Wilmington, DE - 15 JUL 2009 - Ms. Judy Zaal, volunteer committee member for ESGR Delaware, honored Mike Treml of I.D. Griffith Inc., with the Patriot Award in recognition of his outstanding patriotic support and cooperation over the years to employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. 
 

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, or ESGR, is a Department of Defense volunteer organization that provides free education and consultation for employers of U.S. armed forces guard and reserve employees. ESGR's goal is to support America's employers who share their employees with the nation.  

ARLINGTON, VA –The Department of Defense has announced the recipients of the 2009 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the highest recognition given by the U.S. Government to employers for their outstanding support of their employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. 

Saint Paul, MN– The Minnesota Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced today Ruth Vegdahl, supervisor with the Minnesota Department of Revenue Sales and Use Tax Division, was honored with a Patriot Award in recognition of her extraordinary support of employee and SGT Chris Determan who recently returned from a one year deployment in Iraq with the Minnesota Army National Guard.
 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana – The Louisiana Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced today that Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Jimmy Field was honored with an “Above and Beyond” award in recognition of extraordinary support of its employees who serve in the Louisiana National Guard and Reserves.
 

Lincoln – Twenty-three Nebraska residents from 16 cities and towns will take wing July 22 in the 2009 edition of the Nebraska ESGR Bosslift.
 

Each step you took caused little puffs of white dust to billow in the air about 6-inches off the ground around your shoes.  It looked like we were walking in flour spilled on a bakery floor!  It was hot, desert hot and dry. Welcome to Texas where the locals even call it a "West Texas shoeshine."

The 2009 Nevada ESGR Annual Employer Recognition Event took place on June 25th at Fallon Naval Air Station in Fallon, NV.  The day began early for the employers from the southern area, they met at the Las Vegas Readiness Center at 4:30 a.m. to take a commercial flight to Reno.

The Southern California Committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) is a Department Defense agency that seeks to develop and promote a culture in which all American employers support and value the military service of their employees serving in the Guard and Reserve.  Our goal is to support these patriotic employers who share their most valuable resource, their employees, with the Nation to ensure our Country’s national security.
 

Concord, North Carolina – Bud Baker, Field Chair of the North Carolina Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Committee (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced that Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Tucker, Owners, signed a Statement of Support for the National Guard and Reserve on June 22, 2009.  The signing ceremony occurred at the corporate office in Concord, North Carolina.  
 

Paso Robles, California– The Southern California Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, is proud to announce that Lance Silver, co-owner of Tobin James Cellars of Paso Robles, California recently signed a Statement of Support (SOS) showing the winery’s support of all the brave men and women who serve in the California National Guard and Reserve.
 

BOURNE, MA. June 5, 2009. On an overcast and rainy South-Coast morning, sixty-seven civilian employers of members of the National Guard & Reserve Components gathered at 0800 Hours at the Barnstable County Sheriff's Office to begin a day of visits to units of the Army National Guard, Air National Guard and US Coast Guard and Coast Guard Reserve. Welcome aboard greetings were given by MAESGR Field Chair Tom Boyle, Program Support Specialist Dave St. Germain who organized and coordinated the event and Deputy Sheriff Dave Neil representing Sheriff Cummings and the 353 Men and Women of the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Department. The employers and MA ESGR Guides loaded onto busses provided by the 102nd Intelligence Wing of the MA Air National Guard and were transported between all venues for the remainder of the day.
 

Ms. Judy Zaal, volunteer committee member for ESGR, honored the firm’s leadership, James Handy and James Moore, Sr., of Chalmers & Kubeck (C&K) with a Patriot Award in recognition of their outstanding patriotic support and cooperation over the years to employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve.

Laconia, NH – The New Hampshire Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced today that Leland Beachy, VP Information Security of Laconia Savings Bank was honored with a Patriot Award in recognition of extraordinary support of his employee CW3 Ralph Wegner who serves in the New Hampshire Army National Guard.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 29, 2009) – Governor Steve Beshear proclaimed July 2009 as Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve month in Kentucky in a ceremony today at the state Capitol.
 

York – Consider some of the numbers: 5,640, $210,591,891, $783,389,638 and $664,020,987.  Those figures for 2009 represent (in order): The total count of Nebraska Army and Air National Guard personnel, their annual payroll, value of their equipment and resources in the state and, finally, the value of real property and capital assets held by the Guard in Nebraska.