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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - - Hard work. Dedication. Teamwork. Hard work. Dedication. Teamwork.
The end result of hard work in an organization and dedication to employees and team members ultimately led members of the Equipment Concentration Site 125 (Ground), here, to be recognized, for the second year in a row, for excellence in the field of maintenance.
“The main role for the ECS is to provide customer service to our 54 supported units that are all along the east coast, that don’t have the storage capacity at their facilities,” said Gerald Butler, Equipment Concentration Site 125 (Ground) manager.
“We store, maintain, and issue equipment when needed for training or commitments, to those supporting units,” Butler said.
The dedication to upholding the needs of U.S. Army Reserve customers isn't the extent of what the ECS 125 crew provides. What bonds them as a team inside the shop works just as well outside it, with community outreach projects.
”It can be something as big as giving gifts to an orphanage or something as simple as taking a group of employees down to donate blood when there is a shortage,” Butler said.
The teamwork in and out the shop adds to the success of ECS 125, but when back in the shop, it's all business according to Butler.
“Day to day operation goals are to try to keep work orders under 30 days,” Butler said. “We want to make sure that when the units are requesting this equipment that it is in full mission capable status, and that it’s ready to go when they need it.”
That hard work and mission focus is part of the reason the ECS 125 team won the Department of Defense Award for Maintenance Excellence for the second year.
Butler didn't hesitate to mention how empowering every member of the team with the keys to driving the overall success was equally as integral.
“The most important think you can do is make sure that they know they are involved, and the importance of their involvement,” Butler said.
“Once you give them a piece of the pie to own, it’s almost common nature to do the best that you can, because that’s you on display,” Butler said.
The storage, maintenance, and equipment issue is a large part of the pie for the ECS crew, but not the only benefit they provide to the U.S. Army Reserve and its Soldiers.
“We have Soldiers come in every year, and we’ll have them help us work in the warehouse and shop,” said Jessie Whithey, supply manager.
“We don’t have warehouses in the Reserve, so it’s very hard to get that on the job training during a weekend, so when you come here you can actually see the parts, do the paperwork, and do your MOS [military occupational specialty],” Whithey said.
Serving as a fully equipped warehouse and maintenance shop, with fully knowledgeable employees, on a day to day basis, provides a learning source that many Reserve Soldiers can take advantage of.
“The Soldiers don’t get a chance to do their job throughout the month, so conducting training with them here gives them a chance to learn the latest and the greatest,” said Thomas L. Turner, ECS 125 work leader.
Regardless of the task at hand for the ECS crew, the one team one fight Army motto remains in the forefront of the employees minds.
“All of us are interchangeable, It’s one effort and one team, and that’s what’s going to set us above from everyone else,” said Whithey.
Hard work. Dedication. Teamwork.
“We are here to support the customer, in any way, shape, form, or fashion,” Butler said. “With proper notification, there is little that we can’t attempt to facilitate.”
“With our Reserve units, we bend over backwards,” Butler said.
| Date Taken: | 08.17.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 08.18.2015 10:41 |
| Story ID: | 173436 |
| Location: | FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA, US |
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