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Article: CAVALRY SQUADRON WINS SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PHOENIX AWARD

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November 5, 2009
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FORT HOOD, Texas, Nov. 4 -- The U.S. Army issued the following news release:

An Army cavalry squadron that redeployed from Iraq earlier this year received the Defense Department's highest award for maintenance excellence last week.

1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment won the Phoenix Trophy at the 2009 Secretary of Defense Maintenance Awards Banquet Oct. 28, in Phoenix, Arizona.

"Tiger Squadron" was chosen as one of two large category winners from a competitive worldwide group of Department of Defense field-level maintenance organizations.

While deployed to the Tigris River Valley in the Ninewah Province of Iraq, the squadron maintained an equipment fleet that was 75 percent larger ...

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