“Randolph is one of those operators who makes running any piece of heavy equipment look easy,” said Nick Seanor, Forestry Branch fire management supervisor on this week’s Faces of Garrison. “Those skills, combined with his encyclopedic knowledge of Fort Stewart’s training areas, make him extraordinarily helpful on wildfires and prescribed burns.”
Randolph Cox is an engineering equipment operator with the Fort Stewart Forestry Branch and has been an Army civilian since March 2018. Before that, he served as an Army contractor for 10 years and an equipment operator for eight years with the Georgia Department of Transportation.
Cox is proud of assisting in some of the biggest prescribed burns for scientific study and hitting goals within the branch.
“It is rewarding helping to achieve the natural resource management goals on Fort Stewart,” Cox said.
His range of knowledge and insight would not be as vast without his mentors and those who helped him along the way.
“I’ve had several mentors that really helped me, such as Phillip Parsons, LG Mitcham, Curtis Bryant, and several other equipment operators that taught me multiple skills on many different pieces of equipment, which helped me develop my own style of operating,” he said.
Cox is busy traveling when not assisting in Fort Stewart’s award-winning prescribed burn program. His family has been to every state in the contiguous United States, with plans to visit Alaska and Hawaii. He also enjoys hunting and going on hunting adventures across the country.
He said his future goals are to stay healthy and get to retirement.
His advice for others starting their career as a civilian with the U.S. Army: “Find good mentors and don’t be afraid to speak up but also listen and learn.”
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