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Force Protection Exercise: Tests Fort Hood, community response to disasterSuspicious packages at Central Texas College and Harker Heights High School, an explosion at a building on post and a fuel spill into an installation waterway served as training scenarios for Fort Hood’s annual postwide Force Protection Exercise May 14-16. The annual training event tests the installation’s emergency response capabilities and ability to work with outside organizations in the event of a real-world incident. “An exercise like this is very important to us,” Incident Commander and Fort Hood Fire Chief Billy Rhoads said. “It prepares us for a real-world incident.” The most visible response during the exercise though was the arrival of police, fire and emergency medical assets and personnel as they converged on the exercise’s most graphic scenario, an explosion at Resource Man...
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Fort Hood EMT gives first responder’s perspectiveEmergency medical technician Michael Watkins has been a first responder on Fort Hood for four years, so when he was called on to take part in the Fort Hood’s annual postwide Force Protection Exercise on May 15, he slipped into his role without missing a beat.
Pet PlatoonThe shelter is located on 80th St. and Engineer Dr. in Bldg. 4902. The Fort Hood Stray Facility is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri. and closed for lunch from noon-1 p.m. The facility is closed on Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call 287-4675. You can find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/strayanimalfacility.
Fort Hood Youth competes in robotics competitionFour youth from Bronco Youth Center on Fort Hood represented Texas Military 4-H Tech Wizards and Army Child, Youth and School Services at the Texas 4-H Science Regional Robotics Competition held at Baylor University May 7. The theme of this competition was Dr. Roboto. The introduction to the game was a simulated severely-injured patient in the hospital emergency room, doctors and surgeons believed that this patient was a good candidate to undergo internal robotic surgery using a new robot. The robot they had to create had to perform tasks that includeed replacing a defective pacemaker, repairing a punctured lung with a skin graft, removing plaque from arteries, removing a blood clot, repairing the spinal cord, delivering antibiotics to infected wounds and extracting before time runs out. The youth had two minutes to complete as many missions as possible. The team (Bronco Facilitators) placed first place in the intermediate age division and they also received second overall for their presentation with only a senior-level team placing first. The youth were the first-ever Fort Hood CYSS youth to win a robotics competition.
Hammer Soldiers assist in conducting vehicle maintenanceWhile growing up in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., his father mentored him on how to diagnose and fix various vehicles with a fair amount of accuracy – and his father was deaf. Now, as a Soldier, he supervises fellow mechanics and repairs faults on military vehicles ensuring their operational capability.
To the rescue!To the rescue!
Fort Hood Chapel Services
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Healthworks
May is Better Hearing, Speech MonthABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS, Md. - While most of us are aware that hazardous noise damages hearing, how to protect ourselves in a way that allows us to live and work in a world of sometimes dangerous sounds is just not intuitive.
Special Deliveries
May 9
A daughter, Ella Jordan, to Jordan and Lacey Brooks.
A son, Jonny Benjamin, to Johnmark and Kainy Wasinton, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Benjamin David, to Antwan and Heather Parker, 89th MP Bde.
May 10
A son, Maximus Robert-Roy Graves, to John Palacios and Shani Graves, 1st Cav. Div.
A daughter, Valerie Eguonor, to Godspower and Ojiyovwi Okoroh, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Elijah Malik, to Melvin and Leslie Rowe, of Killeen.
May 11
A son, Andrew Samual, to Jeremy and Danielle Nelson, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Ryan Spencer, to Ross and Amy Martin, 1st Cav. Div.
A daughter, Paisley Lynn, to Cory and Krista Guynn, 36th Eng. Bde.
A daughter, Aubrey Marie, to Terry and Kelsey Blagg, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Jace Anthony, to Jonatan and Brittany Jaldin, 1st Cav. Div.
May 12
A daughter, Kourtny Ree...
A daughter, Ella Jordan, to Jordan and Lacey Brooks.
A son, Jonny Benjamin, to Johnmark and Kainy Wasinton, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Benjamin David, to Antwan and Heather Parker, 89th MP Bde.
May 10
A son, Maximus Robert-Roy Graves, to John Palacios and Shani Graves, 1st Cav. Div.
A daughter, Valerie Eguonor, to Godspower and Ojiyovwi Okoroh, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Elijah Malik, to Melvin and Leslie Rowe, of Killeen.
May 11
A son, Andrew Samual, to Jeremy and Danielle Nelson, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Ryan Spencer, to Ross and Amy Martin, 1st Cav. Div.
A daughter, Paisley Lynn, to Cory and Krista Guynn, 36th Eng. Bde.
A daughter, Aubrey Marie, to Terry and Kelsey Blagg, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Jace Anthony, to Jonatan and Brittany Jaldin, 1st Cav. Div.
May 12
A daughter, Kourtny Ree...
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