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THE III O PS A ofS -l
HEALTH AND FITNESS OFFICE is
recruiting soldiers for the Fort Hood
team which will compete in the Army
Ten Miler race in Washington D.C.
Oct'i 16. Practice is held from 5:45 to 7
a.m. Monday Wednesday and Friday
until April 4 when it will be held six
days a week. Recruiting for the 1994
team will continue until Sept. 18. S
Capt. Morales/Sgt. 1st Class Taylor
287-3352/0190.
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SERVING THE A N O AR MOR ED CORPS
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E N E STU EN TS sing out
loud at Talent Extravaganza.
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A N A LL ARM COMMUNITY
O SPITA joins information super
highway.
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CIVIL W AR RO UP EETS in
local area sites holds battles.
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THE 1994 ARMY EMERGENCY RE-
LIEF CAMPAIGN will be conducted
from March 28 to May 6. This year the
dollar goal for the installation is
$350000. In 1993 AER assisted 55000
Army people with more than $30 mil-
lion. At Fort Hood $2507907 in as-
sistance was provided to 4324 soldiers
and their families. Contact your unit’s
command project officer or 287-4199.
THE 546TH PERSONNEL SERVICE
BATTALION will be closed from
March 20 through 25 for afield training
exercise. Emergency services should be
directed to the 546th PSB customer
service section in building 3970 at 287-
1111. The battalion will resume normal
duty .hours on March 27.
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SECTION A
STB gets new commander A2
CEV crew keeps watch .................. A3.
Sappers test new weapon A5
Happenings on .....................A8
SECTION
Mentoring program a success ..... B1
Soldiers become teachers .............. B2
Special Deliveries ............................ B3
Prevent accidental poisonings B6
Chapel Notes .................................... B8
SECTION
Jurassic Park in Fort W orth........ C2
W hat’s happening in clu s............ C3
Bluebonnets out go see exas..... C8
Movie listin .................................... C8
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Post basketball play-offs............... D1
2nd Armd Div bowls for title D2
By Larry R. Butterfas
4th PAD
With the sky opening up and
rain falling the 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion held a ceremony in Abrams
Field House to honor the soldiers
and leaders of Company C 1st
Battalion 8th Cavalry Regiment
as they received the coveted Drap-
er Leadership Award.
By R. Alexander Southern
The 13th Corps Support Com-
mand was recently honored once
again by the hard work and
dedication to duty of its soldiers.
Since advancing past the post
and III Corps levels and then
placing second at Forces Com-
mand level for the past three
years in a row the Lynch Din-
ing Facility won the Phillip A.
Connelly Food Service Award in
the small chow hall category
this year.
The Connelly Award is given
in an annual Army-wide compe-
tition and recognizes excellence
in the field of food service.
“There’s no more Buffalo Bills
for us” joked Master Sgt. James
H. Brown dining facility man-
ager after learning of the vic-
tory. “We’ve finally won it all.”
Brown explained that after
three years of being runner-up
at the. FORSCOM level it was
nice to beat out everyone at that
level.
The dining facility will now
By Greg Davis
2nd Armd Div ublic Affairs
One keystroke is all it takes.
With the testing and fielding of
the Army Company Information
System stacks of paperwork are
being reduced to a touch of a
button.
ARCIS undergoing its final field
test at Fort Hood with the 2nd
Armored Division’s 2nd Brigade
promises to standardize company-
level automation efforts across the
Army according to Maj. Pat
O’Connor ARCIS program man-
ager.
The push for improved adminis-
tration within the Hell On Wheels
division originated with 2nd Armd
Commander Maj. Gen. Jared. L.
Bates who orchestrated the PAC
Initiative Program.
This is a division-wide program
intended to increase automation
capability and to improve ef-
ficiency within battalion Personnel
Administration Centers.
As a result of Bates’ innova-
tions the 2nd Armd Div units
were selected as the test site for
final testing of the ARCIS soft-
ware from Feb. 22 to March 4.
“It has the best of all worlds”
said Staff Sgt. Eric Rasppery
Compapy C 1st Battalion 67th
Fort Hood Texas 76544
Award recognizes leadership
The award established in 1928
through a trust fund initiated by
Lt. Col. Wycliffe P. Draper who
deposited the sum of $35000 in
the First National Bank of Boston
was originally given to the Army’s
best cavalry platoon based on a
competition of attack and live-fire
exercises horsem anship and
marksmanship.
Initially a cash award was
given. However in 1947 the Goo-
drich Riding Trophy was estab-
lished.
Over the years the competition
evolved into a company-level in-
spection involving armor and
ground cavalry units and the
award was presented to promote
sustain and recognize effective
13th COSCOM ublic Affairs
COSCOM dining facility
rewarded for excellence
leadership performance.
“This award which we recently
rejuvenated” said Maj. Gen. Wes-
ley K. Clark 1st Cav Div com-
mander during his remarks “was
based on their overall record of
accomplishments during the past
12 months.
“A record I might say that was
highlighted by much faithful work
in the field serving as an opposing
force in getting the 2nd Brigade
ready for its rotation to the NTC
(National Training Center) and
then serving as the initial ready
company in the division ready
force when the 2nd Brigade took
over its division ready brigade sta-
tus in December” Clark contin-
ued.
“It’s been a busy year for (Co C.
1st Bn 8th Cav Regt) and they’ve
done all things well in that year”
he added.
Capt. Troy Smith company com-
mander summed it up best when
he said “It was the NCO leader-
ship that got us this award. I’m
proud of my soldiers. They got it
for us. It was not just one man it
was the entire company working
together as a team.”
move on to face off against the
10 major command winners from
around the world for the all-
Army competition.
Because the^- had done so well
in the competition in the past
few years it was hard for Brown
and his soldiers to improve on
their almost impeccable record.
In an effort to help streamline
his organization Brown and the
1st Medical Group food service
officer Maj. Jill McCoy em-
ployed the new AFMIS system.
“AFMIS stands for Army Food
Management Information Sys-
tem” McCoy said. “It is a com-
puter system that does all the
inventorying food ordering and
tells you how much food to pre-
pare for the amount of serving
you are going to be doing.”
McCoy also said that the pro-
gram helps the dining facility
save money and time by not
preparing too much or too little
food for each meal of the day.
And with the task of having to
feed more than 120 ravenous
soldiers per meal the system
First Team soldiers earn honors
(See Dining A2)
Armored Regiment.
“It will make my job easy” said
1st Sgt. Alonzo Pinkney Company
D 3rd Signal Battalion.
Pinkney was involved in the
software’s development and at-
tended two of three Limited User
Tests conducted in Washington
2nd Armd Div units test computer software for Army use
Maj. Gen. Jared L. Bates 2nd Armd Div commander oversees testing
of ARCIS at 2nd Bde headquarters.
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Solargizer
By Niki Deifel
III Corps ublic Affairs
Even big toys run on batteries
and when you can’t just spend a
few bucks and pop anew double A
into an l-A Tank you try to
find ways to make your power
source last a little longer.
“Eighty percent of all lead-acid
vehicle batteries fail because of
sulphur buildup” said R.J. Holley
III Corps Science and Technology
Adviser. “If you had away to
prevent that it would save a lot of
batteries.”
The way the Army is trying to
prevent the sulphation of batteries
in military vehicles is the new
“Solargizer” battery conditioner.
“It is not a battery charger it is
a battery conditioner” Holley said.
The device uses a solar panel
mounted on the vehicle to collect
energy then converts it to a volt-
age “pulse” that is the same fre-
quency as the molecular frequency
of sulphur.
Through- this process any sul-
phur molecules that have crystal-
lized on the battery are decrystal-
lized and more sulphur is pre-
vented from crystallizing Holley
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Maj. Gen. Wesley K. Clark 1st Cav Div commander presents Capt.
Troy Smith commander of Co C 1st Bn 8th Cav Regt with the 80- $
pound Goodrich Riding Trophy. The trophy is presented as the part of
the Draper Leadership Award given to the divisions’ outstanding
cavalry or armored company.
Battery help tested
Greg Davis/2nd Armd Div
D.C.
Hands-on field research has
made the difference in the ef-
fectiveness of the program said
O’Connor. On three separate occa-
sions soldiers have examined and
tested the software by applying
their own work requirements an$
March 17 1994
Darrell ochran/lst Cav iv
said.
The device is small consisting of
a 4-inch by 8-inch solar panel that
mounts on the outside of the ve-
hicle a box that directs the pulse
and wires that mount on the bat-
tery posts.
The Solargizer has been avail-
able for commercial vehicles like
golf carts and non-tactical ve-
hicles for about three years Hol-
ley said.
“Most systems have a 12-volt
battery. Military vehicles area 24-
volt system” Holley said.
Solargizers adapted for the 24-
volt system were ordered and will
be tested in military use for the
first time at Fort Hood beginning
April 1.
“We’re going to take one hun-
dred of them and put them on two
companies of Tanks in 3rd
Battalion 66th Armored Regi-
ment in the 2nd Armored Divi-
sion” Holley said.
“We hope to have installation
done the last week of March and
the evaluation will be from April 1
to September 30” he said.
The purpose of the evaluation is
twofold according to Holley.
(See Battery A5)
giving their suggestions freely.
What it can’t do may be easier
to say than what it can.
The ARCIS program offers more
than 40 different administrative
functions or modules.
For example when the user en-
ters a soldier’s height and weight
the program will automatically
check to see if a tape test is re-
quired.
If a tape test is necessary the
computer will analyze tLjjp results
and compute the body fat content.
The program will also tell com-
manders when a soldier is due for
a fitness test or weapon’s qualifica-
tion.
Other applications include: drug
and alcohol family care awards
duty rosters daily status reports
and suspense rosters.
ARCIS’s strength is its power to
in a said
Pinkney. Generating paperwork
here-to-fore has occupied the brunt
of a company staffs time.
Cutting down on administrative
processing will allow more time for
the business of training soldiers.
The software is long overdue
according to the 2nd Bde soldiers
undergoing the test.
(See ARClS A3)
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