for his third master’s degree, as
well as his first doctorate in the
subject of war studies through
King’s College in London.
The Robert B. Thompson
Award for Outstanding
Civilian Leadership
■ THOMAS R. GLAIZER
As the diving supervisor and rigging
foreman at the Pearl Harbor Naval
Shipyard’s Regional Diving Locker,
Glaizer leads 26 active duty and 10
civilian divers in one of the world’s
busiest naval harbors. Split into
three teams, they are responsible for
returning U.S. Navy submarines and
surface ships to operational status in
the safest, most efficient manner.
During the past year, Glaizer’s dive
teams performed 10 critical voyage
repairs, completing 17,600 man-
hours of extremely hazardous work
without incident. Naval Sea Systems
Command’s Diving, Salvage and
Underwater Ships Husbandry divi-
sion recently incorporated materials
from the technical library of hand-
written rigging plans, standard oper-
ating procedures and tools/material
lists for dive jobs that Glaizer has
accumulated during more than 30
years into its fleetwide underwater
ship repair Web site.
The Honorable J. William
Middendorf II Award for
Engineering Excellence
■ NAVY ENGINEMAN 1ST
CLASS (SURFACE WARFARE)
BRIAN S. METZGER
As the leading petty officer of the
Auxiliaries Division onboard USS
Blue Ridge, Metzger is in charge of
maintaining uninterrupted power
on the command ship for com-
mander, Seventh Fleet. After just six
years of Navy service, he qualified as
engineering officer of the watch, the
highest post the Engineering
Department has to offer. Metzger
trains and supervises watch teams in
the safe, efficient operation of Blue
Ridge’s main propulsion plant, and
led the Engineering Department and
Auxiliaries Division throughout an
arduous cycle of shipyard overhaul,
equipment cold checks, Afloat
Training Team visits, Light-Off
Assessments and sea trials during
the past year. In 2005 and 2006, he
was named Blue Ridge’s “Senior
Sailor of the Year.”
The Adm. Ben Moreell
Award for Logistics
Competence
(Officer)
■ MARINE MAJ. ANITA
CARROLL
As logistics officer for Marine Air-
craft Group 29 (MAG 29), Carroll
oversaw the embarkation of MAG
headquarters in four waves from
Marine Corps Air Station New River,
N.C., to the Iraqi theater of opera-
tions, and her department coordinat-
ed the embarkation and transporta-
tion of two additional New River
squadrons. Her planning and execu-
tion resulted in a flawless relief-in-
place transition that allowed MAG
29’s 3,100 Marines, soldiers and
sailors, and more than 150 aircraft,
to assume operations at two major
air bases and two forward operating
bases with no pause in operational
tempo or disruption to the MAG
squadrons. Carroll led the Logistics
Department during combat opera-
tions in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom when the department in-
spected, prepared and coordinated
the movement and transportation of
more than 2,000 short-tons of cargo
and 3,000 Marines and sailors into
and out of the theater.
The Adm. Ben Moreell
Award for Logistics
Competence (Enlisted)
■ NAVY EQUIPMENT
OPERATOR CHIEF (SEABEE
COMBAT WARFARE)
JASON L. JONES
While assigned to Naval Mobile
Construction Battalion 21, Air
Detachment Heavy 2, Jones was a
pivotal figure in the mobilization
and employment of 143 Seabees
in Kuwait and Afghanistan during
a period of high-tempo construction operations in support of
Operations Iraqi Freedom and
Enduring Freedom. As project
manager at Detail Camp Virginia
in Kuwait, he helped improve in-theater road building techniques
to save time and money. Later,
during repair work at an airfield
in Afghanistan, Jones introduced
new methods and procedures for
the repair and improvement of
existing runways while accommodating flight operations without
interruption.
The Vincent T. Hirsch
Maritime Award for
Outstanding Leadership
■ KENNETH C. GAULDEN
During his nearly 40 years as an
executive in the transportation and
maritime industry, Gaulden contributed to defining solutions to
complex maritime-related transportation problems. He was an active
participant of joint industry-Defense
Department groups working to provide strategic sealift for the United
States in time of national need during his 30 years with Sea-Land
SANDY HUFFAKER JR.
Panneton congratulates Kenneth C.
Gaulden, recipient of the Vincent T.
Hirsch Maritime Award for Outstanding Leadership, as James E. Caponiti, associate administrator for national security at the Maritime Administration, looks on.
