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March 19, 2010  RSS feed
Signal officer aids response to avalanche
When Lt. Col. Kris Ellis, the former commander of the 442nd Signal Battalion and the recent Strategic Communications Director for the Signal Center of Excellence, arrived in Afghanistan in January 2010 as an individual augmentee, he thought he was slated to be the Officer-in-Charge of the Joint Visitors Bureau for Regional Command East / Combined Joint Task Force 82 . More...
Hitler’s phone from Alpen retreat in museum
Charmain Z. Brackett
Correspondent

The Signal Corps Museum has some unique spoils of war in its exhibit cases. “Part of the Signal Corps’ mission is to capture enemy equipment,” said Robert Anzuoni, Signal Corps Museum director. Adolf Hitler’s telephone from the library at his retreat in Berchtesgaden, Germany is one of those unique items. More...

Substance Abuse Prevention Training

Army Regulation 600-85 dated Dec. 2, 2009. Para 2-19, states Department of the Army civilian employees will receive 2 hours substance abuse prevention training annually in accordance with U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command Regulation 350-70. Training will be held at Alexander Hall in April and May on the dates listed below: More...

 News Update
• DOD Resumes Military Career Spouse Program
The Department of Defense announced the resumption of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Account. Beginning March 13 at 12 p.m. EST, the 136,583 military spouses who are currently enrolled in the program will once again be able to receive tuition assistance. More...
• Checks Go High-Tech at AAFES outlets
• April is Month of Military Child
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 Community Events
• Art and music take weekend stage
Art and music events are on the schedule around the Augusta area this weekend. On Saturday, the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art will once again have its annual Artists’ Market and Festival. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. More...
• Balfour Beatty Community news and events
• Army Emergency Relief campaign continues
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 Viewpoint
• Survey says Fort Gordon Shoppettes’ gas good value
According to a recent Short-Term Energy Outlook report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, “the annual average regulargrade retail gasoline price will increase from $2.35 per gallon in 2009 to $2.84 in 2010.” More...
• Ka-pow! bam! free Marvel Comics flying onto Fort Gordon shelves
• Correction
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 Churches
• Chapel Call
Collective Protestant Services Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. – Liturgical Service, Bicentennial Chapel 9:30 a.m. – Contemporary Worship Service, Friendship Chapel 10:30 a.m. – Eisenhower Army Medical Center Chapel Noon – Faith Gospel Service, Good Shepherd Chapel 11:00 a.m. – Bicentennial Chapel 11:00 a.m. – Friendship Chapel More...
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 Chaplain's News
• Looking inward
In the Jewish faith, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is set aside for the faithful to look inward. Our Islamic neighbors do so during their observance of Ramadan. For Christians, the season of Lent, the forty days immediately preceding Easter, reminds us of the temptation of Christ, and of our own struggles against evils. It is our time of looking inward. More...
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 Sports
• article has image Air Force cross country teams win Armed Forces title
The Air Force men's and women's cross country teams won the Armed Forces Cross Country Championship Feb. 13 at Plantes Ferry Sports Complex, Spokane Valley, Wash. "This was the most talented men's and women's team I've been a part of in seven years," said Capt. Levi Severson, the team captain for the Air Force teams. "I was proud of how well everyone performed," More...
• Holistic healing offers new alternative
• Golf Tournament
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 Spectrum
• article has image SERGEANT AUDIE MURPHY
‘To He ll Au die Leo n Mu r phy was a legend in his own time. A war hero, movie actor, writer of country and western songs, and poet. His biography reads more like fiction than fact. He lived only 46 years, but he made a lasting imprint on American history. Audie was born on a sharecropper’s farm in North Texas on June 20, 1924. More...
• article has image ‘To Hell and Back’
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