LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade has continued its long history of combat service into the twentieth century and the War on Terrorism. Elements of the 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) have fought in Baghdad, Ramadi, Balad, Tikrit, Q-West, and a host of other places in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still other units served in Bosnia, Germany, Belgium, and protected key facilities here in the United States immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The brigade accomplished every mission with distinction. Much of what has made the brigade successful is the e
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade has continued its long history of combat service into the twentieth century and the War on Terrorism. Elements of the 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade (MEB) have fought in Baghdad, Ramadi, Balad, Tikrit, Q-West, and a host of other places in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still other units served in Bosnia, Germany, Belgium, and protected key facilities here in the United States immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The brigade accomplished every mission with distinction. Much of what has made the brigade successful is the exceptional quality of its junior leaders. This fact was recently brought to light once again with the announcement that Capt. Curtis Persinger, 198th Military Police Battalion, was awarded the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award, which in recognition of his outstanding leadership and embodiment of the values for which Gen. MacArthur stood – duty, honor, and country. Only 27 other company grade officers throughout the United States Army were selected to receive the MacArthur Leadership Award (MLA) this year. This incredible honor brings credit to Persinger, his battalion, and the 149th MEB. What is perhaps even more remarkable is that Persinger is the most recent of three national MLA winners to come from the 149th MEB since 2004, all of whom commanded units in combat. In fact, five of the six MLA winners from the Commonwealth of Kentucky since 1987 have come from the 149th MEB: Maj. (Ret.) Todd Linder won in 2005 and led the 617th Military Police Company in Iraq; Major Jeff Cole won the MLA in 2004 and went on to command Company D, 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry in Iraq; and Persinger commanded the 940th MP Company in Iraq during Operation New Dawn in 2011. The 149th MEB boasts of two more national winners in the 1980s: Lt. Col. (Retired) Jim Foster, 1988, and Lt. Col. (Ret.) Bill Hill, 1987. In addition to these national winners, numerous state winners have c
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