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Thursday, September 15, 2016
74th Year, Issue 36
www.FortHoodSentinel.com
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Post-wide yard sale
Fort Hood’s post-wide yard sale
will be held from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat-
urday. The yard sale will take place
in Fort Hood Family Housing Areas.
To support the NetZero 2020 ini-
tiative, donate unwanted household
goods to a charitable organization
rather than depositing into the land-
fill. For excess items not sold at yard
sales, there will be three Goodwill
drop boxes on post: Warrior Way
Commissary, Pershing Park Shop-
pette and Kouma Shoppette (day
of event only). The Fort Hood Thrift
Shop will also accept donations.
Ill Armored Corps Ball
The III Armored Corps is hosting
an “All Saints Ball” celebrating Fort
Hood’s mounted warriors at 5:30
p.m., Oct. 14, at the Frank W. May-
born Civic and Convention Center
in Temple. Tickets are on sale now
for this event, which honors the
patrons of various branches of the
Army, including awardees for the
Noble Patron of Armor, Order of St.
Joan, Order of St. Maurice, Order of
St. Christopher, Order of St. Barbara
and the De Fleury. Tickets cost $40
per person, which includes dinner,
dancing and a memento. The uni-
form is the Army Dress Uniform or
Mess Dress uniform. Civilian attire
is formal. For tickets, see your bri-
gade unit representative.
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Two massive cranes lift and set one of the 116-foot, 60-ton beams that will
form the base of the new House Creek bridge, Sept. 7. The new bridge, which
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest is set for 5-10 p.m.
Saturday at the Sportsmen’s Center
Pavilion on Fort Hood. Entry is free
and open to all. Festivities include
a strong man contest, costume con-
test, pumpkin patch, kid zone, pet
adoption, TubaMeisters, beer, food
and more. For more information,
call 288-7835.
Mega Career Fair
The Transition Assistance Pro-
gram will host its fall Mega Career
Fair from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday
at Club Hood. For more information,
call 288-2227.
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Photo by Master Sgt. Mary Mittlesteadt, III Armored Corps Public Affairs
III Armored Corps and Fort Hood Commanding General Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland discusses recent
counter-ISIS operations in Iraq and Syria during a briefing with more than 50 Central Texas community
leaders at Fort Hood.
Photo by Scott Summers, DPW Natural and Cultural Resources Branch
is projected to open to traffic in December, will improve safety over House
Creek. The former low-water crossing often flooded, rendering it impassible.
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Troopers young and old, past and
present, and near and far gathered to
celebrate the 1st Cavalry Divisions 95th
birthday Tuesday at both Fort Hood
and Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
The Home Station ceremony was
held at the 1st Cav. Div. Museum and
led by the Home Station’s Deputy Com-
mander Col. Robert Whittle and Com-
mand Sgt. Maj. Roger Heinze.
Members of the 1st Cav. Div., Horse
Cavalry Detachment, the 1st Cav. Div.
Honor Guard, the 1st Cav. Div. Band,
local community leaders and veterans
from all generations participated in the
event.
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The event began with a reading of the
First Team history
“It’s always inspiring to hear the 1st
Cavalry Division history, and to know
that we are writing the next chapter
right now,” Whittle said during the
event. “When the president needs an
armored force to do the nation’s bid-
ding, he calls the First Team. And we
have proof. Here it is: We currently
have over 7,000 Soldiers deployed across
the globe. The division headquarters,
sustainment brigade headquarters, and
half of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment are
deployed in Afghanistan. The 553rd
CSSB is deployed to Iraq and Kuwait.
1st Brigade is serving in the Republic
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last major city to fall to Da’esh
(ISIS), and it was the first
major city we took back.”
The mission provided sev-
eral areas of support to the
fight against ISIS, including
airpower, artillery, logistics and
an “advise and assist” effort.
The general explained the
importance of coalition capa-
bilities to the effort.
“We used a lot of air
support and artillery support,”
More than 50 Central Texas
community leaders gathered to
listen to the III Corps and
Fort Hood commanding gen-
eral discuss recent counter-ISIS
operations in Iraq and Syria
Friday at Fort Hood.
Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland
briefed attendees on his lead-
ership as the commander of
Combined Joint Task Force
events and time.
The old structure was basically an
improved low-water crossing with
large box culverts.
During flood events, debris would
often block the culverts and cause
water to overflow the bridge. Water
flowing had also created hollow
spaces in the former bridge, render-
ing that crossing structurally unsafe.
The replacement bridge has
addressed the safety concerns pre-
sented by the old bridge.
“The new structure is about 20
feet higher than the old structure,”
Burrow said.
Higher elevation and wider spac-
ing of the beams will allow debris
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to pass under the bridge and also
help relieve flooding on the adjacent
tactical low water crossing used by
Soldiers in training.
After the old crossing failed its
inspection and was closed, daily
commuters from Gatesville and
points along Farm to Market 116
were forced into much lengthier
treks in to work or for business.
Until the new bridge was planned,
House Creek was traversed in this
area only by this low water crossing,
which was intended to withstand a
10-year flood cycle.
With the new bridge significantly
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from September 2015 to
August 2016. The briefing
focused on the mission’s priori-
ties and achievements as a mul-
tinational coalition supporting
Iraqi Security Forces, Kurdish
Peshmerga and other indig-
enous forces in their efforts to
reclaim areas of Iraq and Syria
lost to the terrorist state.
“Job one was to get Ramadi
back,” MacFarland said. “The
fight for Ramadi was the end
of the beginning. It was the
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Photo by Benjamin Santos, USFOR-A Public Affairs
Maj. Gen. J.T. Thomson, commanding general 1st Cav. Div. and Command Sgt. Maj.
Maurice Jackson join the oldest and the youngest division Soldiers to cut a cake Tues-
day commemorating the division’s 95th birthday at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
and when our engineers inspected
House Creek bridge, they found
structural integrity issues that
required us to close the bridge,” said
John Burrow chief of engineering
and services for the Directorate of
Public Works. “It was determined
that the issues were to a point that
repair of the existing structure was
not feasible, so we worked with the
Army and the Corps of Engineers to
fund, design and execute a project to
replace the existing bridge.”
Construction on the new bridge
began in February, Burrow said.
The cause of the deterioration of
the old bridge was a combination of
crossing elevation, severe flooding
Hundreds of Fort Hood commut-
ers can look forward to some much
anticipated relief soon, as construc-
tion of the House Creek Bridge at
West Range Road is expected to be
completed later this year and open
to traffic in December.
The new bridge increases safe-
ty and enhances unit training, all
while reducing overall transporta-
tion costs.
“Fort Hood has 60 bridges and
we take safety very seriously. We do
an annual inspection of our bridges
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