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Brigadier General David H. Stem Award

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The 217th Military Police Detachment receives the David H. Stem Award in 2015

The Brigadier General David H. Stem Award is a unit trophy annually awarded by the United States Army to a Military Police unit.[1]

The trophy was created in 1985 as the Liberty Award.[2] Two years later it was renamed in honor of David H. Stem, the commandant of the United States Military Police School who died in a 1987 airplane crash.[2]

The trophy is given annually to "best military police unit in the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command" (TRADOC). It is considered a unit trophy as provided for in Army Regulation 600–8–22.[3] Units are scored against several specific criteria including the unit's Army Physical Fitness Test and weapons qualification averages, unit deployments, and personnel re-enlistment totals.[4][5] The unit which receives the award is placed under consideration for the Brigadier General Jeremiah P. Holland Award as TRADOC's nominee.[6]

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  1. ^ Francis, Catrina (December 11, 2014). "Fort Knox's 34th MP Detachment recognized as best in TRADOC". The Gold Standard. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  2. ^ a b Durbin, Alex. "221st MPD named top cops in TRADOC". Joint Base Langley-Eustis. U.S. Air Force. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  3. ^ Military Awards AR 600–8–22. Washington, D.C.: United States Army. 2015. p. 135.
  4. ^ Pilgrim, Eric (November 9, 2017). "Small military police detachment wins big award". The Gold Standard. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  5. ^ "TRADOC Regulation 672-7" (PDF). adminpubs.tradoc.army.mil. United States Army. Retrieved December 10, 2018.
  6. ^ Slider, Charles (September 1, 2002). "The lineage of the Brigadier General David H. Stem Award". Military Police.