BRUNSWICK
Three earn Army excellence award
Brig. Gen. Dean Preston, Maine’s land component commander, recently presented the Army Chief of Staff’s Supply Excellence Award (SEA) to Chief Warrant Officer 2 Peter Houghton, Sgt. 1st Class Shannon Trepanier and Staff Sgt. Patrick Purcell, all members of the 133rd Engineer Battalion at the Brunswick Armed Forces Reserve Center.
Houghton, Trepanier, Purcell, former property book officer Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jennifer Paradis, and other key logistics staff members worked tirelessly toward this recognition of having the top program in the organizational level property book officer category.
“The 133rd Engineer Battalion is proud,” said Lt. Col. Shanon Cotta, commander of the 133rd. “It is a testimony of the S-4 team’s commitment to excellence and the support of our Maine Army National Guard leaders.”
The SEA program was established in 1984 by the U.S. Army Quartermaster School to recognize supply excellence at the various unit and organizational levels. It is open to active Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve units nationwide.
The objectives of the program are to enhance logistical readiness of all Army units, enforce supply discipline, provide a management tool to ensure system standardization, perpetuate group competition and increase public awareness of supply excellence within the U.S. Army.
“The engineer community hopes to continue the momentum with the SEA evaluation, phase II, in 2022 with the 133rd’s Forward Support Company,” said Cotta. “The leadership team believes this program enhances readiness of our Maine Army units and improves the command supply discipline program.”
The 133rd Engineer Battalion continues the long line of success the Maine Army National Guard historically has in the SEA competition. Maine units have placed in the regional or national level several times since 2010, including the 133rd’s Headquarters and Headquarters Company, the 488th Military Police Company, Joint Force Headquarters, the 286th Combat Support Sustainment Brigade and Charlie Company 1-126th Aviation Regiment.