Fort Hood EMT gives first responder’s perspective
Emergency 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 Platoon
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Fort Hood Youth competes in robotics competition
Four 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 maintenance
While 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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May is Better Hearing, Speech Month
ABERDEEN 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.