Eubank team to evaluate Services Squadron for Best in Air Force

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  • By 2nd Lt. Korry Leverett
  • 341st Space Wing Public Affairs Office
MALMSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, Mont. --  The 341st Services Squadron will be inspected for the 2008 Air Force-level Maj. Gen. Eugene L. Eubank award this week when a four-person evaluation team visits Malmstrom. 

Malmstrom's 341st SVS won the Air Force Space Command-level award competing in the small base category against three other bases. 

"I've always known that 341st Services Squadron has great people," said Maj. Rosalyn Walker, 341st SVS commander. "This award validates that these great people are doing great things." 

Each year Services Squadrons across the Air Force compete for the coveted Gen. Curtis E. LeMay and the Maj. Gen. Eugene L. Eubank awards. The LeMay award recognizes Services squadrons in the large base category - 6,000 or more personnel assigned - while the Eubank award recognizes Services Squadrons in the small base category - less than 6,000 personnel assigned. 

The Eubank evaluation team will focus on five inspection areas: customer service, 35 percent; programs, 30 percent; management, 15 percent; facilities, 10 percent; and equipment, 10 percent. 

"Services, as well as the entire base (this is a joint effort), will need to demonstrate to the AF Eubank Evaluation Team that we are better than our competition," said Margie Stutz, 341st SVS deputy commander. "We need to showcase how and why we are simply the best small Services Squadron in the Air Force." 

The 341st SVS was chosen to represent AFSPC as the best Services Squadron based on the citations listed below. 

In the past year, the Services Squadron has received 100 plus individual, program and team awards; they provided expert search and recovery response efforts during the tragic Snowbirds crash; campaigned for and received more than $15 million for construction, equipment and training, which allowed for the renovations of the bowling center, the auditorium and other facilities on base; the base library now offers the Rosetta Stone Language Program; and they saved Airmen an additional $72 thousand in child care fees by providing missile care, extended duty care, permanent change of station care and return home care. Even more impressive, the Services squadron accomplished all of this while deploying 27 Airmen to the Middle East. 

"Since receiving the news that [Services] was selected as the AFSPC Eubank representative ... we have been extremely busy preparing our "Telling the Malmstrom Services Story" presentation, Ms. Stutz said. "A theme was developed around the Services slogan, Simply the Best. Our marketing department has been going non-stop; creating storyboards, welcome books, banners, signs, lapel buttons and all the glitzy things that brighten up and add that extra touch." 

With other upcoming events on the horizon, the squadron understands how important this visit truly is. 

"This has great meaning for the 341st SVS because it is the last time we will compete as a Services unit," Maj. Walker said. 

Over the next several months, the Services Squadron and Mission Support Squadron will merge to become the Force Support Squadron. 

Major Walker knows whatever the name of the squadron, "We serve the best customers in Blanchard Trophy country!"