Jensen Becomes Repeat Honoree For Logistics Excellence

By Skip Vaughn, USAG RedstoneNovember 30, 2015

TOP AMCOM LOGISTICIAN FOR 2015
From left are Ernie Young, former deputy commander of AMCOM; John Jensen, winner of the Management/Executive Award at the annual Ernest A. Young Logistics Achievement Award luncheon on Nov. 19; and John Smith, executive director of the AMCOM Logistic... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. -- The more than 100 attendees cheered when John Jensen's name was announced during an awards luncheon on Nov. 19 at The Overlook. After all he was a two-time winner.

Jensen won the Management/Executive Award at the 24th annual Ernest A. Young Logistics Achievement Award ceremony. In 2002 he won the Professional/Technical Award. The awards program is presented every year by the Aviation and Missile Command Logistics Center.

"It's an honor to be recognized by my peers," Jensen, the aviation director for the Aviation and Missile Command Logistics Center, said. "I just want to encourage everybody that they stay focused on being ready to fight."

Jensen, 60, of Decatur, has 38 years of government service, including seven years on active duty with the Navy.

This year's Professional/Technical Award winner was Romulo "Rom" Ordonez, an AMCOM logistics assistance representative at Fort Hood, Texas. Jeff Cinader, acting chief of the Logistics Assistance Division in the Readiness Directorate within the AMCOM Logistics Center, accepted on his behalf.

"Rom is one of our most proficient aircraft electronics training cadre members," Cinader said. "He's part of the LAR University at Fort Hood, Texas. His duty function primarily is being a LAR supporting combat aviation brigades worldwide. He still deploys (as do all the logistics assistance representatives). Right now he's a primary instructor for all the aircraft avionics platforms. And he even goes to the depot at Corpus Christi to train them, too."

Nominations for the awards were solicited since August, drawing 11 nominees submitted from various Team Redstone organizations. An eight-member voting panel, from throughout Team Redstone, decided the winners. "The voting was very close," Col. Andrew Gignilliat, military deputy director for the AMCOM Logistics Center, said.

The Management/Executive Award nominees included Jensen, Donald Bryant, Sammy Burns, John Hinchman and Wilson Ho. The Professional/Technical Award nominees included Ordonez, Craig Dailey, Carrie Clinard, Casey Jones, Ricky Terrell and James Webster.

"Congratulations to both the nominees and certainly the winners," John Smith, executive director of the AMCOM Logistics Center, said.

Ernie Young, who retired in 1998 as the deputy commander of AMCOM, is the award's namesake and first recipient in 1991. Young, 82, of Huntsville, joined Smith in presenting this year's awards.

"It's truly humbling to be able to have an opportunity to recognize logistics excellence," Smith said.