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AFSC receives Air Force Organizational Excellence Award

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TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. --  The Air Force Sustainment Center has been awarded the 2014 Air Force Organizational Excellence Award.

The award is bestowed for exceptionally meritorious service or exceptionally outstanding achievement that clearly sets the unit above and apart from similar units.

Thirty-eight organizations, offices and directorates under the AFSC will share in the award. The AFSC includes operations at Tinker (headquarters), Hill AFB, Utah, and Robins AFB, Ga.

"During this period, the center effectively combined three air logistics complexes, two supply chain wings, three air base wings and a workforce of over 32,000 Airmen into a cost-effective and customer-oriented Sustainment Center, resulting in savings of over $1 billion," the citation read.

"Using the Air Force Sustainment Center leadership model and a scientific-based methodology, the center managed 1,026 aircraft, 304 engines and 132 missiles, reducing Air Force MICAPs by 33 percent and back orders by 26 percent, ensuring airpower to meet combatant commander requirements today and tomorrow.

"Furthermore, the Sustainment Center was key to providing air superiority capability though the establishment of both F-22 and F-35 depot maintenance activities, as well driving innovative modernization efforts across the entire Air Force bomber fleet.

"Finally, the Air Force Sustainment Center ensured the nation's global strike capability by modernizing the nuclear enterprise, thereby enabling the highest alert rate in the history of the Minute Man III intercontinental ballistic missile.  The distinctive accomplishments of the members of the Air Force Sustainment Center reflect great credit upon themselves and the United States Air Force."

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Hill AFB, Utah, also earned the award announced Feb. 19. The award covered the period from July 10, 2012, to June 30, 2014.