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Thursday, May 10, 2018
76th Year, Issue 18
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III Corps 100th birthday
III Corps and Fort Hood will host a
cake-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m.,
May 16 at the flagpole outside III
Corps Headquarters, as the official
kick-off of Operation Phantom War-
rior Salute. Besides the ceremony,
take a walk through the headquar-
ters beginning at 9:30 that morning
to see a century of service and sac-
rifice to the nation. The ceremony
will include Soldiers in period uni-
forms dating back to World War I,
as well as period music and dance
selections.
Annual Full Scale Exercise
Fort Hood will conduct its annu-
al Full Scale Exercise May 22-24
to test the installation’s ability to
respond to emergencies. Most of
the exercise simulations will occur
on May 22. On that day, Fort Hood
emergency responders will react to
multiple incidents throughout post.
Traffic on the installation should
only experience minimal impact on
that day. During the exercise, traf-
fic control measures will be imple-
mented in the vicinity of the inci-
dent sites, which may result in short
delays. Housing areas are unlikely
to be affected during peak school
drop-off or pick-up times that day.
Spouse Appreciation Day
Military Spouse Appreciation Day
is set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday at
Club Hood.
To register or more information,
visit heb.com/H00D.
Mother’s Day Brunch
Club Hood is hosting a Mother’s
Day Brunch at 10:30 a.m.-noon and
1:30-3 p.m. Sunday. The event is
open to all. Must RSVP by today.
Cost is $21.95 for adults, $7.95
for kids aged 5-12 and free for chil-
dren 4 and under.
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BY SGT. JESSICA DUVERNAY
3rd BCT, 1 st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
BY SGT. THOMAS CROUGH
U.S. Army Central
BY SGT. MICHAEL SMITH
1st Cav. Div. Sust. Bde.
Public Affairs
553rd Combat Sustainment
Support Battalion, 1st Cav-
alry Division Sustainment
Brigade, spent 12 days here
participating in Operation
Guardian Response and
providing support to units
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from around the country
who were also doing their
part in the exercise.
The exercise critiques
units from different mili-
Photos by Sgt. Jessica DuVernay, 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
Medics from 2-7th Cav. Regt., and 106th Support Battalion work together to
evacuate a casualty to the awaiting transport to the triage center during the
MASCAL exercise on McGregor Training Complex, New Mexico, Friday.
After assessing a casualty, medics from 2-7th Cav. Regt., prepare the casualty
for treatment by the attending physician assistant during the MASCAL exercise
on McGregor Training Complex, New Mexico, Friday.
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ran just as smooth as if it was our
own people.”
The Army Total Force Partner-
ship Program is an ongoing effort by
the service to transition both Army
Reserve and National Guard into an
operational force. The intent is to
create a seamless and holistic “total
force” governed by the same inter-
changeable policies and procedures.
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U.S. Representative John Carter, Texas, talks to Soldiers at the USO, Camp
Arifjan, Kuwait, May 4. U.S. Representatives John Carter and Roger Williams
from Texas visited U.S. service members in the Middle East as part of a con-
gressional delegation.
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“It was like they never missed a
beat,” said 1st Lt. Nathan Smith,
field medical assist and treatment
platoon leader, Co. C, 106th Sup-
port Bn. “We are all trained in basi-
cally the same way, and we all have
the same starting point through
basic and (advanced individual
training). So when they hit the
ground today, they just filled into
the slots they needed for the MAS-
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Photos by Sgt. Michael Smith, 1st Cav. Div. Sust. Bde. Public Affairs
ABOVE, Sgt. Yoko Reklai, water treatment specialist, gives a
briefing to Command Sgt. Maj. Arnaldo Muniz, command ser-
geant major, 553rd CSSB, 1st Cav. Div. Sust. Bde., about how
the tactical water purification systems they use work, near
Camp Atterbury, Indiana. TOP RIGHT, A Soldier assigned to
the 289th CSC uses a load handling system to lower an empty
Water Tank Rack, or Hippo, for refilling near Camp Atterbury,
Indiana, April 24.
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a Texas flag. We are here today to
also understand the good that we
are doing.”
The representatives visited dif-
ferent units on a tour of Camp
Arifjan where they learned about
equipment and facilities and spent
time with Soldiers.
“I believe it’s important for the
congressmen to come see facilities
like this because it informs them
and lets them know exactly where
their tax money and all the other
government funds are being spent,”
explained Sgt. 1st Class Cedric
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155th ABCT is currently undergo-
ing to prepare for its upcoming
deployment in support of Opera-
tion Spartan Shield. The troopers of
2-7th Cav. Regt, have been provid-
ing training support to the 155th
ABCT since early April.
“Training like this is important
because it allows us to evaluate each
others skills and to pass on knowl-
edge that we both have,” said 1st
Lt. Elliott Boice, medical operations
officer and medical platoon leader,
HHC, 2-7th Cav. Regt. “We are
an integrated Army, all three forces
matter, Reserve, Guard and active
duty”
For the two medical teams, train-
ing together is an important require-
ment in order to obtain certain skills
or techniques the other may not
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Ind. — The 289th Com-
posite Supply Company,
CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait —
U.S. Representatives John Carter,
31st District of Texas, and Roger
Williams, 25th District of Texas,
visited Soldiers at Camp Arifjan as
part of a Congressional delegation,
May 4.
“We are here today to say thanks
to all of our troops and those who
work with our troops,” Williams
said. “I represent a portion of Fort
Hood. We got to see our Fort
Hood Soldiers, we got to talk Texas
to them. We got to even give them
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MCGREGOR TRAINING COM-
PLEX, N.M. — Medics assigned
to Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cav-
alry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Com-
bat Team “Greywolf,” 1st Cavalry
Division, completed mass casual-
ty and trauma lane training with
medical personnel assigned to Com-
pany C, 106th Support Battalion,
155th Armored Brigade Combat
Team from the Mississippi National
Guard, May 4.
The two brigades are partnered
together through the Army’s Total
Force Partnership. The training was
part of the Multi-Echelon Inte-
grated Brigade Training that the
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have had before.
“It’s really important to work with
the National Guard because there
are certain skill sets that civilians
have that we don’t necessarily get
exposed to, because our environ-
ment is very specific,” said Capt.
Andrea Nixon, physician assistant,
HHC, 2-7th Cav. Regt. “But on the
other hand, we do live and breathe
this environment on a day-to-day
basis as active duty, and we can
impart our knowledge to our coun-
terparts for when they get activated.”
Completing the training together
allowed the teams to see how the
other half accomplishes their mis-
sion.
“I think being in this training
environment has been a great oppor-
tunity to refine (standard operating
procedures), to refine our processes
with our platoons,” 1st Sgt. Joseph
Tullos, Co. C, 106th Support Bn.,
said. “One of the biggest training
pieces for that is, for us, and the
other unit, to be able to know how
the other works.
Sometimes when you combine
outside units and the small ways
that they change things and actually
working together and participating
in a training exercise like we did
today is extremely helpful to be able
to finalize those small things that
may be different from unit to unit.”
Although the teams serve with
different Army components, a point
of the training was to show that
training is the same across the board
with different refinements for differ-
ent situations.
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