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 Texas-based Army aviation unit receives national award By Maj. Randall Stillinger
                Texas Army National Guard
 SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – An Austin-based fixed wing unit from the Texas Army National Guard received special honors from the Joint Operational Support Airlift Center (JOSAC) during a ceremony last week. Operational Support Airlift (OSA) Detachment 49, which utilizes C-12 aircraft to transport passengers and cargo from across the military branches, received this special honor during a ceremony at the headquarters of United States Transportation Command. The unit, which is commanded by Chief Warrant Officer 5 Todd Moorehead, is a detachment assigned to the 36th Combat Aviation Brigade, 36th Infantry Division, also headquartered in Austin. Maj. Scott Messare, JOSAC’s Execution Operations officer, said, “These awards are a chance for us to publicly recognize units that are consistently performing at the top of their peer organization groups.” Messare helps facilitate the awards program and praised the Texas aviators for their great work and willingness to support the Department of Defense mission. “They are here for a reason,” Messare said. “They are definitely at the top of their group and a pleasure to work with.” The annual award is presented among various categories based on size, function and location. Detachment 49 was at the top of the 21 units in their category. The primary selection criteria includes number of hours and missions flown, number of passengers carried and pounds of cargo hauled. The JOSAC branch chiefs also consider other aspects like aircraft and aircrew availability, flexibility in supporting missions, percentage of canceled missions, and the accuracy of logistics flight records. The goal of the awards program is to recognize the success of flight crews in meeting the goals of JOSAC, which include preventing fraud, waste and abuse of Department of Defense assets, conducting operations with efficiency, and completing assigned missions with the most amount of cost savings to government and the taxpayers. The program also rewards an aspect of the mission that can’t necessarily be measured in statistics: Excellent customer service for the passengers who fly on their aircraft. Moorehead, of Austin, said that this award is a nice recognition of all the work that the Soldiers have done. “We threw the Army work ethic at the mission and we make ourselves as available as possible,” Moorehead said. Col. Micheal Dye, commander of the Army Aviation Support Facility at Austin’s Bergstrom International Airport, said that he’s not surprised that the detachment received the award. “These are a great group of guys that work hard to accomplish the mission with a tremendous level of professionalism,” Dye said.
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