1st SoFSS wins hennessy award - Hurlburt Warrior
1st SoFSS wins hennessy award - Hurlburt Warrior
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Friday, April 13, 2012 | <strong>Hurlburt</strong> <strong>Warrior</strong> | Page <br />
<strong>1st</strong> SOFSS <strong>wins</strong> back-to-back Air Force-level <strong>award</strong><br />
By Raquel Sanchez<br />
<strong>1st</strong> Special Operations Wing<br />
Public Affairs<br />
The <strong>1st</strong> Special Operations<br />
Force Support Squadron<br />
claimed their second<br />
consecutive win for the Air<br />
Force-level John L. Hennessy<br />
<strong>award</strong> for 2012 in<br />
the Multi-Unit Operations<br />
category.<br />
The <strong>award</strong> is presented<br />
annually to the installation<br />
with the best food service<br />
programs in the Air Force.<br />
It honors installations that<br />
exhibit excellence in management<br />
effectiveness, force<br />
readiness support, food quality,<br />
employee and customer<br />
relations, resource conservation<br />
and safety-awareness<br />
training.<br />
“To win once is great;<br />
to win back-to-back now, I<br />
would say that’s awesome,”<br />
said Dave Mickler, food service<br />
officer of <strong>1st</strong> SOFSS.<br />
This year’s win marks the<br />
seventh time the <strong>1st</strong> SOFSS<br />
has earned the Hennessy<br />
<strong>award</strong>. They previously won<br />
the <strong>award</strong> in the Multi-Unit<br />
category in 2011, 2005, 2001,<br />
1999 and 1998, and in the Single-Unit<br />
category in 1997.<br />
Fellow squadron members<br />
attributed their exceptional<br />
performance to the<br />
guidance of leadership and<br />
their role in keeping the<br />
team motivated.<br />
“They have given us all<br />
the necessary tools and information<br />
needed to excel<br />
in the performance of our<br />
assigned duties on a daily basis,”<br />
said Staff Sgt. Jennifer<br />
Santillan, contracting officer<br />
representative of <strong>1st</strong> SOFSS.<br />
“They have led by example<br />
and worked alongside Airmen<br />
to see their perspective<br />
of a task or project.”<br />
Squadron leadership said<br />
the squadron’s commitment<br />
to service and dedication to<br />
working as a team is what<br />
has set them apart from<br />
their counterparts.<br />
“We have a team of true<br />
professionals, go-getters,<br />
who are dedicated,” said<br />
Master Sgt. Edgard Castillo,<br />
sustainment services<br />
flight superintendent of <strong>1st</strong><br />
SOFSS. “They give it all from<br />
the time they arrive to work<br />
till it’s time to go home.”<br />
Mickler shared the same<br />
sentiments.<br />
“If you could see how<br />
hard our folks have worked<br />
this past year you would understand<br />
— from the deployments,<br />
training, exercises,<br />
to performing their daily assignments<br />
at work, always<br />
keeping their focus on our<br />
customer service,” he said.<br />
<strong>Hurlburt</strong> Field’s dining<br />
facilities submitted an audiovisual<br />
package as part of the<br />
competition that included<br />
photo and video footage of<br />
the base food service program<br />
and team.<br />
The <strong>1st</strong> SOFSS were evaluated<br />
on more than 150 items<br />
during a two day judging period.<br />
Evaluators, comprised<br />
of one military personnel<br />
and two civilian advisors,<br />
reviewed the facilities’ capabilities<br />
and then asked key<br />
personnel questions in five<br />
separate categories: kitchen<br />
operations, serving and<br />
dining operations, personnel<br />
and readiness training,<br />
sanitation and repair maintenance,<br />
and management.<br />
For many at the <strong>1st</strong><br />
SOFSS, winning the Hennessy<br />
<strong>award</strong> back-to-back<br />
was not only an honor but<br />
a reaffirmation that all their<br />
hard work as a team did not<br />
go unnoticed.<br />
“We put in a lot of work<br />
to get this far and it couldn’t<br />
feel any better to win with the<br />
team that you work and competed<br />
with, who share the<br />
same motivation and long<br />
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SOFSS.<br />
For Senior Airman Javan<br />
King, a food service specialist<br />
for <strong>1st</strong> SOFSS, this recognition<br />
meant having a<br />
greater appreciation for his<br />
job and team.<br />
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Col. Jim Slife, commander of <strong>1st</strong> Special Operations Wing and Chief Master Sgt. Ramon<br />
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