The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 87, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 6, 1996 Page: 1 of 38
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Mostly cloudy skies with a chance of morn-
ing rain showers partly cloudy with a chance
of rain in the afternoon and early evenings.
FRIDAY: High: mid 90s. Low: low 70s.
SATURDAY: High: low 80s. Low: mid 60s.
SUNDAY: High: low 90s. Low: high 60s.
Forecast from 3rd Weather Squadron
June 61996
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BIRTHDAY PARTY The Central Texas
Chapter Association of the U.S. Army is
hosting an Army birthday party 4-5 p.m.
June 14 at the Sports Dome. The fiesta
is open to all soldiers and DA civilians on
post. Free pizza and birthday cake will
be served.
AUSA members can present their
membership card for free drink tokens.
PUBLICATIONS OVERHEATING Be-
cause of the excessive heat at the Instal-
lation Publications Stockroom the facil-
ity is changing its hours for the summer.
Customer service hours will be 12:30-4
p.m. Monday-Wednesday and Friday
beginning Monday. The stockroom will be
closed mornings and all day Thursday.
RECRUITING VIDEO The U.S. Army
Recruiting Command is seeking first-term
enlisted soldiers ages 18-25 to be the
subject of a documentary film “A Day in
the Life of a Soldier.”
The intent of the documentary is to
show recruiting candidates that Army life
is not three-four years of basic training.
The film will show the fun side of a
soldier’s life.
Candidates should have a fairly ac-
tive lifestyle since the film will portray 60
percent off-duty activities.
A representative will be on post June
13-14 to interview candidates.
For information call the Recruiting
Command at 1-800-223-3735 Ext. 6-
0160 or DSN 536-0160.
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Hood Bulletins.......................................A7
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Village Voices........................................B6
Birth Announcements........................... B8
Now Playing ............................... C2
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Trading Post......................................... C5
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By Susan Coraci
31st ADA Bde Public Affairs
Like an emptied hourglass time ran out for a 31st
Air Defense Artillery Brigade unit.
A small yet significant piece of American history
came to a close May 20 when the 2nd “Avenger”
Battalion 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment for-
mally said farewell to Bravo Battery the first of its
four batteries set to inactivate.
Because of the Army’s force reduction several units
from around the world were selected to inactivate.
After months of deliberations 2-2 ADA joined
those ranks.
January 1996 2-2 ADA received the execution
order to inactivate by Sept. 30.
It was an unhappy occasion according to Lt. Col.
By Danny Banks
704th MSB 4th Inf Div
A new electronic technical
manual is getting a thumbs-up from
4th Infantry Division maintenance
personnel who have been field test-
ing it for almost a year.
The Electronic Technical Manual-
Interface is digitalizing the vehicle
parts ordering system- pushing unit
maintenance and supply into a
paperless process.
The new system has proven its
worth to unit leaders mechanics
dispatchers and operators accord-
ing to 704th Main Support Battal-
ion leaders. It uses technical manu-
als loaded onto CD-ROM disks that
are used with laptop computers.
The 704th was the first unit in
the Army to test the ETM-I soft-
ware package that interfaces with the
current unit level logistics system.
Recently five 704th company
motor pools installed the system and
began training on it. So far the sol-
diers are pleased.
“This really centralizes the con
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Pfc. Lamarr Powell Btry D 1-1 ADA Reg adjusts one of several tie-
downs that secures a Patriot radar to the train.
CD-ROM technical manual
improves unit-level logistics
trol of ordering parts” said Sgt.
Albert Alvarez a lightwheel vehicle
mechanic with Company B 704th
MSB. “We have abetter idea of
what’s being ordered and clerks are
able to perform other functions. It
allows both of us the chance to be
involved in the process.”
Once mechanics note parts re-
quirements they enter the informa-
tion onto a laptop. It is then provided
to clerks on disk. Now without hav-
ing to decipher penmanship clerks
can process orders automatically.
With the streamlining unit lead-
ers expect to decrease paper usage.
“We’re going to save money”
Alvarez said. “We’ll use fewer pa-
per products but have room for other
things. CDs don’t take up much
room especially in comparison to
piles of tech manuals.”
The Army’s Logistics Integration
Agency is developing and helping the
test the software.The Army’s Mate-
riel Command Management Engi-
neering Activity will analyze the test
to meet objectives before Army-wide
fielding is approved.
FORT HOOD
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Relocation mission almost complete
Susan Coraci/31st ADA Bde
31st Air Defense Artillery ‘Avengers’ inactivate
Richard E. Bedwell commander 2-2 ADA.
He said during his almost two years of com-
mand the battalion built teamwork espirit de corps
and morale. Soldiers trained at Roving Sands and
Alaska and some of them accompanied the 1st Bat-
talion 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment to South-
west Asia.
Also the battalion successfully completed a no-
notice deployment to Guantanamo Bay Cuba where
it served with Joint Task Force 160 for a 90-day
tour.
“It was sad to see the work to build something
suddenly become refocused into disassembling it”
Bedwell said. “You work so long to construct and
build unity teams and training. Then suddenly ev-
erything shifts and the most important thing to do is
to tear it down as quickly as possible disassemble
By Susan Coraci
31st ADA Bde Public Affairs
Chained down bar coded and
rail-loaded on to two trains 658
pieces of air defense equipment ar-
rived at Fort Bliss where soldiers
from 31 st Air Defense Artillery Bri-
gade were waiting to off-load them.
May 20-22 more than 120 bri-
gade soldiers along with the assis-
tance of soldiers from the 11th Air
Defense Artillery Brigade off-
loaded more than 130 cars.
The cars were packed with ev-
erything from Patriot launchers and
radars to five-ton trucks and conexes
for the 31 st ADA’s relocation to Fort
Bliss.
Pfc. Victor Sims Headquarters
Battery 31st ADA Bde said al-
though it was extremely hot the heat
didn’t interfere with their mission re-
quirements. They still had to get the
job done and they did it with out-
standing results.
“They came we were ready and
we got the job done a day early”
Sims said.
“All in all il was outstanding
training.”
The advanced party insured this
happened by beginning their prepa-
rations and training months before
the equipment arrived.
Two weeks before the trains ar-
rived at Fort Bliss soldiers were
broken down into teams.
Additionally a 38-person rail-
loading team made the trip from Fort
Testing new equipment
Hood to assist with the offloading.
Everything was in order when the
railroading team arrived said Sgt.
Gary Riley Battery A 1st Battalion
1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment.
“When we arrived at Fort Bliss
we were handed maps and briefed
about the downloading procedures”
he said.
Communications were working
good up and down as well as later-
ally.”
Communications also flowed
smoothly between the soldiers of 31 st
ADA Bde and the 11th ADA Bde
Riley said.
“Air defenders rolled up their
sleeves and help out a lot here” Riley
said.
“They worked side -by-side with
us as if we were all form the same
brigade.”
Pfc. Daniel Mengelkamp Btry
A 1-1 ADA agreed with Riley.
“When we started down-loading
we clicked together really well” he
said. “We were able to get the work
done fast efficiently and ahead of
schedule” Mengelkamp said.
With the off-loading of the
brigade’s equipment came the end of
another phase in the relocating pro-
cess of 31 st ADA Bde to Fort Bliss.
and give everything away to someone else.”
Regardless of his feelings Bedwell said that he
like everyone else in 2-2 ADA is a soldier first.
“The unit may be inactivating but we as soldiers
are not” he said. “We have to continue to build on
the pride and professionalism that is built over a pe-
riod of time.
“Like any other mission we’ve approached it’s to
be done professionally properly and completely. We
want to come out of this mission as with any other
mission we’ve done with people saying that we did
it right” Bedwell added.
Maintaining that frame of mind air defenders in-
ventoried transferred and turned in approximately
$80 million of equipment and supplies.
Preparing to be “First to Fire” with the new BSFV-E Sgt. Cedric D.
Gray (inset) 44th ADA 4th Inf Div enters firing command on the
“Linebacker” Simplified Handheld Terminal Unit that alerts the track
commander of aircraft in the area. For the story see page A 2.
Soon the brigade like its equip-
ment and advanced party will an-
swer the call and head west to join
the other air defense units. 31st ADA
Bde will become an essential part of
1 the Army’s Army’s Defense Artillery
Center of Excellence.
(See 2-2 ADA A2)
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Michael Scott/Fort Bliss Monitor
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