CRANE, Ind. -- Crane Army Ammunition Activity employee Tina Truelove received the Louis Dellamonica Award for Outstanding Army Materiel Command Personnel of the Year for 2013.
Truelove is one of ten AMC employees chosen for the honor. Military and civilians, under the General Officer and Senior Executive Service rank, are considered from AMC's approximately 70,000 employees.
"It is a great honor to receive the Dellamonica Award," Truelove, a senior supply system analyst, said. "My entire career has been devoted to making CAAA a place of excellence in the ammunition community. Everyone who works at CAAA shares this same goal. We all do whatever it takes to ensure the successful supply of ammunition to the field in support of the Warfighter."
Only those who have significantly contributed to AMC's mission and overarching goals and objectives for the year are honored. Nominees are judged on how their initiatives measurably improve their work environment and AMC's mission, how they motivate and inspire fellow employees to improve or increase the quality of their own work, and how well they are viewed by peers, subordinates, and supervisors.
"I have been fortunate to have Tina as a member of my Logistics Modernization Program deployment team where she has served as the Subject Matter Expert for sales and distribution," Crane Army LMP Director Mark Helms said. "Her experience in the area of logistics and overall ammunition knowledge has propelled her to become the 'go-to' solution expert for both LMP and SmartChain. In addition to being highly skilled technically, Tina is thoughtful, experienced, and a true leader who is widely recognized as such by her peers, our sister sites, Joint Munitions Command Headquarters, and Program Manager Office LMP."
This annual award is presented in honor of Louis Dellamonica, a general engineer who worked at the Hawthorne Army Depot for 65 years. His career exemplifies integrity, innovation, leadership, and outstanding dedication to AMC's mission.
This is the second year in a row that a Crane Army employee earned the Dellamonica Award. Former CAAA employee Randall Burcham earned the award in FY 2012 for his work in demilitarization.
Established October 1977, Crane Army Ammunition Activity maintains ordnance professionals and infrastructure in order to receive, store, ship, produce, renovate and demilitarize conventional ammunition, missiles and related components. Crane Army maintains up to one third of the DoD's conventional ammunition inventory. The Activity also provides command oversight of Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Letterkenny Munitions Center, Pennsylvania, and Milan Army Ammunition Plant, Tennessee.
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