Friday, September 9, 2011

#ColaBNLC Lunch Tweet Chat with the Columbia Recruiting Battalion Public Affairs Team

On Sep. 23 between 11a.m. and 1p.m. the public affairs team of the Columbia Recruiting Battalion will take to twitter to chat with their followers and the public in general. Everyone is invited so we hope you will pass this message on.
            The mission behind the Chat is to answer any questions about the recruiting battalion and how it functions. We want to focus on topics about Army recruiting not just general Army questions. We hope to answer all queries but if some questions require more than a simple response, we will provide what we can and then provide follow up details in our blog.  We would also like to hear your suggestions on future blog topics.

Here is the history of our battalion to get your thoughts flowing and so you understand the area we cover in three states:

The battalion was officially activated July 1, 1972, as the U.S. Army Columbia Recruiting Main Station.  It was redesignated as the U.S. Army Columbia District Recruiting Command July 1, 1974.  It assumed its present identification as the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion Columbia on October 1, 1983.

The battalion was designated the “Swamp Fox Battalion” in the early 1980’s, in honor of the Revolutionary War General Francis Marion.  A crafty and clever leader, Marion accomplished many seemingly impossible tasks and was referred to as “The Swamp Fox” by the British soldiers.

The battalion has responsibility for recruiting activities within South Carolina except for the counties of Colleton, Dorchester, Berkeley, Charleston, Beaufort, Hampton and Jasper.  Its area also includes Western half of North Carolina and six counties in Northeast Georgia.

Columbia Battalion consists of six companies with headquarters located in Augusta, Georgia; Columbia, Greenville, and Florence, South Carolina; and Asheville and Charlotte, North Carolina. 

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