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The Georgia Army National Guard held its seventh Recruit Sustainment Program battle hand-off at Fort Stewart, Ga., on September 16, 2018.
The battle hand-off ceremony symbolizes the end of initial active duty training for Soldiers and the physical hand-off of the Soldiers to their unit of assignment. This is the seventh consolidated battle hand-off conducted. In the past, individual RSP sites would conduct their battle hand-off of new Soldiers. Two years ago, the battle hand-offs were consolidated and are now held four times a year.
The ceremony consists of approximately 200 Guardsmen who are handed off to their assigned units with the Georgia Guard during the event. It allows the Georgia Army National Guard to bring medically fit and administratively competent Soldiers to their respective units ready for duty. The Soldiers undergo a medical examination and a final administrative inspection before unit assignment.
“We are grateful for the state leadership recruiting and retention efforts throughout the state,” said Maj. Patrick H. McDougald, commander, Recruiting and Retention Battalion.
The Recruiting and Retention Battalion developed the ceremony as a means of engaging Command Sergeants Major when greeting new Soldiers. It gives an opportunity for a senior enlisted advisor to get involved from the beginning when meeting new Soldiers as they graduate from basic and advanced individual training to welcome them into their new unit.
“I think that the direct engagement from the onset from the NCO Corps and from the commanding general has been an awesome improvement in what we did before that,” said Sgt. Maj. Joseph F. Shirer, operations sergeant major, Georgia National Guard Directorate of Operations. “We are getting a more ready and more qualified Soldier from recruiting and retention every time we do this.”
| Date Taken: | 09.16.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 09.17.2018 08:20 |
| Story ID: | 293029 |
| Location: | FORT STEWART, GA, US |
| Web Views: | 243 |
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