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(FORT DRUM, NY) – Not for the first time, 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, has won an Army Award for Maintenance Excellence, or AAME, maintaining their now three-year winning streak, setting the standard in the division and Forces Command (FORSCOM) for maintenance excellence.
In an award ceremony honoring Ice Co., a Forward Support Company (FSC) attached to 1-32 IN, Soldiers received an award for U.S. Army Active MTOE Small Category from the Chief of Staff of the Army, the XVIII Airborne Corps commanding general and the FORSCOM commanding general. All three awards were for the 2018 fiscal year.
Earning this award is not an easy feat, and it requires long hours and dedication to the mission as well as discipline from all levels of the command.
“We have a good blend of talent and a company command that was interested in competing and wanted to do well,” said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joshua Cameron, Ice Co.’s Maintenance Chief. “We reinforced maintenance standards which enabled the team to work together seamlessly and achieve a common goal. From point A to point Z, I always had the support I needed to attain a high level of maintenance standards required to win the AAME at the Army level.”
At the level Ice Co. competed, its Soldiers and leadership worked tirelessly to maintain the standards required to win. This ethic has translated to how Ice Co. does business on a daily basis, thus redefining how not only 1-32 IN operates, but up the supply chain to 1BCT and beyond.
“The first indication that we were on the right path was CW2 Cameron leaning forward on where the Army was heading with maintenance, and that started with ordering new truck tires for the brigade” Capt. Thomas Di Tomasso, Ice. Co. Executive Officer, said. “We were able to replace 344 tires across the brigade, which allowed the completion of live-fire exercises because they could not drive their vehicles without these new tires. It would have been a complete showstopper. Without Chief leaning ahead on maintenance, the brigades’ mission would have failed.”
Because 1BCT is a light infantry brigade, we need to be able to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice. They will need to move the entire brigade and its equipment to the other side of the world, without losing a single piece of inventory or personnel. With the lessons learned through the AAME competition, 1BCT will be ready to move swiftly, take on, and accomplish any mission, knowing it has award-winning maintenance teams in its ranks.
“We’re an enabler for the battalions, so being successful in the maintenance arena enables the infantryman to get to the objective, shoot the objective, speak to the objective, without worry of failed equipment,” CW2 Cameron noted. “Ultimately it allows them to accomplish their mission with confidence in their equipment.”
| Date Taken: | 11.26.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 12.01.2019 10:19 |
| Story ID: | 353662 |
| Location: | FORT DRUM, NEW YORK, US |
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