{"id":359919,"date":"2025-01-22T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=359919"},"modified":"2025-01-23T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:16:55","slug":"us-army-officers-awarded-usareur-af-gen-douglas-macarthur-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=359919","title":{"rendered":"US Army Officers awarded USAREUR-AF Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n U.S. Army Europe and Africa formally recognized six Soldiers during the USAREUR-AF-level 2024 Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award ceremony, held Jan.15, 2025, on Clay Kaserne, Germany.
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WIESBADEN, Germany – U.S. Army Europe and Africa formally recognized six Soldiers during the USAREUR-AF-level 2024 Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award ceremony, held Jan.15, on Clay Kaserne, Germany.<\/p>\n

The MacArthur Leadership Award program was introduced in 1987 to recognize company-grade and junior warrant officers who demonstrate MacArthur\u2019s ideals of \u201cDuty, Honor, Country,\u201d and have a proven record of extraordinary performance, leadership, and achievement.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s USAREUR-AF company grade winners are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Capt. Kelsey A. Reppert, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop Regimental Engineer Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, V Corps<\/p>\n

\u2022 Capt. Jonathan E. French, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Europe and Africa<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s USAREUR-AF junior warrant officer grade winners are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Chief Warrant Officer 2 Roland E. Brand, 1-57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command<\/p>\n

\u2022 Chief Warrant Officer 2 Zane J. Brandes, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, V Corps<\/p>\n

Despite being singled out for their individual achievements, winners of the award noted they couldn\u2019t have done it alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly grateful for the mentorship and guidance I\u2019ve received throughout my career from my leadership and the Soldiers around me, both past and present,\u201d said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brandes. \u201cTheir support has been invaluable. I firmly believe without them pushing me to be my best, I wouldn\u2019t have been recognized at this level. I look forward to the next step on this journey and I\u2019ll keep putting my best foot forward.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The four USAREUR-AF winners will now compete against junior leaders from other major Army commands across the Army. Only 25 officers and three warrant officers in the active, National Guard and Reserve components will receive the Army-level award.<\/p>\n

The competition\u2019s runners-up are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 Capt. Ryan H. Huseman, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 173rd Brigade Support Battalion, Southern European Task Force, Africa<\/p>\n

\u2022 Capt. Christian J. Rivera-Rodriquez, 18th Military Police Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command<\/p>\n

For more information on U.S. Army Europe and Africa, visit our website at https:\/\/www.europeafrica.army.mil\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow USAREUR-AF on Facebook<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, X<\/a>, and YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Army Europe and Africa formally recognized six Soldiers during the USAREUR-AF-level 2024 Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award ceremony, held Jan.15, 2025, on Clay Kaserne, Germany. (Photo Credit: Volker Ramspott) VIEW ORIGINAL WIESBADEN, Germany – U.S. Army Europe and Africa formally recognized six Soldiers during the USAREUR-AF-level 2024 Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award ceremony, held […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359921,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359922,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359919\/revisions\/359922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/359921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}