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Thursday, February 8, 2018
76th Year, Issue 6
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BASETRACK Live is a two-person show that tells the story of Marine CpI. AJ
Czubai’s 2010 deployment with the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines to Afghani-
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O-negative blood needed
Robertson Blood Center is in
critical need of O-negative blood
and is encouraging donors to come
out to the donor center to give the
“gift of life.”
“Those with O-negative blood
are universal donors, and that’s the
blood we use during emergencies,”
said Maj. Mollie House, CRDAMC’s
chief pathologist, adding how criti-
cal it is for donors with O-negative
blood to “save a life,” especially
because donations always drop off
after the holidays.
House said one of the reasons
for the donation drop during the
first of the year is because people
tend to donate before the holidays.
There’s also a 56-day recharge
period for donors, as well as a shelf
life of 45 days for red blood cells
and five days for platelets.
All donations at the Robertson
Blood Center go to service mem-
bers, military Family members
and veterans. The center is also
required to provide about 40 units
a week to the war effort.
The Robertson Blood Center is
located in Building 2250, 761st
Tank Battalion and 57th Street.
Call 285-5808 for more informa-
tion. Hours of operation are Mon-
day-Friday 7:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Scholarship deadline Feb 16
The Fisher House Foundation’s
Scholarships for Military Children
program is now accepting applica-
tions for the 2018-2019 school
year. The deadline for students to
submit applications to their com-
missary is Feb. 16.
At least one scholarship worth
$2,000 will be awarded at every
commissary location where quali-
fied applications are received.
More information, including the
application itself is now available
at www.militaryscholar.org.
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and his wife, Melissa as
try to readjust and cope to post-
deployment challenges, including and suicide. Serving
they both Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder,
marriage difficulties, alcohol abuse
as a backdrop,
Photo by Todd Pruden, Sentinel Editor
1st Sgt. Diamond Ott, deputy commandant for the Fort Hood
Resiliency Campus, flexes his muscles at the Applied Physical
Fitness Center Friday.
Photo by Todd Pruden, Sentinel Editor
Command teams within the 85th CA Bde. case the brigade and two subor-
dinate battalion colors during an inactivation ceremony at III Corps and Fort
Hood Headquarters. Jan. 31.
a whole lot
soccer. I wasn’t
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Chalmers, III Corps deputy com-
mander (U.K.) said. “I don’t think
we could have picked a better date
or place to case the colors as the
85th Civil Affairs Brigade derives
its lineage ... from the 362nd Civil
Affairs Area, which was constituted
in Dallas, Texas, on the 31st of Janu-
ary 1966, exactly 52 years ago today.
This, therefore, truly is a Texas bri-
gade.”
Chalmers referred to the date the
unit’s lineage was traced back to its
existence. The unit was deactivated
in 1975 and reactivated in 2009
and designated as the 85th CA Bde.,
then a U.S. Army Reserve unit. It
was designated an active component
civil affairs unit Sept. 16, 2011,
and uncased their colors Oct. 7,
2011, as a tenant unit of Fort Hood
with five separate brigades on instal-
lations which included Joint Base
Lewis-McChord, Washington, Fort
Physical fitness is a pillar
of the Army. For one Soldier
on Fort Hood, it is a prior-
ity in his way of life.
1st Sgt. Diamond Ott,
deputy commandant for the
Fort Hood Resiliency Cam-
pus, was recognized for his
fitness accomplishments this
week by being featured on
the cover of Mens Health
magazine.
The issue he is featured in
is the magazine’s inaugural
Special Military Issue, a new
feature for the publication,
which will continue in the
future.
“I would never thought
I’d be on a platform such as
Mens Health,” Ott said. “I’m
still trying to let it soak in
right now, but I am just try-
ing to keep a level head and
not let it get to me.”
Ott said he got the oppor-
tunity to be featured on the
cover after the editor of the
magazine noticed videos
of his workout routine on
social media on the Internet
while deployed with his unit
but integral to the story, is journal-
istic footage and interviews with
other members of his unit, as well as
with Family members. Photographs
of the Marines and the Afghanistan
people are also projected on stage
and are accompanied by a haunting,
but electrify musical score.
The purpose of the production,
according to Anne Hamburger,
executive producer, is “to stimu-
late conversations, build community
and combat isolations.”
“Although it’s a story about a
Marine infantry person, it’s really
everyone’s story,” Hamburger said.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a Soldier or
a Sailor because the issues are all the
same.”
The production, for Staff Sgt.
Savita Curtis, 1st Cavalry Division,
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Army). As far as working
out, I played a lot of sports,
a majority of baseball and
It was a numbing and sober-
ing experience for the captivated
audience of uniformed Soldiers
embedded in their seats on hand
for BASETRACK Live, a gritty, yet
visually stunning multimedia pro-
duction depicting war and its after-
math. When it was over, there was
a quiet calm as the 500-plus Soldiers
filtered out of Fort Hood’s Palmer
Theater deep in thought about the
60-minute emotional roller coaster
they had just witnessed.
Realistic and moving, BASE-
TRACK Live is a two-person show
that tells the story of Marine Cpl.
AJ Czubai’s 2010 deployment with
the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines to
Afghanistan’s Helmand Province.
The story centers around Czubai
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85th Civil Affairs Brigade inactivated
BY TODD PRUDEN
Sentinel Editor
Bliss, Fort Hood, Fort Stewart and
Fort Bragg.
“It marks a key moment in the
history of the Civil Affairs Branch,
but it also marks the end of a great
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deal of detailed work,” Chalmers
said. “Inactivating units responsibly
with all of the associated transfers of
A Fort Hood unit was deacti-
vated, marking the potential end of
Army civil affairs history
The 85th Civil Affairs Brigade,
based out of Fort Hood, along
with two of its remaining battal-
ions, the 81st Civil Affairs Battalion,
also based out of Fort Hood and
the 82nd Civil Affairs Battalion,
based out of Fort Stewart, Georgia,
cased their unit colors for the last
time, effectively inactivating each
unit from the ranks of the U.S.
Army at III Corps and Fort Hood
Headquarters Jan. 31. The remain-
ing 83rd Civil Affairs Battalion now
falls under the 16th Military Police
Brigade out of Fort Bragg, North
Carolina.
“It’s certainly a bittersweet day
as we gather,” Maj. Gen. Douglas
at that time, the 3rd Brigade
Combat Team, 1st Cavalry
Division.
“I was deployed to Kuwait
... the editor, he found me
on Instagram, asking me ...
to do a photo shoot and
an interview with him,”
Ott said. “I told him I was
still in Kuwait, unless they
wanted to come to Kuwait
to do a shoot by all means,
but I told them I would be
in contact once I hit ground
stateside. And ... once I
got to Fort Hood I reached
out to them, ‘Hey, you still
interested?’ They said, ‘For
sure,’ and they flew onto
Fort Hood within the next
two weeks.”
Ott said he started hitting
the gym while in JROTC
in high school and has not
looked back on his fitness
level since.
“In high school, I was
committed to the Army
JROTC program,” Ott said
regarding his decision to
join the Army.
“I was kind of embedded
to it, I had a good mentor.
After high school, I knew I
was going to get into (the
A groundbreaking for the Army Test and Evalua-
tion Command’s Technology Integration Center Lab-
oratory took place in the U.S. Army Operational Test
Command’s footprint on West Fort Hood Feb. 1.
The new lab will bring together testers, engineers,
analysts and technicians to support test planning,
technology selection, and preparation for operational
testing, according to John W. Diem, executive direc-
tor of USAOTC.
Diem said the new lab will help troops get better
gear faster since the new facility will consolidate test
data collectors across Fort Hood and will allow better
communication with other research facilities across
the country.
“Things that folks at home are familiar with — the
Stryker, the Abrams, the Bradley combat vehicles,
our unmanned aerial systems, the Apache helicopter
- those are all undergoing major updates and mod-
ernization,” Diem said.
“This facility - while it may never be visible to
the Soldiers that are downrange - is a major part of
ensuring their equipment is going to work,” Diem
said.
Designed to be reconfigurable for a wide variety of
uses, the lab can hold up to 150 people who will be
looking at the best ways to design operational tests
using the latest technology and methods.
It will also have large areas where vehicles and other
systems under test can be brought indoors.
Diem said the new ATIC lab will allow USAOTC
to reduce common problems of the past with train-
ing, experimentation and transferring data between
users who need it.
Construction of the $4.6 million facility should be
complete January 2019.
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