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Thursday, August 11, 2016
74th Year, Issue 31
www.FortHoodSentinel.com
1ST CAVALRY DIVISION Best Warriors honored at ceremony A5
Fighting nation’s wars one
50-pound round at a time
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Health Works.......
Traveling Soldier.
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Warning system test
The Installation Operation Center
will conduct an installation-wide
test of Fort Hood Mass Warning
and Notification System, Desktop
Alert, Internal Mass Notification
System (little voice) and External
Mass Notification System (giant
voice) Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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Army
Ten-Miler
Textile Recycle Program
You can now drop off garments
at the Fort Hood Recycle scrap
yard. Accepted items include
shirts, shoes, socks, pants, belts,
hats, cotten towels and rags.
Items should be relatively clean
(no oily or heavily contaminat-
ed materials). Items will be spot
checked and rejected if contami-
nated or not clothing related. You
can drop off items from 7:30 a.m.-
4:30 p.m. at Bldg., 4621, 72nd
Street, near Railhead Drive.
For more information, call 287-
2336.
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Photo by Nick Conner, Sentinel News Editor
Part of the new BCT3 exportable kits, the TATT mannequin is a realistic, ani-
matronic medical training mannequin that can move limbs by remote, bleed
and give real-time patient feedback via a wireless headset and microphone.
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BY NICK CONNER
Sentinel News Editor
BY STAFF SGT.
LEAH KILPATRICK
3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
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Carl R. Darnall Army Medical
Center’s Department of Behavioral
Health hosted the annual Behav-
ioral Health Symposium, welcom-
ing more than 100 Fort Hood and
area behavioral health specialists
at the Spirit of Fort Hood Chapel
Aug. 4.
The symposium has become an
annual event since 2014, following
A pallet full of 120mm rounds wait to be loaded and fired from M1A2 tanks
during gunnery. Tankers from 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. recently completed gun-
nery tables to train and qualify tank crews.
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the April 2, 2014, shooting at Fort
Hood.
The symposium is designed to
review topics of behavioral health
strategies and procedures in order
to ignite clinical dialogue and
encourage collaboration among
Fort Hood providers, network
providers, command teams and
off-post clinicians involved in the
clinical care and overall welfare of
Soldiers’ and Families behavioral
health.
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Under a rapid fielding initia-
tive by the U.S. Army Program
Executive Office for Simulations,
Training and Instrumentation,
Fort Hood medics and non-med-
ical Soldiers had a chance to train
on the new Brigade Combat Team
Trauma Training kits - a complete,
modular and exportable training
package that allows Soldiers to
train on the three biggest pre-
ventable battlefield killers; bleed-
ing from a traumatic amputation,
open chest wounds and obstructed
airways.
“Right now, we’re losing 24 per-
cent of those guys that could be
saved because (current) training
might not have been where it
needs to be,” said Staff Sgt. Mark
Rickleman, a BCT3 evaluator
from the Center for Pre-Hospital
Medicine at Fort Sam Houston.
“The preventable deaths, that’s
what we’re trying to save. Those
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Photos by Staff Sgt. Leah Kilpatrick, 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
An M1A2 Abrams tank crew from Co. B, 3-8 Cav. Regt., 3rd BCT, 1st Cav. Div., heads to the first battle position to commence firing during the company’s
gunnery.
3rd annual behavioral health symposium
BY ERIN ROGERS
Sentinel Staff
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presenters, each one bringing dif-
ferent topics to the table to explain
and discuss.
Presented topics included
behavioral health’s role in optimiz-
ing readiness, medication changes,
behavioral health profiles, the role
of the behavioral health officer,
deployment waivers, addictions
and medicine/substance abuse in
the military, levels of care and
develop treatments to help Sol-
diers become more mission-ready
and deployable, are discussions
that leave little room for discon-
nect between providers, Soldiers
and commanders.
“Soldiers being ready to fulfill
the missions of whatever the Army
sends them to do is always the
goal, in every unit,” Martin said,
“and behavioral health is a big part
of that.”
The symposium featured eight
of infantrymen,” said Capt. Jason
Tucker, commander of Company
B, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regi-
ment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team,
1st Cavalry Division.
As a part of an integrated
approach to warfare, Abrams
tanks, along with well-armed, well-
trained tank crews are a valuable
asset to the United States Army as
a fighting force.
Just as Soldiers qualify and
maintain proficiency on their
individual weapons, tanks crews
must also maintain proficiency in
a training event known as gunnery.
During one gunnery iteration, a
“The symposium was put into
place after the Fort Hood shoot-
ing (in 2014), and was intend-
ed to bring together a discussion
between behavioral health provid-
ers and commanders,” said 1st Lt.
Tyler Martin, CRDAMC Behav-
ioral Health.
What the Army and healthcare
providers are doing to address situ-
ations involving trauma, especial-
ly the care afterwards, and how
behavioral healthcare providers
While the nation sleeps, a gritty
group of troops train on heavy
equipment designed to secure and
maintain freedom for millions of
Americans.
Not far from the main canton-
ment area of Fort Hood, M1A2
SEP V3 Abrams tanks are roll-
ing out to put rounds downrange,
and while that fact may not mean
much to the average American, the
result of this training can be widely
appreciated.
“One Abrams tank has more
firepower than an entire squad
BLORA activities open
BLORA activities now open
include the paintball course; the
Challenge Course; mountain bike
trails; camping in cottages or RV’s
in the Hilltop and Deer Park sites;
the Carp boat ramp; and the Lake-
view, Sunnyside, Live Oak and
Hideaway pavilions.
The bass boat ramp; Sierra
Beach; Cedar RV Park; paddle-
boat operations; primitive camping
areas 2-4; and the Lookout, Lake-
front, Live Oak, Pecan, Shoreline,
Pin Oak and Marina pavilions will
remain closed due to flood dam-
ages. Officials note portions of the
park are still under water or cov-
ered in flood debris, visitors are
advised to use caution and abide
by all BLORA rules and regulations.
Troops on Fort Hood got a
look at the Army’s newest medical
training that incorporates realistic
casualty care during a hands-on
training assessment Aug. 4.
Tactical Combat Casualty Care,
also known as TC3, addresses cur-
rent medical training capability
gaps aimed at reducing preventable
deaths on the battlefield, said Maj.
Walter Engle, III Corps director
of clinical operations. Based on
extensive data from the Army’s
75th Ranger Regiment and other
special operations forces, TC3 is
part of an overarching push to
replace combat lifesaver training.
“The intent is to bring a little bit
of experience and knowledge from
the (special operations) commu-
nity to the conventional (force),”
he said. “They’ve seen this work,
now conventional (forces) need to
guys that, if you do the right thing
at the right time, you’re going
to save their life. These are com-
mon tasks that all Soldiers need to
know. We train it, and we train it
to a standard that’s actually going
to be effective and save a life.”
The BCT3 kit is actually two
smaller kits that can be signed out
by unit medics separately. A half-
kit can train up to 30 Soldiers;
with the full kit training 60-90
troops. Each full kit contains
two Traumatic Amputation Task
Trainer mannequins; two “Rescue
Randy,” a bare-bones mannequin
that weighs between 140 and 200
pounds; a detailed moulage kit,
used to simulate burns, gunshot
wounds and various other battle-
field injuries; and a 6-in-l trainer
designed for training on upper
airway obstructions.
“Specialists promotable and
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