9 ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill. – More than 400 employees from around the U.S. Army Sustainment Command went online to participate in a virtual ASC town hall held Dec.15.
Maj. Gen. Daniel Mitchell, commanding general of ASC, led the town hall from a conference room located in the command’s headquarters at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois. ASC team members were able to participate in the town hall via Microsoft Teams, and could ask questions via email.
A wide range of topics were discussed at the town hall, including ASC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and its role in supporting ongoing COVID vaccine trials; the command’s support to Army modernization; improvements to the shipment of household goods for Soldiers and families; and Project Inclusion, a command- and Army-wide effort to promote equity, diversity and inclusion at all locations and among all ranks, grades and levels.
9 CAMP CARROLL, Waegwan, Republic of Korea – The Army Field Support Battalion–Northeast Asia, received the fiscal 2020 Army Award for Maintenance Excellence here during a ceremony at Warehouse K, Dec. 10.
The battalion was recognized in the Active Army Table of Distributions and Allowances Unit Category.
The award, recognizing the best in Army maintenance operations, was presented to Lt. Col. Edward K. Woo, commander, AFSBn-NEA, by Col. Wheeler R. Manning, commander, 403rd Army Field Support Brigade. The 403rd AFSB, located at Camp Henry in Daegu, is the AFSBn–NEA’s higher headquarters.
“The Army Award for Maintenance Excellence is an exceptional and prestigious award,” Manning said. This speaks volumes for the program that [the AFSBn-NEA] has put in place, and it also speaks volumes for the hard work that each one of those personnel put in day in and day out. They ve been award winners many different times in multiple different product categories incl