Vicenza is once again the best of the best.
U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza was awarded the 2014 Deployment Excellence Award for the All-Army Installation outside the continental United States (OCONUS) category during a June 10 ceremony at the Pentagon.
The Deployment Excellence Award recognizes outstanding deployment and deployment support accomplishments, as well as units that create new and better ways to improve the Army's deployment process.
From 2010-2012, U.S. Army Garrison Vicenza received this prestigious award as the best OCONUS Army Installation. They came in second in 2013 to Fort Hood, Texas. However, that was the year the Army combined OCONUS and continental U.S. installations into one category so, technically, Vicenza was still the top OCONUS entry.
This past year the Army divided the installations back into two categories and Vicenza was back on top, which kind of makes it five years in a row.
Gabriel Campbell, USAG Vicenza plans specialist, put together Vicenza's winning entry.
"My part was to accurately capture their extraordinary efforts," he said, "and present them in the best possible light through the drafting and submission of our DEA competition packet.
"The award recognizes units and installations for outstanding deployment accomplishments that meet or exceed established deployment standards. The hard work was accomplished each and every day by USAG Vicenza directorates along with the Logistics Readiness Center and tenant units."
Some of the accomplishments that helped Vicenza earn this honor included supporting the rapid deployment of 173rd Airborne Brigade as it took part in Operation Atlantic Resolve in the summer of 2014 and assisting U.S. Army Africa during its deployment to Liberia in the fall of that same year. Despite such a high operational tempo, USAG Vicenza never missed a movement timeline.
"It took a total garrison team effort," Campbell said, "and I was proud to be a part of it."
To participate in the DEA program, a unit is required to have executed a deployment or supported a training or contingency deployment during the competition year, something USAG Vicenza has done better than any other installation in its class … five years in a row.
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