Courtesy of Joint Forces Headquarters - Indiana
Office of Public Affairs

5/16/05, EDINBURGH, IN - The Adjutant General, former Post Commander and leaders of the Indiana National Guard received word from the Department of the Army that the local training site in south-central Indiana won and will be presented a national award at our nation's capitol this week.

MG R. Martin Umbarger, COL Kenneth Newlin and members of the Joint Force Headquarters received word and are pleased to announce that Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center is being awarded the 2005 Army Chief of Staff's Combined Logistics Deployment Excellence Award on Wednesday for their efficient and expedient troop mobilization efforts as part of the global war on terror.

Senior leaders from the post will attend the official awards ceremony hosted by the Army Vice Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff for logistics on May 18th in Washington D.C.

Camp Atterbury was awarded first place in the Supporting Unit category, placing it above all other National Guard supporting units. COL Newlin and MAJ Felicia Brokaw, the Installation Transportation Officer, will accept the award during Army Logistics Week in D.C.

"Camp Atterbury has risen from a relatively low impact training location to being one of the nation's premier military training sites that is proving to be an economic engine in south-central Indiana," said MG Umbarger. "The leaders, soldiers and workers at Camp Atterbury are the key reason Indiana earned this honored award and I commend them for their professionalism, competency and outstanding work," he said.

The award is especially significant because the soldiers had to start with almost nothing when the camp was activated as a mobilization site in February 2003, said COL Newlin. "I think it is amazing what these soldiers have accomplished in so little time. They literally established logistic functions from nothing more than some rough plans, with initially only minimal and, in some areas, no supporting infrastructure," he said.