Let us look at this a bit closer. In this public statement it is stated that Mr. Baker started his martial arts training in 1963 at Ft. Campbell, KY. And while there was a martial art school at Ft. Campbell in 1963, it was run by Command Sergeant Major Hank Slomanski. And he was the one who promoted Elvis Presley to black belt. And CSGM Slomanki did move from Fort. Campbell to Fort. Bragg in 1966. There is much said elsewhere on our site about CSGM Slomanki.
Next, I had previously stated that Mr. Edwards started about 1995, as this was solely based on a public post where he competed in the 1996 1st TTCA Championships as an Adult Brown Belt. His 1st Degree Black Belt was from 1997. Mr. Edwards’ page states he started in June 1993.
Further on the public statement states: “Master Baker left the TTCA a few years later and ran our school as a solo program until he retired and sold the building in 2003.” We show Mr. Baker left the TTCA by 1999, and by 2000, he or is school is not listed by the TTCA from 2000 on. In June of 2000, the TTCA had 8 instructors listed Mr. Lavanchy (Evansville, IN Private Instructor/USA) at 5th degree, Mr. Crescilius at 5th degree (Ohio Valley TKD), Dave Duncan at 5th degree (Huntingberg, IN Private Instructor), Rudolph Muhammad at 5th Degree Kwansaa MA Academy, Kansas City,MO), Stan Keeps at 4th Degree, (Jasper School of TKD), Troy Fortwendal 3rd Degree in Troy, IN, Brandon Seig 3rd Degree Greencastle, IN, and then Rick Haines, 2nd Degree in Harrison County TKD.
The public post does state that there was a 3-year break between the closing of Mr. Baker and the opening of Mr. Johnson. And that was when Mr. Johnson opened up in 2006. According to the TTCA website, MCTKD joined them in May of 2006, with the publicly posted history as November of 2005.
The MCTKD Public Facebook page was created on September 27, 2023, however, the MTKDMA Facebook page was created nearly a month earlier on September 05, 2023! So yet again, they seem to be stuck in a time warp, as they did have a private group page that’s been around for several years, they used as mass messaging platform, they did not have a public page until after the passing of Mr. Johnson and only after the TTCA installed Mr. Edwards. The time stamp on the pages proves this. 
This is information already shared, they just added more for context!
