A Co. 4/39th Infantry | September 1990 – January 1991
Basic Combat Training is not easy, in fact, the 10 weeks may be the toughest thing the Soldiers will accomplish during their lives.
They will be trained by the most professional, highly-motivated drill sergeants and unit cadre, who will do their best to assist in the transformation of civilians into Soldiers. Trainees going through BCT will undergo physical and mental transformations as they conduct physical training, and walk dozens of miles on foot marches while carrying up to 35 lbs. of equipment. They will face their fears as they learn to work as a team. They will become emotionally, mentally, and morally resilient. They will learn combat skills such as land navigation, medical care, rifle marksmanship, how to throw grenades, and moving under live machine gun fire. They will negotiate obstacle courses and rappel from a 40-foot tower. They will spend several nights in the Fort Jackson forests sleeping and operating under the stars. They will be taught how to make their bunks and the benefits of nutrition.
They will become American Soldiers.
U.S. Army Signal Corps | Pro Patria Vigilans
B Co. 369th Signal Battalion | January 1991 – March 1991
Mission Statement
Support for the command and control of combined arms forces. Signal support includes network operations (information assurance, information dissemination management, and network management) and management of the electromagnetic spectrum. Signal support encompasses all aspects of designing, installing, data communications networks that employ single and multi-channel satellite, tropospheric scatter, terrestrial microwave, switching, messaging, video-teleconferencing, visual information, and other related systems. They integrate tactical, strategic and sustaining base communications, information processing and management systems into a seamless global information network that supports knowledge dominance for Army, joint and coalition operations
C co. 6th Signal Battalion, 6th Infantry Division – Supporting Division Artillery
“Charlie Rock”
Motto “Voice of Command” & “Arctic Light”
April 1991 – March 1994
Fort Richardson is a United States Army installation in the U.S. State of Alaska, adjacent to the city of Anchorage. In 2010, it was merged with nearby Elmendorf Air Force Base to form Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
History
Fort Richardson was named for the military pioneer explorer, Brig. Gen. Wilds P. Richardson, who served three tours of duty in the rugged Alaska territory between 1897 and 1917. Richardson, a native Texan and an 1884 West Point graduate, commanded troops along the Yukon River and supervised construction of Fort Egbert near Eagle, and Fort William H. Seward (Chilkoot Barracks) near Haines. As head of the War Department’s Alaska Road Commission from 1905 to 1917, he was responsible for much of the surveying and building of early railroads, roads and bridges that helped the state’s settlement and growth. The Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, surveyed under his direction in 1904, was named the Richardson Highway in his honor.
B co. 13th Signal Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division – Supporting Brigade Tactical Operations Center
Team Name “E – 31 Lonesome Riders”
April 1991 – March 1994
History
Fort Hood is a United States Army post located near Killeen, Texas. Fort Hood was named for Confederate General John Bell Hood. The post is located halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 mi (97 km) from each, within the U.S. state of Texas. The post is the headquarters of III Armored Corps and First Army Division West and is home to the 1st Cavalry Division and 3rd Cavalry Regiment, among others.
