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Independence Day Celebration
Fort Hood’s Independence Day Celebra-
tion is set for 4-10 p.m., July 4, at Hood Sta-
dium located behind the Community Events
Center. Activities include H-E-B Cart Races,
children’s inflatables and live entertainment
with opener Joel Crouse and headliner pop
artist Phillip Phillips. The celebration con-
cludes in a 30-minute fireworks display cho-
reographed to patriotic music. The fireworks
show is expected to begin at 9:30 p.m.
Fireworks are paid by profits from the Fort
Hood recycling program. The Independence
Day Celebration is a free event and open to
the public. Members of the general public
in privately owned vehicles must enter and
exit Clear Creek Gate (through the left visi-
tors’ lane for access) or obtain a pass from
the Marvin Leath Visitors Center. Drivers
and passengers 18 and older must have a
valid photo ID. A priority parking area will
be open to all DoD card holders (first come,
first served) as well as a general public park-
ing area open to all (first come, first served).
On-post shuttles also will be running approx-
imately every 15 minutes from 3 to 11 p.m.
All individuals using the bus service under
the age of 18 must be accompanied by
an adult. A complete list of activities and
shuttle stops can be found at http://hood.
armymwr.com/calendar. Prohibited items
include explosive weapons, backpacks, fire-
arms, knives, clubs, brass knuckles, glass
containers (except baby bottles), pets, alco-
hol, fireworks, pop-up/canopy tents. Texas
concealed and open carry of firearms laws
do not apply on Fort Hood.
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Soldiers with the 1st Cav. Div. Combat Aviation Brigade render a salute
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DPW Environmental
BY SGT. 1ST CLASS
MICHAEL GARRETT
1 st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
BY KELBY WINGERT
Sentinel Staff
Approximately 100 Soldiers
with the 1st Cavalry Divi-
sion’s 1st Air Cavalry Brigade
returned home Monday from a
nine-month rotation supporting
Operation Atlantic Resolve in
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Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael Garrett, 1st Cav. Div. Public Affairs
June 18 at Cooper Field. The Soldiers had just returned from a nine-month
rotation supporting Operation Inherent Resolve in Europe
The Air Force’s 11th Air
Support Operations Squadron
“Steel Eagles” assembled as a
formation for the final time
June 21 as the squadron host-
ed an deactivation ceremony at
the Sportsmen’s Center Pavil-
ion on Fort Hood.
The 11th ASOS, which
began as the 11th Communi-
cation Squadron, Air Support
of the U.S. Army Air Corps at
Birmingham Army Air Base,
Alabama, in 1942, has pro-
vided support to Fort Hood
units as the 11th ASOS since
July 1994. The squadron’s Air-
men and Tactical Air Control
Party members worked hand-
in-hand with Army Soldiers
to provide communications air
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combat campaigns.
“Picking up the guidon of
the 11th ASOS, members of
the 11th ASOS fought fierce-
ly as their forbearers had and
added combat streamer after
combat streamer in the mod-
ern era in our war against ter-
rorism. In the plains of Iraq
... during the Surge and in
the mountains of Afghanistan,
along our coastal areas and
more recently, I served with
the Steel Eagles fighting ISIS
in Iraq in 2015-2016,” Ull-
man said. “These amazing Air-
men have knocked down every
obstacle in their way as they
protected these United States
and peace-loving people every-
where in our various wars on
terror. They’ve all served with
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liaison and forward air control
for close air support missions
while deployed in an array of
combat zones with many Fort
Hood and III Corps units over
the past 24 years.
Air Force Col. Aaron Ull-
man, commander of the
3rd Air Support Operations
Group, was the presiding offi-
cer for the event.
“I never really thought I’d
be presiding over the closing
of such a storied unit,” the
colonel said. “I’m not here to
mourn the loss of 11th ASOS,
we’re here to celebrate its exis-
tence and accomplishments.”
Ullman highlighted the
efforts and successes of past
and present 11th ASOS Air-
men since the unit was re-acti-
vated in 1994, as well as the
impact they’ve made in recent
Eugene Collins, deputy assistant sec-
retary of the Army for environmental,
safety and occupational health, presented
Fort Hood with the 2018 Secretary of
the Army for Environmental Quality for
Non-Industrial Installation Award and
reviewed recycle and environmental pro-
grams during a June 22 visit to Fort
Hood.
Collins began his visit at the Pollinator
Sanctuary, thanking biologists, Soldiers
from the Sergeant Andie Murphy Club
and volunteers from Dominion Energy
and Pike Electric for their efforts to cre-
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“I didn’t expect to see all the
different units and other branch-
es,” Rodriguez said. “Seeing
everyone work together toward
a common goal was impressive.”
Approximately 1,900 First
Team personnel have supported
Photo by Kelby Wingert, Sentinel Staff
Airmen of the 11th ASOS salute the squadron’s guidon for the final time during the 11th ASOS inactiva-
tion ceremony at the Sportsmen’s Center Pavilion, June 21.
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Eastern Europe.
Soldiers from multiple units
within the brigade were able to
reunite with their Families in a
ceremony at Cooper Field as the
first group arrived home from
supporting the effort to main-
tain peace and stability in the
region in light of the Russian
intervention in Ukraine.
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ate the sanctuary with a nature trail and
renovate a facility that will be home to an
outreach education center.
Amber Dankert, wildlife management
team supervisor, DPW Natural Resources
Management Branch, explained to Col-
lins how the center will provide hands-
on learning with displays featuring Fort
Hood’s landscape, entomology, wildlife
management, endangered species, aqua-
ponies, recycling, an archaeology box and
a cave with stalactites and stalagmites.
We will have a cool place for the kids
to come in and learn more,” Dankert
said. “It’s a prime location to not only
showcase our environmental programs
but also for Soldiers and their Families
to explore our garden and nature
trail.”
Col. Hank Perry, Fort Hood
garrison commander, and Timi
Dutchuk, chief of environmental
programs, DPW, then accompa-
nied Collins on his tour of Fort
Hood’s single-stream recycle facil-
ity. Speaking to an audience of
recycle and DPW employees and
partners from Carl R. Darnall
Medical Center and the Cen-Tex
Sustainable Communities Part-
nership, Collins congratulated
the team on their win.
“It’s a great pleasure to be here
on behalf of the Secretary of the
Army and tell you what you do is
important,” Collins said. “You are
taking care of recycling so that it
doesn’t get put out in the landfill,
and directly supporting the mis-
sion and warfighter readiness.”
The team’s accomplishments in
2017 include recycling 16,516
For some Soldiers, it was their
first time away from home.
“I’ve never been overseas,” Spc.
Daniel Rodriguez said. “It was
cool to see another part of the
world.”
Rodriguez, a rotary wing
mechanic, said seeing the coor-
dination of all the efforts behind
Operation Atlantic Resolve was
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Photo by Christine Luciano, DPW Environmental
Col. Hank Perry, Fort Hood garrison commander,
presents Eugene Collins, deputy assistant secre-
tary of the Army for ESOH, with a garrison coin
during his tour of the installation’s single-stream
recycle facility.
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