Signal Center Change of Command

Brigadier General Jeffrey W. Foley
Commanding General,
US Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon
The Army's Chief of Signal

Brigadier General Alan R. Lynn
Commanding General
311th Signal Command (Theater)

Brigadier General Jeffrey W. Foley, the Army's Chief of Signal, will relinquish command of the US Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon later this month.  The official date of the change of command ceremony has not yet been announced.  A Farewell dinner for General Foley and his wife is planned for July 15th at the Gordon Club on Fort Gordon.  The dinner is a public event.  Tickets are $20 each and may be obtained from the Protocol Office in Signal Towers on Fort Gordon.

Foley's replacement will be Brigadier General Alan R. Lynn, currently the commander of the 311th Signal Command (Theater) headquartered at Fort Shafter, Hawaii.

Joint Publication 6-0: The Revision

Joint Publication (JP) 6-0 was released under Admiral Mullen's signature on 10 June 2010.  We doctrine insiders at Fort Gordon were able to access it via the Joint Staff's website today.  Its full title is, Joint Communications System.  The manual was last revised on 20 March 2006.  The big things about this version are that--

• It updates the roled of the US Strategic Command in operating and defending the Global Information Grid (GIG).
• It updates information on Cyberspace and the role of the US Cyber Command.
• It updates Network Operations (NETOPS).
• It updates GIG characteristics (and notes that the GIG is rapidly evolving).
• It discusses the "aerial layer."  (as opposed to the terrestrial and space domains).
• Corrects factual errors due to procedural and organizational changes.

RLM Communications, Inc.

This is the sign posted outside my cubicle
in Moran Hall on Fort Gordon

RLM Communications, Inc., is the company I've worked for since the 29th of September 2009. Founded in 2004, RLM is a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned business, certified by the Small Business Administration as an 8(a) small disadvantaged business. Headquartered in Spring Lake, NC, RLM employs a staff of more than 150 in ten states, Washington, DC, and in two foreign countries.

Near our headquarters, we serve clients in the Spring Lake vicinity and at Fort Bragg, like the 1st Theater Sustainment Command, the 18th Airborne Corps Mobilization/Deployment Cell (G-5 Mobile Support Element), and the US Army Special Operations Command.  Within the Military District of Washington, our clients include the Treasury Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and customers at Fort Detrick, MD and at Fort Belvoir, VA.  We also have a number of clients at the US Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, GA and at the Charleston, SC branch of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center.

Gabriel's Oboe

On James 1:19

Some years back, in a little church we were attending at the time, I learned something.  It was a Sunday evening service, typical of so many, and we came at length to the point in the service where it was time for the preaching.  A text was taken--Hebrews 5:8, if my notes are to be believed, "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the tings which he suffered:"  But no sermon followed.  My, what an occasion it would have been to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ using that text as an opening.  But instead, it what had become a sad pattern over a stretch of weeks, the pastor asked each member of the congregation to give his or her own comments upon the verse.  And so we went around the room and heard this silly notion and that, this half opinion, and that educated guess.  We went home unedified.  We almost always went home that way.

Yes, I Question Their Patriotism!

The Birth of Old Glory by Edward Percy Moran (c. 1917),
depicting the presentation by Betsy Ross of the first
American flag to George Washington

If this were Bill O-Reilly's blog, Charles Skidmore, the principal of Arlington High School in Massachussetts, and most of the teachers on his staff, would be labelled pin heads. 

You see, Mr. Skidmore presides over a school that had, until recently, abolished US flags from its classrooms, and still--over the protests of some of its students--will not allow the Pledge of Allegiance to be recited within its confines.

Fox News has a story on this.  One of the students (who apparently has more understanding than all his teachers) has been fighting to overcome the extreme radical leftism that has not only banned the recitation of the Pledge, but has also banished US flags from classrooms.  Seems he won the battle over flags in the classrooms was defeated on the other front.

The Fox News article says--

The Arlington, Mass., school committee has rejected the 17-year-old's request to allow students to voluntarily recite the Pledge of Allegiance, because some educators are concerned that it would be hard to find teachers willing to recite it, according to a report in the Arlington Patch.  (Emphasis mine).

Interestingly, one notes that students of Arlington High School are obligated to perform 40 hours of community service before receiving their diplomas.  Well, they could all do double that and it still would not overcome the collossal disservice that Mr. Skidmore and associates have wrought in that little corner of the northeast and in the hearts and minds of those pupils.

Pin heads, indeed.

Should Supreme Court Nominees be Waterboarded?

It is, of course, a facetious suggestion.  But waterboarding gets results and everyone knows it.  In times of great peril, when the suspect is not cooperating, this enhanced interrogation technique has been proven to get 'em talking. 

Sotomayor and Kagan are just the latest in a long line of suspects (nominees to the nation's highest court) insulting the nation's intelligence by stonewalling, obfuscating, heming and hawing, and otherwise being less than forthright.  Senators should ask themselves, which is the greater risk:  embarrassing the nominee, perhaps hurting his/her pride, with 15 seconds under the spigot, or confirming the appointment of a leftist ideologue who could potentially afflict the nation for the next 25 years?

Of course, to most senators, the greatest risk of all would be having to actually make a hard decision.