The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 70, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 25, 1996 Page: 1 of 42
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FRIDAY: Partly cloudy skies. High: mid 50s. Low:
mid 30s.
SATURDAY: Clear to partly cloudy. High: low 60s.
Low: mid 30s.
SUNDAY: Fair skies with a chance of rain late in
the day. High: mid 60s. Low: high 30s.
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Volume 54 no. 70
weeping A erica ru A Fort
Hood K-9 team assists with drug interdiction
programs of U.S. Customs Service along the
southern border of Texas. A2
Exercise challenges soldiers
of all military specialties. Signal soldiers
cooks do their best for troops in the field. A6
PAYING BILLS
Allotment program makes
paying AAFES DPP bills even easier during
deployments TDYs and PCS moves. B2
oses are ed Send your
favorite person loved one or
secret admirer a valentine
through the Feb. 9 Fort Hood
Sentinel in 25 words or less. Find
out how. B3
The Bell County Fair and PRCA
Rodeo are coming to Central Texas Feb. 6-10
at the Expo Center. Learn some of the rules
of professional rodeo before you go. Dl-2
Winners selected in second
Karaoke finals at Phantom Warrior Club. D5
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BLACKS IN wbRLD WAR II The III
Corps Equal Opportunity Office and 761st
Tank Battalion Association are hosting a film
presentation titled “Blacks in World War II”
2-4 p.m. Feb. 9 in the Remagen Conference
Room in the west wing on the first floor of the
III Corps Headquarters.
People interested in learning more about
the rich military heritage of minorities are wel-
come to attend.
DIGITAL DA PHOTOS People who are due
to update their official file or have a revue
board scheduled soon can call TSC to set up
an appointment to have their photo taken.
If neither of the above apply soldiers are
asked to wait to set up photo appointments.
The transition to digital photography will take
time. Copies of photos will not be given to
soldiers but sent directly to their servicing
military personnel division. Call 287-3909/
4960 to schedule an appointment.
TSC WORK ORDERS The functions of the
TSC work reception office are now being per-
formed by contracted employees. Please sub-
mit only one cojpy of each work request at the
window.
TSC policy remains that a minimum of
seven days is required to complete work re-
quests. Call 287-4960/3909 for information.
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Hood Bulletins............................................ A7
AFTB...........................................................B2
Village Voices...............................................B2
Special Deliveries....................................... B4
Medical Briefs............................................. B5
Trading Post.............................................C l-2
Across Texas............................................... D2
At the Movies.............................................. D5
Sports Briefs ...................................... D5
Center Stage................................................ D8
Television Guide.......................................D6-7
By Katie Buchta
MEDDAC Public Affairs
It’s an exciting time for Central
Texas military families as another
health care building block slid into place
Jan. 18 with the official ribbon cutting
of Family Care Clinic-Killeen.
Located at 2201 S. W.S. Young
the clinic is the second of three Family
Care Clinics to open in less than six
months.
The third is due to open in in Cop-
peras Cove in February.
About 45000 benificiaries are expected
to use the three clinics on an appoint-
ment only basis.
More than 100 guests attended the
opening ceremony. The ceremoney was
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Darnall opens new clinic
for family care in Killeen
orac
usan
Pvt. 2 Jennifer Keib and Staff Sgt. Alan
Wilson HHB 31st ADA Bde emerge out
of the smoke during cover and
concealment part of battery lane training.
Military visionary visits post
By Robyn M. Gregory
1st Cav Div Public Affairs
Navy Admiral W illiam A.
Owens vice chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff docked at Fort Hood
last week for a first-hand view of
battlefield technology and its various
applications.
During his visit the Pentagon’s
“number two” man focused prima-
rily on intelligence and reconnais-
sance applications receiving brief-
wings on the 504th Military Intelli-
gence Brigade’s capabilities intelli-
gence support situation awareness
targeting force protection and battle
management at the III Corps Assault
Command Post as well as the 4th
Infantry Division’s division main and
its 1st Brigade tactical operations
center and the Intelligence Contin-
gency Readiness Center.
Military’s chief visionary
Described by the Army Times as
“the Pentagon’s most forceful voice
for a future high-tech revolution in
warfighting” and the “military’s chief
visionary” Owens anticipates that
information reaped from advanced
systems like those being tested with
the 4th ID’s Force XXI are the key
to superiority on future battlefields.
an opportunity for commanders to talk
about the future of delivering quality
state-of-the-art medical care locally.
This clinic is another part of the
“seamless system of health care” that
is providing services for Fort Hood and
the surrounding communities said Col.
James W. Kirkpatrick Darnall Army
Community Hospital commander.
“Opening three primary care facili-
ties extends military medicine from the
clinics through Damall’s ‘electronic
medical center without walls’ into the
new Brook Army Medical Center in San
Antonio and beyond” Kirkpatrick said.
Guest speaker Brig. Gen. Robert G.
Claypool continued emphasizing local
continuity of care by adding their in-
tent to deliver all levels of care where
Navy admiral views technology
“If you can see the
battlefield with great
clarity and as such have
dominant battlefield
awareness you win. It
is something revolution-
ary in nature: If you can
see tl^e battlefield then
warfighting will be so
dramatically changed
that many will call it a
revolution. And so it’s
important for the Army
to develop this smart
front end as the way to
do business” Owens
said during his visit.
This “revolution” in
and communications systems that
span the entire battlefield via sensors
ground based surveillance satellites
in space aircraft and unmanned spy
planes among other systems.
It is estimated by the Army
Times that the vice chairman and his
staff have compiled for procurement
some 40-such high-tech systems like
the Airborne Warning and Control
System Aircraft inverse synthetic
FORT HOOD
Health care moves into 21 st century
By Susan Coraci
31st ADA Bde Public Affairs
Sgt. Carlos Spann S-3 assistant operations ser-
geant for Headquarters Battery 31st Air Defense
Artillery Brigade whispered to his squad members
“Five meters remember five meters apart.”
Cautiously the patrol began working their way
to the first point. Ensuring they maintained their dis-
tance the patrol slowly closed in on their destina-
tion.
Suddenly several shots shattered the silence.
Diving into the foliage and low-crawling behind
a fallen tree pointman Spc. William Betters Avenger
crewmember for the battery spotted the enemy.
“Sniper at one o’clock!” he shouted.
Using a combination of five-second rushing and
lowcrawling the patrol edged toward the enemy.
After several seemingly endless moments the
sniper peered around a tree. Quickly compassman
Pvt. 2 Teianya Carter administration specialist for
the brigade raised the barrel of her weapon looked
through her sights and took aim ... ‘Baam.’
warfare is expected by
senior military leaders
like Owens to arrive on
the wings of surveillance intelligence aperture radar and the Joint Surveil-
Brig. Gen. Robert G. Claypool
emphasizes that quality care will
continue for milif&ry families
during the opening ceremony.
the soidiers live and work.
“Eliminating the patients’ and fami-
lies’ need for long distance travel is part
of our ultimate goal” he said.
Navy Admiral William A. Owens
Air defense unit conducts
challenging skills training
lance and Target Attack Radar.
The implications of the quantum
leaps in terms of battlefield technol-
ogy are staggering say senior “vision-
aries.?
For example once J-STARS lo-
cates enemy tanks on the ground ad-
vanced computer and communication
equipment could instantaneously de-
(See Technology A5)
Claypool commander of the South
Central Health Service Support Area
and Brooke Army Medical Center in
San Antonio and a former Damall com-
mander recognized the struggles the
Fort Hood community has endured.
Claypool and Kirkpatrick echoed
one another by stressing that the Fam-
ily Care Clinics took a lot of people
working as a team who accomplished
it in record time.
Along with the Fort Sam Houston
contracting office they recognized the
civilian contractors Aliron International
Inc. and Med-National Inc. as instru-
mental in meeting both Damall’s needs
and the short time constraints demanded
by such an ambitious project.
“This is a great facility for the fami-
lies” said Blanca F. Welbom president
of Med-National.
“It’s designed to make people feel
comfortable and welcome we wanted
to avoid the traditional image of a cold
sterile environment” she said.
Within seconds a ‘BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE’
echoed through the woods.
“Got him!” she yelled.
With that announcement the patrol climbed
to its feet and regrouped.
“On to our next point” Spann said.
For Spann his team and the rest of HHB 31 st
ADA Bde the ‘sniper’ was only the beginning.
During HHB 31st ADA Bde’s field training
exercise Jan. 6-9 soldiers completed more than
20 tasks in common task testing lane training and
nuclear biological chemical training. They also
tested their new M-40 protective mask in the
battery field-expedient gas chamber.
Instead of setting up the typical stations for
CTT and NBC and scheduling a time for the gas
chamber Sgt. Ryan Sutton operations noncom-
missioned officer for the battery said they wanted
to do something different.
“We wanted something more challenging
and realistic than the regular lane training” Sutton
(See 31st ADA Bde A3)
Family members
invited to submit
ideas for summit
By Jane Zanini
Army Family Action Plan
Fort Hood is holding its first Army Fam-
ily Action Plan symposium in March. The
command will use this symposium as an op-
portunity to seek the views and ideas from
people who use installation services and ben-
efit from Army programs.
AFAP is not the same as Army Family
Team Building. They are two separate pro-
grams with two separate goals. AFTB is a
training program that helps soldiers civil-
ians and their family members become bet-
ter acquainted with the Army its lifestyle
and its community. Its goal is to give indi-
viduals the tools they need to be more self
reliant.
AFAP is a forum in which soldiers ci-
vilians and family members come together
to share their ideas and recommendations
with the command. Its goal is to improve
the quality of life here and throughout the
Army.
The Fort Hood AFAP symposium is
March 26-27 at the Fort Hood Officers’
Club. It is designed to look at various areas
of concern such as medical family services
community services and entitlements.
Groups are formed for each area. Del-
(See Symposium A2)
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