Promotion at Savannah River Site
Congratulations to Bill Frischmann of the Wackenhut Services Inc. - Savannah River Site team who has been promoted to major. His new responsibilities include supervision of the Perimeter Protection Department.
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Congratulations to Bill Frischmann of the Wackenhut Services Inc. - Savannah River Site team who has been promoted to major. His new responsibilities include supervision of the Perimeter Protection Department.
Thank you to the many Wackenhut Services Inc. - Savannah River Site team members who contributed generously to this year's United Way campaign.
WSI personnel contributed over $183,000, a new record. Combined with a corporate gift of $25,000 from its United Way Golf Tournament, WSI - Savannah River Site contributed over $208,000 to support the various organizations working to help the community. This represented an increase of over five percent from the previous year.
Congratulations and thank you to SRS General Manager Randy Garver, to Stephanie Price and Kelly Moran for their outstanding efforts as Campaign Co-Chairs, and to Maria Defever who did a great job in her role as Wackenhut's Loaned Executive to the United Way of Aiken County.
Congratulations to Justen Parker of Wackenhut Services Inc. - Oak Ridge Team and Kerry Wisniewksi of WSI's Nevada Test Site Team for recently earning the title of Top CAT by winning the Department of Energy's Composite Adversary Team (CAT) Challenge.
The DOE Composite Adversary Team is an elite group of volunteer protective force members from the various DOE sites who undergo extensive and rigorous training to replicate the adversary forces and capabilities that DOE protective forces are expected to defend against.
The CAT Challenge concludes the annual CAT training session. This year, because of increased membership, two-man teams were formed. Each team had to negotiate a shooting course that required rapid selection and engagement of targets with various weapons systems, as well as performing other CAT tasks that would be part of a Force-on-Force exercise.
Kerry and Justen were paired-up for the rigorous competition and emerged as the Top CATs.
Congratulations to Courtney Henry, public affairs officer at Wackenhut Services Inc. - Oak Ridge, on being awarded the Robert E. Gonia Leadership Award at the East Tennessee Regional Leadership Association's (ETRLA) biannual Forum.
The Gonia Award is presented biannually to an individual from each of the 15 counties or cities with leadership programs that participate in the ETRLA who has gone beyond the normal expectations in the area of community leadership. Robert Gonia was the founder of the ETRLA.
Henry, a graduate of Leadership Oak Ridge, is active with the United Way of Anderson County, the Oak Ridge Rotary Club, the Junior League of Knoxville, the Oak Ridge Chamber of Commerce, the American Heart Association, and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tennessee.
"Courtney's involvement in so many worthwhile community activities has resulted in significantly improving the lives of so many people," said WSI-OR General Manager John Burleson. "The community is much better as a result of her selfless contributions and I can think of nobody more deserving of this noteworthy recognition. The entire Wackenhut team is very proud of her."
Fascinating story in the Oak Ridger this weekend about Vincent "Vinnie" Cinelli of the Wackenhut Services Inc. - Oak Ridge Team.
Cinelli spoke last week to WSI employees during the company's Disability Awareness Program. He told the story about how he became disabled and how's he's working to overcome that disability.
Formerly a Security Police Officer for WSI, Vinnie was riding his motorcycle and was severely injured this past March by a hit-and-run driver who ran a red light, according to the Oak Ridger. He nearly lost his life in the accident. He did lose his lower left leg in the crash and suffered numerous other injuries.
Vinnie left the hospital four days later and returned to work just four months after the accident. He currently works as a Central Alarm Station operator for WSI, though he hopes to return to his former role.
His story, as well the character and determination he has shown during this ordeal, is inspiring.
Retired Marine Corps Col. Eddie Ray of Wackenhut Services' Savannah River Site team spoke earlier this week at Schofield Middle School as part of its Veterans Day Program, according to the Aiken Standard.
Ray now serves as WSI's director of special operations at SRS, with responsbilities for law enforcement, barricade sercurity, aviation and special response operations.
"What is embedded in the concept of the military," he told the students, "is teamwork with a goal of common trust...and performing with an unselfishness and sacrifice to serve us all."
Ray praised the unsung efforts of teachers and encouraged the students to pursue civic engagement in the community.
On this Veterans Day the Security Post wants to join everyone in saying Thank You to those men and women who have served this country so well and sacrificed so much to protect the freedoms we enjoy.
You are in our thoughts and in our prayers.
The Oak Ridger has a good story today on the two new training facilities at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Complex. The new Tactical Training Facility (TTF) and Live Fire Shoot House are managed by the Wackenhut Services Inc. - Oak Ridge Team.
According to the Oak Ridger, the TTF is the first of its kind in the DOE complex. Its interior walls, doors and window can be configured to simulate buildings security police officer currently protect and can be used for various tactical training exercises.
The new Live Shoot Fire House, which can accomodate both pistols and rifles, alos features movable interior walls that enable a variety of training scenarios, including "shoot, don't shoot" situations.
Both buildings were constructed by local firms with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversight.
Good story in today's Knoxville News Sentinel on a security demonstration yesterday involving Wackenhut Services, Inc.'s Oak Ridge Team at the Y-12 facility.
Officials dedicated two new training facilities - the Tactical Training Facility and the Live Fire Shoot House - both of which were completed ahead of schedule.
Following the demonstration and a detailed briefing on Y-12's latest security evaluation, Brad Peterson, an associate administrator for the National Nuclear Security Adminstration, told the News Sentinel he's confident the nation's stockpile of bomb-grade uranium at Y-12 is safe and secure.
Congratulations to the United Way of Aiken County on surpassing the $2.5 million goal it established for its 2008 campaign.
The Aiken Standard recently lauded the organization, led by Aiken County President Sharon Rogers and Campaign Chair Sharon Hagan, for their efforts. More than $2.68 million was raised to support the 32 United Way agencies in the county.
The Standard also commended several local businesses, including Wackenhut Services, Inc. - Savannah River Site. The company provided the services of Maria Defever to assist with the 10-week campaign.