The Pennsylvania Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense office, recently announced Cindy Regel, of the Raytheon Company’s State College office, was honored with a Patriot Award in recognition of extraordinary support of an employee serving in the Pennsylvania Guard and Reserve.
“The Patriot Award was created by ESGR to publicly recognize individuals who provide outstanding patriotic support and cooperation to their employees, who like the citizen warriors before them, have answered their nation’s call to serve,” said William Burkhard, Pennsylvania ESGR North Central Area chairman, in a press release.
Regel was nominated for being highly supportive of the Army Reserve service of employee Staff Sgt. Andrew Shepard, who currently is stationed in Kuwait with the 316th Expeditionary Support Command, Theater Support Command.
Shepard wrote, in his nomination letter, “Cindy and Raytheon have been absolutely outstanding in their support of me and my military service while I have been an employee at their State College, Pa., office. Since I joined the company in 2015, Cindy, as well as my other managers, have been incredibly accommodating of my Army Reserve obligations, going out of their way to insure I was compensated during my training events and that I wasn’t penalized in any way for being absent.’
ESGR, a Department of Defense office, facilitates and promotes a cooperative culture of employer support for National Guard and Reserve service by developing and advocating mutually beneficial initiatives, recognizing outstanding employer support, increasing awareness of applicable laws and policies, resolving potential conflicts between employers and their service members and acting as the employers’ principal advocate within the department. Paramount to ESGR’s mission is encouraging employment of guardsmen and reservists.
For more information, call (800) 336-4590 or visit www.esgr.mil.
