November 27, 2009 RSS feed / Front Page

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Remembering Staff Sgt. DeCrow

Charmain Z. Brackett Correspondent
First Sgt. Jonathan Schein called the roll, and Soldiers stood at attention responding “here!” When Schein reached the name of Staff Sgt. More...

AFCEA Social

The Fort Gordon Chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association is hosting a No Host Membership Appreciation Social, Dec. 8, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Gordon Club’s Victoria Room. More...

News Update

Need an I.D. card? Make an appointment The Fort Gordon I.D. Card Facility transitioned to an appointment only system Nov. 1. The facility is located in Room 161 of Darling Hall. More...

News Update

Therapy dogs offer comfort, understanding

Charmain Z. Brackett Correspondent

Sergeants 1st Class Boe and Budge and 1st Sgt. Maverick haven’t been at Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center long, but they have already made an impact on the patients there. More...

15th Regimental Signal Brigade prepares for Holiday Block Leave

Capt. Michael Hudson 15th Regimental Signal Brigade

Preparations are well underway for the 15th Regimental Signal Brigade’s upcoming Holiday Block Leave. More...

NFPA urges heating precautions

Fire safety
Fire Protection and Prevention Division Fire Prevention Branch

As energy costs reach record highs, many Americans are turning to portable electric space heaters and wood-, pellet- coal or kerosene-burning stoves, and other non-traditional heating sources to defray costs. More...

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Viewpoint

The Post Critic

An open letter to Twilight fans
Nick Spinelli Signal Staff

I hope everyone is paying attention, because this isn’t something I do often. To all the Twilight fans out there, I apologize. I was wrong. More...

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What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving season?
By Bonnie Heater

Thanksgiving is celebrated Nov. 26. More...

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Chaplain's News

Exceeding gratitude

Chap. (Capt.) Esther Ferris 73rd Ordnance Battalion

Friends, have you ever experienced the humble reality of a heart filled with exceeding gratitude for the Giver of life and the gift of life itself? In living life, we have a tendency to take all of the good things of life for granted. More...

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. More...

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Spectrum

RIGGERS

“Making the ‘Airborne’ airborne”
Wilson A. Rivera Editor

In preparation for an airborne exercise out of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters at 1,000 feet above the ground, parachute riggers, distinguished by their red hats they wear, own the responsibility of inspecting, maintaining, and packing parachutes to dep More...

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Black bear spotted in forest of Fort Gordon

Charmain Z. Brackett Correspondent

Much of Fort Gordon’s 56,000 acres is uninhabited – by human beings, that is. “We were doing a whitetail deer population estimate,” said Paul Grimes, a wildlife biologist. More...

Stay Army Strong-Fight the Flu

MEDCOM

What is it? More...

Fort Gordon Command Channel

In the coming weeks, the Command Channel will be the place to go to get the latest information on the various happenings on and around Fort Gordon. More...

Community Events

Woodworth Library hosts second art show Dec. 1

“Photographs, paintings, sculpture, crafty items such as crochet are welcomed.” Jessica Thompson
Charmain Z. Brackett Correspondent

After the inaugural art show at the Woodworth Consolidated Library last winter received such a positive response, librarian Jessica Thompson has decided to organize a second. “It was nice to have,” said Thompson. More...

Around Town

Aiken Playhouse debuts It’s a Wonderful Life
Charmain Z. Brackett Correspondent

Juli Davis has never seen the 1946 Christmas classic film, It’s a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed, but she knew she had to audition for the musical version of the show. More...

At the Movies

The Signal Theater, located at 25th and Barnes Avenue, is open Friday-Sunday. Shows begin at 6:30 p.m. Regular admission for adults is $4, children $2, under age 5 free. For information call (706) 791-3982.*Indicates a 2 p.m. Matinee. More...

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Churches

Your Guide to Area Churches

ADVENT LUTHERAN CHURCH (ELCA) 3232 Washington Road, Augusta, Ga. 706-860-0439 Pastor Mathew S. Lash Robert Studdard, Youth Director email: ADVLUCH@AOL.com Sunday Worship & Praise 8:30 &11:00 a.m. Holy Communion Every Sunday Sunday School 9:45 hrs. More...

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Sports

Yoga, curry make for good Army training

Fred Baker III American Forces Press Service

CAMP BUNDELA, India – It’s 6 a.m. and as the sun rises, Sgt. Brandon Vacchelli sits on a mat in the grass, cross-legged, eyes closed and index and thumb fingers pressed together with his palms facing up. Hummmm. Hummmm, he murmurs. More...

Article

Quinton Best, a licensed practical nurse assigned to the Dwight D. More...

Article

Randy Herald, Fort Gordon’s Visual Information manager, proudly displays the running scores of the annual Army-Navy game on the wall in his office at Nelson Hall. He was in the Class of 1970 at the United More...

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