"::grins:: No UCIP ship has EVER won this award three times in a row. Anyone game?"

Well, now one sim -- and only one sim -- has. ;-) I was thrilled to see the UCIP Command Staff recognize all of the hard work and dedication you guys put in, especially when we could have very easily been ruled "ineligible" due to some changes in Bergen rules over the summer. And I refuse to believe it's coincidence that Coronado was listed first among the six winning sims. ;-)

So, once again, I want to thank all of you for your excellent role-playing and your dedication to the Coronado sim. This one isn't about my work -- it's about yours. Congratulations to all of you!

The following simmers are hereby recognized as part of Coronado's third receipt of UCIP's Bergen Award, the highest recognition a sim can gain in UCIP. Each of these simmers were part of the Coro sim for at least 18 weeks of the 52 week awarding period.

U.S.S. Coronado is a recipient of the Admiral Andrew P. Bergen Award for excellence in simming:
Alados ha-Soron, Flight Operations Officer (Inactive)
Lt. (JG) Ananda Wilk, Chief of Flight Operations (Inactive) (Repeat)
Lt. Jason Vogel, Chief Medical Officer (Posthumous)
     transferred to Ens. Edward Miller, Assistant Tactical Officer
Lt. Lauren Dyson, Assistant Medical Officer
Lt. Kathleen Hammond, Chief Science Officer (Inactive) (Repeat)
Lt. Caring-Thoughts, Chief Flight Operations Officer (Inactive)
     transferred to LMaj. Thirishar ch'Thane, Flight Leader Alfa
Lt. Aramis Skylooker, Assistant Engineer (Three)
LCdr. Kyle Marcy, Chief Tactical Officer (Repeat)
LCdr. Isamu Dyson, Chief Science Officer
Maj. Jacob Prescot, Company Commander Alfa (Repeat)
LCdr. Kariasa Ma'Aru, Group S-2, Intelligence Officer (Repeat)
LCdr. Jack C. Farley, Assistant Engineer (Three)
LCol. Thomas Wayne, "Raptors" Squadron Leader (Three)
Cmdr. Darek Smith, U.S.S. Coronado Executive Officer (Repeat)
Cmdr. Olmeoaxaca Tlaloco, Chief of Operations (Three)
Cmdr. Zunite Oswald, Chief Engineering Officer (Three)
Cmdr. Sieven Drexler, Group S-1, Adjutant (Three)
Cmdr. Savant, Group S-3, Logistics Officer (Three)
Capt. William Daren, U.S.S. Coronado Commanding Officer (Three)
Brig. Jeremy Ironside, Marine Commandant (Three)
RADM Tebrun Lora Kor, Group Commanding Officer (Three)

U.S.S. Coronado was awarded her second Admiral Andrew P. Bergen Award for excellence in simming as part of the January 2002 ceremonies. Coronado is only the third ship in UCIP history to win the annual version of this prestigious award twice in a row! Though unlike last year, there were no formal comments received for this awarding period, I did receive some informal comments from a variety of people. After completing his review, one Bergen Committee voter that I respect more than few other people in UCIP for his integrity and story-telling ability told me this:

"In my opinion, you have the best IRC SIM in UCIP... Hands down."

In addition, in the weeks before this awarding was announced, I observed all of the other Bergen-nominated IRC sims. After these sims, as people sometimes do, the COs of these sims and I would speculate about who the possible winners would be. One comment that I heard over and over again from the COs during these conversations was a variation on, "Well, it's all right for you -- you're going to win one. But what about the rest of us?" ::grins:: When you're hearing that from the competition, I guess that makes up for the lack of official comments. ;-)

U.S.S. Coronado is a recipient of the Admiral Andrew P. Bergen Award for excellence in simming:
1Lt. Jacob Prescot, Company Commander Alfa
Lt. (JG) Ananda Wilk, Chief of Flight Operations
Lt. (JG) Jason Thompson, Chief Medical Officer
Lt. Ungtae Brie, Former Chief Medical Officer (Posthumous)
Lt. Kyle Marcy, Watch Tactical Officer
Lt. Kathleen Hammond, Chief Science Officer
Lt. Kariasa Ma'Aru, Chief Intelligence Officer
Lt. Aramis Skylooker, Assistant Engineer (Repeat)
LCdr. Jack C. Farley, Assistant Engineer (Repeat)
LCdr. Sieven Drexler, Chief Tactical Officer
LCol. Thomas Wayne, "Raptors" Squadron Leader (Repeat)
Cmdr. Zunite Oswald, Chief Engineering Officer (Repeat)
Cmdr. Olmeoaxaca Tlaloco, Chief of Operations (Repeat)
Savant, Coronado Holographic Liaison (Repeat)
Col. Jeremy Ironside, Marine Commandant (Repeat)
Cmdr. William Daren, Executive Officer (Repeat)
FCapt. Tebrun Lora Kor, Commanding Officer (Repeat)

U.S.S. Coronado was awarded her first Admiral Andrew P. Bergen Award for excellence in simming as part of the January 2001 ceremonies. Some of the comments that were received during this period were:

"The Coronado, along with the sims I have listed closer to the top, has exhibited what I consider a tight-knit family, having a very low turnover rate of officers, many having been with this sim since its early days in other organizations, which was over 2 years ago. This, on top of reading some of the comments given by newer members of the crew on the ease of joining this sim sealed the U.S.S. Coronado as my number one choice."

"I voted for the U.S.S. Coronado an IRC sim as first. Why, because this sim is one that includes everyone, and helps those that need help. It is an interesting sim that has side plots that add more to this sim..."

"The choices were very hard to make, in IRC, the U.S.S. Coronado stands out above the other 3. Both in general criteria as well as awarding criteria. But choosing the others beyond that was more difficult..."

U.S.S. Coronado is a recipient of the Admiral Andrew P. Bergen Award for excellence in simming:
2Lt. Natalia Petrovna, "Thunderbirds" Squadron Leader
Ens. Tempus Phontam, Chief Science Officer
     (also as 2Lt. Darius tr'Onto, Inactive)
Lt. (JG) Jack C. Farley, Assistant Engineer
Lt. (JG) Aramis Skylooker, Assistant Engineer
LMaj. Thomas Wayne, "Thundercats" Squadron Leader
Lt. Aurel Ian, Watch Tactical Officer (Inactive)
Lt. Zunite Oswald, Chief Engineering Officer
Lt. Dalton, Chief Medical Officer
SCPO Olmeoaxaca Tlaloco, Command Master Chief
Savant, Coronado Holographic Liaison
LCdr. William Daren, Chief Tactical Officer
Cmdr. Velorna Tal, Intelligence Officer (Inactive)
Cmdr. Fornan Dejat, Chief of Flight Operations
LCol. Jeremy Ironside, Marine Commandant
Cmdr. Jarod Bentall, Executive Officer
FCapt. Tebrun Lora Kor, Commanding Officer

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