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6 Blogs and Websites

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14 Army Reserve Bids Farewell to Maj. Gen. Sholar16 Soviet Immigrant Becomes Army Reserve fcer

18 Top Doc: Army Reserve Surgeon Picked to BeNew Department of Defense Top Doctor

19 Browns Campaign to Stop Sexual Assault in theMilitary Earns National Honor

20 Angel of Mercy, Nightingale of Mosul

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22 Fullling a Childhood Dream: Boxing Inspires Blackwellto Join Army Reserve

26 Medical, Dental Readiness: Every Soldiers Responsibility

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28 IRR Soldiers Muster in Puerto Rico

30 World War II Dance Hall Goes from Big Band to Broadband

32 Back To Her Roots

32 Army Reserve Dentists Create Smiles in Nicaragua

34 Germany Hosts First Employer Partnership Signing utside the U.S.

35 652nd Engineers Move to New Modern Facility

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36 High Altitude, Cold Weather, No Sweat

40 Beyond the Edge: Building Condence ne Battle Assembly at a Time

41 Army Reserve Medical Soldiers Named Armys Top Medic Team

42 75th Division Earns Coveted Excellence Streamer

43 Army Reserve Honored at Connelly Awards

44 The Best Warrior Competition

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his issues cover o Sgt. 1st Class Kim Jacobs rappelling o a wall during a

confdence-building obstacle course during Warrior Training at Fort Bragg,

N.C., is one o many examples o the warrior spirit our Army Reserve Soldiers

demonstrate worldwide, some o which are profled in this issue.

Melissa Russells article, Fulflling a Childhood Dream, on Army Reserve

heavyweight boxer, Spc. Trey Blackwell, is about a Soldier who embodies the warrior

spirit. e prospect o becoming an All-Army boxer inspired Blackwell to join the Army

Reserve. Growing up, Blackwell was able to see Army values being lived out by the

Soldiers he was surrounded by, and he embraced those values. It was a good ftthe

Armys values matched Treys values. As Blackwell says, e Army helps me stay

grounded and ocused. I fnd mysel using the Army values every day. He has our vote

or having the warrior spirit.

Atop a 10,000-oot mountain at Camp Hale, Colo., Sta Sgt. Sharilyn Wells article

and photos chronicle psychological operations Soldiers convoying into the Rocky

Mountains or high altitude, cold weather training to test the range and eectiveness

o their broadcast system in a harsh environment. Turn to page 36 to read about this

unique unit, the 324th Psychological Operations Company, their warrior spirit and the

eects the environment would have on their missions.

Also in this issue is an article on the Armys top medic team, two Army Reserve

Soldiers who took top honors in the 7th Annual Expert Field Medical Competition

held at Camp Bullis, Texas. e EFMC is an annual contest eaturing a continuous

and realistic simulated combat environment in which medical Soldiers endure 72

hour o challenges over six days. It is the most strenuous Army Medical Department

competition due to the extreme physical and mental demands.

As you read through this issue o Warrior-Citizen, you will fnd many more examples

o the warrior spirit within the Army Reserve.

Enjoy the summer 2010 issue o Warrior-Citizen magazine.

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ArmY rsrV CommAND TAmlt. Gen. Jack C. sttzChief, Army Reserve

Chief Waant ofce 5 Jae . ThpnCommand Chief Warrant fcer of theArmy Reserve

Cand sgt. maj. michae D. schtzCommand Sergeant Major of theArmy Reserve

WArrIor-CITIZN mAGAZIN sTAFFC. rdph BweDirector, Army Reserve Communications

C. Jnathan DahChief, Public Affairs Division

lt. C. lae HbedChief, Command Information Branch

Pa r. AdaEditor-in-Chief, Warrior-Citizen

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meia rePublic Affairs Specialist

Gay YngePublic Affairs Specialist

oN TH CoVrSgt. 1st Class Kim Jacobs, intelligenceanalyst for the U.S. Army Civil Affairsand Psychological perations Command(Airborne), rappels off a wall during acondence-building obstacle course, May 16.

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As the deputy chief of the Army Reserve, I manage theHuman Capital Core Enterprise and serve as theorganizations chief human resources executive. My coremission is getting the right Soldier in the right place at

the right time as I help shape and balance the Army Reserve force.No longer a strategic one weekend a month, two weeks a year

force, the Army Reserve has evolved into an operational force thatactively supports current operations via the Army Force Generationmodel, also known as ARFORGEN.

In order to continue to meet the requirements of the current

ght, ARFORGEN, an operational reserve and the right numberof Soldiers need to be in the right units and the right jobs. We arefocusing our eorts on critical job shortages in high-priority units,primarily at the mid-grade levels.

To remedy a shortage in mid-grade ocers and junior NCOs,we are trying to ll our ranks with Soldiers leaving the activecomponent, many who want to take a break from constantdeployments but are not ready to get out of uniform.

We have a great story to tell as we work to attract theseexperienced young leaders and encourage them to take advantageof the many opportunities and incentives we oer. I will help ourleaders and commanders tell this story by highlighting benets andincentives of Army Reserve service, but I need each and every Army

Reserve Soldier to connect with our AC brethren and tell themyour personal story and why you are proud to stay Army Reserve!

Among the incentives the Army Reserve oers include Tri-CareSelect for their Families, which is an inexpensive health insuranceplan. We have to tell them about the Employer Partnership Oce,which can help them start or advance their careers in the civilianworld. We can let them take a knee for a couple of years to starta family, a new career, get an education and have a little stability intheir lives.

Reducing the force to reach our mandated end-strength of

205,000 requires some tough decisions. As of May 2010, wecurrently have more than 207,700 Warrior-Citizens in the ArmyReserve. e Army Reserve has reduced its need for non-priorservice recruits by some 20 percent for the rest of the year, but inorder to allow others to advance in rank, a reduction in somesenior-grade positions will be required.

Half the battle in shaping our force is getting these messagesout. e not-knowing is something we hear repeatedly and weare sensitive to that. Our decisions will impact individuals and wewant to do the right thing for the Army Reserve and Soldiers at thesame time. is is all part of shaping the force, enabling the ArmyReserve to maintain a constant state of readiness while continuingto accomplish our mission.

For nearly a decade, proud Warrior-Citizens have been deploying likely at

least once as part of an operational force and are living an OPTEMPO that

just 10 years ago was almost unimaginable. Yet Army Reserve Soldiers

continue to serve and young patriots continue to join at a pace that hasexceeded our congressionally mandated end-strength.

Shaping the ArmyReserve Force

Brig. Gen. Leslie Purser, deputy chief, Army Reserve

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Warrior-Citizens and their Families make informed decisions

regarding their health, nances, career and education. Here are

some of the latest new and useful online tools for Soldiers.

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Aprime target is the deployedSoldier who will likely not

view his credit report fora year or more, according

to Lt. Col. Richard McNorton, formerpublic aairs ocer with Army HumanResources Command.

Soldiers, civilians and contractorsshould be aware of the dangers of identitytheft and how to protect themselvesfrom unauthorized release of personallyidentiable information, he said.

We are well aware of the many yearsthe Army relied on the Social Security

number on all administrative andmedical records, said Col. Jon Dahms,chief of public aairs for the ArmyReserve. Even more importantly today,many government and commercialentities manage this same informationdigitally which makes it easier topackage and manage, but also opens itto a wider array of threats. We need tounderstand these threats and learn howto protect ourselves from the impact ofany potential loss or theft of personallyidentiable information.

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theft is an issue all Americans

face and Soldiers are not

exempt. Anyone who hasworn an Army uniform in the

past 40 years knows Social

Security numbers have served

as the basis for personnel and

medical administration. In an

era of computer le-sharing

technologies, online access and

credit cards, this practice puts

the Soldier at risk of fraud.

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Current Threatslder documents are onl part of the stor. in the dgtal age, thereare man tpes of securt rsks and scams, ncludng:

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Attempts to steal identities can lookunusually legitimate and include standardforms. In 2008, a phishing e-mail wastargeted at the Families of fallen Soldiers.e e-mail contained actual Army Weblinks and claim forms. e Casualty and

Mortuary Aairs Operations Center actedswiftly and protected these Families fromthe scam, McNorton said.

e Department of Defense hasmade changes to protect its Soldiers,civilians and contract workforce. In2004, the Defense Finance AccountingService began dropping the rst ve digitsof Social Security numbers to protectDoD employees.

ere are ways Soldiers can protectthemselves and avoid identity theft. It is

recommended that you check credit bureaureports and be aware of the possibilitiesof identity theft. Army Reserve Soldierscan get free fraud alert monitoring forup to 90 days if they become aware of apotential compromise in their personallyidentiable information.

Information for Soldiers and Familymembers on steps to take when personalinformation is compromised is availableon the FTC website:www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/military/index.html

Army Reserve Soldiers can also set upan active duty alert on their credit reportwhen they are mobilized and serving onactive duty. When a business sees thealert on a credit report, it must verify theidentity of the Soldier before issuing credit.Active-duty alerts stay on the credit reportfor one year, unless a request is made toremove the alert sooner.

Soldiers and Family members

can get free fraud alert monitoring

from the three major creditbureaus for up to 90 days. Details

on fraud alert monitoring and how

to request it can be found at:

www.transunon.com/corporate/

personal/fraudidenttTheft/

fraudPreenton/fraudlert.page.

If you have additional questions

or concerns, e-mail the USARC at

USR_Piiinfo@usar.arm.ml.

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Since 2007, Army ReserveJudge Advocate attorneysand paralegals from legalsupport organizations have

been activated to support andrepresent wounded, ill and injuredSoldiers in their appeals before theArmy Physical Evaluation Board.These Judge Advocates ensure Soldiershave representation at their PEBas they process through the

Army DES.The DES has many moving parts,and the process can be an overwhelmingand stressful process for a wounded,ill or injured Soldier. To alleviatethese stressors, Soldiers have casemanagers to guide them through theirmedical appointments and evaluations,a physical evaluation board liaisonofficer to ensure that the Soldiers caseeffectively proceeds through the systemin an efficient and timely manner,and the availability of legal counsel to

ensure that the rights of the Soldierare protected.

Throughout their evaluation, Soldiershave specific rights. Among these arethe right to legal counsel throughout theprocess, the right to a formal hearingbefore the PEB and the right to appealthe findings and disability ratings ofthe board. Judge Advocate lawyersand paralegals counsel their Soldierclients every step of the way through

this process, and represent and adviseSoldiers, not the Medical and PhysicalEvaluation Boards, Warrior TransitionUnit or command. Moreover, theselawyers and paralegals help Soldiersidentify their goalswhether to receiveadditional medical treatment, leavethe Army or be found fit for duty andreturned to military duty. Then theyhelp the Soldier develop strategies forachieving these goals.

In 2008, the Army hired 18 civilianlawyers and 18 paralegals to assist

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Disability Evaluation System, the Soldier and Family members are

often faced with difcult decisions surrounding tness for duty,

possible separation from military service and whether injuries are

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Soldiers with questions involving theirrights during the MEB process. MEBoutreach attorneys and paralegalsare available at either the WTU, theinstallation staff Judge Advocate office orby telephone. If a Soldier disagrees withthe informal findings or disability ratingsof the PEB, the Soldier is entitled toappeal and request a formal hearingbefore the PEB at which he or she canappear. The MEB outreach attorney

assists the Soldier in requesting a formalhearing and then coordinates with anappointed counsel at Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center, Washington, D.C.;Fort Sam Houston, Texas or FortLewis, Wash.

A Soldiers counsel attorney willrepresent the Soldier at the formal boardhearing. Representation of wounded,ill or injured Soldiers at their PEBs isan ongoing mission of Army ReserveJudge Advocate attorneys and paralegals

brought on to active duty in supportof contingency operations include:87th LSO, Salt Lake City; 213th LSO,Atlanta; 3rd LSO, Boston; and the91st LSO, Forest Park, Ill., whichassumed the mission in June 2010. Theattorneys and paralegals activated forthis mission have received specializedlegal training and are certified by theArmy Judge Advocate General tocounsel and represent Soldiers goingthrough the Army Physical DisabilityEvaluation System.

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and their Families beginning May 31,Memorial Day, through Labor Day,Sept. 6, 2010.

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Stultz, commanding general of the ArmyReserve, said, It gets to the character ofthe individual that weve never been able tolet him go. Ron Sholar is an icon in theArmy Reserve.

Sholar, who was commissioned as a 2ndLieutenant in 1971 at the University ofTennessee in eld artillery, has served ina variety of leadership capacities throughnearly four decades of service to the nation.

But Stultz said that he could not think ofanyone else for the position when he calledupon Sholar for his nal assignment.

Stultz said that through the transformationof the Army Reserve in recent years,Sholar was his top choice to maintain thatmomentum. We kept thinking that thisoperational tempo was going to slow down,yet it never has. So Ron came in here andreally carried the torch.

For Sholar, the day was lled withemotion and gratitude for an incredibleopportunity to have lived among heroes forthe last 39 years.

rough his time in service, Sholar has

served at all levels of command. He said thementoring he received from all ranks madehim the leader he is today.

ey helped me learn to lead, but equallyimportant, they also taught me perspective,balance, care and compassion, Sholarsaid. (Soldiers) are concerned only aboutwhether you are competent and whetheryou care.

Reecting on his career, Sholar said,e toughest job Ive ever done is to handa ag to a mother, a father, a spouse ofa fallen Soldier.

We spend little time trying to gureout why Soldiers are willing to go intoharms way, to do what so few others arewilling to do. But over time, it becomesmore important to us as leaders and we docome to understand it better.

He said military service isnt about theunit patches Soldiers wear, the unit nicknames or the numbers of the unit, but it is

something more.It is about the sense of fulllment in

knowing we serve with honor, we do our joband accomplish the mission that our nationhas assigned to us. But its also about thecamaraderie and sense of belonging. Notjust a numeric designationbut the realsense of belonging to each other.

Recently, a friend asked, What are (you)most proud of about your service? Withouthesitating, I answered, What we do in theArmy Reserve matters. We matter because

we are relevant, we are counted on, and wedeliver what is expected of us!In closing, Sholar quoted John Bud

Hawk, a sergeant in the 90th InfantryDivision who was awarded a Medal ofHonor in World War II.

I was a citizen Soldier. I came when I wascalled and I did the best that I could. atswhat I tried to do also, Sholar concluded.

TT Maj. Gen. JamesR. Sholar, deputy commanding

general, U.S. Army Reserve

Command, said farewell to

friends and colleagues at

a ceremony on April 26,

2010, in front of the USARC

headquarters building. But as

Lt. Gen. Jack C. Stultz jokingly

told those in attendance,

There are not enough words

to say goodbye to Ron Sholar

because weve already used

them two or three times.

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FRT MEE, Md. Former Soviet Union immigrant Aishe Allen walked into the 352nd Civil

Affairs Command headquarters at Fort Meade, Md., on March 5, 2010, as a civilian with no prior

military experience. Ten minutes later, she was an Army Reserve second lieutenant, ready to serve

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llen became an ocer by way of adirect commission, a process thatenables qualied individuals to

become commissioned ocers.Originally from the former Soviet

Union, Allen moved to the United Statesin 1993, earning a masters degree ininternational aairs from the University ofPittsburgh in 2000. An Iraq desk ocerwith the U.S. Department of Agriculturein her civilian career, Allen will now servethe Army part time as a logistics ocerwith the 450th Civil Aairs Battalion,an Army Reserve unit headquartered inRiverdale, Md.

My civilian job is basically a civil aairsposition, said Allen. I provide guidanceand support for the oce in Iraq.

Allens interest in working with theArmy started in April 2009, following herthird civilian deployment to Iraq, she said.Working with Army civil aairs Soldiersin Baghdad, she was impressed with theirquality of work and dedication.

e work that civil aairs Soldiers docannot be underestimated, said Allen.e work they do with the farmersis excellent.

She wanted to be a part of what shesaw the Army doing, and some of herco-workers suggested she look into joiningthe Army Reserve.

I felt a sense of duty to serve in theArmy, said Allen. Many people choose tovolunteer in shelters or donate money, but Ifelt my obligation was to serve in the Army.is is how I want to contribute to society.

Direct commissions are not new tothe Army Reserve and are common inthe services medical, chaplain and legal

branches. Civil Aairs, however, cantparticipate directly in the program. Soas a workaround, Civil Aairs directcommissions must enter the Army throughanother branchquartermaster in Allenscase. But that doesnt mean shell befocusing on just supply issues.

I have no intention of using her as aquartermaster, said 352nd commanderCol. James Ruf, adding that Allen wasbrought on specically because of heragricultural expertise.

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Filling the job for the past year has been

trauma and critical care specialist CharlesRice, president of Uniformed ServicesUniversity of the Health Sciences inBethesda, Md., the nations federal healthsciences university.

In addition to his duties in Boston,Woodson also serves as an adjunct assistantprofessor of surgery at USUHS and isan Army Reserve brigadier general. He iscurrently assigned as the assistant surgeongeneral for reserve aairs, force structureand mobilization in the Oce of the ArmySurgeon General, and also serves as deputy

commander of the Army Reserve Medical

Command. He has deployed to CentralAmerica, Saudi Arabia, Kosovo, and thewars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

As senior medical ocer for trauma onthe International Surgical and MedicalResponse Team East, a cooperative eort ofthe National Disaster Management Systemand U.S. State Department, Woodson alsoresponded to the 9/11 terrorist attack onNew York City.

e assistant secretary of defense forhealth aairs is the principal adviser to thesecretary of defense on health issues and

oversees the entire U.S. military medical

enterprise, known as the Military HealthSystem, and its $50 billion budget. isincludes the services care of war woundedand basic health care for 9.6 million activeand retired service members and Familymembers through the Tricare medical anddental care program.

is ocial also sets medical healthstandards for enlistments and deployments,develops health and medical programpolicies, and oversees USUHS, theArmed Forces Institute of Pathology andother organizations.

PEOPLE

President Obama has nally named his choice as the Pentagons top doctor.

The nominee is Jonathan Woodson, currently an associate professor of surgery and

associate dean at Boston University School of Medicine. If conrmed by the Senate,

Woodson, also a senior attending vascular surgeon at the Boston Medical Center, would

replace S. Ward Casscells, who was appointed to the job in the wake of the 2007 Walter

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WSiT Sexual assault devastates the mission, said Master Sgt.Verlean K. Brown, an Army Reserve Soldier assigned to the 90th SustainmentBrigade, North Little Rock, Ark., and the senior sexual assault response

coordinator on Joint Base Balad, Iraq.She didnt realize how many people were being sexually assaultedin a combat zone, so she quickly came to feel a change of mindsetwas necessary for young Soldiers and leaders. She started theI. A.M. Strong campaign on JBB to stop sexual assault in themilitary in 2008 while deployed with the 3rd ExpeditionarySustainment Command.

In the nine months she was deployed, Brown counseled andassisted more than 100 military members. She singlehandedlytrained and supervised 200 victim advocates and conductedmore than 40 education and training classes for Soldiers, airmenand civilians. We had about 28,000 service members and I wasresponsible for making sure that the services were in place for

sexual assault victims, the awareness program and victimsadvocate training.

Youre on-call 24/7, she said. Taking ownership of the campaignand implementing the Sexual Assault Prevention and Responseprogram in a combat environment made for an exhausting but ultimatelygratifying schedule for Brown. Every time I (counseled) a victim, I feltlike I was making a dierence. Every time I trained an advocate everytime I hung up a poster, I felt like I was making a dierence.

For her accomplishments being anadvocate to victims of crime while deployed,Brown was presented the Federal ServiceAward by U.S. Attorney General Eric

H. Holder, Jr. on April 16, 2010, at theDepartment of Justice.It may have been the most prestigious

award Brown has received for her hard workand dedication, but she feels she has already received something better.e best thing that came of this was realizing I could make a dierence inpeoples lives. With this experience, I realized I would like to dedicate mycareer to counseling and helping others.

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piece of cake. ey didnt even have to be partof our unit.

An engaging and candid narrator, Luzoers an unadorned view of her tour of dutyin Iraq. Her story starts in Mosul, a hotbed

of insurgent activity in the north, and laterat Al-Asad Aireld, the dusty outpost thatbecame a primary trauma center forAmerican troops.

One of my biggest achievements was abeauty salon, Luz said. Al-Asad is a Marinebase and theyre tough, but the women thereneeded their morale, too. ey needed to gettheir hair and nails done.

rough 300 mortar attacks, 16 masscasualty situations, and the everyday tragediesof life during war, Luz has a myriad of storiesto make the e Nightingale of Mosul a

story of heroism, integrity and compassionunder re.

It is also a story of fellowship andcommunity in wartime. From her unocialappointment as the units social leader to herunorthodox approach to rules and regulations,Luz describes in her book both the challengesof life in a war zone and the camaraderie andleadership that sustain Soldiers and medicalpersonnel alike.

We might have been seeing the mostgruesome things imaginable during the day,

said Luz, but after our shift we became thenightingales, the songbirds of Iraq. In the midstof this chaos came friendship and togetherness.

Id tell the girls to put on their lipstick,she said. Were in a war zone but we can stilllook good.

A hero in her own right, Luz is a recipient ofthe Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service.

I was awarded the Bronze Star but I carrythat for all my Soldiers, she said.

Luz retired in May 2010 and lives inProvidence with her husband.

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Those two victories in that shorttime span earned Blackwell aspot on the All-Army BoxingTeam and consideration for

joining the U.S. Army World Class AthleteProgram, which would allow him to trainfull-time for a shot at making the 2012 U.S.Olympic Team. It also fullled a childhooddream of one day becoming an elite boxer.

Its something I live to do. I havealways thought about one day being a

champion, said Blackwell, a truck driverwith the 925th Transportation Detachmentin Tucson, Ariz.

Patricia Spencer, a former noncommis-sioned ocer and broadcast journalist,remembers her son Trey as being veryenergetic. She and ex-husband CharlesBlackwell Jr. tried to instill focus anddiscipline through a combination ofsports and Army values. ey enrolledhim in karate but removed him from the

program a year later because hewas clobbering the other kids,she said.

As a 7-year-old, Treyaccompanied his mother to apress conference in 1993 for

two-time world heavyweightboxing champion and Olympicgold medalist Floyd Patterson.He remembers sparring andjoking around with Soldiers fromthe All-Army Boxing Team.

Ive always looked up toArmy boxers as strong menand great athletes, Blackwellsaid. I feel lucky to have beena part of that.

Blackwell grew up

participating, competing andexcelling in sports, but itwasnt until college that hedecided to pursue a career inamateur boxing. After threeyears of sparring at a gym inTucson, Ariz., the businessmajor became a two-timecollegiate boxing championat the University of Nevada,Las Vegas.

e prospect of becomingan All-Army boxer inspired

Blackwell to join theArmy Reserve. He and hismother thought the ArmyReserve would be the bestway for him to pursuethe sport.

He just felt he wantedto be on the All-ArmyBoxing Team, Spencersaid. Growing up, he wasable to see Army valuesbeing lived out by the

Soldiers he was surroundedby, and he embraced those values.It was the best tthose values matchTreys value system.

Blackwell enlisted in the Army Reservein 2008. One year later, he attended theAll-Army Boxing Trial Camp and won abronze medal at the All-Army Box-os.

My mom would not have approved ofboxing if it werent for the Army, Blackwellrecalled. e Army helps me stay groundedand focusedI nd myself using the Armyvalues every day.

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According to All-Army Boxing Teamassistant coach Sgt. 1st Class ChristopherDowns, even with collegiate experience,Blackwell would be a long shot to make theteam. He would be competing against thebest in the Army, including some Soldiers

who had been boxing since they were age 8.Blackwell was one of 35 Soldiers invited

to the All-Army Trial Camp to train andcompete in a box-o that would determinethe 12 winners who would comprise theAll-Army Team for the 2010 ArmedForces Boxing Championships.

On the night of the competition,Blackwell knocked out his competitor,claimed the Army heavyweight crown, andassured himself of another day in the ring.ere are not a lot of knockouts in amateur

boxing, he said, but I knocked him out inthe rst bout and then again in the secondround for the championship.

It was a dream-come-true since I was alittle boy and spent time with the All-Armyboxers, Blackwell said.

His mother was the rst to congratulatethe 2010 All-Army heavyweightboxing champ.

I dont know the words to describehow incredible it was, she said. Whoexperiences something that magnicent intheir lifeto be on such an elite team as the

All-Army Boxing Team?Blackwell, 23, went on to earn the

heavyweight title by knockout at the ArmedForces Boxing Championship. e ArmedForces victory qualied Blackwell for a

berth in the 2010 U.S. National BoxingChampionships and caught the attention ofArmy coaches.

Hes being evaluated, said WCAP andthree-time U.S. Olympic coach BasheerAbdullah, who served as Team USAshead boxing coach at the 2004 SummerOlympics in Athens, Greece. He had a veryimpressive win at Armed Forces. Hes oneof the people we have our eye on.

Blackwells talent, work ethic and abilityto land a punch compensate for his lack oftraining and experience, Downs said.

Hes a devastating puncher, Downsadded. Once he learns how to throw hispunches, hell be even more dangerous.

Success at the Armed ForcesChampionship did not guarantee Blackwell

a spot in the Armys coveted sportsprogram. According to Abdullah, the U.S.Army World Class Athlete Program isnot a developmental program but onethat helps world-class athletes fulll theirOlympic dreams.

Downs remains cautiously optimistic.Hes a tenacious guy, Downs said. He

doesnt know how to lose and that countsfor a lot in our sport.

Having already achieved so much of whathe dreamed about as a young boy, Blackwellis ready for whatever comes next.

It feels great, he said. I know that Ihave a lot of hard work ahead of me. It feelsgood to have a chance to do what I love.e Army has given me the opportunity todo that and Im really grateful.

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nvbSEvEnTURcoUnTy, calif.On April 23, severalmembers of the925th Transportation DetachmentofTucson, Ariz.,took theirseats intheaudience asSpc. Charles Blackwellclimbedintothering attheArmed ForcesBoxing Championship.

Blackwell andNavy Seaman TyronHunter wereon theghtcard fortheAll-ArmedForcesheavyweight match.Eachmatch consisted of three three-minuterounds. Pointscouldonlybeearnedbysolidpunches to thehead;body shotsdid not count. At the endof threerounds, theghterwiththemost pointswon,unlessthe ght hadto bestoppedbymedical reasonorknock-out.The twoheavyweightsstartedoffevenlymatched, withbothghtersexchangingblowsand scoringnearlyequal points(12-13). OnceBlackwell got intohisrhythmabout half way intothe rstround,helandedahardblowto his Navy opponents head thatpushedhimbackintothe ropes, slightly dazed. Thiswasfollowedbytwo moresolidconnectionstoHunters head, causingthe sailor to slumpintotheropes. The referee stoppedtheght, directingBlackwell intotheopposite cornertowait, as Huntersankdowntothe mat.Blackwell receivedan individual goldmedalforhisvictory. HeandfellowArmy boxing teammembers wongoldteam medals, presentedafter thematches concluded. Army boxers won sixout of12 weightclasstitles.

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Reserve units are no longer waitinguntil the first string players gettired before entering the game, saidCol. Etta Johnson, U.S. ArmyReserve Command chief of clinicalservices. We are a part of the firststring. Army Reserve Soldiers must bemedically and dentally ready to deployanytime, anywhere.

Medical and dental readiness allowsthe Soldier and commanders to knowthe mission will not be affected by amedical or dental condition.

It is like doing maintenance ona vehicle. You assess it to make surethe small and correctable things are notgoing to stop you from getting to yourdestination, Johnson said. Likewise,the Army requires Soldiers to getannual physical health assessments anddental examinations.

e PHA reviews body systems and isproblem-focused, based on the web-basedhealth questionnaire. Soldiers initiate theprocess by going to their AKO accountand clicking on the Self Service link and

then My Medical tabs. Look for the MyMedical Readiness link.e dental examination identies

conditions that may become a dentalemergency in the next 12 months, which isalso known as Dental Class 3.

A toothache can bring the strongestof us all to their knees, said Col. DerrickCarter, USARC dental surgeon. Believeit or not, every year in the United Statespeople die from dental infections.

Army Reserve Soldiers receive bothassessment services through the Reserve

If you think that small toothache or that pain in your lower back youre experiencing can be put

off, think again. That physical discomfort can lead to a much bigger pain for you and potentially

your units readiness. As the Army Reserve continues to become an operational force it means

that every Soldier must be ready to deploy at a moments notice.

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But after signing in, Perez quickly realizedhe was not being mobilized for anothercombat tour. Instead, he and other IRRSoldiers spent the day updating theirrecords and learning about their benets andentitlements, including promotion, schooling,

health care and civilian job opportunities.One of our biggest challenges is ensuringthat Soldiers understand this is a muster, nota mobilization, said Lt. Col. Craig Smith,HRCs muster team chief. We do notmobilize Soldiers at musters. We are here toensure Soldiers are getting registered for thebenets they have earned. e Departmentof Veterans Aairs, the Army and serviceorganizations have more to oer than mostSoldiers can even begin to realize.

In fact, 17 veteran support agenciesattended the Puerto Rico muster to talk

about their services and tell Soldiers aboutopportunities that could benet them andtheir Families. Musters have come to resemblecareer and education fairs with vendorbooths set up between the muster stations.

e muster program gives us thechance to collect required information fromour IRR Soldiers, but it also gives thema chance to learn about the services andbenets available to them, Smith said.A lot of opportunities can open up for

them through either more active

IRR participation, membershipin a Reserve unit or volunteeringto mobilize in support of overseas

contingency operations. We are givingthe IRR Soldiers the tools to make

an informed decision and help themdetermine what works for them.

During 2010, thousands of IRRSoldiers will muster in 19 cities tocomplete annual readiness checks.e Puerto Rico muster represents

the rst to be held outside the contiguousstates. Its another expansion of a successfulprogram that began in 2007 with justfour musters.

e team is venturing outside the

continental United States this year forthe rst time, because we realized it wasimportant to oer our services to thoseSoldiers as well, Smith said. ere arefuture plans for overseas musters.

A Soldier typically becomes an IRRmember after successfully completingseveral years of active duty or SelectedReserve membership. Soldiers may transferto the IRR to fulll the remainder of theircontractual military service obligation,normally eight years.

Mustering is an annual requirement anda one-day event for which IRR Soldiersare paid about $200. Many IRR Soldierswill complete a personnel accountabilitymuster, which is a one-on-one visit with anArmy Reserve career counselor. But severalthousand Soldiers will gather at groupevents called readiness musters, such as theone held at Fort Buchanan.

Last year, HRC partnered with theDepartment of Veterans Aairs to hold

ve readiness musters at VA facilities,which were so successful that nine readinessmusters will be held at VA facilities thisyear, with the remaining musters conductedon Army posts and Army Reserve centers.

Readiness musters have not only

increased in number but in scope andservices oered, as the IRR Soldiersmustering at Fort Buchanan learned.

Army Reserve Career Counselor Sgt.1st Class Gabriel Almodovar said manyof the issues he dealt with were medicalconcerns of the Soldiers, and he ensuredthey received attention from the medicalpersonnel at the muster. Many of therepeated comments he heard from theSoldiers included, Nobody told me Icould have an ID card or that I could getpromoted or that I could shop in the post

exchange or commissary.e IRR Soldiers also learned about

the benets of transferring to the SelectedReserve, such as the opportunity to enrollin health, dental and life insurance plans.In the last three years, nearly 7,200 IRRSoldiers transferred to the Selected Reservethrough the IRR Muster Program.

Spc. Maria Sepulveva was pleasantlysurprised when she learned that it would bemore than just be completing paperwork atthe muster.

ere were a lot of job opportunitiesthat we were told about and how to go tothe website to nd out more, she said.

Sepulveva was also excited to learn thatIRR Soldiers can go to schools, get promotedand volunteer for active duty tours.

I would tell other IRR Soldiers in mysituation that they should come to themuster with questions and nd out aboutthe benets of being an IRR Soldier,Sepulveva said.

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Flash forward to today: Camp Hood isa great big, grown-up fort, gas for yourcompact hybrid costs $3 a gallon and GIshave practical, un-shiny combat boots. In

the former dance hall, the steps of the twinstaircases are worn and creaky; the danceoor is scued and dusty.

Its broadband, not big band that rocksthe dance hall now, thanks in part to the103rd Expeditionary Support Command,an Army Reserve unit from Des Moines,Iowa, and the 224th Sustainment Brigade, aCalifornia Army National Guard unit fromLong Beach, Calif. Both units were at FortHood preparing for deployments to Iraqwhen they collaborated with First ArmyDivision West technicians to create this

21st-century, state-of-the-art virtual exercisesimulation center.

e challenge was to provide all theservices the sta is normally used to gettingincluding e-mail, real secret Internetand the exercise network," said Maj. PeterSchmidt, information oce deputy chief forthe 103rd. It wasnt just an exercise that

had to succeed. It was the real-timecollaboration were doing with (the unitalready in) theater, so when we replace themin the future were ready to go.

From the rafters of the old building,dubbed the Boondocks, hangs aningeniously engineered cable slingsupporting three multimedia projectors.Neat lines of tables hold scores of sleeklaptops. Behind the corner bar, where lightonce glinted from rows of bottles, rows oftiny green lights blink busily from droningstacks of computer servers.

FRT , Texas In the 1940s, Fort Hood was still just

a camp and gas for your Studebaker cost less than a quarter

per gallon. The square-sided, high-raftered building beside

Texas State Highway 36 likely hosted thousands of spit-shined

GIs and patriotic young Texas ladies swinging to big band

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Units coming through Fort Hood forpost-mobilization training conducted byFirst Army Division West eat, sleep andtrain for several weeks exclusively at NorthFort Hood. But when it came time for theirculminating training event, known as theCTE, they had to be transported to a battlesimulation center in the main post area.

Converting the Boondocks into a BSCat North Fort Hood saves Soldiers a90-minute bus ride every day, said Lt. Col.John Pugliese, Division Wests informationoce chief. Over the course of a 14-dayexercise with nearly 550 people, roughly11,400 man-hours are saved.

When youre working with mobilizingunits, theyre on a very strict timeline,"Pugliese said. Unlike an active-duty unit

thats doing an exercise, these guys also haveto worry about their other tasks requiredfor deployment, so they have a very bigbalancing act.

Just getting ready for the CTE tostart was the culminating event for theinformation oce sta. While the 103rdand 224th Soldiers are extremely skilled,

they had not before done anything of thisscale. If we could pull this o, this couldprove that we could truly be expeditionarywith our communications, Schmidt said.

ey pulled it o. During the exercise,which wrapped up in mid-May, Soldiers inthe 103rd and 224th communicated withtheir counterparts in the 18th AirborneCorps at Fort Bragg, N.C., and the 4thInfantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo.,

and with battle command training programmanagers at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

We feel like we passed the test toprove we can be expeditionary and gooverseas anywhere and do our mission,Schmidt said.

e old dance hall, once a hub forentertainment for GIs of a by-gone era

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MTERE, caragua Although few of the 33 Soldiers providing dental services for more than

1,200 Nicaraguans spoke uent Spanish, the smiles and hugs at the end of day were all they needed

to know that they were appreciated. Spc. Russ Stobbe, a dental hygienist from Taylorsville, Utah, said

one of his patients came back everyday just to say hola. He was nine and needed a lling. By the

end of the day, we gave him a lling and extraction, and performed two extractions on his mother,

plus put a bridge in her mouth. They were very grateful.

BacktoHerAlthough Robleto now lives in Rodeo,Calif., Granada, Nicaragua was homefor the rst 18 years of her life. She

remembers sacricing breakfast for school tuition, which her grandma calledan investment. She traded homework for food and oered to type papersin exchange for brown bag lunches. ese actions and the sacrices of herFamily, in the name of a quality education, made her an A student.

At 18, she moved to the United States with her sister. I hated it at rst.

I wanted to come home. And she did, but after three months in Nicaraguashe realized she wasnt going to get the education she desired, so she moved

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In 2000, she joined the Army as a medical supply specialist. It wasa way to help pay for school, and coincidentally, learn English.

e rst month of basic training was very hard, Robleto said.Luckily in the Army, they give you demonstrations on whatever youdo, so I would just do what I saw everyone else doing.

By the time she came home, Robleto spoke uent English and wasable to enroll at San Francisco State University. She graduated in 2007with a degree in linguistics and is now working toward her license as a

legal court translator.Today she works full time as a patient administration specialist forthe 2nd Medical Brigade, 807th Medical Command. ats when shegot the chance to join up with the 307th Dental Company and visit herhome country to help her native people. Even though she tries to visitNicaragua once a year, this time was dierent.

I was so excited. Ive always wanted to come back and do something.eres so much to do, and theres so little for me to oer, she said.

With the 307th, she came to Mateare, a town just 40 minutes fromwhere she grew up. She helped set up the clinic for patients unable toaord dental treatment and spends her day helping them completepaperwork to receive dental care. eyre so proud. When they talkto me, (afterwards) they say, Oh I talked to the American Nicaraguan

Soldier. ey all wanted to come to my table.Robleto knows too well the value of the service she and the 307th

provided to the people of Nicaragua from April 12-22, 2010. She

explains how she didnt have dental care while growing up here andhow many Nicaraguans deal with dental problems. A lot of peoplego through pain because they dont have the money. eyd ratherbuy food and have the pain, she said. By the time they are able to savemoney its usually too late to do anything except extract the tooth.

Robleto said shes thankful for the opportunities America hasgiven her to help herself, her Family and her people. Not only has herparticipation in this mission made a positive impact, but she claims thatthe benets of her full-time military service have enabled her to helpthrough volunteer service of her own. Each month Robleto providesfunds to help two Nicaraguan students achieve their educational dreamsback home. While she says that money is not much in America, it

provides a bright future for the students she supports. Its worth itto be in the Army. If I was here living in this country, Id barely haveenough just for me, but in the States I can help.

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Calif., performed more than 3,200procedures and donated the equivalent of$821,000 of dental work from April 12-22.e care provided ranged from cleaningsand llings to extractions and root canals.Many patients also received dentures.

e services we prefer to oer areservices that allow people to be taken outof pain, usually by performing extractionsand treating infections. On this mission,weve done a lot more than that, said Maj.Alexander Farr, commander of the 307thDental Company.

Dr. Valera Vasquez, a Nicaraguandentist, said people arent educated ondental care and if they do have money, theywont use it for dentistry. Its not a priorityfor them. A simple tooth extraction may

cost $10 in the sole dental clinic in Mateare,but thats a lot for a schoolteacher whomakes only $150 per month, much less astreet vendor or waiter.

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wesBaDeN am aFelD,Grny Army Reserve Soldiersliving in Germany now have a partnerfor employment opportunities, thanksto the rst Employer Partnership Oceagreement signed outside the United States.

Army Reserve Chief, Lt. Gen. JackC. Stultz, and Brig. Gen. Jimmie JayeWells, commander of the 7th CivilSupport Command, signed the rstinternational EPO agreement with Allegis

Group GmbH nancial controller andprocurement ocer Martina Zimmermannon March 7, 2010, in the 1st ArmoredDivision headquarters here.

Stultz applauded Zimmermann fortaking the lead on the internationalemployment alliance.

anks for setting the example forthe international employer partnership,said Stultz. Companies are looking forwell-trained, drug-free, physically t andhealthy employees, which is what theArmy has.

Allegis Group GmbH providesinformation technology, engineering andprofessional stang services in Germanyto a wide range of industries throughsubsidiaries TEKSystems GmbH andAerotek GmbH.

Basically, you get the perfect employee,said Zimmermann. Obviously, theyspeak very good English, and they arewilling to follow procedures and acceptthe rules.

e Employer Partnership Ocewas launched in April 2008 as a jointpublic-private venture that gives businessleaders tangible benets for employingSoldiers. e Army Reserve can recruitSoldiers for its positions and for civilian

employers at the same time, instead ofcompeting with them.e partnership is a recruiting eort

that aims to help Reserve Soldiers ndjobs by formalizing the relationshipbetween the Army Reserve and theprivate sector.

Nearly 1,000 rms have signed up inthe U.S. with employer partners in all50 states and two territories. Now, afterpartnering with Allegis Group GmbHand its subsidiary companies, the ocehas partners in the European Union.

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walked four to ve hours for the free dentalcare. Were doing a lot of good for a lot ofpeople, Stobbe said. Were making them

feel better, and it makes me feel good at theend of the day.e rst few days were the longest with

nearly 150 patients treated. After that, thedaily total reduced to 100 new patients and

leveled at about 80 new patients and severalfollow-ups. e procedures performedwere meant to x the problem immediately

versus starting a procedure that would needupkeep by a dentist or on the patients part.Farr, who has a private practice in the San

Francisco Bay area, said its hard to leave hispractice for two weeks knowing he still has

to pay his overhead and make payroll, butI love these missions. I keep doing it.

e 307th left behind medicalequipment for local dentists to continuetheir work. When Farr visited the dentalclinic in Mateare, he found it only had foursyringes and a vintage sterilizationsystem. ats not enough for a dayswork without having to constantly sterilizeequipment. e equipment providedincluded 20 syringes, as well as dozens ofother dental necessities.

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medical teams and construction projectsby the Army Corps of Engineers. eArmy will send several Reserve medical anddental teams to Nicaragua and other LatinAmerican countries throughout the year.

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ESWRT, Ws. e 652ndEngineer Company deployed for the thirdtime since 9/11. is deployment, however,didnt involve a mass movement to Iraq orAfghanistan or even leaving the state.

e approximately 117 members of the652nd moved from the cheese curd capitol of

Ellsworth, Wis., and relocated to Hammond,Wis., where their new Army Reserve facilitywas completed at the end of May 2010.

e roughly 24-mile move was followedby a formal building memorializationon May 23 in honor of Sgt. 1st ClassDan Gabrielson and Spc. Bert E. Hoyer.Gabrielson and Hoyer were 652nd Soldierskilled in action during the units rstdeployment to Iraq in 2003.

Were excited about going to a newbuilding thats ours, said 1st Lt. DanaCurrier, commander of the 652nd.

Were not leasing it; it belongs to theArmy Reserve. I think its going to bea big motivator for everyone because itsa building to be proud of.

e 652nd has been planning andpacking since January for the move andeagerly waited for the keys to their new

facility. Today, new facilities are generallydesigned to house more than one unit or areshared with dierent military services. Butthe 26,000-square-foot building was built toaccommodate the needs of the 652nd alone.

e new building will be furnishedwith modern conveniences to include anorganizational maintenance bay witha heated oor, gym, weapons simulator,covered wash rack for cleaning unit vehiclesand adequate parking for the unitseight-wheel-drive heavy expanded mobilitytactical trucks.

With the building designed to meetthe engineers mission needs and beingdedicated to two fallen 652nd Soldiers, theunit took the initiative and proposed to thecity council that the street in front of thenew facility be renamed Engineer Way.e town co-op supported the change.

I think the morale will increase a lot,said 1st Sgt. William J. Dullea, rst sergeantof the 652nd. e new building is goingto be more user-friendly. We made thiscurrent facility work, but the new one willhelp out a lot.

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Once we reached the top of the ridge, we

set up our loudspeaker and transmittedvarious broadcast messages back down tothe camp. We then radioed headquartersto verify if they could hear ourtransmissions. If they didnt, wed movedown the ridge and broadcast again.

Goodlet led a group of about 10 Soldierson a three-hour trek through the snow ona sunny but chilly Saturday morning.

e trek up there is always harderthan the trek back down. e snow ispretty deep, and the Soldiers had a decentamount of fun blazing their own trail

down the mountain, he said. Youd getstuck halfway down, and youd have to

pull yourself out of the snow and keepon trucking.

I got a lot of positive feedback; [theSoldiers] loved the training, Goodletsaid. I thought they were going to beupset about carrying a loudspeaker up amountain in snowshoes, but they loved it.

e 324th leadership also consideredhow fast and long each Soldier was able tomove up and down the mountain withoutbecoming sick or injured due to theelements. Precautions were taken before

and during the exercise. e companybrought medics and snowmobiles to theeld for emergencies and arranged theirtraining to occur within minutes of alocal hospital trained especially to treatcold weather injuries. Before heading outinto the mountains, the company alsocompleted cold weather, high altitudeinjury and illness classes so that eachSoldier would know how to prevent andtreat these injuries.

For me [the high altitude] wasnt thatbig of a deal since I snowboard a lot, so

I didnt notice a dierence in elevation,but I know other people actually had

high altitude sickness, said Spc. AngelaVanBroekhuizen, a PSYOP specialistwith the 324th. Plus, the cold weathertraining we received before we came outhere helped us understand and recognizecold weather injuries.

We were really well-prepared; wehad what we needed to wear out here,VanBroekhuizen said. is is the rsttime I didnt get cold doing this training.

As the sun began to sink behind theRocky Mountains, the Soldiers were

preparing for the temperature to quicklydrop below 10 degrees. Neither darknessnor freezing temperatures stopped the324th from completing nighttime driverstraining in the snow before turning in forthe night.

Our unit tries to do some cold weathertraining annually. is cold weatheris something we try to take advantageof, being from Colorado, Goodletsaid. Being a highly deployed unit, welike to stay up on all of our tasks to makesure were always ready.

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FoRT bRgg, n.c. Conquering fear and building condence was the order of the dayas Army Reserve Soldiers from the U.S. Army Civil Aairs and Psychological OperationsCommand (Airborne) took to the rappelling towers and condence course here May 16, 2010, tohone in on their monthly warrior training.

Once the rst bound is out of the way it was easy, said Sgt. 1st Class Kim M. Jacobs,a military intelligence specialist with the command.

Jacobs, who in her civilian capacity is also the Deputy G2 for the command, praisedthe hands-on training and said the Soldiers running the rappel tower and conducting

the training did an outstanding job.e trainers really had lots of patience and worked with those that had a fear

of heights, said Jacobs.is monthly Warrior Training helps train and sustain Soldiers in a

variety of warrior skills while simultaneously trying to instill condence,camaraderie and esprit de corps within the company. Taking advantageof the abundant training opportunities here at Fort Bragg, the Reserveunit monthly seeks dierent types of training to expose their Soldiers to a

variety of training situations.Monthly training focuses on the standard warrior tasks such as rst aid

and medical evacuations, land navigation, and weapons qualications, butit also includes intricate airborne operations such as night combat jumps,

and operations out of UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters. e May 2010 trainingevents goal was to perform and sustain training for all air assault qualied

personnel, as well as familiarization to other non-air assault qualied Soldiers.

Soldiers trained for a full day on the various types of rappelling techniquesand learned the required safety requirements needed for conducting safe toweroperations. ey also got the opportunity to perform under pressure by runningthrough a timed obstacle course.

Jacobs, who has rappelled only once before, believes that the training is integrato building that well-rounded Soldier, and is key to buildingteamwork and sense of purpose within a unit.

Training such as rappelling or the obstacle course is importantIt really does build esprit de corps, strength and condenceknowing you can overcome your fears, or at least work throughthem, said the 18-year Army Reserve veteran.

She added, I had a great time and Im not a big fan of heights.

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UST e 75th Battle CommandTraining Division celebrated a proud

moment Feb. 19, 2010, when Brig. Gen.James Sholar, deputy commanding general,Army Reserve Command, awarded thenewly authorized Army Safety ExcellenceStreamer. e streamer was in recognitionof the divisions record of achieving 12consecutive months without a Soldier orunit at fault for a Class A or B accident,the two most serious classications ofArmy accidents.

Chief Warrant Ocer 4 Robert Schultz,75th Division Safety Ocer, acceptedthe award on behalf of the division with

Maj. Gen. Eldon Regua, 75th Divisioncommanding general, by his side.

is streamer represents the sum totalof everyones commitment and dedicationto each other, to the mission and to settinga standard of excellence we can all beproud of, said Regua.

Schultz said, Commanders realize that

safety pays dividends. Its very gratifying toreceive this recognition, especially knowingthat it takes everyone in the division doingthe right things to make it happen.

Schultz is new to the division andwas quick to give credit to fellow safetyprogram director, Chief Warrant Ocer4 Paul Paradis. Paradis, who is currentlyserving in Afghanistan, initiated a division-wide safety program that resulted in therecognition for the unit.

e 75th completely embraces anorganizational culture of safety excellence,

said Anna Gibbs, Army Reserve

Command safety director. Gibbs saidthe 75th created command and controlmeasures that motivated Soldiers toembrace and put into practice criticalsafety procedures.

e 75th Division is only the secondArmy Reserve unit to receive the safetystreamer since its authorization last year.e Safety Excellence Streamer will bedisplayed on the division guidon for oneyear, after which the unit will have toqualify for the distinction again to continueying it.

This streamer represents the sum total of everyones commitment anddedication to each other, to the mission and to setting a standard of

excellence we can all be proud of.

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RE, e. Two Army Reserveunits were honored with the 2009 PhilipA. Connelly Award for excellence in Armyfood service. e awards ceremony was held

on April 17, 2010, here in Reno, Nev.e Forward Support Company, 397thEngineer Battalion from Eau Claire, Wis.,was named this years winner. e 298thMaintenance Company from Altoona,Pa., was named runner-up for the secondconsecutive year.

Established in 1968, the Connelly Awardprogram recognizes excellence in the Armyfood program in the following categories:active Army small and large garrison diningfacilities, active Army, Army Reserve andArmy National Guard eld kitchens.

Co-sponsored by the InternationalFood Service Executives Association, theprogram is administered by the ArmysJoint Culinary Center of Excellence at Fort

Lee, Va.During the year, food serviceprofessionals compete at various commandlevels to qualify for the Army-widecompetition. Army and IFSEA evaluatorsmake site visits to the nalists locations todetermine who has the best dining facilitiesand eld kitchen sites across the Army.

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Annandale, Va.

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1st Lt. Dimingo Hale

Kingsport, Tenn.

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Sgt. David Genyard

Jacksonville, Fla.

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Capt. Bradley Fields

Montgomery, Ala.

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Spc. Charles Nickles

Eugene, Ore.

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2nd Lt. Matthew Cryer

McFarland, Wis.

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Pvt. Tricia Jones

Lawson, Mo.

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Spc. David Rogers

New Salisbury, Ind.

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Lt. Col. Victor Bakkila

Newport Beach, Calif.

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2nd Lt. Jorge Martinez

San Antonio, Texas

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Sgt. Mark Lugo-Gomez

Tucson, Ariz.

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