Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, Civilian of the Month

Photo By Aimee Malone | Theresa Fitzgerald with the Fort McCoy, Wis., Public Affairs Office listens to Deputy Garrison Commander Lt. Col. Sheila Coker talk as Fitzgerald is awarded the Garrison Civilian Employee of the Month for October on Nov. 7, 2019, in building 102 at Fort McCoy. (U.S. Army Photo by Aimee Malone, Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office.)  

FORT MCCOY, WI, UNITED STATES

11.20.2019

Story by Scott Sturkol                                                                                        

Fort McCoy Public Affairs Office           

Theresa Fitzgerald with the Garrison Public Affairs Office was awarded the Fort McCoy Garrison Civilian Employee of the Month for October 2019.

Fitzgerald serves as a public affairs specialist, performing and coordinating a wide variety of public affairs duties and functions for the office, such as community relations duties and serving as lead coordinator for the post’s annual Armed Forces Day Open House. She conducts installation tours and assists in working with customers to meet public affairs requirements for the installation.

Fitzgerald also assists in maintaining communication and working relationships with a number of key community groups, including business and civic organizations, according to her position description. She maintains current and accurate lists of area civic and business leaders, elected officials, and military leaders for use in developing mailings associated with news events or community interest.

Fitzgerald was nominated for the award by Fort McCoy Public Affairs Officer Tonya Townsell.

“Each year, Theresa coordinates the Army’s support of dozens of guest speaker requests, equipment requests, color-guard requests, facility requests, recruitment tours, job shadow requests, and leadership engagements,” Townsell said. “She has a positive effect on all community relationships as the first impression many external organizations have of Fort McCoy.

“Theresa also schedules, coordinates, and executes more than 50 professional tours of Fort McCoy and the History Center annually for more than 2,000 civilian personnel,” Townsell said. “Her efforts result in a greater public awareness of Fort McCoy’s mission and increased business traffic to McCoy’s Community Center. Theresa is also part of our award-winning command information team, contributing history articles each month for the re-occurring column in The Real McCoy newspaper titled ‘This month in Fort McCoy history.’”

Fitzgerald was presented with a commander’s coin for excellence by Deputy Garrison Commander Lt. Col. Sheila D. Coker on behalf of Garrison Commander Col. Hui Chae Kim.

“It is nice to be recognized as a valued employee at Fort McCoy,” Fitzgerald said. “I am grateful to have been selected. I work to apply the Army values (loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage) in performing all aspects of my job every day.”

Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.

The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services each year since 1984.

Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.

• Date Taken: 11.20.2019
• Date Posted: 11.20.2019 16:34
• Story ID: 352683
• Location: FORT MCCOY, WI, US