General Wolverton comes to us as an Air Force Brat, living in several states and several countries during his life. Gen Wolverton has over 35 years of Law Enforcement experience from Municipal, County, State, Federal and Federal Corrections. Gen Wolverton has been involved in several large-scale disasters from floods, tornados, and hurricane responses. Gen Wolverton has a strong background in Public Safety Communications.
General Wolverton retired from the Macon Police Department in 2015 where he obtained the rank of Sergeant. He supervised a traffic division, served as Commander of the Technical Support Unit which supported SWAT Operations and provide Interoperability Communications to Homeland Security with his team. In 1999, Wolverton was deployed to Bosnia Herzegovina with the US. State Department for a year long assignment as a Police Advisor to the local Bosnian Police Force. Colonel Wolverton was later deployed to Guatemala for a short tour assisting in training a security force.
General Wolverton is currently an active member of the Georgia Wing of Civil Air Patrol where he works at the state level Communications Team. He acts as Assistant Emergency Coordinator for the Macon Bibb Amateur Radio Emergency Services, also serving on the Macon Bibb EMA MCV Team.
General Wolverton is currently fulltime employed with the Macon Bibb County Government as a Code Enforcement Officer.
Maj General Eugene “Gene” Willis was born and raised in Warner Robins. He moved to Perry in 1994 and have been there ever since. Maj General Willis is currently employed as the Branch Manager for Professional Transportation in Macon, Ga. He supervises a great group of folks who drive small vans around the Norfolk Southern Railroad properties in and around Macon, Ga and across the state from Atlanta to Jacksonville and several points in between.
Maj General Willis enjoys amateur radio as a personal hobby and has achieved an FCC General Class license. He is the Assistant Emergency Coordinator for Houston County Amateur Radio Emergency Service and specializes in the SkyWarn program. He is scheduled to be training this coming year in weather spotting and reporting directly to the National Weather Service located in Peachtree City, GA. My goal here is to have all SORT members trained as certified severe weather spotters by the end of 2022.
Maj General Willis is in the process of establishing at least 2 amateur radio study/testing sessions this year. The goal is to give the opportunity to all SORT members, as well as any other interested members of the community, to test and become amateur radio operators themselves. This will not only allow them to become weather spotters, who communicate with other ham operators about severe weather conditions and assist public safety personnel in time of natural disaster. They can useful in missing child/adult cases where ground search is involved. There are also many non distress situations that he can help train radio operators to be the “eyes and ears” for the communities’ public safety personnel.
In the past several years we have conducted “Santa Patrol” where local amateur radio operators watch the local department store and mall parking lots for suspicious behavior and report it back to our own base station radio operators located side-by-side with actual dispatchers in the 911 operations center.
Col Stewart comes to us with many years of various first responder experience. He was born and raised in Macon, GA and currently lives in the city of Dublin, GA. Col Stewart works in the field of EMS, Fire, Auxiliary Deputy for local Sheriff Office, and Tactical Medic. Throughout his EMS Career, Col Stewart served on the Disaster Response Team and Infectious Disease Response Team in EMS. Over Col Stewart's career, he has worked several tornado outbreaks, Hurricane evacuations/aftermath, and several infectious disease outbreaks. He has also been involved in several communications exercises and deployments. He has known and worked beside our Gen Wolverton in several different event coverages, disasters, and other communication points for over half of his life.
In 1993 after graduating high school in the Boston area, Capt Gary Veduccio moved Atlanta to attend the Georgia Institute of Technology aka Georgia Tech. He graduated in 1998 with a Computer Engineering degree while also working as a co-op student for all but freshman year. During that time he also started his first company. He has been in Georgia ever since except for one year to take care of his grandmother.
Lt Col Gary Veduccio brings a mix of experience in the tech world as well as aviation. He has helped run technology companies that he created for 25 years mainly being Remote Accounting Solutions Inc. (RemoteAccounting.com) where he has programmed a unique bookkeeping data transfer service as well as the web sites to manage it.
Lt Col Gary Veduccio started learning to fly relatively later in life at 35…he is now 46. He holds a Commercial Pilot Certificate as well as Ground Instructor Certificate. He has been working towards a Flight Instructor Certificate. He recently moved to a private airport community. Aviation brought him to Civil Air Patrol to use his flying certificates for volunteer work but that became a lot more. He is the ex commander of the Cobb County Composite Squadron. He is currently the Southeast Region Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications (CONUS) and the Georgia Wing Director of Information Technology.
Maj Mitchell Fowler is a dispatcher for Piedmont Atlanta Hospital Public Safety and have been at the hospital for 22 years. He have been with the Special Operations Radio Team since 2019. He has a bachelor degree in Criminal Justice with an Emphasis in Homeland Security and Emergency Management from Colorado Technical University.
Lieutenant Billy Walker is a retired law enforcement officer with close to 20 years of service. Billy Graduated from Mercer University with a Bachelor of Political Science degree and a Master of Education. Billy has always enjoyed communications and has had a fascination with severe weather. Billy holds an Extra Class Amateur Radio License. Billy is a member of the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (part of the ARRL). He currently serves as Assistant District Emergency Coordinator (ADEC) for the South Central District of Georgia. Billy is also the SkyWarn Coordinator for Telfair County.
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