Knox, Hamilton, Gruber Award

Henry A. Knox Award

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The Henry A. Knox Award is named after the first Chief of Artillery, and first Secretary of War, Major General Henry A. Knox. The award recognizes the most outstanding active component battery. Originally called the Knox Trophy and Medal, the awards were established in 1924 by the Chief of Field Artillery and presented annually. The Trophy recognized the best artillery battery, and the Medal recognized the best enlisted Artillery Soldier. Before World War II, the awards were not presented. In 2002, the Knox Trophy was reinstated, and the Medal was replaced with the Gruber Award to recognize individual Soldiers

Edmund L. Gruber Award

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The Alexander Hamilton Award recognizes the best Army National Guard (ARNG) Battery. It was created in 2002 and is named after American Statesman and Continental Army Artilleryman Alexander Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was an outstanding artillery battery commander and a skilled cohort of General George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Hamilton helped frame the U.S. Constitution and served as the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury.

Alexander Hamilton Award

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The Edmund L. Gruber Award is named after Brigadier General Edmund L. Gruber, a noted Field Artillery Officer, who as a First Lieutenant in 1908 composed the “Caisson Song”, which the Army adapted as “The Army Song” (The Army Goes Rolling Along) in 1952. The Gruber Award was established in 2002 to recognize individual Field Artillery Soldiers for innovations that resulted in significant contributions to enhance the Field Artillery’s war fighting capabilities, morale, readiness, and maintenance.