H. Con. Res. 206 
Agreed to December 22, 2009
One Hundred Eleventh Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the sixth day of January, two thousand and nine 
Concurrent Resolution 
Whereas in 1940, in preparation for possible involvement in World 
War II, the United States Army identified a site near Augusta, 
Georgia, that was suitable for division-level training, and the 
War Department entered into a $22 million contract to construct 
the new installation; 
Whereas, at the groundbreaking ceremony on October 18, 1941, 
the new installation was named Camp Gordon in memory of 
John B. Gordon, a general in the Civil War and former Georgia 
Governor; 
Whereas during World War II, Camp Gordon was home to three 
Army divisions, namely the 4th Infantry Division, the 26th 
Infantry Division, and the 10th Armored Division until they 
were deployed to Europe, where all three served with distinction; 
Whereas after the war, on November 1, 1948, Camp Gordon began 
its signal corps tradition by becoming the home of the Signal 
Corps Training Center; 
Whereas by 1950, the need for signalmen for the Army during 
the Korean War led to a major expansion of the Signal Corps 
Training Center, making it the largest single source of Army 
communications specialists; 
Whereas, on March 21, 1956, Camp Gordon was made a permanent 
installation and renamed Fort Gordon; 
Whereas the military conflicts in Southeast Asia in the 1960s 
and 1970s, together with advances in communications-electronics 
(C–E) technology, placed heavy training demands on Fort Gordon; 
Whereas at the height of the Vietnam War, the Signal Corps 
Training Center was renamed the Southeastern Signal School 
and became the primary source of personnel for tactical C–E 
units in Vietnam; 
Whereas in September 1965, the Southeastern Signal School acti-
vated the Signal Officer Candidate School, from which more than 
2,000 officers graduated by February 1968; 
Whereas in the post-Vietnam era, as the Army reorganized and 
modernized, signal training at Fort Gordon progressed to keep 
pace with rapid technological advances on the modern battlefield, 
and the Southeastern Signal School was renamed first as the 
United States Army Signal School and subsequently the United 
States Army Signal Center at Fort Gordon;
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Whereas in June 1986, the United States Army Signal Corp Regi-
ment was established, and Fort Gordon was designated as the 
regimental home base; 
Whereas the Signal Center’s efforts included the development of 
Mobile Subscriber Equipment, the Army’s communications 
architecture and assuming the lead for the Army’s Information 
Mission Area, which included the integration of automation, 
communications, visual information, records management, and 
publications and printing; 
Whereas in 1990 and 1991, the Signal Center played a vital role 
in preparing soldiers for deployment during Operation Desert 
Shield and Operation Desert Storm; 
Whereas in the 1990s, Fort Gordon became the home for training 
most of the personnel within the Department of Defense who 
operate and maintain satellites and continued to train signal 
troops of allied and foreign countries; 
Whereas Fort Gordon continues to serve as a power projection 
base for several Signal units responsible for conducting operations 
overseas; 
Whereas approximately 19,000 soldiers are stationed at Fort 
Gordon, and many of these soldiers have been deployed in Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom multiple 
times; and 
Whereas the strength and unwavering support of the soldiers and 
their families of Fort Gordon and the entire Augusta community 
have contributed to making the United States a safe and secure 
country: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concur-
ring), That Congress— 
(1) recognizes Fort Gordon as the home of the United 
States Army Signal Corps on the occasion of the 60th anniver-
sary of Fort Gordon serving as the home of the Signal Corps 
Training Center; 
(2) commends the soldiers, their families, and the civilian 
personnel at Fort Gordon for their service and dedication to 
the United States; and
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(3) recognizes the contributions of Fort Gordon to Operation 
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. 
Attest: 
Clerk of the House of Representatives. 
Attest: 
Secretary of the Senate.