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Camp Semaphore gives high-schoolers taste of military

...challenged individually and you are going to be challenged as teams," said Maj. Gen. LaWarren V. Patterson, the commanding officer of the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon. "You're going to be up against some serious competition...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-28/camp-semaphore-gives-high-sch
Car dealers, taxpayers confused by new title tax

...apply."That's a paperwork nightmare," she said, explaining it requires pay stubs, orders, letters from commanding officers and other paperwork to apply the military exemption.Tax officials agree that there are still many details to work...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2013-04-20/car-dealers-taxpayers-conf
Director of S.C. unemployment agency resigns

...the troubled agency and put the renamed department in the governor's Cabinet.Haley picked Turner, the former commanding officer of Fort Jackson, to lead DEW in May 2011, when he was still chief of staff of the United States Strategic Command...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-02-15/director-sc-unemployment
Letter spurs Army memories

...Remember Red Ball Express"). These troops truly were unsung heroes.I had the good fortune of being the commanding officer of the 76th Transportation Company, a heavy truck operation stationed in Orleans, France, during the Cold War...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2013-03-10/letter-spurs-army-memori
Killer ended lives that held dreams, promise

...friends and loved ones, as well as to all the victimsof this horrible tragedy," said Cmdr. Jeffrey Jakuboski, his commanding officer, in a written statement.A family member told the Daily Herald newspaper in Arlington Heights, Ill., that Larimer...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-07-24/killer-ended-lives-held-dreams-prom
Green laser forces helicopter search crew to land near SC coast

...governments they might have to limit search activities unless they can stop the problem. Cmdr. Gregory Fuller, the commanding officer at Air Station Savannah, said he requires his air crews to consider laser risk in the area before responding to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-08-09/green-laser-forces-helicopter-searc
Georgia soldier creator of 'Sound Off' cadence

...Duckworth's oldest daughter, Connie Duckworth Pinkston, her father was ordered to drill his fellow troops by his white commanding officer, who believed the soldiers needed more pep in their steps.What resulted was the Duckworth Sound Off chant or cadence...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-07-04/georgia-soldier-creator-sound
Soldiers receive alternative pain management at Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center

...Word of mouth is spreading, also. Tiede said referrals are coming not just from primary care physicians, but commanding officers and platoon sergeants across the Army. The pain is serious, but "the bottom line is they will gain the endurance...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-10-22/soldiers-receive-alternative
Fort Gordon might make First Friday off-limits

...area."It will definitely affect business downtown," she said. "And it seems unfair to (the soldiers)."Commanding officers have the privilege under military law to place locations and businesses off-limits if it's found those places...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2012-07-13/fort-gordon
Health fair at Fort Gordon focuses on suicide prevention

...gives the soldiers a little peace of mind to know the discussion they have will not be going directly back to their commanding officer and will haunt them for the rest of their careers," she said. Soldiers are also allotted 12 sessions with outside...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2012-09-25/health-fair-fort-gordon-focu