2014 MSG Marcia Triggs Award for Excellence Winner - TopicsExpress

2014 MSG Marcia Triggs Award for Excellence Winner Selected Public Affairs Professionals: Please join the Chief of Public Affairs Maj. Gen. Gary J. Volesky and I in a hearty congratulations to Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy D. Crisp, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, on his selection as the recipient of the 2014 MSG Marcia Triggs Award for Excellence. The award is a particularly distinctive honor in that it you must be nominated by a peer within the public affairs profession, and it is only bestowed upon one NCO in any given year. All of the judges for this year’s competition made laudatory comments about the quality of the NCOs nominated for the award. It was a stiff level of competition between highly competent and professional public affairs leaders. That was evident in the fact that the difference between the winner and the runner-up was measured in 10ths of a point. That is a testament to the quality of NCO leaders we have at the top of the career field. All of those NCOs nominated are certainly worthy of being recognized, but only one can win. So please send your congratulations to Sgt. 1st Class Crisp. Well done! The Army Public Affairs Alumni Association will present Sgt. 1st Class Crisp with his award at the APAAA Annual Dinner on June 13 at the Army-Navy Club in Washington, D.C. For more information concerning the dinner, or to obtain tickets for the dinner, please go to their Web site at armypublicaffairsalumni.org/ . The MSG Marcia Triggs Award for Excellence is an annual award intended to recognize an Army public affairs noncommissioned officer, grade E6-E8, who has demonstrated outstanding and sustained excellence in leadership and performance through positions of increased responsibility and who sets an exemplary standard for others to emulate. The ideal candidate is one who made significant contributions to improving the professionalism of the public affairs career field. The candidate can come from Active, Guard or Reserve components. The MSG Triggs Award is named after MSG Marcia J. Triggs, an Army print journalist and public affairs noncommissioned officer, who remained on active duty until her death. She deployed to Iraq twice with the 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia, and was working at the Office of Chief of Public Affairs at the Pentagon on 9/11, the day terrorists attacked the United States. SGM John Brenci Regimental Sergeant Major of Army Public Affairs