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...(B/1-12 FA), 17th Brigade, out of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and was deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. Co-winner SFC Ivan J. Geter is with A/2-20 FA, 4th Fires Brigade, out of Fort Hood, Texas, and was deployed to Camp Fallujah, Iraq.
The Gruber Award was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding individual thought and innovation that results in significant contributions to or the enhancement of the FA's warfighting capabilities, morale, readiness or maintenance. It is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, 1979-1941, who, as a First Lieutenant in 1908, composed the Caisson Song that the Army adapted as The Army Goes Rolling Along in 1952.
SFC Funk, B/1-12 FA. As a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) 13M Multiple-Launch Rocket System (MLRS) Crewmember, he deployed in support of OIF as a gun-truck platoon sergeant. SFC Funk developed multiple force-protection modifications for the battery's vehicles to enhance the survivability of Soldiers during improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.
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Following a January 2006 attack on a battery convoy that resulted in two Soldiers being injured by shrapnel, SFC Funk developed additional armor plating for the low-signature armored cab (LSAC) doors that mounted to existing brackets. His modification proved effective in IED strikes.
During the same attack, a secondary IED penetrated the fuel tank of an M915 truck, igniting the fuel and burning the truck to the ground. SFC Funk developed...
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