The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1996 Page: 3 of 34
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By Susan Coraci
31st ADA Bde Public Affairs
phen the soldiers of Task
Force 4th Battalion 43rd
Air Defense Artillery de-
ployed to Saudia Arabia to
provide air defense coverage for the gulf
region they left behind their husbands
wives children and friends.
With thousands of miles between Saudi
and Fort Hood and the cost of using civil-
ian telephone companies to call their loved
iones averaging more than $3 a minute
•many families began to lose touch.
However through the Defense Logis-
tics Service Center’s Morale-Call Pro-
gram soldiers were afforded the opportu-
nity to talk to their families for free. Ev-
iery week each soldier received one free
Jphone call to the destination of their choice.
SRPs
(Cont. from A1)
A
Butler training noncommissioned officer for Headquarters
Company 2nd Battalion 8th Cavalry Regiment. “It’s cut the
processing time in half already. I’m certain that once I get all
the data into this new system the processing time will de-
crease even more.”
ARCIS is designed to
receive data once and then
use the information in ev-
ery module.
For example once a
soldier’s name is entered
into the unit’s computer
system it will automatically
be placed into the duty ros-
ter awards weapons quali-
fications and every other applicable module.
The software is designed to track information and instantly
sort it. When a soldier turns in a leave request the duty roster
module will also process that information.
“1st Cavalry Division soldiers are trying to break the sys-
tem” said Capt. Michelle Martin division plans officer. “Pro-
grammers are here from Washington D.C. and they are fix-
ing the software as fast as the soldiers can break it.
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During one of these calls a soldier from
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4-43 ADA attempted to make one of her
weekly phone calls. While she waited for
an open line she and Tobby Potter a tele-
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their conversation turned toward Potter’s
job and what it entailed.
Phillippe said she learned that Potter
and her co-workers are the link between
soldiers deployed all over the world and
their homes.
Two-person teams of telecommunica-
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the system is still working.
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After learning about Potter and her co-
workers Phillippe contacted her first ser-
geant 1st Sgt. William Peterson and her
commander Capt. Bradford Vessels.
“I wanted to see if we could give them
something to thank them” Phillippe said.
“Through Tobby and her co-workers we
were able to call our families and friends.
Being able to call them helped to remind
us that we would eventually return home.”
Phillippe presented the switchboard
operators with Certificates of Apprecia-
tion and battalion coins Dec. 28 after they
returned home.
For Potter and her co-workers it was a
unique experience.
“That was the first time anyone ever
gave us anything” Potter said. “It’s nice
to know that the work we do is appreci-
ated. It makes our job that much more
worthwhile.”
“The soldiers are giving the programmers a run for their
but so far the system is still working.”
One of the major assets of this program is its ability to
deploy with the units Martin said.
ARCIS adheres to Army doctrine
and regulations uses standard data
elements complies with Army stan-
dards for automated systems and
compliments existing systems.
Another asset is that it’s easy to use
Martin said.
The screen layouts and terminol-
ogy were designed for use by clerks
____________ with limited knowledge of automa-
tion.
Instructions and “help” for the users is immediately avail-
able on-line.
Unit members will be able to complete reports that used to
take days in a matter of minutes.
Programmers from PERSCOM are here for a two-week
test of the system. It was originally planned to be a three-
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Bobick, Cpl. Julia. The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1996, newspaper, February 8, 1996; Fort Hood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth310102/m1/3/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Casey Memorial Library.