Department of defense news release (Oct. 27, 2005): 2005 Phoenix award winner announced.The Department of Defense announced today that the 3rd Battalion, 7th Field Artillery (Light), 25th Infantry Division (Light), is the 2005 winner of the Phoenix Trophy, DoD's highest award for field-level maintenance of weapon systems and equipment. The award was presented at the Secretary of Defense Awards Banquet held in conjunction with the 2005 DoD Maintenance Symposium and Exhibition in Birmingham, Ala. Jack Bell, deputy under secretary of defense for logistics and materiel readiness, and Dave Pauling, assistant deputy under secretary of defense for maintenance policy, programs and resources, presented the award on behalf of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. The 2005 Phoenix Trophy recognized the 3rd Battalion for successfully balancing maintenance, readiness, and operation requirements during the past year while being deployed for exercises and missions throughout the Pacific Command's area of responsibility and the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. , and to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Throughout these various training and combat missions, the "Never Broken" battalion maintained more than 4,300 pieces of equipment while logging more than 95,000 miles, delivering 8,000 rounds of artillery and mortar fire in training and combat while simultaneously maintaining an operational equipment readiness rate of 97 percent. Also receiving Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards in recognition of outstanding achievements in field-level military equipment and weapon system maintenance by organizations of the Military Departments were: SMALL CATEGORY: Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Detachment (AIMD AIMD Additive Increase, Multiplicative Decrease AIMD Accounting and Information Management Division AIMD Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department AIMD American Institute for Managing Diversity AIMD Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics AIMD Active Implantable Medical Device , Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, New Orleans, La., U.S. Navy; and 31st Maintenance Operations Squadron (31 MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from ), 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base Aviano Air Base is a United States Air Force airbase in northeastern Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. It is located in Aviano municipality, at the foot of the Carnic Alps, about 15 kilometers from Pordenone. , Italy, U.S. Air Force. MEDIUM CATEGORY: 428th Transportation Company, Jefferson City, Mo., U.S. Army; and Combat Service Support Battalion 12 (1st Maint Bn), Camp Pendleton, Calif., U.S. Marine Corps. LARGE CATEGORY: 3d Battalion, 7th Field Artillery Regiment, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, U.S. Army; and USS George Washington Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS George Washington in honor of an early American General and first President of the United States.
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