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MDAA Alert:
Recognition of Excellence
January 13, 2020

FCA1 Mario Amaro of the USS Lake Erie (CG 70) is presented the award for MDAA's
2019 U.S. Missile Defender of the Year for the U.S. Navy by Vice Admiral Jim Kilby
in Alexandria, Virginia on January 10, 2020.
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Dear Members and Friends,
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At the absolute right time, for the absolute right reasons we honored America's
best of the best in leadership excellence displayed by their actions and selected
by their commanding officers for those actions of achievement over the past year
on missile defense. No greater time and no greater demand for United States missile
defenders than now. Iran launched 16 ballistic missiles against U.S. bases in Iraq
last Wednesday, President Putin recently declared a new Russian hypersonic missile
operational, and North Korea declared an end to a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear
and long-range missile tests.
MDAA is honored to announce the four recipients, representing each of the U.S. military
services operating missile defense systems in 2019, of the 10th Missile Defender
of the Year held in Alexandria, Virginia. This marks a decade anniversary of the
award that is held annually around the anniversary of the first combat missile defense
intercept in January of 1991 by U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia. The Army and the National
Guard Missile Defenders of the Year also received the Shipton Award and Shaw Award,
which recognize the best air defenders in the Active Army and Army National Guard
respectively.
Captain Eric Grant
265th Air Defense Artillery
Grafenwoehr, Germany
U.S. Army National Guard
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Captain Nolan Hebein
Small Launch and Targets Division
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
U.S. Air Force
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First Class Petty Officer Mario Amaro
Aegis BMD Cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70)
San Diego, California
U.S. Navy
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Captain Cody Williams
6th Air Defense Artillery Regiment
Ft. Sill, Oklahoma
U.S. Army
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"The other thing that I think is so impressive, and having read some of the writeups
about the individuals to be honored tonight, is that they come from all different
kinds of backgrounds and all kinds of different systems. And that is the other thing
I always find inspiring at this dinner every year, is to see the diversity of the
people and the interesting backgrounds, because at the end of the day it comes down
to the people at the front end that make these things happen. There are, as Hatim
was saying things you can dream about and I enjoy technology development and sometimes
you'll see PowerPoint depictions or overview one cartoons that explain the way operators
are going to work or handoffs are going to occur across all the time zones across
the world to allow a successful intercept to happen. But at the end of the day it
comes down to real people, doing real jobs, sometimes for hours and hours on end
waiting for the event to make it close, and they do. And it's something to be celebrated
because back to my time as a Senate staffer and as an intelligence analyst, at that
time the strong belief, by actually at that time the majority of people is it was
not feasible and that would not occur and could not occur. And it does occur. And
real people went to work, like our missile defenders of the year and made it really
happen." - John Rood, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, January 10, 2020 at
Alexandria, Virginia
The four recipients were honored to have in attendance; the Honorable John Rood,
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Lieutenant General Jim Pasquarette, Army
Deputy Chief of Staff, Vice Admiral Jim Kilby, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
for Warfighting Requirements and Capabilities, Major General Sean Gainey, Deputy
Director for Force Protection, Rear Admiral Tom Druggan, Program Executive for MDA's
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Office, Brigadier General John Allen, Air Force
Director of Civil Engineers and Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Engineering
& Force Protection, Brigadier General J. Ray Davis, Army National Guard Assistant
Director for Aviation and Information Warfare to recognize their leadership excellence
and the achievements in the mission of missile defense.
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Respectfully,
Riki Ellison
Chairman and Founder
Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance
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is to make the world safer by advocating for the development and deployment of missile
defense systems to defend the United States and its allies against missile threats.
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specific system, technology, architecture or entity. Founded in 2002, MDAA is the
only organization in existence whose primary mission is to recruit, organize, and
mobilize proponents to advocate for the critical need of missile defense. Visit
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