The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1991 Page: 1 of 32
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Family ulletins....................................B1
orum ..................................................... A4
Home Front............................................ B1
Hood ulletins..................................... A9
Mayors’ N tes.......................................B1
N ew sm akers....................................... A10
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VOL. 50 NO. 35
*By Beckie Cann
13th COSCOM lic A ffairs
The 21 st Evacuation Hospital
13th Corps Support Command
faced an intensive training sched-
ule the moment its field hospital
training set arrived at the motor
pool March 19.
“EVERYTHING MUST be in
w.«
Staff Sgt. Camilo Ramos(L) and Spec. Robert Olmo
(R) strap pads on an operating-room table while
Spec. Jam es Henry adjusts the lights inside an Inter-
national Standardization Organization shelter.
Recruiting
FORT SHERIDAN 111.—The
Army is offering Desert Storm
veterans the chance to go to their
own hometowns for two weeks.
Putting anew twist on an existing
program soldiers who participated
iri Operation Desert Storm may
apply for the Hometown Recruiter
Aid Program.
The program gives soldiers the
opportunity to return to their
hometowns for two weeks of rest
relaxation and assistance to the
local recruiter.
Soldiers accepted into the pro-
gram will help recruiters by talk-
ing to young people about the Army
using their own experiences to tell
the story of Army benefits and
opportunities. Soldiers spend half
By Lisa M. Harmon
III Corps lic A ffairs
Individuals or groups who feel
they have a money saving idea
can be nominated for the Secre-
tary of Defense Productivity Ex-
cellence Award.
THIS PRESTIGIOUS award
is presented to military personnel
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SERVING THE A N O ARMORED CORPS
Milvans store rugged
hew field hospitals
ventoried and set up signed for
and operational by the end of the
week” said 1 st Sgt. Steven Crago
21st Evac Hosp. ‘This is only the
second time our people have ever
worked on it.”
Approximately 90 percent of the
unit spent a week during January
at Camp Bullis near San Antonio
training in setting up part of a
400-bed state-of-the-art deploy-
(Photo by eck ie Cann)
Hometown assistance program offered
their time helping the recruiter
the other half of the time is
their own.
While the basics of the existing
program haven’t changed the
program now allows soldiers re-
turning from the Middle East to
take advantage of it.
Soldiers pay for their own travel
lodging and meals but receive
regular pay and benefits for the
two weeks. There is no charge
against the soldier’s annual leave.
To qualify for the program
soldiers must:
have deployed for Operation
Desert Storm
be younger than 26
meet the Army’s height and
weight standards
Award promotes money saving ideas
or Department of Defense civilian
employees for ideas that meet the
following criteria which are es-
tablished by the Office of the Sec-
retary of Defense:
—Actions taken are not a nor-
mal part of the nominee’s job re-
quirements.
—Actions taken are self-gener-
mated and have not occurred as a
^esult of direction from a higher
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able medical system (DEPMEDS).
The training set that arrived
on flat-bed trucks originally was
scheduled for delivery to the 44th
Evacuation Hospital a reserve unit
that deployed to Saudi Arabia in
November 1990.
“It’s long overdue” Crago said.
“It’s so practical for field use. The
Army Medical Corps has had high-
tech equipment for along time.
But you can’t take it to the field.
This is going to increase our readi-
ness level and deployability. It
will help provide better overall
healthcare.”
have graduated from a
hometown high school
have a hometown residence
within 30 miles of the nearest Army
recruiting station.
Soldiers can apply through their
chain of command to the Home-
town Recruiter Assistance Pro-
gram representative at their post.
Applications should be on DA Form
4187.
For more information call Staff
Sgt. Robert McLean U.S. Army
Recruiting Command HRAP rep-
resentative at Autovon 459-7357
or commerical (708) 926-7357.
(Army News Service from a
USAREC release)
level.
—Actions taken have resulted
in a minimum of savings of $1
million or more in a 12 month
consecutive period.
A fourth factor taken into con-
sideration is whether the indi-
vidual or group has been recog-
nized for their work by their or-
(See AWARDS A9)
uardsmen
t-
Thursday March 28 1991
The set includes four Interna-
tional Standardization Organiza-
tion (ISO) shelters which provide
enough space for operating room
lab and X-ray divisions. The shel-
ters look like expandable alumi-
num boxes from the outside but
fully equipped medical facilities
on the inside. The ISO shelters
unlike regular field tents provide
a more stable working environ-
ment in all kinds of weather.
Several milvans contain at least
one of every piece of equipment
necessary to operate a full-sized
field hospital. The evacuation
hospital team uses a sophisticated
hydraulic dolly to move the vans
to an appropriate site for the
TEMPER (tent extendable modu-
lar personnel) tents.
TEMPER TENTS feature pop-
up metal frames covered with
insulated layers that provide an
“attic” for air conditioning ducts.
The 21st Evac expects to re-
ceive its own full DEPMEDS set
before the end of 1992. For now
the power generating team the
TEMPER team and the ISO team
will train and cross-train each other
on putting up and taking down
their own hospital facility.
“At least for morale or motiva-
tion this equipment is more bene-
ficial to training (than the old
medical tents the unit used for
training)” said Col. Edmond B.
Cherry III unit commander. This
is the Bradley the Abrams and
the Apache for the Army Medical
Department.”
Sgt. W woody Beckett 3rd Fin Grp NBC
NCO evaluates and questions Spec.
Curtic Davis III orps FSU during an
Army Readiness Training Evaluation Pro
3rd Fin Grp lic A ffairs
Outprocess:
By Marlene M. Jordan
herein are their own and are not to be considered an official expression of the
Department of the Army. The appearance of advertisements and advertising
The 3rd Finance Group Soldiers
Welcome and Care Center (SWCC)
team of III Corps Finance Sup-
port Unit (FSU) has more than
tripled their normal work load.
FINANCE SWCC is currently
separating the reserve and Na-
tional Guard troops who were
called to active duty in support of
“Operation Desert Storm.” This
process is better known as “De-
mobilization.”
‘The impact on the finance
separation (section) has been
enormous. I am glad that I can be
of some help to the soldiers here”
said Sgt. Britt Crowell with the
210th Finance Support Unit (FSU)
National Guard.
The 210th FSU based out of
Jackson Mississippi has been here
since Jan. 4 1990. Commanded
by Lt. Col. John Fraiser the 210 th
has been working closely with the
502nd Finance Support Unit 2nd
Armored Division.
“We have separated approxi-
mately 2000 reservists and Na
Champions
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held.
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ARTEP training
tional Guards thus far and we
expect to separate another 2800”
said Spec. Curtis H. Batie SWCC
finance separation branch. Batie
continued to explain the neces-
sary procedures for getting a sol-
dier separated from active duty
“We must prepare the soldier's
entire finance packet which con-
sists of their discharge certificate
(DD214) orders and a precompu-
tation worksheet before we even
see the soldier.”
THE FINANCE team works
weekends to accomplish the mis-
sion. The Saturday shift gathers
all the information on the sepa-
rating soldier and the Sunday shift
reviews and computes the soldier’s
entitlements. This process takes
approximately 21 to 26 hours for a
group of 700 soldiers.
The separating soldiers receive
a briefing in Building 134 on
Headquarters Avenue by various
SWCC non-commissioned officers.
They are taught the general
outprocessing procedures and how
to decode certain finance docu-
ments. If the soldiers have any
pay inquires or questions at that
Finance soldiers help
demobilization effort'
inserts does not constitute an endorsement by the Department of the Army for
the products or services advertised.”
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(Photo by arlene M. Jordan)
gram March 21. The training em pha-
sized security procedures NBC and
other combat related skills. See related
story A2.
time they can fill out a question-
aire and turn it into the NCO
giving the briefing. Most of their
inquires can be answered before
they come to the SWCC. If neces-
sary the soldiers will be handled
on a one-on-one basis.
Upon completion of the separa-
tion briefing the soldiers then walk
across the street to SWCC. They
will receive their finance packets
to check their information and
make any necessary corrections.
Soldiers have completed finance
out-processing when their pack-
ets have been completely verified.
A FINANCE soldier will then
make inputs to load checks onto
the computer. Each unit has a
Class A agent who will then pick
up the final payment checks for
each soldier in the unit. Soldiers
will be paid the day of their expi-
ration of term of service (ETS).
“Prior to departure from the
Fort Hood area each soldier’s pay
will be totally taken care of” said
Sgt. 1st Class Larry G. Russell
NCOIC of SWCC finance.
Egg hunt
Michaelah daughter of
Paul and 1st Lt. Christine
Wieczorek USA MEDDAC
places an egg in her as-
ket March 23 during the
Pershing Park Easter party.
See related story and
photos B1.
(Photo by Sam antha Shirley-Jo nee)
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