MRF Base Chapter:
FORT GORDON, GA
Located just a few miles southwest of the city of Augusta, Georgia, Fort Gordon, covering 56,000 acres, has a work force of over 4,600 civilians and more than 12,000 soldiers. The post is located in Richmond County and our Gate 2 is only a few hundred yards from Columbia County. The local area is referred to as the "CSRA", which stands for the Central Savannah River Area, a group of 13 Georgia and South Carolina counties along the Savannah River which forms the state border.
The U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon,"The Home of the Signal Corps", trains more soldiers than any other branch training center of the United States Army. The multi-faceted mission of the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon encompasses training, doctrine, force integration and mobilization. The Signal Center conducts specialized instruction for all Signal Corps military and Department of the Army civilian personnel, and provides doctrine and training development support of publications. Three U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) system managers coordinate acquisition and fielding of major systems. Force integration is accomplished through the life cycle management of all major communication electronics systems under study or in development for future use in the field Army. The mobilization mission is to maintain assigned U.S. Army Forces command (FORSCOM) units in a state of readiness commensurate with their authorized level of organization. Fort Gordon has a Directorate of Reserve Components Support that provides year-round training for more than 30,000 reservists as well as to Army and Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps students. Throughout the years, the Signal Corps has been on the cutting edge of communications technology. Adapting the telephone to military usage, facilitating the standarization of the vacuum tube, developing RADAR and FM radio during World War II and incorporating satellite communications and computer technology are just some of the Signal Corp's many accomplishments.
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January 16, 2011
MRF Rehabilitation Racquetball Clinic Kick Off- Fort Gordon, GA
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One of the main focuses for MRF has been to integrate racquetball as a method of rehabilitation for our wounded warriors. To that end we are happy to announce our progress with the beginning of an 8 week training program at Fort Gordon, Georgia. The MRF Rehabilitation Racquetball Clinic involving 10 to 12 NCO commanders of the various companies is designed to teach the commanders how to teach racquetball to their charges. Over 200 wounded warriors from Alpha, Bravo & Charlie companies went through the introductory clinic.
Our volunteer instructors, Steven Harper of NC, Bob Miller of Augusta and Ray Domyslawski of Augusta, as well as a few others, braved the elements of a freak snow storm at the beginning of January to pursue this program and see it through.
There has been positive response from the commanders of Ft. Gordon as well as the community with the Columbia County Patriots Park Recreation Center under the coordination of Mr. Robbie Kiser offering its courts to be used as additional training facilities whenever there is a need. This is a military town and it is heartening to see the outreach.
From here, we go to Fort Jackson in South Carolina to duplicate the RRC program for another WTU (Warrior Transitional Unit) - of 120 soldiers and begin to move it into the Army's normal rehabilitation rotation.
Thanks to Mr. Jeff Snover, Executive Director of CMFA for making this event and a new 8wk Rehabilitation Racquetball Clinic (RRC) possible
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