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The Army’s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management announced Feb. 13 that Fort McCoy earned the Silver Award in the active Army category in the 2018 Army Communities of Excellence competition.
Fort McCoy last earned Army Communities of Excellence honors in 2017 in the same category with a Bronze Award.
Army Communities of Excellence is an annual competition that uses the Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence to evaluate Army installations, said Fort McCoy Plans, Analysis and Integration Office Chief Ken Musselwhite.
That framework is based on seven criteria: leadership, strategic planning, customers, knowledge management, workforce, operations, and results.
“Fort McCoy’s competitive strengths are its workforce, which is always willing to go the extra mile for the customer, and its ability to develop and follow five-year strategic business plans,” Musselwhite said.
In January, Fort McCoy was named as a finalist in the competition, Musselwhite said.
The Army community is the backbone of Army readiness, according to Installation Management Command. Army forces train at, deploy from, are sustained by, and return to the community. Army Communities of Excellence awards have been presented since 1989 by the command.
For the 2018 competition, in the active Army category, U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Rucker, Ala., earned the Gold Award. Bronze Award winners were U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Stewart, Ga., and U.S. Army Garrison, Daegu, South Korea. Honorable Mention went to U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and U.S. Army Garrison, Fort Knox, Ky.
A formal recognition ceremony will be held at the Pentagon later in 2018.
“I am very proud of each team member, and am humbled to lead the highly committed, Army values-based professionals at Fort McCoy,” said Garrison Commander Col. David J. Pinter Sr. “What a great accomplishment and fitting recognition of all the hard work required to reach this level of excellence.”
Gold Award winners go on to compete for the Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence, which includes the other military services.
(The Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office and the Plans, Analysis and Integration Office contributed to this article.)
| Date Taken: | 02.21.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 02.21.2018 13:32 |
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| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WI, US |
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