runner-up in the Table of Distribution and Allowances large category.
(Courtesy of HQ U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
