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Standing watch over Fort Hood since 1942
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012 03:10:27 AM |
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Living
Fort Hood hosts Army’s first multimedia town hallMedical care, infrastructure and housing were the top areas of concern during III Corps and Fort Hood’s Facebook and TV Town Hall event here, Jan. 26. III Corps and Fort Hood Commanding General Lt. Gen. Don Campbell Jr. said before the town hall began that he was anticipating some difficult questions. “I really believe it’s important, and we need to listen to them (community members),” Campbell said. “I’m not afraid of tough questions.” He said the important point was hearing from and responding to members of the Fort Hood community about the issues that concern them. An Army first The town hall’s multimedia format, utilizing social media via Facebook, a live television broadcast and simultaneously broadcasting the audio portion on the installation’s Web-based radio station was a f...
Other Living
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.
Long Knife NCOs inducted into prestigious SAMCFour Soldiers assigned to 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, were inducted into the elite Sergeant Audie Murphy Club at the Phantom Warrior Center, Jan. 24. For a noncommissioned officer to be considered a candidate, they must exemplify a number of essential leadership attributes to effectively educate, train, and lead Soldiers, but most importantly, they must demonstrate a personal concern for the needs, training, development, and welfare of Soldiers and their Families.
Air Defender NCO inducted into the Sergeant Audie Murphy ClubA noncommissioned officer from Echo Battery, 4th Battalion, 5th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was inducted into the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club at the Phantom Warrior Center, Jan. 24. The Sergeant Audie Murphy Club is a private U.S. Army organization for noncommissioned officers whose leadership achievements go above and beyond average expectations. The noncommissioned officers of this club must possess a genuine and in- depth passion for the welfare, training and development of their Soldiers and their Soldiers’ Families.
WTB nurses continuing Army Nurse Corps 111-year legacyWhen Capt. Lee Phillips, a 39-year-old Warrior Transition Brigade nurse case manager, was 10, her friends were playing doctors and nurses. She, however, was imitating her police-chief father playing cops and robbers with her brothers in their rural Florida community. Had she not witnessed her father administering life-saving CPR on her grandmother, Phillips today might be wearing the badge of a law-enforcement officer instead of the Army caduceus with an embossed capital “N.” At that point, she said, she realized she wanted to save lives.
Hood selects two as Installation Quarters of the Year winnersFort Hood Family Housing recognized the winners of the Installation Quarters of the Year Jan. 25 during the Community Service Council meeting. Families were selected from those who were named Quarters of the Month from March through October of last year, Master Sgt. Curtis Jones, installation community life noncommissioned officer, said.
OTC directors host Ellison HS Groundhog Job Shadow Day studentsU.S. Army Operational Test Command directors Bill Adams and Bill McKiernan were pretty sure no high school students would want to follow them around for a day to see what they did for a living. Adams, with the Methodology and Analysis Directorate, and McKiernan, with the Maneuver Test Directorate, are responsible, collectively and individually, for conducting operational tests on armor and infantry equipment and systems and analyzing the data harvested from these tests. Their teams are comprised of Soldiers and Department of the Army civilian employees who are engineers, scientists, mathematicians, statisticians – in short, highly technical folks.
Retirees honoredIII Corps and Fort Hood honored 15 Soldiers and one civilian at the monthly retirement ceremony at Club Hood Friday. Recognized for their service were TOP ROW, (left to right), Lt. Col. Charles Walters, Col. Bob Newman, Mr. Paul Racicot, Sgt. 1st Class Randall Grinage, Master Sgt. Joseph Lizama, Sgt. 1st Class Gary Freeland, Staff Sgt. Richard Estrada; BOTTOM ROW, (left to right), Command Sgt. Maj. Henry Griffith Sr., Command Sgt. Maj. Jose Crisostomo, 1st Sgt. Gilbert Stewart, Sgt. 1st Class Guillermo Cajigas-Cruz, Staff Sgt. Dean Dinger, Sgt. 1st Class Rockie Hammons, Sgt. 1st Class Julio Hinkson, Sgt. 1st Class David Griswold.
Medics, chemical Soldiers train for mass casualty decontaminationSoldiers in the 181st Chemical Company, 2nd Chemical Battalion, 48th Chemical Brigade and 581st Air Support Medical Command, 61st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, 1st Medical Brigade worked together Jan. 26 and Friday to complete a mass casualty decontamination evaluation and certification.
Healthworks
USAPHC Ergonomics Program focuses on worker safety, comfortWhether it’s staying in a marriage, living in the same community, or raising a child, when people stick with something year after year, they demonstrate they are in it for the long haul. They learn to take the good with the bad.
Special Deliveries
Jan. 19
A daughter, Lyric Markita Carter, to Jasmine Carter and Shamika Johnson, 21st Cav. Bde.
A son, Michael Alexander, to Jose and Jessica Depaz, 89th MP Bde.
A daughter, Nikayla Danea Marie Deierl, to Misty Fairchild, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Hunter Mikail, to Michael and Erin Briscoe, 1st Cav. Div.
Jan. 20
A daughter, Aleah Jean, to Shane and Shimeka Rothwell, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Mark Christopher, to Adderly and Christian Hanna, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, William Vincent, to Sean and Lisa Creamer, 82nd Abn. Div.
Jan. 21
A daughter, Aaliyah Rayne, to Michael and Ashley Madison, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Samuel Justin Jr., to Samuel and Tonya Sturino Sr., 36th Eng. Bde.
A son, Daric Jeffrey, to David and Christyl Hallock, 504th BfSB.
Jan. 22
A daughter, Layla Aminah Ellis, to Eric...
A daughter, Lyric Markita Carter, to Jasmine Carter and Shamika Johnson, 21st Cav. Bde.
A son, Michael Alexander, to Jose and Jessica Depaz, 89th MP Bde.
A daughter, Nikayla Danea Marie Deierl, to Misty Fairchild, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Hunter Mikail, to Michael and Erin Briscoe, 1st Cav. Div.
Jan. 20
A daughter, Aleah Jean, to Shane and Shimeka Rothwell, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Mark Christopher, to Adderly and Christian Hanna, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, William Vincent, to Sean and Lisa Creamer, 82nd Abn. Div.
Jan. 21
A daughter, Aaliyah Rayne, to Michael and Ashley Madison, 1st Cav. Div.
A son, Samuel Justin Jr., to Samuel and Tonya Sturino Sr., 36th Eng. Bde.
A son, Daric Jeffrey, to David and Christyl Hallock, 504th BfSB.
Jan. 22
A daughter, Layla Aminah Ellis, to Eric...
Channel 10
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