I most humbly recommend Lieutenant Colonel Lars B. Ostervold Jr for the Army Engineer Association’s Silver de Fleury Metal for outstanding service to the Army Corps of Engineers and the Army Engineer Regiment.

Lieutenant Colonel Lars B. Ostervold Jr completed the Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Tulane University in May of 1994 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant.

LTC Ostervold’s first assignment was a Platoon Leader of a horizontal construction platoon in Alpha Company, 94th Engineer Battalion attached to the 1st Armored Division. LTC Ostervold took charge of his platoon as it was redeploying from the Leghorn Depot in Italy and started planning and preparations for a deployment to Bosnia. LTC Ostervold deployed his platoon to Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Endeavor. Once in Bosnia, he deployed his platoon across the Sava River to Comanche Base, where he planned and executed many successful horizontal construction missions. Notable among these were the Lukavac Fuel Transfer Point, Russian Sector access Roads and the parking lot, the Comanche Base FARP, and …show more content…
LTC Ostervold displayed exceptional leadership by planning, coordinating, and providing total support in the construction of the Redeployment Staging Base. In less than 21 days, his platoon completed the construction of Camp Wolverine, a $200,000 construction project. This tent city provided the facilities to afford vital life support needs of every redeploying unit of the 1st Armored Division and subsequent follow-on forces. Upon completion of this intense project, LTC Ostervold prepared the company redeployment movement order and flawlessly lead the company redeployment convoy of engineer equipment and vehicles over treacherous roads under adverse weather conditions from Tuzla, Bosnia-Heregovina to Taszar, Hungary without