Fort Meade SoundOff October 18, 2012

UPCOMING EVENTS TOday, 1-3 P.M.:

Red Ribbon Campaign kickoff - McGill Training Center, classroom 6

FrIday, 4-6 P.M.:Right Arm Night - The Conference Center

FrIday, 6-10 P.M.:“Meade’s Gone Country” -

The Conference Center

OCT. 27, 8 a.M.:Ghost, Ghoul & Goblin 5K Run/

1-Mile Walk - The Pavilion

OCT. 27, 9:30 a.M.:Pet Costume Contest - The Pavilion

EMPOwErINGEnergy Action Month

promotes conservation efforts for a sustainable future

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SEaSONEd lEadErNew garrison CSM

leverages his experiences to improve Soldiers’ lives

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fish tales

photo by brian krista

Seven-year-old Wyatt Finnell casts his line into Burba lake on Saturday during the Youth Fishing Rodeo. The lake was stocked with more bluegills on Friday night to improve chances to catch a “big one” and enjoy a day at the lake. nearly 100 young anglers competed in the biannual event that awarded the biggest catches in three age groups, as well as the smallest catch of the day.

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By the end of the week, we will have done a little bit of everything and accom-plished much good will. It’s amazing to me how much we are able to accomplish each week.

We began the week with a continua-tion of activities related to Energy Action Month. Great exhibits are still on display at McGill Training Center. The open house, hosted by the Directorate of Public Works, is an opportunity to learn how you can reduce energy and water consump-tion, and help Fort Meade reach its energy conservation goals of 30 percent reduction by 2015.

This afternoon, we will celebrate Nation-al Red Ribbon Week with a great program sponsored by Army Community Service and Fort Meade’s Army Substance Abuse Program at McGill Training Center.

National Red Ribbon Week is the old-est and largest drug-prevention campaign in the country. Traditionally, Red Ribbon Week takes place the last full week in October, with the weekends before and after the last full week included as appro-priate celebration dates.

This year, Red Ribbon Week will be celebrated from Saturday to Oct. 28 and is themed, “The Best Me is Drug Free.”

Red Ribbon Week serves as a vehicle for communities and individuals to take a stand and make a commitment to support drug prevention, and to take a personal pledge to live a drug-free life, with the ultimate goal being the creation of a drug-free America.

The week commemorates the ultimate sacrifice made by Special Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena of the Drug Enforce-ment Administration, who died at the hands of drug traffickers in Mexico in 1985 while fighting the battle against ille-gal drugs to keep our country and children safe.

By wearing a red ribbon next week and in the last week in October, Americans demonstrate their passionate opposition to drugs, pay homage to Special Agent Camarena and honor all the men and women who have died in support of our nation’s campaign against drug trafficking and abuse.

Later this afternoon I will participate in the dedication of Howie Hall in which we will memorialize the office building of American Federation of Government Employees Local 1622 in the name of Lon-nie Howie Sr. Howie served as president of the AFGE Local 1622 from 1989 to

2011.Our recog-

nition of the service of an o u t s t a n d i n g civil servant is in keeping with the finest traditions of Fort Meade and the United States Army. The dedication recognizes Mr. Howie for his commitment to AFGE Local 1622 and to improved employee-management relations.

Tomorrow I will be part of an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of Sarah’s House.

The mission of Sarah’s House is to pro-vide safe shelter, daily meals and personal as well as professional casework support for those in need.

Sarah’s House is one of three shelters in the United States supported by the U.S. Army. Fort Meade began its partnership with Anne Arundel County to provide space in 1985, making unused World War II-era barracks available for use.

Anne Arundel County then partnered with Catholic Charities to run the tran-sitional housing that is now known as Sarah’s House.

One of the great things about this event is how it illustrates Fort Meade’s long partnership with communities and organi-zations outside our gates.

Not only do we provide an infrastruc-ture and security that are essential to Sarah’s House, it is not uncommon to see our service men and women volunteering their time to support Sarah’s House. It’s a wonderful example of how folks care about those who are less fortunate and how we are invested in our community.

Friday evening I’m inviting all of you to come celebrate “Meade’s Gone Country” with me at the Fort Meade Conference Center. The event is open to everyone age 18 and older and features country music, mechanical bull contests, line dance les-sons, bull’s-eye contests and more.

There’s a saying, “There’s more to being a cowboy than just wearing the boots.”

“Meade’s Gone Country” is your oppor-tunity to “cowboy” or “cowgirl” up.

I hope to see you Friday at The Confer-ence Center having a Yippie-Yi-Yay good time!

Talk about a busy week

COL. Edward C. rOthstEin

Garrison Commander

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News

By Brandon BieltzStaff Writer

When Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas J. Latter moved to Fort Meade in early September, he returned to where he had served twice before. But the installation has a new look since his tour with the 742nd Military Intelligence Battalion in 1989.

“It has changed so much,” he said of the area.

More than two decades after first arriving at Fort Meade, Latter’s role on post is different as well. As the new garrison command sergeant major, Lat-ter steps in as the installation’s senior enlisted advisor following the departure of former Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Charles E. Smith.

Latter is focused on drawing from his past experiences as a young service member to improve the lives of the enlisted Soldiers, as well as partnering with the outside community to move the installation forward.

“As a senior enlisted leader, I’m interested in improving the quality of life for the enlisted workforce here on Fort Meade,” said Latter, 44. “Things like the barracks programs and Bet-ter Opportunities for Single Soldiers are things that are near to my heart — things that affected me when I was here as a young Soldier.”

Garrison Commander Col. Edward C. Rothstein said he will lean on Lat-ter’s extensive experience for advice and action.

“Command Sergeant Major Latter was selected by our Army for this assignment, and I couldn’t have made a better choice,” he said. “Command Ser-geant Major Latter’s biggest attribute is in his attitude and experience. These combined will provide the candidness, can-do approach, and counsel that I look for every day while supporting our great Team Meade community.”

Latter said it “feels great” to be back on Fort Meade with his wife, Terri.

“I have a lot of great memories here,” he said. “I dated my wife for three years while we were here. … There’s just a lot of things in the area we like. There’s so much to do here with Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, D.C.”

The New York native began his 27-

‘Seasoned leader’

Garrison gains new command sergeant major


Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas J. Latter sits at his desk at garrison headquarters after taking over as garrison command sergeant major last month. Latter plans to focus on partnerships with the outside community.

year military career in 1985 when the 17-year-old followed in the footsteps of his father, brother and uncles.

Joining the Army was something Latter always wanted to do as far back as when he played with plastic toy sol-diers while growing up in a farmhouse in Selkirk, a few miles outside Albany.

“It’s kind of a family thing,” he said. “I also came out of high school at 17 and was still too young to go to col-lege. I didn’t have my mind right on how to learn and spending money, so I wanted to join the Army and go see the world.”

Trained as an electronic-warfare sig-nals intelligence analyst, Latter was first assigned to the 125th MI Battal-ion, 25th Infantry Division (Light) at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

From 1989 to 1992, he served with the 742nd MI on Fort Meade, interested in working with the National Security Agency. During his tour with the unit, Latter lived on the NSA side of the installation. He said his old room in the barracks is now somebody’s office.

Latter then served with the 125th MI Battalion, 344th MI Battalion, 3rd MI Battalion, 1st Brigade Troops Battalion, 741st MI and the 743rd MI Battalion.

Throughout his long career, Latter has served in various key leadership and analytic positions including electronic-warfare signal-intelligence analyst; battalion training noncommissioned officer; senior voice analyst; instruc-tor and developer of Basic Electronic Warfare SIGINT Course and Funda-mental Military Cryptanalyst Course; chief Medina Regional SIGINT Opera-tions Center (or MRSOC) Cryptana-lytic Exploitation Center; superinten-dent MRSOC global missions division; operations sergeant major; and battal-ion command sergeant major.

His tours took him around the coun-try and to Korea three times.

Latter comes to Fort Meade after serving as the command sergeant major with the 743rd MI, a subordinate of the Fort Meade-based 704th MI Group, at Buckley Air Force Base located outside

of Aurora, Colo.“His experiences in both community

and joint-based environments from his most recent assignment in Aurora, Colorado brings a mature and seasoned leader that I can count on for counsel and care of our service members, their families and the community at large,” Rothstein said.

After less than a month as the instal-lation senior enlisted advisor, Latter said partnerships will play a crucial role in achieving success during his tenure.

“We have over 95 partners that are on the garrison, ranging from units as large as the NSA to detachments that are as small as 20 or 30 Airmen, that are here to support other units,” he said. “Partnering all those organiza-tions to work together and the outside community, both Anne Arundel Coun-ty and Howard County — there is a lot more innovation that has to go on.”

Although the Base Realignment and Closure process is completed, said Lat-ter, Fort Meade must continue to focus on the future.

“It’s going to take a lot of effort over the coming years to keep the ball rolling and keep it moving in the right direction not only for us, but for the community in which we serve,” he said.

Enhancing relations with the outside community is a major focus point for Latter to find ways to “grow togeth-er.”

“Too many times you’ll have an orga-nization that goes in its own direction, and I don’t think that you can do that today,” he said. “I think you have to go forward together.”

‘As a senior enlisted leader, I’m interested in improving the quality of life for the enlisted workforce here on Fort Meade.’

Garrison Command sgt. Maj. thomas J. Latter


News

Oct. 11, Larceny of private prop-erty: An investigation revealed that the victim parked and secured his vehicle adjacent to Burba Lake. Unknown persons removed a messenger bag from the front passenger seat contain-ing a 15-inch laptop computer, one bottle of Oxycodone (10 mg.), one bottle of Gabapentin (600 mg.), one bottle of Tizanidine (4 mg.), one pair of cargo pants and a Yankees T-shirt.

Oct. 13, Underage consumption of alcohol: The Directorate of Emergency Services was notified of a juvenile curfew violation in the DES parking lot. An investi-gation revealed that the juvenile did not want to go to a party

with his friend and was dropped off on the side of the road. The house party had 21 juveniles and 13 young adults in attendance. Alcohol was pres-ent and there were no individuals older than 21 years of age in the residence. The home owner was not present.

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Trouble Ticket

Youth Services Sports Complex needs renovations

Renovate the Youth Services Sports Complex

Actual use of fields is expected to be Spring 2013

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solve them.

Issue: Plan: Status:

McGill Training Center HVAC is inoperative

(except in the ballroom)

Install a new HVAC Demolition and installation are now being performed,

classrooms 1-5 closed during A/C installation

Chaplain’s Word: HELPING OTHERS

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of this

life that no one can sincerely try to help another

without helping himself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The award, which is presented for excellence in food service, is named after a former president of the Interna-tional Food Service Executives Asso-ciation.

This is the DFAC’s fifth year com-peting for the coveted award. In fiscal year 2011, the Freedom Inn won first place in the Large Garrison Category.

This year’s competitors in the “Civilian-Operated” Dining Facilities Category are: U.S. Army Garrison Grafenwoehr, Germany; DFAC 50, Fort McCoy, Wis.; Presidio of Monterey,

Calif.: Army Drill Sergeant School, Fort Jackson, S.C.; and Casey Main Dining Facility, Camp Casey, Korea.

The Freedom Inn will be evalu-ated Nov. 8 by three judges from the program’s co-sponsors: the Interna-tional Food Service Executives Associa-tion and the U.S. Army Quartermaster School.

The dining facility staff is prepar-ing for the evaluation by practicing the “Connelly Meal” for the next three Thursdays: today, Oct. 25 and Nov. 1. The meals will be served at the facility.

All facets of food service operation will be evaluated within 10 categories, from supervision and training to food preparation.

By Dwight Wongus, DirectorDirectorate of Logistics

The Freedom Inn Dining Facility is preparing to compete for the pres-tigious Philip A. Connelly Award for Excellence in Army Food Service.

The Freedom Inn was nominated to represent Installation Management Command’s Northeast Region and is one of seven dining facilities competing worldwide for the 45th Annual Con-nelly Award.

Freedom Inn serves practice meals for Connelly Award

Once again, the Freedom Inn Dining Facility has been nominated to compete for the prestigious Philip A. Connelly Award for Excellence in Army Food Service. The Armywide competition has several categories including large garrison, small garrison and field kitchens. In fiscal year 2011, the Freedom Inn took first place in the Large Garrison Category.

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By Brandon BieltzStaff Writer

October is no longer just about being aware of energy conservation.

Renamed “Energy Action Month,” October is now designated as a time to actively partake in energy conservation.

“The purpose of this month is educa-tion,” said Assaf Dvir, energy manager for the Directorate of Public Works.

The Fort Meade campaign features an open house hosted by DPW to show the community and facility managers how the installation is taking action to help conserve energy and what the average person can do to make an impact.

The open house will continue Mon-day and Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at McGill Training Center.

“We’ve got two kinds of things going on,” said Tony Karwoski, resource effi-ciency manager for DPW. “We have energy technology, then we have our load management display.”

In a letter to the Army community, Army senior leaders said Energy Action Month is an opportunity for everyone to evaluate their daily energy and water usage, as the DoD is the largest con-sumer of energy in the country.

The letter was signed by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III and Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh.

“Overreliance on resources, fossil fuels and connections to vulnerable electric power grids jeopardizes Soldiers’ lives, mission effectiveness and the continued viability of our installations,” according to the letter. “Conservation, efficiency, sustainability, technology advancements and behavioral change are the pathways to creating an energy- and water-secure Army.”

During the open house, a DPW staff-er will be available to explain the solar projects and answer energy and conser-vation questions.

DPW encourages facility managers to visit the open house because they are the ones who can initiate effective change, Dvir said.

In addition to the permanent displays, the open house also features displays from rotating organizations including Picerne Military Housing, Baltimore

Going GreenEnergy Action Month promotes strategies for environmental well-being


Tony Karowski, Fort Meade’s resource efficiency manager, discusses new types of lighting with Andy Stunda of Child, Youth and School Services during last week’s energy open house.

Gas and Electric Co., and American Water.

“It will be slightly different every time,” Karwoski said.

The open house also showcases sev-eral projects that are helping conserve energy on post, including solar energy to power facilities.

“We have the largest solar terminal in the country right now at Gaffney [Fitness Center],” Karwoski said. “It’s technology that was 20 years in the making.”

The solar panels, installed on Gaff-ney’s roof, delivers more than $7,000 per month in measured energy-cost savings. In addition, solar photo voltaic lighting was installed at the outdoor yards of

two barracks at the Defense Information School and Youth Services.

“We’re trying to make people aware and understand that we’re using renew-able energy,” Dvir said.

It is expected that the $128,000 stu-dent barracks project and the $83,000 Youth Services project will return their investments in seven years.

“Green energy is also about saving green money,” Karwoski said. “We’re trying to use energy more efficiently, but we’re also trying to save money and talk about energy economics.”

For more information about Energy Action Month and ways you can reduce energy and water consumption, call 301-677-9569.

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By Philip H. JonesCommand Information ChiefPublic Affairs Office

Fort Meade’s Annual Soldier Readiness Processing, which updates records and immunizations of Fort Meade’s active-duty Soldiers, will begin Friday at McGill Training Center.

Hours of operation through Oct. 25 are 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily; and Oct. 26 from 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Units have reserved blocked time in advance for the event.

“The basic concept of the SRP is indi-vidual preparedness,” said Chris Thiel, garrison chief of training. “The SRP is a great way to help Soldiers stay up-to-date

for deployments, and helps commanders identify and correct issues that hurt unit readiness.”

Thiel said he expects to see approxi-mately 3,000 Soldiers at the event.

Soldiers may save time and shorten long lines by using the garrison “early bird” checklist to get some things done beforehand.

The checklist, which was developed dur-ing pre-event planning with units, requests unit Soldiers to complete some processing in advance (HIV, vision, hearing and den-tal screenings and MILPO records).

They should also fill out forms before arriving (DD93, SGLI, Exceptional Fam-ily Member Program data, family readi-

ness group data and a legal checklist).The checklist is available through indi-

vidual unit administrative offices that are participating in the SRP.

“There’s a lot we can do to stream-line this,” Thiel said. “Just printing your MEDPROS and filling out your DD93 the night before will save hours overall. DD93s and SGLI verified on or after August 1 are considered up-to-date. Oth-erwise, take a minute and fill in the DD93 at home where you have time and the right info.”

Staff will be on hand to help Soldiers update their records with all the required information, from medical clearances to emergency contact information.

Organizers emphasize that preparing Soldiers for possible deployment is a holis-tic process. While focused on updating records, the installation includes elements of its resiliency program in the process.

Representatives and literature take-aways will be available to share informa-tion about various programs including resiliency campus maps, a resiliency sur-vey, transition assistance, suicide preven-tion, Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention, and upcoming Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Train-ing.

For more information about the SRP, call Christopher Thiel at 301-677-4381 or Don Eisenhart at 301-677-3702.

Soldier Readiness Processing to begin

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Garrison leaders join AAFES officials at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Exchange: Robert Reed, project manager; Larry Ronke, store manager; Jonathan D. Bright, Exchange general manager; Deputy Garrison Commander John Moeller; Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas J. Latter; and T.J. Singh, director of the Directorate of Public Works.

By Philip H. JonesCommand Information ChiefPublic Affairs Office

Fort Meade garrison leaders joined offi-cials representing the Army and Air Force Exchange for a ceremonial groundbreaking on Tuesday for the new AAFES Exchange.

The ceremony marked the official begin-ning of the project as Walbridge, the general contractor, received its “notice to proceed” on the $26 million contract to build a new shop-ping center on Fort Meade.

The new facility will be built at the site of the current parking lot. Construction is sched-uled to be completed in the fall of 2014.

The Exchange will remain open during construction, said general manger Jonathan D. Bright, who also encourages patrons to shop online on the Exchange website.

“Customers should keep in mind they can still purchase items on shopmyexchange.com,” he said. “These items can be delivered straight to their home.”

The PXtra is now closed. Sporting goods, toys and seasonal items have been moved to the Exchange.

Appliances and bulk furniture are no lon-ger on display. These items are also available on shopmyexchange.com.

Phase one of the project will focus on demolishing the PXtra and the construction of a temporary parking lot.

The new 167,000-square-foot Exchange will provide more services than the cur-rent 130,000-square-foot facility, including a larger food court with six food vendors and a pharmacy.

Groundbreaking marks start of new Exchange

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News

By Lisa R. RhodesStaff Writer

Legislation signed last year by President Barack Obama calls for mandatory changes in the Department of Defense’s Transition Assistance Program.

The Veterans Opportunity To Work To Hire Heroes Act, signed by the president in November 2011, updates TAP and better prepares service members to transition to the civilian sector after their military service and reduce the number of unemployed veterans.

The Army’s TAP is called the Army Career and Alumni Program. It was created to help provide employment and career information and services, as well as benefit information, to Soldiers who are about to separate or are retiring from the Army.

Information and services are also available to veterans, Department of the Army civil-ians and family members.

Under the VOW Act, Soldiers who have an Expiration of Term of Service to separate or retire from the Army are now mandated to

begin pre-separation counseling at least one year before their ETS or retirement date.

Soldiers who have an ETS date can start the process 18 months earlier. Retiring Sol-diers can start the process 24 months before their retirement date.

In the past, Soldiers were given 90 days to start pre-separation counseling before their ETS or retirement date.

“Under the old program, a lot of folks walked right up to the 90 days and were left unprepared,” said George Matthews, Fort Meade’s Transition Services manager.

The legislation also mandates that Sol-diers enroll in the Employment Assistance Workshop, attend the Department of Vet-erans Affairs briefing and register with the VA to be advised of their entitlements and benefits.

Soldiers also are mandated to receive a financial preparedness briefing to provide a realistic road map of their financial needs after their separation or retirement. In the past, these services were optional.

Matthews said the VOW Act makes ACAP a unit commander’s program and unit commanders and unit career counselors responsible for ensuring that Soldiers about to be discharged or retire meet the mandated timetable for transition services.

Army installations also must track their progress in meeting the new ACAP guide-lines. Matthews maintains a database of Soldiers from all units who are assigned to Fort Meade and are scheduled to ETS or retire within the next 18 months. He said he is keeping track of units that have Soldiers who are adhering to the mandatory require-ments and of units that have fallen behind the timetable.

Unit commanders are expected to have access to the database in November. Mat-thews said “the pressure is on” to adhere to the new timetables.

A final requirement of the legislation is the establishment of a Transition Services Coun-cil at all Army installations to assess each installation’s compliance with the VOW Act.

Garrison Commander Col. Edward C. Rothstein is chair of the Fort Meade Transi-tion Services Council, which is set to convene within the next 30 days. The council includes representatives from ACAP; the Directorate of Human Resources; the Retirement Ser-vices Office; the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation; the Fort Meade Education Center; the Department of Veterans Affairs; the Department of Labor; the Army Reserve Regional Support and Command; the regional National Guard; and other key stakeholders.

The Transition Services Council will meet on a quarterly basis.

Matthews said Soldiers who want to begin pre-separation counseling can complete the pre-separation counseling checklist form DD-2648 online at acap.army.mil. Once the form is completed, Soldiers should call the Fort Meade ACAP Center at 301-677-9781 to schedule an initial counseling appointment.

The DD-2648 form can only be printed at ACAP.

New guidelines help Soldiers leaving the Army

Fox, a freshman at Meade High School.“I thought it was good,” the 14-year-old

said. “It’s not good for someone to touch people in inappropriate ways.”

Cody reflected on his own experiences when he attended eighth grade in Michigan last year.

“People tried to beat me up,” he said.The bullying eventually stopped after

Cody told a teacher and principal about the harassment.

“They talked to him. He finally just gave it up,” Cody said.

Mothyna James-Brightful, director of community education at TurnAround, a domestic violence and sexual assault center in Baltimore, speaks to teens about the difference between flirting and sexual harassment during “Teens and Bullying,” an hourlong seminar presented Oct. 11 at the Teen Center.

Story and photo by Lisa R. RhodesStaff Writer

The difference between flirting and sexual harassment was the topic of an hourlong seminar presented in observance of Domes-tic Violence Awareness Month and Bullying Prevention Awareness Month.

“Teens and Bullying” was held Oct. 11 at the Teen Center. The guest speaker was Mothyna James-Brightful, director of com-munity education at TurnAround, a domes-tic violence and sexual assault center in Baltimore.

“We haven’t seen a lot of bullying,” said Gia Dey, acting supervisory program special-ist for Fort Meade’s middle school and teen programs. “We try to incorporate awareness of bullying into the youth programs. We try to give kids the tools to deal with different people and situations.”

James-Brightful spoke to the small group of teens in attendance about the difference between flirting and sexual harassment and how sexual harassment can become a form of bullying.

“I thought it was great,” said Kimberly Mitchell, 14, a freshman at Glen Burnie High School. “I learned that anyone can be a harasser — not just older men or guys. Girls can be, too.”

James-Brightful began the seminar by defining sexual harassment as unwanted sexual behavior that can include physical

contact, sexual comments or sexual proposi-tions. Bullying, she said, is any form of emo-tional, verbal or physical abuse that can take place in-person or through social media.

In 2008, 19.9 percent of all teens surveyed by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention reported they were bullied in that year. For girls, the percentage was higher — 21.2 percent. For boys, the percentage was 18.7 percent.

According to statistics released by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2002, 81 percent of students will experience some form of sexual harassment in school.

James-Brightful presented several differ-ent scenarios of flirting and sexual harass-ment.

“We’re going to be real and we’re going to be forthright,” she said, using vivid language in the scenarios.

She then asked the teens to determine whether the behavior was flirting or sexual harassment.

“Who decides if the behavior is wanted or unwanted? The person receiving the behav-ior,” she said.

Flirting, James-Brightful noted, is wel-come, mutual attention that makes a person feel flattered or attractive. Flirting makes people feel good about themselves and is legal in school.

“But it can be confusing” to determine the difference between flirting and sexual

harassment, she said.“The No. 1 question you need to ask

yourself to clarify the issue is: Is it [the behavior] respectful?” James-Brightful said. “Flirting is always respectful.”

The teens learned that anyone can be a harasser or a bully and there are serious consequences for such behavior.

“How many people have heard about young people who have killed themselves?” James-Brightful asked. “Why did it happen? Because they were being bullied.”

Sexual harassment also can be calling people sexually derogatory names and mak-ing disrespectful comments about a person’s sexual orientation, James-Brightful said.

It doesn’t matter, she said, if the statement is true or not; if the statement is disrespect-ful, it is sexual harassment and can also be a form of bullying.

James-Brightful said there also are bound-aries of appropriate behavior between adults and teenagers. Flirting is never appropriate between adults and teens, under any cir-cumstances.

Teens who feel they are being sexually harassed or bullied should tell an adult, or depending on the circumstances, call the police for help.

However, she said, physical violence or acts of retaliation for bullying or harassment are not condoned.

Among those who attended was Cody

Teens learn how to stop bullying


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By David VergunArmy News Service

National Voter Registration Day was Sept. 25 and the Army wants Soldiers to recognize “the importance of voting, a right they have fought to defend,” said Lt. Col. Paul Amrhein, chief of Sol-diers Program Branch, Human Resources Command.

Success in getting the voting message out to Soldiers and their families isn’t measured by the number of people who actually vote, Amrhein said.

“We’re not here to force a Soldier to vote, that’s the Soldier’s responsibility,” he said. “We’re here to assist the ones that want to vote and ensure they and their families have all the appropriate information.”

Many Soldiers stationed overseas have already completed absentee ballots, Amrhein said, but some are still waiting on their states to mail their ballot to them. Each state sets their own timeline when they send out absentee ballots.

“If Soldiers and family members sta-

tioned overseas didn’t receive ballots from their local election office overseas, they should visit the Federal Voting Assistance Program website at fvap.gov to fill out and send in their federal write-in absentee ballot,” Amrhein said.

“Do not wait for your ballots to arrive in the mail. We want to ensure your vote counts.”

Amrhein said there will be fewer absen-tee ballots this year because of the draw-down in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also emphasized the Army’s nonpartisanship in its effort to get out the vote.

Sept. 27 was the start of Absentee Voter Week. Installations will set up dis-plays and emphasize the importance of voting and reminding them to register if they haven’t already done so and to get their ballots in, Amrhein said.

Service members and their families can request absentee ballots if they’re stationed out of their voting district.

For more information, visit fvap.gov or talk to your voting assistance representa-tive.

Soldiers have options to make voting count

Oct. 1 marked the kickoff of Fort Meade’s Combined Federal Campaign.

The season’s campaign, which tradition-ally runs from Sept. 1 through Dec. 14, allows federal employees to direct donations to more than 4,000 charities screened by the CFC.

Fort Meade’s 2012 campaign goal is $500,000. Last year’s donations totaled $518,397.

Online donations represent more than 10 percent of the goal achieved so far, said Chief Warrant Officer Branch Staton, CFC coordinator.

Fort Meade’s campaign will end Dec. 14.

This year, more than 1,486 local non-profit organizations are participating in the Chesapeake Bay Area CFC in addition to the more than 2,500 national and interna-tional organizations, all providing services that improve the health and well-being of millions of people.

Currently, the garrison CFC coordinators are scheduling appointments for unit coordi-nator training and scheduling charity speak-ers for unit kick-off/fundraising events.

For more information about the CFC, to schedule coordinator training or to request assistance to schedule a charity speaker or organize a CFC event, email Sgt. 1st Class Ronald Seymore at [email protected] or call 301-677-6672; or email Chief Warrant Officer Branch Staton at [email protected] or call 301-677-6667.

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Fishing For FunNearly 100 young anglers crowded the banks and piers of Burba Lake on Saturday for the Youth Fishing Rodeo.The biannual event was hosted by the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation and the Meade Rod and Gun Club.In addition to the catfish and bass normally swimming about, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources stocked the lake with hungry bluegills the night before the event to improve fishing.Fishermen were separated into three age groups: 3 to 6, 7 to 11 and 12 to 15.Medals and fishing rods were presented for the three biggest catches in each age group. The smallest catch of the day was also awarded.

Youth Fishing Rodeo:• Ages 3 to 6: Nigel Latimore, 285-gram bass• Ages 7 to 11: Dezi Rodriguez, 370-gram bass• Ages 12 to 15: Raymond Trendle, 455-gram catfish• Smallest catch: Jacob Simpson, 25-gram bluegill

Photos by brian Krista

Alyissa Walker helps her 5-year-old son Charles reel in his fishing line on Saturday morning.BELOW RIGHT: Glenn Altschuld, of the Meade Rod and Gun Club, weighs a fish caught during Saturday’s Youth Fishing Rodeo. The Meade Rod and Gun Club and DFMWR’s Outdoor Recreation hosted the popular event for youth ages 3-15.

Three-year-old Noah Walker works on getting his line out of the weeds on the bank of Burba Lake during the Youth Fishing Rodeo on Saturday.

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Gsabe Lerette, 12, watches a water fowl standing near the banks of Burba Lake at the Youth Fishing Rodeo.

LEFT: Camile Thorton, 7, proudly shows off her catches from the Youth Fishing Rodeo on Saturday morning. Nearly 100 anglers competed in the biannual competition at Burba Lake.

CENTER: Competitors and their families line the banks of Burba Lake. Youth anglers spend Saturday morning casting fishing rods and spending quality time with families.


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By Lisa R. RhodesStaff Writer

The U.S. Army Safety Guardian Award was presented Oct. 10 to Staff Sgt. Timo-thy Matz and Spc. Derek Miller of the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center for helping to save the life of a fellow Kim-brough employee in January.

Brig. Gen. (P) Joseph Caravalho Jr., commanding general, Northern Regional Medical Command, U.S. Army Medi-cal Command, presented the award in a brief ceremony at Kimbrough’s Rascon Center.

The U.S. Army Safety Guardian Award is given by the Office of the Director of Army Safety to an individual who, through extraordinary individual action in an emergency situation, prevents an imminent dangerous situation, minimizes or prevents damage to Army property, or prevents injury to personnel.

This is the first time the award has been presented to Kimbrough personnel, and it is the first time in three years that the award has been presented within the Northern Regional Medical Command.

“You ought to be proud of yourselves,” Caravalho said. “On behalf of the sur-geon general, thank you for a superb job.”

Matz, the noncommissioned officer in charge of primary care, and Miller, the NCOIC of internal medicine, were recog-nized for helping to save Jesse John War-ren Booker III on Jan. 30. Booker was a licensed practical nurse who worked on the Red and White teams.

“You guys really took to heart what you were trained to do,” said Col. Danny B.N. Jaghab, commander of Kimbrough and the U.S. Army Medical Activity, Fort Meade.

Jaghab said the Soldiers “remained calm in a situation that was full of panic and full of excitement.”

On the day of the incident, Matz, then the NCOIC of the Red Clinic, noticed that Booker was a little late for work. A nurse saw Booker sitting in his SUV in the Kimbrough parking lot with the win-dows up and thought it was a bit odd.

Soon after, Matz went out to the vehicle, waved at Booker and asked if he was OK.

“He nodded his head ‘yes,’ ” said Matz after the ceremony. “Then I went back

Saving a life

KACC Soldiers recognized for emergency careBrig. Gen. (P) Joseph Caravalho Jr., commanding general, Northern Regional Medical Command, presents Staff Sgt. Timothy Matz with the U.S. Army Safety Guardian Award on Oct. 10 at the Rascon Center at Kimbrough Ambulatory Center. Spc. Derek Miller waits to be presented with his U.S. Army Safety Guardian Award. Both Soldiers were recognized for helping to save the life of a Kimbrough employee in January.

photo by jen rynda

inside.”When another nurse went out to the

parking lot, she saw that Booker was hav-ing a seizure and ran back to Kimbrough screaming for help.

Miller, who was then a health care spe-cialist in the Red Clinic, heard the nurse’s screams and got Matz. The two Soldiers ran out to the parking lot with an auto-mated external defibrillator. Kimbrough personnel called 911.

The vehicle’s doors were locked so Matz tried to open a window with his pocket knife. When that didn’t work, he got a tire iron from his car, which was parked near Booker’s vehicle.

Matz, who served four tours as a combat medic in Iraq, used the tire iron to safely break open the back window of the SUV.

“I climbed into the back of the vehicle and unlocked the front door,” said Miller after the ceremony.

He said he gave Booker a rapid trauma assessment on the spot and checked his vital signs. Booker was breathing and

had a pulse.Emergency medical services personnel

arrived shortly later and removed Booker from the vehicle. He was taken to a local hospital.

“You just do what you’ve been taught to do in terms of medical procedures,” said Miller, who also served a tour in Iraq as a line medic.

Matz said he and Miller had “a game plan” for gaining access to the vehicle and assessing Booker’s condition.

“When you’re treating someone and your emotions get in the way, you can miss something,” Matz said. “You set your emotions aside.”

Matz and Miller both sustained lac-erations on their hands from the broken window.

Although Booker, 63, returned to visit Kimbrough to thank those who had helped him, he later died on March 6 at the Washington Home Community Hos-pice in Washington, D.C.

Maj. Richard Rickley, head nurse of Kimbrough’s Department of Primary

Care, nominated the Soldiers for the award.

“I am proud of the initiative these Soldiers took that morning,” Rickley said. “Staff Sergeant Matz and Specialist Miller displayed the Army values as they applied their 68W Medic training.”

Matz said it was “an honor” to receive the award. “It made both of us feel pretty good,” he said.

“I am grateful that someone thought it was important to recognize us,” Miller said.

After the ceremony, Miller recalled how he and Booker often talked about music. Miller said Booker knew several members of the U.S. Army Field Band and that he encouraged him to join the Field Band as a guitarist.

Miller said when a combat medic is deployed and treating service members in the field, “you don’t really know them.”

But for him, this incident was differ-ent.

“When it’s someone you consider a close friend, it hits home,” Miller said.


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Joshua Brown of Headquarters and Headquarters Company. “We had a lot of elements incorporated into this exercise to make it as realistic as pos-sible, given the time and resource constraints.”

Other scenarios included MOS pro-ficiency quizzes and performing a nine-line medevac request.

“This provides Soldiers with an opportunity to assess themselves on where they stand,” Bravo Company 1st Sgt. Angel Espada said. “Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call for some of the Soldiers. These are a few of the things the Army is expecting you to know.”

Day Three concluded by living up to the “warrior” aspect of the Silent War-rior Challenge. Four teams of 10 had to work together as they completed an arduous physical challenge: sniper push-ups, 100-yard over-unders, 300-pound team log presses, a one-mile run, carrying 500 pounds of sand-bags for two miles, and a two-mile HMMWV push to the finish line — all while remembering items shown to company teams in a memory box.

“Yeah, I’m really tired,” Spc. Joshua Miller of Charlie Company said after the event. “I definitely had to rely on [fellow teammates]. Without us pushing each other, we would have

failed.”And it was teamwork, not necessar-

ily physical training, that this event was trying to enforce.

“When we created this challenge, we wanted to make sure each portion was geared towards a different strength,” said Alpha Company Commander Capt. Matt Sheftic. “No one Soldier will excel all of the stations. This event forces teamwork and emphasizes the total warrior concept that we’ve want-ed to push throughout the week.”

While teamwork, building esprit de corps and realistic training were key components of the Silent Warrior Challenge, Soldier resiliency was the primary focus.

“There are many Soldiers working in sections that do not see or interact with each other,” Huston said. “This was an opportunity to bring the bat-talion together through some friendly competition. And competition often brings out the best in people.”

The competition brought out the best of Charlie Company, the winners of the weeklong event.

“This is for you,” said Capt. Natalie O’Dea, company commander, as she held up the award — an inscribed Roman Rudis sword that will be in her company’s possession until the next Silent Warrior Challenge.

photo by Staff Sgt. taikeila ChanCey

Soldiers with the 741st Military Intelligence Battalion, 704th Military Intelligence Brigade, compete in the battalion’s Silent Warrior Challenge held Oct. 5 at Fort Meade. The event provided an opportunity for Soldiers to build resiliency skills by competing in demanding training events that developed teamwork, esprit de corps and unit cohesion.

By Sgt. 1st Class Kevin O’Neill741st MI Battalion

In the wake of the Army Safety Stand-Down Day to combat the risk of suicide within the force, the 741st Mili-tary Intelligence Battalion expanded its commitment to the Army’s Com-prehensive Soldier and Family Fitness program by conducting its inaugural Silent Warrior Challenge on Oct. 1, 3 and 5.

The CSF2 program is designed to build individual Soldier and family resiliency to overcome obstacles and enhance the performance of every Sol-dier. CSF2 enables resiliency by focus-ing on five pillars: physical, emotional, social, spiritual and family.

The goal of the Silent Warrior Chal-lenge was to solidify Soldier resiliency in the physical, emotional and social pillars through cerebral and physi-cally demanding training events that developed teamwork, esprit de corps and unit cohesion.

Over the course of the Silent War-rior Challenge, the four companies of the 741st MI competed in events ranging from conducting an Army warrior task/urban orienteering race to Military Occupational Specialty proficiency tests and high-mobility multiwheeled vehicle pushes.

“The Soldiers assigned to this bat-talion will leave one day and relish in the outstanding technical training that they can only get here,” Battalion Commander Lt. Col. Terance Huston said. “But there is also the expectation that America’s sons and daughters are resilient and able to endure the rig-ors of whatever challenges lie before them.”

Day One consisted of an urban ori-enteering race, where Soldiers had to locate various points throughout Fort Meade. Once a point was found, they were required to either conduct Army warrior tasks such as evaluating a casualty, performing a weapons func-tion check or answering military/pro-motion board-related questions.

Day Two was less physical but no less demanding as Soldiers had to

complete four, mini-situational train-ing exercises.

One exercise tested the teamwork of company teams to conduct Sensitive Site Exploitation of a mock insur-gent bed-down location to extrapolate details of a pending attack on a U.S. forward operating base. This event required Soldiers to put their analyti-cal skills to use as they differentiated between items of intelligence value and items that were distracters.

If performed correctly, each team could articulate the method and time of attack and the insurgent organiza-tion responsible.

“I’ve never deployed before, and doing something like this was really cool,” Spc. Rachel Smith of Bravo Company said. “I learned the impor-tance of paying close attention — not only looking for the obvious, but digging deeper and finding the hid-den things. I learned to think like the enemy.”

According to senior leadership, that was exactly the intent.

“We want Soldiers who can piece together information and draw intel-ligent assessments,” Huston said.

Another scenario challenged the attention to detail, memory and com-munication ability of 741st Soldiers. Company teams were divided across three observation posts where they observed a simulated ambush on a U.S. Army squad and an embedded reporter by a Red Force practicing the tactics, techniques and procedures of Al Qaeda in southern Afghanistan.

The scenario culminated with an IED strike resulting in casualties and a kidnapping. Company teams then had to come together and generate SALUTE (size, activity, location, uni-form, type and equipment) reports describing the details of the battle-field and events that unfolded before them.

Simulated explosions, machine gun fire and high-speed getaways added to the realism.

“We worked on [the SALUTE sce-nario] for about two weeks,” said Sgt.

Silent Warrior Challenge enhances 741st MI BN resiliency commitment


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Story and photos by Brandon BieltzStaff Writer

A dozen service members from the instal-lation will race through the streets of Wash-ington, D.C., on Sunday with 30,000 other runners from across the world during the 28th annual Army Ten-Miler.

The two teams of six runners will repre-sent Fort Meade at the race, which is one of the world’s largest 10-mile competitions.

The event is hosted by the Military District of Washington. All race proceeds benefit Army Morale, Welfare and Rec-reation that support Soldier and Soldier family programs.

Preparation for this year’s Fort Meade Army Ten-Miler team began in May with a qualifying 10K race. The group of run-ners was then set to 12, in order to form the two teams.

Participants said they joined the team, as opposed to running alone, to give them-selves an extra edge.

“It pushes me,” Michael Wahlgren said. “I’m competitive. So to be on a team, I want to be better than the next guy on the team.”

For Steve Bichler, joining a team is a good way to get into the popular event, which sold out in 19 hours this year.

The large number of runners in the event is another draw.

“In a marathon, you’re probably going to be alone at some point,” Bichler said. “In the Army Ten-Miler you’re never alone. There’s always somebody there pushing you.”

Team captain James Eberly said the Fort Meade group consists of experienced runners who have competed in endurance events, including marathons and triathlons. Many have completed previous Army Ten-Milers as well.

Although the runners form teams, com-petitors trained on their own as they pre-pared simultaneously for other events.

“We had several people who were doing half-marathons or training for marathons, so a lot of people were already doing some kind of training program,” Eberly said. “It may have been more intense than what would be required for a 10-miler. We have people on the team who do triathlons, so I think most people are doing their own training program.”

On race day, the team will be spread throughout the course, which begins outside of Arlington National Cemetery, spans through the National Mall and finishes at

Ten Miles of RunTwo Meade teams to participate in annual Army Ten-Miler

Members of the two Fort Meade Army Ten-Miler teams stand together for a team photo near Gaffney Fitness Center before competing Sunday in the popular event in Washington, D.C.

LEFT: James Eberly, captain of the Fort Meade Army Ten-Miler team, runs on the track at Mullins Field on Monday evening. Eberly and 11 other service members from the installation will represent the post on Sunday at the 28th annual Army Ten-Miler in Washington, D.C.

the Pentagon.Individual runners have their own goal

time, Eberly said. At the end of the race, the times of the top four runners on each team will be averaged together for the final team time.

While the event is competitive, it also serves as a large reunion for many of the service members who travel from around the world to compete.

“It’s one of the better races to run in the D.C. area,” said runner Wener Vieux. “You practically have all the installations in the Army participate. So it’s good to run into people you knew from the other installation, and it’s a lot of fun to see all the different military units come out and participate.”

Auyb Odera said it is “prestigious” to have the opportunity to represent Fort Meade.

“How many people do we have at Fort Meade — and you’re chosen to represent the community? It is an honor,” Odera said. “It’s an honor to represent your post.”


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Sports ShortsMurphy Field House closure

The weight room at Murphy Field House will be closed for floor repairs through Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Due to the closure, only basketball court 1 will be available for free-play.For more information, call 301-677-5950.

5K Run and WalkThe Meade Athletic Boosters will sponsor a 5K Run and Walk to support the

school’s athletic teams on Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Meade High track.On-site registration will be held from 8 to 8:45 a.m.The fee is $25 for all runners.The registration form and online registration link can be found at http://

meadeathletics.org/index.cfm?action=main.boosters.For more information, contact Nate Moyer at [email protected] or

410-353-8783.

Ski clubThe Sun, Snow, Surf Ski Club at Fort Meade is seeking new members for its

2013 trips.The club, which organizes a variety of athletic activities including ski trips,

bicycling, hiking and social activities, travels across the country and Europe. The club also sponsors activities in the area.

For more information or to join, call Bill Bishop at 301-604-2113 or email [email protected].

Ghost, Ghoul and Goblin 5K Run and 1-Mile WalkThe installation’s annual Run Series

continues with the Ghost, Ghoul and Goblin 5K Run and 1-Mile Walk on Oct. 27 at 8 a.m. at the Pavilion.

The pre-registration cost for individuals is $15. Cost on the day of the run is $25.

The pre-registration cost for groups of seven to 10 is $85.

The pre-registration cost is $40 for a family of three to six people. On the day of the event, the cost is $60 per family.

All pre-registered runners will receive a T-shirt.

The next run will be the Turkey Trot 5K Run and 1-Mile Walk on Nov. 17 at Murphy Field House

For more information, call 301-677-7916.

EFMP bowlingThe Exceptional Family Member Program bowling events are held the third Tuesday

of each month at the Lanes.The next EFMP bowling event will be Nov. 20 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.Events are open to Fort Meade exceptional family members and their family members

and features free buffet food and giveaways.Exceptional family members ages 18 and younger and their siblings may register for

free games and shoe rental at https://webtrac.mwr.army.mil/webtrac/meadecyms.html.Adult exceptional family members may register for free games and shoe rental at the

EFMP office at 301-677-4779. Discounted games and shoe rental will be offered to other adult family members.

For more information, email Anita Hendrix at [email protected] or call 301-677-4779.

NFL SundayThe Lanes’ lounge is a showing venue for NFL games this football season,

with the exception of local blackouts, on eight, 42-inch high-definition flat-screen televisions. Food service and full bar are available.


I am out this week but I’d be remiss if I didn’t say a few words about my despair regarding the injuries to two of our biggest sports icons, Ray Lewis and “the Captain,” Derek Jeter.

I would also be as wrong as a blue falcon if I didn’t admit to all of you that Detroit’s pitching ace Justin Verlander, the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young Award winner, is my hero.

More on that, plus I may even have a story to tell about riding a mechanical bull in next week’s Jibber.

Until then, if you have any comments about Jibber Jabber or anything to do with the world of sports, e-mail [email protected].

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Community news & notes

The deadline for Soundoff! community “News and Notes” is Friday at noon. All submissions are posted at the editor’s dis-cretion and may be edited for space and grammar. Look for additional community events on the Fort Meade website at www.ftmeade.army.mil and the Fort Meade Facebook page at facebook.com/ftmeade.

For more information or to submit an announcement, email Philip Jones at [email protected] or call 301-677-5602.

Bagger licensingNew bagger licensing for the Fort

Meade Commissary is suspended until further notice.

The program and process for issuing licenses are currently under review by the garrison command sergeant major.

As soon as the new procedures are in place, notification will be made through command information channels.

Cutest Kiddo ContestThe 3rd Annual Facebook Cutest

Kiddo Contest for Exchange Facebook fans will be held Friday through Dec. 6.

The grand prize is a Disney cruise trip for four to the Bahamas plus a $500 Exchange gift card,

The first-place prize is a $2,000 Exchange gift card. The second-place prize is a $1,000 Exchange gift card.

Each of the five third-place winners will receive a $500 Exchange gift card.

To enter, fans should submit their cutest kiddo photo and complete an online entry form at facebook.com/AAFES.BX.PX.

Fans will vote on which photos should win.

The photo submission period runs from Friday to Nov. 8. Fan voting period is from Nov. 9 to Dec. 6.

All eight winners will be announced Dec. 12.

Full contest rules can be found on the Exchange Facebook page.

Car seat checkThe Fort Meade Fire Department and

state of Maryland will host a free car seat check on Nov. 16 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Demps Visitor Control Center parking lot at the intersection of Route 175 and Reece Road.

No appointment necessary.To ensure proper fit, bring the vehicle

and car seat owner’s manuals and the

child who will be using the seat.For more information, call 301-677-

5577.

Halloween Decorating Contest

Picerne Military Housing invites all residents living in family housing to participate in a Halloween Decorating Contest.

Winners in each neighborhood will receive a gift card.

Judging will take place next week, after dark, beginning Monday.

Winners will be selected based on the creativity and overall impression of their yard.

For more information, call your neighborhood center.

Veterans luncheonThe Retired Officers’ Wives’ Club and

co-sponsors are sponsoring the Veterans Appreciation Day Luncheon on Nov. 3 at 10:30 a.m. Club Meade.

Socializing will be from 9:45 to 10:20 a.m.

Co-sponsors include the Association of the U.S. Army, Enlisted Spouses

Club, Military Officers Association of America, Military Order of the World Wars, Officers’ Spouses’ Club and The Retired Enlisted Association.

This event is for all military ranks, personnel, veterans, their families and friends, and the civilian community.

The keynote speaker will be retired Brig. Gen. George G. Price. The West Point Alumni Glee Club will perform a patriotic musical tribute.

Cost is $25 per person. Tables seat 10 and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Guests wishing to sit together must submit payment and reservation forms in the same envelope at the same time. Reservations are required by Wednesday.

For more information, call co-chairpersons Lianne Roberts at 301-464-5498 or Althea Freeman at 410-451-9709.

Family Life CenterThe Chaplain Family Life Center

at Argonne Hills Chapel Center offers services covering every area of life including personal, marital, children, family, divorce, grief and relationships.

Services are provided with complete

confidentiality at no cost.Chaplain (Maj.) Mark J. Jacobs serves

as director of the Chaplain Family Life Center, which is located at 7100 Rockenbach Road and Grandea Avenue.

Hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

To schedule an appointment, call 301-677-3784 or 301-677-3785.

Meade High flea marketVendors and crafters are needed for

Meade High School’s flea market on Saturday.

Cost to rent a 6-foot table is $15.For more information, email meade-

[email protected] or call Teresa Tapp at 410-491-9811 or 410-859-1007.

Energy open houseThe Directorate of Public Works is

hosting an open house as part of Energy Action Month on Monday and Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at McGill Training Center, 8452 Zimborski Ave.

The theme is “Team up to Energy Action Month.”

Information about energy conservation, energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation is available

During the open house, the Public Health Command will administer influenza vaccinations to service members, civilians, retirees and dependents.


Chicago Style Steppin’Dance the night away at Chicago

Style Steppin on Oct. 26 from 7 to 11:30 p.m. at Club Meade.

Free lessons will be offered from 7 to 8 p.m.

Food and drink will be available for purchase.


Military choirs in concertThe Collective Protestant Gospel

Service will celebrate the 37th anniversary of the Adult Gospel Choir Ministry with a concert Sunday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Argonne Hills Chapel Center.

The concert will feature military choirs from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

The event is open to the public.

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Volunteers Needed at the Tax Center!• Help provide FREE tax assistance and electronic filing for Soldiers, retirees and their families

• No tax experience required; all training and certifications provided

• Enhance your civilian résumé

• Currently both tax preparer and administrative assistance positions available

• Training starts in January and the office is open until the end of April The Tax Office is located at 4217 Roberts Ave.To volunteer or if you have questions and want more information, contact Capt. William Biggers at 301-677-9086.



For more information, email Sabrina F. Brown at [email protected].

Karaoke NightThe next Karaoke Night will be today

from 7 to 10 p.m. in the 11th Frame Lounge at the Lanes.

The event is held the third Thursday of the month.

For more information, call 301-677-5541 or visit ftmeademwr.com.

Right Arm NightBring your “right arm” to Right Arm

Night on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. at The Conference Center, formerly the Courses Clubhouse.

The event features free food, a mechanical bull, darts, music and prizes.

Right Arm Night is open to all military services and civilians.

To reserve unit tables, call 301-677-6969. For more information, visit ftmeademwr.com.

Meade’s Gone CountryMeade’s Gone Country will be

held Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. at The Conference Center, formerly the Courses Clubhouse.

The event, open to ages 18 and older, will feature country music, mechanical bull contests, line dance lessons, bulls-eye contests and a whiskey bar.

There is no cover charge. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.


ESC ‘Spooktacular’ Quarter Auction

The Enlisted Spouses Club will host a ‘Spooktacular’ Quarter Auction on Oct. 26 at Jessup Community Hall, 2920 Jessup Road, Jessup.

Doors open at 6 p.m. Game play begins at 7 p.m.

The event will feature 10 vendors auctioning off items of their own company. Prizes range from one-quarter bids up to four-quarter bids.

Food and raffles will be available. A raffle will be held for all registrants in costume.

Register online for an extra paddle or choice of raffle ticket to be added to the “magic paddle” drawing.

Purchase tickets online at ftmeadeesc.org. Registration will be open at the door.

ESC gift wrapThe Enlisted Spouses Club is in need

of post-recognized organizations to help with its 2012 PX Gift Wrap.

The group will conduct a “roll-off” on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Potomac Place Neighborhood Center when each organization picks its dates to wrap.

Organizations also will be given a contract to sign, along with rules and regulations for the gift wrap.

To sign-up or for more information, email Trish Baker at [email protected].

Costume partyCelebrate Halloween with a costume

party on Oct. 27 from 6 to 10:30 p.m. at the 11th Frame Lounge and deck at the Lanes.

Admission is free.The event will feature a DJ, prizes,

food and specials.For more information, call 301-677-

5541.

OSC holiday bazaarThe Officers’ Spouses’ Club will

host its 13th Annual Holiday Bazaar on Nov. 3 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The free event is open to the public and will feature regional and local artisans, a visit by Santa, food, raffles and entertainment for all ages.

Vendors for Fort Meade and National Security Agency family readiness groups may set up at no charge.

Applications are being accepted from regional and local crafters to participate in the event.

The fee for a 10-by-8 weekend booth is $75.

Proceeds will go to the OSC Scholarship and Welfare Fund to benefit the Fort Meade community.

For more information, email Dawn at [email protected] or visit http://fmoscholidaybazaar.com/ or https://www.facebook.com/FtMeadeOscHolidayBazaar.

Career fairA free career fair for active-duty and

retired military, former service members and enlisted service members and their spouses will be held Oct. 30 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Sheraton National Hotel, 900 S. Orme St., Arlington, Va.

The career fair is hosted by the

Military Officers Association of America. Employers from 50 regional and national companies will look for potential employees with a variety of job skills. Businesses and organizations attending include: Microsoft, CGI Federal, Amazon and Lockheed Martin.

Pre-career fair seminars will begin at 8 a.m.

For more information, call 800-234-MOAA (6622); email [email protected]; or visit the MOAA website at moaa.org/careerfair.

Get a head start by attending MOAA’s Pre-Career Networking Event on Oct. 23 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Army Navy Club, 901 Seventeenth Street NW, Washington, D.C.

A pre-networking event seminar on “How to Work the Room” will begin at 5:15 p.m. The event is open to all. RSVP to [email protected].

Dads and Kids’ Pizza Night

Pershing Hill Elementary School kicks off WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students) Program with a Dads and Kids’ Pizza Night on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Pershing Hill, 7600 29th Division Road.

The event is for Pershing Elementary School students and fathers and father-figures.

The innovative father-involvement pro-gram is an initiative of the National Cen-ter For Fathering.

Inspired by one father’s desire to increase male involvement in his children’s school and with the help of the school’s teachers and administration, WATCH D.O.G.S was created in 1998 at George Elementary in Springdale, Ark.

Since then, the program has spread to more than 2,276 schools in more than 41 states and countries.

For more information on the WATCH D.O.G.S. program, call 1-888-540-3647, e-mail [email protected] or visit fathers.com/watchdogs.

For information on Pizza Night, call Pershing Hill Principal Tasheka L. Green at 410-222-6523.

Bible studyA six-week Bible study program will

be held Thursdays from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. beginning today at Argonne Hills Chapel Center.

Remaining sessions will be on Oct. 25,

Nov. 8, 15 and 29, and Dec. 6.The class will study “Living

Victoriously in Difficult Times” by Kay Arthur.

To register, call 301-677-3785.

Cyber safety seminarThe Family Action Board will host

a cyber safety seminar for adults and children in middle school and higher on Oct. 25 from 6 to 7 p.m. at McGill Training Center, 8452 Zimborski Ave.

The seminar will address online sexual predators and cyber bullying as well as techniques that parents can use to protect their children from these threats.

Specialists will explain how sexual predators make initial contact and the techniques predators use to meet children offline. Speakers also will address the seriousness of bullying and the special set of problems created by cyber bullying. Prevention techniques will be stressed.

The seminar is limited to 120 people.RSVP by email to info@

familyactionboard.org.

Auto care coursesThe Automotive Skills Center at 6530

Taylor Ave. offers monthly courses from 1 to 3 p.m.

Cost is $10 per class.Active-duty service members, DoD

civilians, retired and Reserve personnel and their family members are eligible.

An FMWR card is required to use the center. New patrons must first view a 20-minute safety video, then attend a 10-minute briefing.

The following courses are offered:• Oct. 28: How to replace brake pads

& shoes• Nov. 18: Basic Welding 101For more information, call 301-677-

5542.

Career, financial classesArmy Community Service and the Fleet

and Family Support Center offer free classes at the Community Readiness Center, 830 Chisholm Ave., to DoD identification cardholders, including active-duty service members, retirees and their family members, DoD civilian employees and contractors.

Registration is required for each class.• Navy “Spouse Meet and Greet”:

Today, 10 a.m. to noon, Potomac Place Neighborhood Center

• Consumer Awareness: Today, 1 to 3 p.m. This single-session workshop will teach you how to be a savvy consumer.

• Credit Management: Oct. 25, 1 to 3 p.m. This workshop provides

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information on establishing credit history, choosing and using credit and debit cards, debt-to-income ratio, consumer installment loans, credit reports, and effectively managing your credit.

• Common Sense Parenting: Oct. 26, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

• Effective Communication: Nov. 1, 9 to 11 a.m.

• Medical records review: Have your medical records reviewed by Mr. Thornton of AMVETS. Appointment required at 301-677-9017.

For more information, call ACS at 301-677-5590 or the Fleet Center at 301-677-9017.

Hallelujah FestivalThe Fort Meade Religious Support

Office will sponsor its annual Hallelujah Festival for children ages 3 to 12 on Oct. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Pavilion.

The event will feature food, games, a moon bounce, crafts, prizes and grab bags.

For more information, call Marcia Eastland at 301-677-0386.

Story TimeThe Medal of Honor Memorial

Library offers pre-kindergarten Story Time on Thursdays from 9:30 to 10 a.m. or 10:30 to 11 a.m.

• Today: “Silly Stories and Giggles”• Oct. 25: “Trick or Treat — Books

are Neat”For more information, call 301-

677-5522 or 301-677-4509 or visit ftmeademwr.com.

Out & About• Join Waterfront Partnership for

the 5th Annual Harbor Harvest Event on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at West Shore Park, 300-400 Light St., Baltimore. Rain date is Sunday. Activities include the IKEA Urban Pumpkin Patch, a petting zoo, hay maze, face painting, pumpkin decorating, pony rides, food and live music by Recess Monkey. For more information, email [email protected]. or visit http://harborharvest.eventbrite.com.

• The Laurel Museum’s Just for

Kids Sunday will highlight the fall- and harvest-related activities families and children might have enjoyed with “Harvest Activities from the 1870s” on Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on the grounds of the Laurel Museum, 817 Main St. The event also will feature games, crafts and snacks. In inclement weather, activities will be moved inside.

Space is limited; reservations are required. Cost is $5 (to cover the cost of craft items). Families may pay at door. For reservations, call 301-725-7975 or email [email protected].

• A Halloween party will be held Oct. 27 from 7 to 11 p.m. at VFW Post 160, 2597 Dorsey Road, Glen Burnie. The event will feature a DJ, costume contest, Jell-O shoot-ers, 50/50 and laydowns. Cost is $15 and includes snacks, draft beer, water and soda. A cash bar with “happy hour” prices will be available. No BYOB. All proceeds benefit the annual Christmas baskets.

• Hearts Apart will host “A Day at the Maryland Sunrise Farm” on Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at Sunrise Farm, 100 Dairy Lane, Gambrills. Registration is required by Friday.

The free event will feature a corn maze, hay jump, hay maze, games and refreshments. The event is open to all military branches and DoD civilians.

For more information or to register, call 301-677-0917, 301-677-4138 or 301-677-4110.

• Leisure Travel Services is offering its next monthly bus trip to New York City on Nov. 10, with discounts to attractions. Bus cost is $55. For more information, call 301-677-7354 or visit ftmeademwr.com.

• Retired Enlisted Association meets the third Thursday of the month from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Perry’s Restaurant, 1210 Annapolis Road, Odenton. The next meeting is tonight. For more information, visit trea.org or call Mary Gray, the local president, at 410-916-5385 or Arthur R. Cooper, national president, at 443-336-1230.

• Single Parent Support Group meets the second and fourth Monday of the month from 6 to 8 p.m. at School Age Services, 1900 Reece Road. The next meeting is Monday. Free child care will be provided on site.

For more information, call Rikki Ford, Parent Support coordinator, at 301-677-3617 or email [email protected].

• Air Force Sergeants Association Chapter 254 meets the fourth Wednesday of the month from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

in the Roost, 9827 Love Road. The next meeting is Wednesday. For more information, call 443-534-5170 or visit afsa254.org.

• Society of Military Widows meets for brunch the fourth Sunday of the month at 11 a.m. at the Lanes. The next meeting is Oct. 28. For more information, call Betty Jones at 410-730-0127.

• Monthly Prayer Breakfast, hosted by the Garrison Chaplain’s Office, is held the first Thursday of every month at 7 a.m. at Club Meade. The next prayer breakfast is Nov. 1.The guest speaker will be Kirk Fechter, director of the Installation Safety Office.

All Fort Meade employees, family members, and civilian and military personnel are invited. There is no cost for the buffet; donations are optional. For more information, call 301-677-6703 or email [email protected]

• Meade Rod and Gun Club meets the first Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at Perry’s Restaurant and Odie’s Pub at 1210 Annapolis Road, Odenton. The next meeting is Nov. 1 in the banquet hall in back of the building. Dinner is served at 6 p.m. For more information, call 410-674-4000.

• National Alliance on Mental Illness of Anne Arundel County conducts a free support group for families with a loved one suffering from mental illness on the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. at the Odenton (West County) Library, 1325 Annapolis Road. The next meeting is Nov. 1. For more information, visit namiaac.org.

• Spouse PTSD Support Group meets Wednesdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Soldier and Family Assistance Center, 2462 85th Medical Battalion Ave.

The support group, sponsored by Behav-ioral Health Care Service, the Religious Support Office and the Army Substance Abuse Program, is for spouses whose loved ones are exhibiting symptoms of PTSD. Learn valuable tools and resources to understand PTSD and how to cope.

To join or for more information, call 301-677-8870.

• Protestant Women of the Chapel meets Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 am at Argonne Hills Chapel Center. Free child care is provided. For more informa-tion, email [email protected] or vusut ftmeadepwoc.org.

• Military Council for Catholic Women is open to all women ages 18 and older for prayer, faith, fellowship and service at the Main Post Chapel.

Mother’s Prayer & Apologetics meets Tuesdays from 9:45 a.m. to noon when Anne Arundel County schools are in ses-

The movie schedule is subject to change. For a recorded announcement of showings, call 301-677-5324. Further listings are available on the Army and Air Force Exchange Service website at www.aafes.com.

Movies start Wednesdays to Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. NEW PRICES: Tickets are $5 for adults (12 and older) and $2.50 for children.

Today through Nov. 8

Today, Saturday, Sunday, Oct. 25, 31: “ParaNor-man” (PG). Animated film in which Norman, a boy who can speak with the dead, must defend his town against a centuries-old curse. With Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi and Anna Kendrick.

Friday, Wednesday & Nov. 1: “The Odd Life of Timothy Green” (PG). A young boy who appears mysteriously brings magic into the lives of a hus-band and wife. With CJ Adams, Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Dianne Wiest Leary.

Oct. 26, 27, 28, Nov. 7: “Lawless” (R). In the 1930s, three brothers in rural Virginia run a boot-legging business. With Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy, Jason Clarke, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain.

Nov. 2, 3, 4, 8: “Trouble With The Curve” (PG-13). An aging baseball scout takes his daughter on a road trip. With Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake.

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sion. Monthly programs are held Mon-days from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

For more information, email Beth Wright, president, at [email protected] or call 305-240-1559.

• Fort Meade Homeschool Co-op meets Fridays at 9:30 a.m. at 1900 Reece Road. For more information, call Kelli Stricker at 410-674-0297 or email [email protected].

• Cub Scout Pack 377 invites boys in first through fifth grades, or ages 7 to 10, to attend its weekly Monday meetings at 6 p.m. at Argonne Hills Chapel Center.

For more information, email Cubmaster Tom Johnston at [email protected] or Committee Chairperson Elizabeth Johnston at [email protected].

• Boy Scout Troop 379 meets Mondays at 7 p.m. at Argonne Hills Chapel Center on Rockenbach Road. The troop is actively recruiting boys age 11 to 18. For more information, email Lisa Yetman, at [email protected] or Wendall Lawrence, Scoutmaster, at [email protected].

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