Capt. Shane McNamara, commander of the Virginia National Guard’s Virginia Beach-based 576th Engineer Utilities Detachment, 276th Engineer Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group, receives the 2022 Itschner Award as the most outstanding U.S. Army engineer company in the Army National Guard from the Society of American Military Engineers at the Joint Engineer Training Conference & Expo on May 4, 2023, in San Antonio, Texas. The 576th EUD is the first Virginia Army National Guard unit to win this award in the nearly 50 years it has been awarded to all three components.