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In 1988, I again was promoted to my first management position as Senior
Staff Adviser with the 73 Combat Support Hospital (CASH) in Cedar
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Rapids, Iowa. The 73 CASH was designated as a 2K Presidential Call-up
unit. As such the command did receive a notice to deploy in September 1990.
We, however, had just received our Deployable Medical Systems equipment

(DEPMEDS). Consequently, a combat hospital who had trained on their
equipment for over two years was deployed.

Several years prior to Operation Desert Storm, the Army Reserves

implemented a Family Readiness Program initially called Family Support. I
applied for one of the first 10 permanent positions and was appointed to the
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position at the 86 U.S. Army Reserve Command (ARCOM), Forest Park,
Illinois. This was not a dual status job and for the first time since I graduated
from college, I worked in the area of my college discipline. In 1997/1998, the
position was upgraded from a GS-11 to a GS-12 and the title was changed to
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Family Program Director. By this time, I had transferred to the 77 Regional
Support Command, Fort Totten, New York, N.Y. I initiated the first
Command Volunteer Recognition Program and wrote portions of the first

Army Reserve Family Readiness Regulation. Two colleagues joined me in
conducting the first Army Family Action Plan in the Army Reserves. The
greatest reward for this work is the friendships I enjoy to this day.

I have been a member of NARFE since the middle 1980s, joining while still
an active federal employee. Several years after retirement, I became
President of the Scranton Chapter 129. I also serve as the Congressional
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District Leader for the 8 Congressional District in Pennsylvania.

I am Dr. Gordon Riel and I served at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory/Surface
Warfare Center from 1956 through 2007. I worked as a Chemical Engineer,

Physicist, Senior Scientist Registered Professional Engineer, and Board
Certified Health Physicist. My colleagues and I saw the United States Navy
through great changes in radiation detection technology, from vacuum tubes
to solid state; from analog to digital; and from instruments developed under

Navy contracts to greater reliance on products from the commercial
marketplace. The Navy patented some of our products. I attended debates of
the National Commission on Radiation Protection (chartered by Congress to

recommend radiation protection standards), and I brought Naval Officers into
those debates. So, the U.S. Navy was prepared when the Congress entered
these recommendations into the Code of Federal Regulations. Our small

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