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Thursday, October 27, 2016
74th Year, Issue 43
www.FortHoodSentinel.com
36TH ENGINEER BRIGADE Guard unit partners with engineers A7
Fort Hood-based RNLAF 302nd Sqdn conducts
‘hot & high’ aircraft training in New Mexico
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Texas National Guard Transportation Company partners with active-duty unit
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Infant loss walk..
Adopt-a-pet
Health Works
Traveling Soldier.
Calendar
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Halloween hours on post
The hours for trick-or-treating
on Fort Hood will be 6-8 p.m.
Monday. Officials with the post’s
Directorate of Emergency Services
also announced they will have an
x-ray machine set up and manned
by military police in the main
entrance to the III Corps and Fort
Hood Headquarters (Bldg. 1001),
from 6:15-8:30 p.m. Monday for
parents with safety concerns over
the contents of their child’s treats.
Remembrance run, walk, roll
The Fisher House Remembrance
Run, Walk or Roll will be at 8 a.m.
Nov. 5 at Sadowski Field in front of
III Corps and Fort Hood Headquar-
ters. The event is free.
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Courtesy photo
Dutch troops from the 302 Sqdn., RNLAF, participate in mission qualification training under brown out conditions in and
around the Valles Caldera mountain range near Albuquerque, N.M. The Fort Hood-based Dutch unit was conducting “hot
& high” training for their air crews to maintain proficiencies in challenging environments.
Military Family Fun Walk
The Military Family Appreciation
Month Fun Walk will be held Mon-
day on Sadowski Field in front of
III Corp and Fort Hood headquar-
ters (Bldg. 1001) starting at 9 a.m.
Join in this celebration in honor
of military Families across the
globe. For more information, call
287-3985.
Photos by Sgt. James Strunk, 36th Sust. Bde.
ABOVE, Troopers with the 1st Cav. Div. Horse Detachment stand ready as the
color guard for the 249th Trans. Co., Texas Army National Guard re-patching at
1st Cav. Div. Headquarters located on Fort Hood. RIGHT, Lt. Col. Daryl Morse,
commander, STB., 1st Cav. Sust. Bde., salutes the Soldiers of 249th Trans. Co.,
Texas Army National Guard.
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BY SGT. JAMES STRUNK
36th Sust. Bde.
Since 1942
BY LT. COL.
PETER GRIJSPAARDT
Commander, 302nd Squadron,
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Soldiers of the 249th Transporta-
tion Company made an historic
change for the Texas Army National
Guard when they re-patched under
1st Cavalry Sustainment Brigade,
1st Cavalry Division, during a cer-
emony at Fort Hood Oct. 16.
“I am anxious and excited just
to see where that ultimately takes
us — the opportunity that we have
now because of this. What we can
teach them as well as what they can
teach us,” said Texas Army National
Guard Capt. Lucas Hamilton, com-
mander of the 249th Trans. Co.
The three-year program pairs an
active-duty unit with those in the
Army Reserve and Army National
Guard so they can train togeth-
with slower and more careful per-
formance of aerial maneuvers.
“The training teaches the
Apache and Chinook crews how
to cope with the techniques of fly-
ing in mountainous areas, such as
limited engine power and limited
availability of the weapons and
sensors,” said Maj. Jaap Lokker, S3
Air, 302nd Sqdn.
“When flying in high altitudes,
even the Chinook has limited
power. This is caused by the thin
air and lack of oxygen for the
engines when operating in higher
altitudes,” he added.
The area around Albuquerque
fits all the requirements to con-
duct this challenging training. It
not only provides access to high
grounds with high mountains, but
also to a desert area perfect for so-
called “brown-out” training.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
AH-64 Apache attack helicopters
and CH-47 Chinook heavy lift
helicopters assigned to the 302nd
Squadron, Royal Netherlands Air-
force, performed “hot & high”
and “brown-out” mission quali-
fication training in, and around,
the Valles Caldera mountain ridge
near Albuquerque, New Mexico,
Aug. 24-Sept. 17.
“Hot & High” training is con-
ducted at hotter temperatures and
higher elevations to replicate the
challenging flight environments
that are found in areas of the
world like Iraq and Afghanistan.
The hotter and higher the ter-
rain, the more taxed the aircraft is,
requiring more deliberate planning
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Photo by Kelby Wingert, Sentinel Staff
Capt. Li Xu, U.S. Army Operational Test Command, pulls vines off of a fence at the ballpark next to Duncan Elementary School on Make A Difference Day
Saturday. The OTC group was one of dozens of Fort Hood groups working on volunteer service projects to make a difference throughout the greater Fort
Hood area. Check out page Bl for the full story.
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