Fifth AMSAA employee inducted into the Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Greg Gouty is the latest Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity employee to be inducted into the Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Fort Lee on Nov. 7.

Gouty, who retired from the U.S. Army in 2005 as a Chief Warrant Officer 4 with 28 years of service in the Ordnance Corps, joined Chief Warrant Officer 5 (ret.) Joe Wurm, Chief Warrant Officer 4 (ret.) Mike Campbell, Chief Warrant Officer 4 (ret.) Pete Hill, and Sgt. Maj. (ret.) Chip Herrell as AMSAA employees in the Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame.

"Mr. Gouty's selection is an outstanding recognition of his contributions to the Soldier," said Steve Kratzmeier, AMSAA's field studies chief. "We are very fortunate to have Greg and our other retired Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame members continuing their careers as Army civilians at AMSAA."

The Ordnance Corps Hall of Fame selects nominees for their acts of valor, gallantry, or heroism involving personal hazard or danger and the voluntary risk of life, regardless of years of service or retirement status.

"You don't get here by yourself," Gouty stated. "I happened to be extremely fortunate to have great Soldiers, peers, and supervisors and great assignments affording me an opportunity to do something I truly enjoyed for 28 years."

Gouty added that it was an absolute honor to be inducted with 12 other distinguished Ordnance recipients.

"Two of the recipients gave the ultimate sacrifice and received this honor posthumously," Gouty continued.

Gouty is currently a major contributor to AMSAA Field Studies efforts which directly support the Soldier with analyses addressing materiel system reliability, availability, and maintainability; ground system condition based maintenance; and materiel system lessons learned.

The Ordnance Cops Hall of Fame was established in 1969 to recognize and memorialize persons who have made a positive, significant contribution to the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps.

The individuals are chosen solely on their significant contribution to the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps and each selectee is able to stand up to close scrutiny. Attainment of high rank or position is not necessarily indicative of a significant contribution to Ordnance. Likewise, rank, sex, ethnicity and/or religion are not discriminators.