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Review of Rodeo 2011 scores results in several awards changes

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SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. --  A programming error in the Air Mobility Rodeo 2011 scoring system resulted in a change to several major awards, one of them being the Best Air Mobility Wing.

Air Mobility Command officials found the programming error Aug. 18 during a thorough scrub of all the results prior to posting the detailed scores for Rodeo competitors to access.

"There is an automated process in the scoring algorithm which improperly assigned a median score for an event," said Maj. Gen. Frederick H. Martin, Director of Operations, Headquarters, AMC, and Rodeo commander.

"This program error was not found in testing," said Martin. "All manual scoring processes were triple checked; however, there was not a final check for one critical portion of the automated scoring process."

The error was isolated to the C-17 and C-130 Container Delivery System airdrop scores. No international team awards were affected.

The corrected results are as follows:

- Best Air Mobility Wing (Moore Trophy) was incorrectly awarded to the 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus Air Force Base, Okla. The trophy will be awarded to the 314th Airlift Wing (Air Education and Training Command), Little Rock AFB, Ark.

- Best Airdrop Wing was incorrectly awarded to the 97th AMW. The 97th AMW actually finished in third place. This trophy will be awarded to the 314th AW, which incorrectly finished in second place.

- Best C-17 Wing was incorrectly awarded to the 97th AMW. The 97th AMW actually finished in second place. This trophy will be awarded to the 62nd Airlift Wing/627th Air Base Group, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., which incorrectly finished in second place.

- Best C-130 Airdrop Aircrew was incorrectly awarded to the 314th AW (C-130E). The 314th AW actually finished in second place. This trophy will be awarded to 19th Airlift Wing (AMC), Little Rock AFB, Ark., which incorrectly finished in second place.

The 97th AW retains Best Tanker Wing, Best KC-135 Wing, Best Air Refueling Team, Best C-17 Air-To-Air Refueling Team, Best C-17 Short Field Landing Team, and Best C-17 Aircrew.

"This is a very unfortunate programming mistake," Martin said. "I will tell you that all of the competitors at Rodeo were outstanding. The scoring was very close, and it was obvious that the best-of-the-best were competing. This scoring error should in no way detract from the incredible efforts our mobility forces put forward every day to ensure mission accomplishment."

General Martin said actions have been taken to prevent this type of issue from happening in 2013.

Air Mobility Rodeo, sponsored by AMC, is an international Mobility Air Force's readiness competition focusing on improving worldwide air mobility wartime core abilities. Rodeo 2011 was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord from July 24-29.

From an international perspective, seven countries competed at Rodeo 2011. Representatives from more than 20 other countries were on hand to observe. "Rodeo provides a very unique forum for our Airmen and international partners to interact and share the best tactics, techniques and procedures for the mobility mission," Martin said.