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National Night Out
Fort Hood residents can meet their
neighbors and celebrate the year’s
largest stand against crime at the
post’s National Night Out from 6-9
p.m. Tuesday at Hood Stadium.
There will be free food, safety dis-
plays, K-9 demonstrations and a
costume contest.
There will also be cop and kid
activities, a photo booth, and the
Billy the Bad Guy lock up.
In attendance will be McGruff the
Crime Dog and the National Knight.
For more information, email rsvp.
events@forthoodfh.com.
Mid-Post Express to close
The Mid-Post Express, located at
42nd Street and 761st Tank Battal-
ion Avenue, will close Friday.
The store will also cease fuel oper-
ations.
Firestone and Pacific Audio at that
location will remain open.
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ABOVE, Sgt. 1st Class Robin Blair, a watercraft engineer assigned to the 21st
TSC’s transportation integration battalion, watches an M2A3 Bradley Fighting
Vehicle from 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. disembark the Arc Courage vessel Sept.
unit from Fort Hood en route to
the Republic of Korea for a nine-
mouth tour.
“It is said that the very soul of a
unit is symbolized in its colors and
its battle streamers,” said Lt. Col.
Elliot Rogers, commander of 3-8
Cav. Regt. “These colors remind
Garrison Command Golf Scramble
The Fort Hood Garrison Command
Golf Scramble will have a shotgun
start at 10 a.m. Oct. 17 at the
Courses of Clear Creek.
The cost is $40 per participant.
The event is open to all.
On-site registration is begins at 9
a.m. Oct. 17.
The scramble includes prizes for
closest to fairway center, longest
drive (his and hers), longest putt
made, and closest to the pin.
Three Mulligans are available for
$5 and six for $10. Also, buy an
eagle hole is available on both the
front and back nine holes, each for
$20 per team.
For more information or to sign up,
call the Courses of Clear Creek at
287-4130 or 539-1983.
Oktoberfest 2014
Oktoberfest, the largest fall festival
of the year on post, will be held
from 5-10 p.m. Friday at Sports-
men’s Pavilion and picnic grounds,
Bldg. 1947, 53rd Street.
The event includes food, beer,
an animal adoption fair, tailgat-
ing games, kids’ arts and crafts, a
pumpkin patch, a strong-man com-
petition, German music played by
the Fort Hood 1st Cavalry Band, and
a disc jockey.
The festival is free and open to the
public.
For more information, call 288-
7835.
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Photo by Sgt. Brandon Banzhaf, 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
A Soldier with the 3-8 Cav. Regt., 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div., stands as an usher at
the battalion’s color casing ceremony on Cooper Field, Sept. 25 at Fort Hood.
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21st TSC Public Affairs
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3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
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BREMERHAVEN, Germany —
Before sunrise at the port, the work
of Soldiers and civilians has already
begun. From the massive vessel “Arc
Courage,” the front gate and ramp
slowly lowers down, and the first
pieces of cargo pour out. As various
combat vehicles get their first touch
of European soil, it is clear the cav-
alry has arrived.
The 21st Theater Sustainment
Command partnered with their The-
ater Logistic Support Center-Europe
and Surface Deployment Distribu-
tion Command’s 838th Transporta-
tion Battalion, 589th Transportation
Combined Resolve III.
The first piece of movement for
the Ironhorse Brigade equipment
was the journey across the Atlantic
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Ocean, facilitated by the SDDC.
More than 370 pieces of equipment
including humvees, M1A2 Abrams
Tanks, M2 A3 Bradley Fighting
Vehicles, generators, construc-
tion equipment, water buffalos and
armored personnel carriers arrived
Sept. 23 in Bremerhaven, Germany.
Local national port workers down-
loaded each piece of equipment and
staged them in preparation for the
next step of the trip.
“The SDDC coordinated this ves-
sel to move the 1/1 Cav. equip-
ment from Texas into Europe.
We are discharging each piece of
gear from the vessel, making sure
it is staged and ready for onward
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Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 8th
Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade
Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion cased the battalion’s colors
Sept. 25 on Cooper Field at Fort
Hood. The casing of the colors
symbolized the departing of the
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equipment to Europe in support
of Operation Atlantic Resolve and
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Photo by Staff Sgt. Daniel Wallace, Command Information NCOIC
Sgt. 1st Class Carlos Evans, a member of the Sergeant Audie Murphy Club, affix-
es a pin on Nylah Yuille, a sixth-grader, after she was named one of the Falcons
of the Month for Audie Murphy Middle School Monday at Fort Hood.
Operation United Assistance
On Wednesday, III Corps officials
announced that several of its units
have been notified for possible
deployment in support of Operation
United Assistance, a U.S. govern-
ment effort to combat Ebola out-
breaks in West Africa. Those units
include:
• Multiple headquarters elements
and units from the 36th Engineer
Brigade from Fort Hood and Fort
Carson, Colorado.
• An element from the 1st
Armored Division Aviation Brigade
from Fort Bliss.
• An element from the 1st Medi-
cal Brigade from Fort Hood.
• A small element from the 85th
Civil Affairs Brigade from Fort
Hood.
Wednesday’s announcement
noted that III Corps units potential-
ly deploying in support of Opera-
tion United Assistance will receive
specific medical training and uti-
lize specialized personal protec-
tion equipment to ensure they are
protected before, during, and after
the deployment.
SAMC is a club that is always
ready to lead from the front, and
Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jones, the Fort
Hood SAMC president, said that
as SAMC, they have to be more
involved with the school named
after their club’s namesake.
“We have to get
show people that we
munity service,” Jones said.
want to give back and want to rec-
ognize students doing outstanding
things.
“My overall intent is to give back
and recognize great students,” he
Normally at an awards presenta-
tion on a military installation, it
is a service member, government
service civilian or spouse receiving
an award.
That was not the case Monday as
the Fort Hood Sergeant Audie Mur-
phy Club recognized six students of
the Audie Murphy Middle School
during a lunchtime presentation.
The students, one boy and girl
from sixth, seventh and eighth
grade, were recognized as the Fal-
cons of the Month for September.
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TSC, Surface Deployment Distribution Command and 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div.
inspect an M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Sept. 23 at Bremerhaven Port.
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