COMMENTARY FROM THE DIRECTOR,
ACQUISITION CAREER MANAGEMENT LTG WILLIAM N. PHILLIPS
SAVING LIVES THROUGH ACQUISITION
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hose of us who serve Soldiers in the acquisition community are consistently nourished by abiding reverence for deployed
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forces who sacrifi ce and serve on the front lines of confl ict.
I was inspired by a recent visit I had with some of our wounded warriors. It was an honor for MG Nick Justice [MG Nicko- las G. Justice, Special Assistant to LTG Phillips] and me to recently welcome home 34 of our heroes, Wounded War- riors returning from duty in Afghanistan at Andrews Air Force Base, MD.
While meeting with these Americans, I was inspired by their service, touched by their sacrifi ce, and deeply moved by their resolve to both continue the mission and support their fellow deployed Soldiers and comrades in arms.
Meeting these returning service mem- bers
reminded me of the important
story of 1LT Jason Miller from Fairfax, VA, a Soldier whose life was saved when his Advanced Combat Helmet stopped multiple bullets shot at him by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. Upon being shot, Miller was somersaulted backward. Once down, he soon realized that he was OK, dusted himself off, grabbed his M4, stood up, and killed the two heav- ily armed enemy fi ghters. Jason Miller is
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Most recently, LTG Bob Lennox [LTG Robert P. Lennox, Principal Deputy Director of Cost Assessment and Pro- gram Evaluation, Offi ce of the Secretary of Defense] and I had the opportunity to pin Combat Action Badges on Soldiers in
MISSION-CRITICAL EQUIPMENT
Many Soldiers’ lives have been saved on the field of battle because of the successes of Army Acquisition. Here, a combined team of paratroopers with the 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT) of the 82nd Airborne Division (AD) and Afghan police move toward a compound to search for a suspected weapons cache in the early morning of April 8 in southern Ghazni province, Afghanistan. (Photo by SGT Mike MacLeod, 1st BCT, 82nd AD.)
alive today because the acquisition pro- cess works.
Kandahar, Afghanistan, some of whom had survived IED attacks. Their service remains inspirational!
HONORING SERVICE TO THE NATION Instances such as these cause me to refl ect with renewed vigor upon the particular technologies we provide that are designed
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