[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 119 (Thursday, September 10, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1683-E1684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        RECOGNIZING THE SERVICE OF COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR DOBSON

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                          HON. MICHAEL PAPPAS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, September 10, 1998

  Mr. PAPPAS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to extend my thanks and 
congratulations to Command Sergeant Major M.M. Dobson, who is retiring 
after thirty years of service to his fellow countrymen. Since July of 
1996, he has served as the Command Sergeant Major for the 
Communications-Electronics Command at Forth Monmouth, New Jersey. 
Together with his wife, Judy, he has raised three daughters: Jennie, 
Melissa, and Crystal.
  Sergeant Major Dobson enlisted in June of 1968 as an avionics radio 
repairman. His first assignment was as a tropospheric scatter team 
chief with the 3rd Battalion, 84th Field Artillery. He has since served 
five tours of duty in Germany. Other assignments have included 
troposcatter team chief at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where he was also a 
senior instructor and course noncommissioned officer in charge, as well 
as duty at Fort Benning, Georgia, as an instructor at the 
Noncommissioned Officer School of Infantry and First Sergeant of 
Company B, 34th Signal Battalion, Ludwigsburg, Germany. In 1985, 
Command Sergeant Major Dobson became the First Sergeant of the 209th 
Signal Company at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. By 1987, he was promoted to 
his current rank of Command Sergeant Major and served another tour in 
Germany with the 52nd Signal Battalion. After this tour, he returned to 
Fort Huachuca to serve as the U.S. Army Garrison Command Sergeant Major 
there. In 1990, Command Sergeant Major Dobson was chosen to serve as 
the 11th Signal Brigade CSM and was deployed to Saudi Arabia for 
Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, followed closely by an 
assignment to the 1st Signal Brigade in Korea.
  Among Sergeant Majors many awards and decorations are: the Legion of 
Merit; first Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious 
Service Medal; fifth Oak Leaf Cluster, the Army Achievement Medal; 
first Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Army Commendation Medal, as well as 
numerous other achievements.
  I would again like to express my deep gratitude for the many years of 
service which Command Sergeant Major Dobson has given to his country.

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