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A 760-foot long roadway represents Route Delta in Sadr City, Iraq. The set was
constructed at a Fort Hood training range and serves as a key location for the
Michael Kelly, Kate Bosworth
Sarah Wayne Callies, Jason Ritter,
Jeremy Sisto, E.J. Bonilla, Patrick
Schwarzenegger and Noel Fisher,
Photo by Gloria Montgomery, CRDAMC Public Affairs
Col. Donovan Green, Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center’s deputy chief for
patient support, tests the center’s laser shot simulator, which is designed
to improve balance, concentration and vision during Intrepid Spirit Center’s
March 24 open house to increase brain injury awareness.
Movie to cause traffic delays
There will be periodic traffic
delays at multiple points through-
out Fort Hood from March 27
through April 6, due to filming of a
National Geographic movie produc-
tion, The Long Road Home. Please
avoid these areas, as filming areas
will be restricted.
Brock/Allen Casting is seeking
background extras for the TV mini-
series, based on the book, The
Long Road Home, which tells the
story of the eight-hour battle to
rescue a 1st Cavalry Division pla-
toon following an ambush on April
4, 2004.
Filming will take place in Austin,
Killeen and on Fort Hood.
Those interested in participating
in the project as an extra should
submit a current photo and contact
information to longroadhomeba@
gmail.com.
Spring Easter Festival
The place will be hopping along
with our special guest, the Easter
Bunny.
Join us for activities and Family
fun at the Spring Easter Festival
from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at
Apache Arts and Crafts Center.
Activities include ceramic paint-
ing, a visit from the Easter Bunny,
bouncers, vendors and games. The
festival is free and open to all. For
more information, call 287-0343
or 532-2586.
Spring Demo Day
The Courses of Clear Creek will
host a Spring Demo Day and sale
from 9 a.m.-l p.m. Saturday at the
golf course. Patrons may demo the
golf equipment at the event.
For more information, call 287-
4130.
Photo by Kelby Wingert, Sentinel Staff
Soldiers cross Old Ironsides Avenue on their way to formation at the motor
pools Monday morning. Soldier pedestrian safety is the reason for an upcom-
ing road construction project on Hell on Wheels and Old Irensides avenues.
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Buildings covered in unfinished and exposed concrete and Arabic script line
narrow streets to recreate Sadr City at a Fort Hood training range.
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Photos by Seth Reed, Production Designer, “The Long Road Home”
filming of “The Long Road Home,” an eight-part miniseries that tells the story
of a 1st Cav. Div. platoon ambushed on April 4, 2004, in Sadr City.
National Geographic announced
last week.
Mike Medavoy, who has been
involved with more than 300
viding Soldiers with transportation ager Colin Darby said,
options and a pedestrian-friendly
campus environment,” DPW Pave-
ments and Airfield Program Man-
A project converting Hell on
Wheels and Old Ironsides avenues
from two-lane automotive traffic to
one will start in April, according to
officials from Fort Hood’s Director-
ate of Public Works.
Soldier pedestrian safety is the
reason for the conversion project,
which will create one automotive
lane, one bicycle lane and a pedes-
trian lane on each avenue, and
came as a result of a traffic study
completed in July 2016 by Pond
& Associates, which noted that
there will be more than sufficient
capacity for automotive traffic on
parallel roads - including Murphy,
Ivy Division and Battalion Avenue
- even during peak traffic hours.
By reducing the risk of car-
on-pedestrian collisions in a high
foot-traffic area, this reconfigura-
tion supports the installation mas-
ter plan and its objectives of pro-
Since 2000, more than 339,000
service members have been diag-
nosed with the signature wound
from the wars in Iraq and in
Afghanistan: traumatic brain inju-
ry-
Called the “invisible wound of
war,” traumatic brain injuries are
hard to diagnose and difficult to
treat because of the disease’s symp-
tom diversity that can include any-
thing from depression and anxiety
to balance and memory issues.
“There are so many forms of
co morbidity associated with TBI
that it makes for a very complex
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films, including “Apocalypse Now,”
“Rocky,” “The Thin Red Line,”
“Platoon” and “Shutter Island,” is
serving as an executive producer for
the miniseries.
Medavoy, an Army veteran, has
been interested in putting this story
on film since he read Raddatz’s
book.
“This is something we have been
working on for a long time,” Meda-
voy said. “It’s an interesting story
from a historical point of view.”
Mikko Alanne, executive produc-
er, show runner and writer for the
miniseries, said the process of turn-
ing the book into a movie began
nine years ago, including meeting
with then-Col. Gary Volesky and
others involved in the battle at Sadr
City during a visit to Fort Hood in
2008 to discuss the project.
case presentation,” said Dr. Scott
Engle, director of Fort Hood’s
Intrepid Spirit Center, which held
an open house March 24. “Imag-
ine all these symptoms put into a
blender and mixed up. It would be
very difficult to pull out one and
just treat one symptom by itself
alone.”
The Intrepid Spirit Center uses
a multidiscipline, holistic and
integrated treatment plan to treat
not just one symptom, but the
whole person. Recent data, Engle
said, confirms that the center and
its programs are making a differ-
ence in helping Soldiers manage
Production has begun on the
National Geographic miniseries,
“The Long Road Home,” which
details the events of “Black Sun-
day,” April 4, 2004, when a 1st
Cavalry Division platoon was
ambushed in Sadr City, Iraq, and
the rescue missions to save them,
days into their yearlong deploy-
ment. Filming is ongoing at several
locations across Fort Hood.
The miniseries, based on the
New York Times bestseller by Mar-
tha Raddatz, tells the story not only
of the battle that claimed the lives
of eight U.S. Soldiers, but also the
effects on the home front to present
a 360-degree view of Soldiers’ and
their Families’ experiences at war.
The project, which is slated to
premiere later this year, will star
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