The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 1, 1982 Page: 1 of 32
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By WAYNE BLANKENBILLER
A tall thin man moves quietly
across the dimly lit garage. With a
glass cutting tool in his hand he pre-
pares to cut a pane of glass.
Even though this sounds like a pro-
fessional burglar it is not. He is
actually Capt. William G. Austin an
accomplished craftsman skilled in
the art of creating stained glass win-
dows.
A stin ic a tio
electronics officer for 1st Bde. 1st
BRITTLE ART Capt. Wil-
liam G. Austin HHC 1st Bde.
S 1st Cav. iv. works on
another piece of stained glass
in the workshop at his home.
He has won awards at the
FORSCOM level in craft-
smanship competitions.
(Photo by Wayne Blanken-
biller)
Appreciates stained glass creativity
Members of 101st Abn. Div. join the 1st Cav.
Div. to test anew artillery computer system.
See story photo pg. 2C.
FT. HOOD
HOLD HIM Triagers team up on a casualty tic lost puppy dog exhibiting signs of ex-
who exhibited a severe dependency stress treme stress. Related story photo pg. 8C.
reaction during project CENTKl. The casual-
ty had been following the triager like a fran- (Photo by Barry Benner)
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Artist humble about his work
Cav. Div. operates Malia Stained
Glass Art out of a workshop in the
garage of his Killeen residence.
He picked up his craft while he was
stationed at Scholfield Barracks in
Hawaii. He studied ith Roger
oses an in stru cto at anoa
Stained Glass in Honolulu. This was
the first group of stained glass arti-
sans in the Islands according to Au-
stin.
“Moses was a very good crafts-
man” explained Austin “and he was
the type who answered any ques
*PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE PERSONNEL OF FT. HOOD
FT. HOOD TEXAS THURSDAY APRIL 1 1982
MEDDAC exercise explores combat stress
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tions you had. I was lucky to have
such a good teacher.
“The mechanics of it I’m really
good at but the creative design is
something I still have to work on. In
fact I depend on my wife to pick out
the glass because she is better at
picking colors than I am” said the
humble artist who received a second
place award at the FORSCOM level
of the US Army Designer Craftsman
competition.
His award-winning entry was a
shell box which incorporated a
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4C.
By BARRY BENNER
A lot of people are going to be
watching MEDDAC and HHC 8th
Eng. Bn. 1st Gav. Div. soldiers in a
training film made last week at the
1st Cav. NBC range. But they’re
probably not going to recognize
anyone.
They won’t unless one of the sol-
diers with a soul meant for Holly-
wood managed to attach a bumper
sticker with his name on it on his
MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective
Posture) gear. Everyone looked the
same as triagers (medics) casualties
and judges worked surrounded by
the wind-blown gusts of green white
and yellow smoke indicative of the
chemical attack that meant project
CENTRl was in full bloom.
CENTRl (Chemical Environment
Triage) grew from a germ of a ques-‘
tion considered by Maj. Stephen N.'^
enakis chief epartm en of
Psychiatry and Community Mental
Health Service Darnall Army Com-
munity Hospital Col. Paul M. Bal-
son chief psychiatry and neurology
Academy of Health Sciences and
Maj. Frank Brooks executive officer
director of training Academy of
Health Sciences. They were con-
cerned with exploring the problem of
treating combat stress reactions
caused by intense chemical warfare.
But they soon realized that 91Gs
(behavioral science specialist)
wouldn’t be able to tell whether a
casualty was physically or psycholo-
gically injured because of the MOPP
chambered nautilus into a stained
glass creation a strikingly original
three-dimensional object. “It is prob-
ably the best I’ve done from a design
color and flow standpoint” admit-
ted Austin.
Even though his FORSCOM award
winner was a three-dimensional ob-
ject the 32-year-old native of San
Antonio works primarily with two-
dimensional panels some of which
are displayed as free-standing works
and some of which are built into win-
dows or doors.
“Some of my work is original in
design” he said “while others are
from commercial patterns. Recently
I have been doing some restoration of
old stained-glass windows and anti-
que stained glass objects.”
The challenges of creative express-
ion in this medium of art has helped
Austin “to appreciate creativity more
than I ever did before.”
“I became attracted to this work
a se of the a ty of the
medium” he said. “But now I can
also appreciate the time it takes to
create a window as well as the craft-
smanship involved.”
Austin is a person who appreciates
hard work with a purpose. All you
have to do to know this is to drop in
on him at his Army job and you will
find a man thriving on the beehive of
activity that is his office.
The creative captain who also is an
avid runner summed up his philoso-
phy on work by comparing his in-
terest in glass art to his running ex-
perience.
“It is the same thing as in running.
The more you run the better you get.
This is the same for glass work. The
more glass work you do the better
craftsman you become.
“I enjoy the work towards the goal
but accomplishing that goal is what
is important and rewarding” con-
cluded Austin.
Fort Hood soldiers help Central Texans cele-
brate Lometa’s annual rattlesnake roundup.
See story photos
pg.<p></p>SENTINEL
gear and they would have to deal
with the total realm of treatment
under chemical battlefield condi-
tions.
With the aid of senior advisor Col.
William W. Burgin Jr. commander
USA MEDDAC DACH and senior
consultant Brig. Gen. William P.
Prodigal servicemembers discover the tough
life in 2nd Armd. Div.’s Correctional Custody
Facility. See story photos pg. ID.
‘Fll make you a star9
The troops lounge on the bleachers making wise cracks being num-
bered.
“Is there a 17 out there?”
Everyone looks at his shoulder no response.
“Is there a 16?” Everyone looks again. Someone raises his arm.
“Okay you’re 17.” Maj. Xenakis slaps apiece of wide tape on the
soldier’s arm and tells him to sit down.
Capt. Reed Panos CSM MEDDAC hovers around does this does
that answers questions corrects Xenakis.
“I don’t know what I’d do without you Lt. Panos.” And everyone
laughs. But later Xenakis says “I’d have gone crazy without Panos
around to keep things organized.”
Finally everyone is labeled and the magic words come: “You guys are
going to be in a movie here.”
“Hey okay!”
“I’ll be a star!”
“Of course you’ll be in MOPP gear and no one will know who you
are.”
“You mean I can’t say hello to Mama?”
“You can say hello to everyone’s Mama just keep your mask on.”
“What should I do?”
“Do what you think you would do if the situation were real.”
“Go to sleep?”
“Not unless you’re supposed to be dead.”
“When I die what should I do?”
“Drop dead!”
On the way
PFC Anthony Major Co. C l/12th Cav. sends a mortar sabot
round down range during recent training.
(Photo by Penny Woods)
THIRTY-TWO PAGES
Winkler Jr. commander Letterman
Army Medical Center project CEN-
TRl was designed as a test to see how
effectively 9IB (medical specialists)
and 91G medics could provide phy-
sical and psychological treatment to
(See CENTRl pg. 8C)
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