ECRC Receives Meritorious Unit Commendation and Golden Anchor Award

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation to Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center for meritorious service from Jan. 1, 2007, to Dec. 31, 2011.

Rear Adm. Michael P. Tillotson, commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC), presented the award to Capt. Eric Jabs, commander, ECRC, during a ceremony held at ECRC headquarters on board Joint Expeditionary Base-Little Creek, Feb. 8.
The MUC citation reads (in part):

"The personnel of Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center demonstrated an unwavering commitment to the personal welfare of over 55,000 Navy Individual Augmentees (IAs) who supported 797 missions in Operations Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn. Responding to the needs of both Sailors and stakeholders, a comprehensive IA support program that improved every aspect of the IA experience from initial reporting procedures and in-country arrival to the administration of post-deployment health assessments and return to parent command."

Service members are authorized to wear the MUC ribbon effective immediately.

At the same awards presentation, ECRC also received the Retention Excellence Award for Fiscal Year 2012. More commonly known as the Golden Anchor Award, this honor is earned by commands that meet or exceed predetermined Navy-wide retention criteria, which ECRC accomplished by scoring 95 points on its annual Career Information Program review, maintaining Zone A attrition of zero percent, and achieving Professional Apprenticeship Career Track qualification and Perform-To-Serve submission rates of 100 percent.

"ECRC's receipt of the Retention Excellence Award is a reflection of the dedication and hard work from the top down that is given to each individual Sailor," said Chief Navy Counselor (AW/SW) Henrietta Johnson, command career counselor.

"With a proactive Career Development Team, ECRC Warriors continue to take care of the Sailor while meeting difficult challenges and opposing circumstances! Simply put, ECRC is engaged," said Johnson.

ECRC is part of NECC, a global-force provider of adaptive force packages of expeditionary capabilities to joint warfighting commanders. NECC serves as a single manning functional command to centrally manage the current and future readiness, resources, manning, training and equipping of the Navy's expeditionary force.

For more news from Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center, visit www.navy.mil/local/ecrc/.