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Fort Gordon Missions: Although Fort Gordon is known primarily as the Home of the Army Signal Corps, the Signal Center and School only comprise about 40% of Fort Gordon’s missions. Below is a pie-chart and list of the missions currently housed at Fort Gordon.

  1. All Army information technology and communications training is conducted at Ft Gordon, to include Advanced Individual Training (AIT) for new enlistees, NCO refresher and leadership training, warrant officer training, and officer basic and advanced training.  Satellite communications training and many radio courses include students from other services.  Computer science training includes all aspects – programming, software development, network management and design, and computer repair – and also includes service members from all services.
  2. The Commanding general of DD Eisenhower Army Medical Center actually wears 3 hats – Hospital Commander, Commanding General of the SE Regional Medical Command, and Chief of the Army Medical Corps. The SE Region includes KY, TN, MS, AL, GA, SC, FL and PR. DD Eisenhower Army Medical Center is one of two teaching hospitals in Augusta, the other being the Medical College of Georgia. Army medical students complete their residency programs and internships at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, and train at area civilian facilities through training partnerships.
  3. Fort Gordon is home to the SE Regional Dental and Veterinarian Commands, each commanded by a Colonel with the same regional responsibilities.  Army dental students complete their residency programs at Fort Gordon and receive much of their academic instruction from the Medical College of Georgia.
  4. Fort Gordon houses the only remaining Army Dental Lab, providing partials, crowns, plates, and other dental support to service members all over the world.
  5. The Gordon Regional Security Operations Center (GRSOC) is a Joint tenant unit that performs a real-world strategic intelligence mission primarily in support of US Central Command and US European Command.  There are only three such units worldwide.  The approximate size of the GRSOC is 1750 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and government civilians.
  6. The 93rd Signal Brigade is an Army tenant unit based at Fort Gordon but deployed worldwide in support of humanitarian, peacekeeping, and combat operations.  Although designated to primarily support US Southern Command, the 93rd has deployments supporting US Central Command and has been designated as the primary communications support unit for US Northern Command’s homeland security mission.  The approximate size of the 93rd Signal Brigade is 1200 soldiers.
  7. The 513th Military Intelligence Brigade is also an Army tenant unit based at Fort Gordon but deployed worldwide in support of humanitarian, peacekeeping, and combat operations.  The 513th conducts multi-discipline intelligence and security operations primarily in support of US Central Command.  The approximate size of the 513th is 1200 soldiers.
  8. Regional Training Site-Medical (RTS-Med) is largest of only 3 high-tech field medical training facilities in the US. The Fort Gordon site contains one of the nation’s largest collection of medical training manikins, a tactical airfield, over 100 pieces of rolling stock for mass casualty training scenarios, 2 field based high fidelity training simulators, and field operating hospitals. The Fort Gordon RTS-Med serves as “National Training Center” for reserve component medical units based in New England, the Southeastern US, and Puerto Rico.
  9. Ft Gordon is 1 of 3 Army installations selected to participate in the Joint Service Installation Pilot Project (JSIPP).  The objective of the JSIPP program is to develop, test and evaluate the tactics, techniques and procedures for installation level chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive detection, protection and emergency response.
  10. Fort Gordon was the original site of the National Science Center-Fort Discovery.  Fort Discovery is a hands-on science, math, and technology education center for students and faculty.   The Center enjoys a unique, formal partnership with the US Army and a direct relationship with Fort Gordon through personnel support and technology sharing.  Fort Discovery also manages Discovery Center vans which are mobile science center classrooms traveling throughout the US and operated by US Army Recruiting Command. 
  11. The Ft Gordon Training Aids Support Center (TASC) fabricates simulated munitions and weapons used to train members of all military services worldwide. An example is land mine kits prepared for units deploying to Bosnia, Afghanistan and Iraq to train on detection and disarmament. A new $4.8M TASC facility was approved in the 2004 military construction budget.
  12. The US Air Force 94th Airlift Wing, based at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, conducts heavy drop training at Preston Drop Zone, Fort Gordon.
  13. The Joint Communications Support Element, based at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, and the 35th Signal Brigade, based at Fort Bragg, NC, conduct parachute training at Preston Drop Zone, Fort Gordon.