School for Command Preparation receives Army Superior Unit Award

Leavenworth Lamp) Gen. David Perkins, commanding general of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, presented the Army Superior Unit Award (ASUA) to the School for Command Preparation (SCP) Dec. 1, at the Lewis and Clark Center.

Perkins presented the award to retired Col. Mark McKnight, director of the School for Command Preparation, during a short ceremony in the Roberts Room in the Lewis and Clark Center.

Gen. David Perkins, commander of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, presents the Army Superior Unit Award to retired Col. Mark McKnight, director of the School for Command Preparation Dec. 1 at the Lewis and Clark Center.

“It is an honor to be here to recognize the SCP,” Perkins said. “In the Army, we say that the highest honor one can receive is command. And, because the Army values this fact so highly, we have to make sure that command selectees are as well prepared as possible.”

Perkins further explained the significance of SCP to the ceremony’s attendees.

“Commanders and command sergeants major are disproportionally influential due to the impact they have on young soldiers who are the future of the Army,” Perkins said. “TRADOC is the front door for all soldiers to get into the Army. And, since it is so vitally important to the Army, SCP is a front door to command.”

SCP is one of three schools within the Command and General Staff College. The school received the ASUA for planning and executing a course redesign that better leverages the school to help the chief of staff of the Army integrate mission command and lead change in the Army. Lt. Gen. Michael Lundy, CGSC commandant and commanding general of the Combined Arms Center, and Maj. Gen. John Kem, Army University provost, also participated in the ceremony.

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CGSC’s School for Command Preparation staff and faculty take a group photo with TRADOC commander Gen. David Perkins and Lt. Gen. Michael Lundy, commander of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth and CGSC commandant, after the ceremony for their Army Superior Unit Award Dec. 1.