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All of our Cub Scouts
are all children of
Soldiers, so the big
thing we’re trying
to teach our kids is
saving our resources
and helping protect
the planet.
Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted advisor to the chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to Sgt. Jason Luong, the Fort Hood Radio
morning Show host, during his visit to Fort Hood and Central Texas Friday.
Armando Ramirez carries bags of recyclables into the Fort Hood Recycle Center
Friday as part of the center’s celebration of America Recycles Day. The day was
used to educate and encourage members of the community to recycle.
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Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted advisor to the chair-
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Families.
“The Soldiers may be the strength
of our military, but the Families are
the strength of our Soldiers,” Gainey
said.
A special moment came during
his trip when Battaglia visited the
Temple Veterans Affairs Hospital.
While there, he toured the new
Veterans Assisted Living Home and
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other projects.
The Belton Chamber representa-
tives pointed out the great support
system they have in place for military
Families. The members of the BCC
wanted to show Battaglia that while
many communities take care
Soldiers, their focus was
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Recycles Day,” Pollyanna Reedy,
assistant business manager, Fort
Hood Directorate of Public Works
— Environmen-
tal Division. “We
are, for the first
50 people, giving
them 60 cents a
can, and after that,
it drops back to
50 cents per alu-
minum can, which
is what we usually
pay for aluminum
cans.
“The mission for
today is to edu-
cate and encourage
people to recycle
and buy recycled
goods.”
Reedy said the
center’s Ameri-
ca Recycles Day
events vary in par-
ticipation every
year, but the orga-
nization amped up
its efforts this go-
around to see more
members of the
Fort Hood Family
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the term “job fair” and move to “hir-
ing fair.” Using this term is his and
the DoD’s hope that actual jobs will
be brought to these events, ready to
hire on the spot.
One issue that arose from the
meeting was many service members
separating from the military think
they will automatically transition to
a job paying them equal if not better
wages. It was pointed out that ser-
vice members may have to start out
with lower wages for their first job or
two post military - at least until the
service member finds the right job.
During his visit to the Belton
Chamber of Commerce, Battaglia
was briefed by retired Command
Sgt. Maj. William “Joe” Gainey,
the first appointed SEAC, and BCC
members.
Gainey assured the current SEAC
a brick would be laid for him in Bel-
ton’s Patriot Way Brickwalk Project.
The BCC briefed Battaglia about
various topics including their Patriot
Plaza and Gateway, the Belton Area
Military Spouses Support network,
their Fort Hood adopted unit and
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able to talk with two of its
was a Navy veteran
retired Army ser-
was able to make
as he joked about
the Midshipmen beating the Black
Knights during their Dec. 14 match-
up.
As he left Central Texas, Battaglia
said that though Fort Hood is a large
installation, and while he only spent
a short time here, he does have a
couple of takeaways.
“Fort Hood serves as one of
DoD’s installations with rolling out
our new and improved transition
GPS ‘Goals, Plans, and Success’
program,” Battaglia said. “For the
Soldier, this is the ACAP ‘Army
Career Alumni Program’ in which
every service member needs prior to
separation. I was pretty impressed
at the way the program is gaining
momentum.”
and we’re encouraging people to
guess the weight ... because every-
thing that’s here is based on weight,
as far as how much is processed and
how much is paid, so we think it’s
important for people to know the
weight of their recyclables. That
will hopefully encourage them
not to be putting them in the land-
fill.”
Beginning at approximately 10
a.m., children from Sugar Loaf Ele-
mentary showed up at the center
and took a tour of the facility. When
thinking about recycling, don’t only
think about today, but also think
about the future, Reedy said.
“If they know the benefits of
it and what happens to it after it
recycles, and then also, our goal is
also to look at the landfills and, you
know, your stuff is buried there for
years,” Reedy said. “Just think, your
grandchildren’s house may be sit-
ting on top of a landfill if we keep
going the way we’re going.”
Those who dropped off recyclable
goods included individuals, service
ian suit as seamless as possible. He
wants them to be able to walk out
into society with transparency and
become productive members.
After the radio station, the SEAC
visited the Fort Hood Comprehen-
sive Soldier Fitness Training Facility.
He was briefed by its staff and the
additional organizations with which
the facility works hand-in-hand.
“Comprehensive fitness is already
militarywide. Each of the services
has their own versions of resiliency
programs,” Battaglia said. “Large
or small bases, detachments, even
naval vessels afloat, the resiliency
programs and models can be used
anywhere a service member or Fam-
ily is assigned. What I saw at Fort
Hood that I would like to see at
other places is some of the elements
of the Army Wellness Program.”
The AWP at Fort Hood has six
core programs: health assessment
review, physical fitness testing, nutri-
tion education, stress management,
tobacco education and general well-
ness education.
Currently, the AWP is not stan-
dardized, but it is a pilot program
on a small select number of instal-
lations.
After lunch, Battaglia toured the
local communities, first meeting
with the Harker Heights Chamber of
Commerce. Battaglia’s hot topic was
jobs for service members leaving the
military. He asked what the HHCC
and local communities, along with
the military, could do to help lower
the number of unemployed service
members post separation.
The HHCC said they were put-
ting together more job fairs to help.
In response, the SEAC Battaglia said
the DoD wishes to move away from
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Photos by Sgt Jordan Johnson, Sentinel Assistant Editor
Members of the Fort Hood community line up to at the entrance of the Fort Hood Recycle Center Friday to deliver recy-
clables as part of America Recycles Day. The first 50 customers that day received extra money for their disposable items.
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Photos by Staff Sgt Daniel Wallace, Sentinel Assistant Editor
Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan Battaglia, the senior enlisted advisor to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks to the
Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce Friday.
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members representing their units,
business organizations and Cub
Scout leadership.
“The Cub Scout Pack has been
collecting aluminum cans from vari-
ous locations as an annual fund-
raiser type affair for the pack for a
year now,” said George Covert Jr.,
chartered organization representa-
tive and committee chairman, Cub
Scout Pack 251. “When we saw
this, we decided to take advan-
tage of it and expand our recycling
efforts.
“It’s a great event. We’re glad to
be a part of it and hope that if we
don’t win, at least we collect some
money so that we can take it back to
the pack and do some things that we
need (to do.)”
Lt. Col. Bryan Radliff, an opera-
tions officer with III Corps, also
dropped off recyclables for Cub
Scouts.
“All of our Cub Scouts are all
children of Soldiers, so the big thing
we’re trying to teach our kids is
saving our resources and helping
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in attendance.
“Every year is different,” Reedy
said. “We had one year that we
had people lined up all the way to
Santa Fe waiting to turn in their
cans, and we’ve
had some years
where it took us
all day to get 50
people. This year,
we’ve done a lot
of advertising and
we’ve added addi-
tional things onto
our tours and
our program for
today, so we’re
hoping to get
more people in
today.
“We have tours
that are open to
the public. We
also have lunch
that we will be
serving after 11
o’clock. We also
‘guess the
game,’
we will
protect the planet,” said Radliff,
who was representing Cub Scout
Pack 221. “Specifically, what we’ve
taught all of our kids is what we’re
trying to do here on Fort Hood - by
2020, we’re in the process of closing
down our dumps so that we’re not
putting all of our trash back into the
Earth, and instead, we’re recycling.”
America Recycles Day was a great
chance for members of the commu-
nity to come together for the good
of the environment. Recycling is a
team effort, and by recycling, the
team will help preserve the Great
Place, Reedy said.
“For the recycle program to be
successful, we need everybody to
participate. It takes more than one
person to make a difference. If we
all pull together, we’ll make a huge
difference,” Reedy said. “I want to
make a difference in Fort Hood. I
was actually one of the few people
that were born and raised (ar Fort
Hood), and I’m still here. I would
like to see it here for my grandchil-
dren.”
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