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Officers named for leadership award

Twenty-eight company-grade officers of the active Army, National Guard and Army Reserve have been named winners of the 2009 Gen. Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award Competition.

The officers each will receive a 15-pound bronze bust of MacArthur at a Pentagon ceremony to be hosted by Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey in early May.

The annual award recognizes the officers for demonstrating exceptional leadership in 2009, and for epitomizing the ideals of duty, honor and country that were the focus of MacArthur’s farewell address at the U.S. Military Academy in 1962.

The annual competition is sponsored by the Army and the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation.

The 2009 winners are:

Active Army

Capt. Erhan Bedestani, Army Special Operations Command

Capt. Shaun S. Conlin, Army Forces Command

Capt. Meghan L. Cumpston, Intelligence and Security Command

Capt. Carlos David B. Flynn, Army Forces Command

Capt. Donald R. Neal, Army Forces Command

Capt. Timothy R. Palmer, U.S. Army Europe

Capt. Justin M. Pritchard, Army Forces Command

Capt. Kendall A Robinson, Army Forces Command

Capt. Jonathan E.G. Silk, Army Forces Command

Capt. Scott M. Smiley, U.S. Military Academy

Capt. Bryan F. Williams, Army Pacific Command

Capt. Richard E. Wood, Army Medical Command

1st Lt. Daniel S. Luckett, Army Forces Command

CW2 Ricky W. Fowler, Army Special Operations Command

Army National Guard

Capt. William D. Barthen, Wisconsin

Capt. Stephen E. Brack, Arkansas

Capt. William M. Gorby, West Virginia

Capt. Charles D. McWilliams, Nebraska

Capt. Timothy J. Newman, Illinois

Capt. Joseph A. Ruotolo, Pennsylvania

CW2 Mark J. Simon, Long Island

Army Reserve

Capt. Alejandro L. Buniag, 9th Mission Support Command

Capt. Darryl A. Cox, USAR Medical Command

Capt. Andrew W. Culbreath, Joint and Special Troops Support Command

Capt. Igor V. Dubinsky, 108th Training command (IET)

Capt. Aaron L. Hoffman, 108th Training Command (IET)

Capt. Michelle J. Wesley, Army Criminal Investigation Command

CW2 Thomas A. Yelito, Army Criminal Investigation Command