The 1st Infantry Division Post Paper

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1STINFANTRYDIVISIONPOST
FORT RILEY, KAN.
The Fort Riley Tax Center is
now open in Building 7034 at
the corner of Normandy and Bul-
lard Street to prepare 2009, 2010
and 2011 federal tax returns. The
tax center will also prepare state
tax returns as a courtesy when
completing your federal return.
Hours of operation are 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday
and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
Walk-ins appointments are
welcome, but appointments are
encouraged. You can make an ap-
pointment either in person or by
calling 785-239-1040. Appoint-
ments will be available Monday
through Friday only. Saturdays
are strictly walk-in days.
A warrant officer recruit-
ing team from the U.S. Army
Recruiting Command will be at
Fort Riley Feb. 7 to 8 to conduct
briefings. Briefings will be at 10
a.m. and 2 p.m. in Building 8388
on Armistead Street. For more
information, call Chief Warrant
Officer 3 Michael A. Grinter
at 502-626-0458 or michael.
grinter@usarec.army.mil. More
information also can be found at
www.usarec.army.mil/hq/warrant.
Effective Feb. 7, the Quarter-
master Laundry Service located
in Building 229 will no longer
clean organizational clothing and
individual equipment, or OCIE,
for individual Soldiers. All OCIE
turn-ins to the central issue facil-
ity, or CIF, will be clean and all
repairs made in accordance to
TM10-8400-201-23, General
Repair Procedures for Clothing.
No dirty OCIE will be accepted
under any circumstances and
prior to DX all OCIE items will
be clean.
Fort Riley residents and per-
sonnel are reminded to call 911
in the event of an emergency.
The Military Police number,
785-239-MPMP (6767), should
only be used in non-emergency
situations.
The Fort Riley Police De-
partment would like to remind
Fort Riley residents and visitors
that vehicles parked adjacent
to the side of a roadway must
be facing the same direction as
travel on the roadway. Parking
within 15 feet of a fire hydrant
is prohibited, as well as in other
areas designated by “no parking”
signs. Parking regulations can be
referenced in Kansas Statues and
Fort Riley Regulation 190-5.
The Flint Hills Area Trans-
portation Agency offers rides to
and from Manhattan to the Fort
Riley and Junction City areas.
The cost is $2 one-way within a
three-mile radius of Manhattan,
Fort Riley and Junction City.
Rides beyond the three-mile
radius are $4 each way. For more
information or to schedule a ride
call 877-551-6345.
Heading to Aggieville for
drinks? Get home to Fort Riley
safely with The Riley Ride. This
service is open for all DoD ID
cardholders and runs Friday and
Saturday evenings. For more
information, call 785-239-5614.
HOME OF THE BIG RED ONE
IN BRIEF
 1DivPost.com FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 Vol. 4, No. 3 
SAFETY HOLIDAY
As of Thursday, Jan. 26,
days have passed since the
last vehicular fatality on Fort
Riley. With 74 more and the
post will celebrate with a
safety holiday to take place at
each unit’s discretion.
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FEB.
The next USAG Resilience
Day Off will be:
By Sgt. Gene A. Arnold
4TH IBCT PUBLIC AFFAIRS
“In essence, (the National
Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif.)
is a giant word problem given to
a unit to figure out how to move
thousands of Soldiers, hundreds
of pieces of equipment by truck or
train, and establishing the training
you’re going to do for the month-
long training in the desert of Cali-
fornia,” said Capt. Ross Daly, NTC
planning officer, 4th Infantry Bri-
gade Combat Team, 1st Infantry
Division.
For the entire month of Febru-
ary, the 4th IBCT will conduct its
training rotation at the NTC. This
will allow the “Dragon” Brigade to
put into use the training learned
during the past 18 months in a
combat-induced environment.
Six months ago, the 4th IBCT
began the preparation phase to
move more than 2,000 Soldiers,
about 700 pieces of equipment and
the strategic scenarios necessary for
a deployment to Afghanistan.
“NTC gives us a venue to train
in different terrain and utilize dif-
ferent resources, which is going to
test what we’ve done for the past 18
months,” said Command Sgt. Maj.
Wylie Hutchison, senior noncom-
missioned officer in charge, 4th
IBCT.
In the past year and a half, be-
sides numerous training exercises
from the squad to the brigade level,
military occupational specialty
individual and team level quali-
fications have been conducted to
ensure readiness for NTC and the
deployment.
“The 13F (fire support special-
ists) have conducted brigade-level
certifications and have been in-
tegrated back into companies to
incorporate fire support with the
commanders scheme of maneuver,”
said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Gill, senior
fire support specialist, 4th IBCT.
“We’re learning how to combine
fire support with the infantry, cav-
alry and field artillery to work as
‘Dragon’ Brigade prepares to head to NTC
Sgt. Gene A. Arnold | 4TH IBCT
Sgt. Dennis Bergstrom, Troop B, 1st Sqdn., 4th Cav. Regt., gives the command to slow down
to the driver moving into position on the rail line Jan. 17 at Camp Funston. The 4th IBCT is
scheduled to complete a rotation to the NTC, Fort Irwin, Calif., in February.
By Parker Rome
1ST INF. DIV. POST
The garrison command sergeant
major is working to ensure units run
only on approved routes during physi-
cal training.
In the past several months, there
have been incidents of units running
on non-approved routes that nearly re-
sulted in traffic accidents.
“It’s a safety issue to have Soldiers
out there running with all the traf-
fic coming on post,” said Garrison
Command Sgt. Maj. Colvin Bennett
Sr. “Now, we’re almost a full nest. We
have more traffic, and that creates a
potential for accidents. We just can’t
afford to have those types of accidents
on this installation. It’s a safety issue
for the Soldiers and the people who are
coming in and driving on the instal-
lation.”
Most major roads and highly traf-
ficked areas are off limits for PT.
“I don’t think it’s anything new,”
Bennett said. “The biggest problem
we have right now is just enforcing
what’s out there. We’re in the process
of educating the units on what routes
you can run on and what routes you
can’t. We must make sure we get the
standard down to the lowest level of
command.”
Running proper PT routes is ‘safety issue’
1ST INF. DIV. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta
announced Jan. 23 the president nomi-
nated Brig. Gen. Paul E. Funk II for ap-
pointment to the rank of major general.
Funk is the 1st
Infantry Division’s
deputy command-
er for maneuver.
The deputy
commander has
served in numer-
ous assignments at
a variety of loca-
tions throughout
his career begin-
ning with an as-
signment as an
armored cavalry platoon Leader in the
2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment
at Fort Hood, Texas. Most recently,
he served as the deputy commanding
general of the Combined Arms Center
for Training at Fort Leavenworth.
Funk’s awards and decorations in-
clude three awards of the Legion of
Merit, three awards of the Bronze Star
Medal, Defense Meritorious Service
Medal, three awards of the Meritori-
ous Service Medal, five awards of the
Army Commendation Medal, the
Army Achievement Medal, Kuwait
Liberation Medal, the Defense of Sau-
di Arabia Medal and the Meritorious
Unit Citation.
Funk has a Bachelor’s degree in
Speech Communications from Mon-
tana State University.
Funk assumed his current position
with the “Big Red One” July 5, 2011.
Funk
receives
nomination
for 2nd star
Ready
to train
Brig. Gen.
Funk
By Mollie Miller
1STINF. DIV. PUBLIC AFFAIRS
With a five-year, 50,000-Soldier
drawdown looming, officers must be
ready to act as their own career manag-
ers if they hope to succeed in an increas-
ingly competitive Army, a Human Re-
sources Command officer said Jan. 19.
Lt. Col. James Kaine, field artillery
branch manager, Human Resources
Command, told more than 130 1st
Infantry Division artillery officers that
up-to-date personnel files and open
lines of communication with the HRC
team are going to be very important
as the promotion selection process be-
comes much more critical in the com-
ing years.
“I think the message is clear, the
Army needs quality officers,” Kaine said
during an artillery officer briefing Jan.
19 at Fort Riley. “Retaining the qual-
ity in the force is going to be the focus
during the next few years, and what we
are going to do (at HRC) is make sure
our officers are set up for success on the
promotion boards.”
Kaine, who was joined by artillery
majors’ assignment manager Maj. Steve
Padilla, discussed a variety of topics
related to officer professional develop-
ment, including schooling, key devel-
opment time and command time. Ac-
knowledging professional timelines are
slightly off because of backlogs at places
like the Intermediate Level Education
Branch chief tells FA officers
to take control of careers
Mollie Miller | 1ST INF. DIV.
First Inf. Div. Staff Officer Maj. Rodric McClain, right, discusses
career options with Maj. Steve Padilla, left, following a field artil-
lery branch brief Jan. 19 at Fort Riley. Padilla, field artillery officer
assignments manager, HRC, and field artillery branch manager Lt.
Col. James Kaine visited Fort Riley Jan. 18 to 19 to provide 1st Inf.
Div. field artillery officers a “state of the branch” update.
Pamela Redford | POST
Signifying the official opening of the Fort Riley Tax Center,
Brig. Gen. Donald MacWillie, 1st Infantry Division deputy
commanding general for support, right, cuts the ribbon
Jan. 19 at Building 7034 with the help of, from left to right,
Spc. Benjamin Baker, 601st Aviation Support Battalion,
Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Inf. Div.; Lt. Col. John Hamner,
deputy staff judge advocate, Legal Assistance Office,
Office of the Staff Judge Advocate; and Elizabeth Thur-
ston, installation tax attorney, Legal Assistance Office,
OSJA. To schedule an appointment at the tax center, call
785-239-1040.
TAX CENTER OPEN FOR BUSINESS
Jacqueline M. Hames
ANS
WASHINGTON – Among the
many freedoms Soldiers fight to de-
fend, the right to vote may be one of
the most fundamental, and officials
at the Human Resources Command
want to help the entire Army Family
exercise that privilege.
The HRC, in partnership with
the Federal Voting Assistance Pro-
gram, is working to make the voting
process easy and accessible to Sol-
diers, their Families and Department
of the Army civilians.
Lt. Col. Stewart Stephenson,
chief of the Soldier Programs Branch
with the HRC emphasized the im-
portance of registering, updating in-
formation and voting
“Our mission, our charge, is in-
Army officials encourage
exercising right to vote
See PT, page 8
See NTC, page 7
See VOTING, page 7
See CAREER, page 7

2 | JANUARY 27, 2012 HOME OF THE BIG RED ONE
This is the third in a series of
articles highlighting Fort Riley
services available to assist Sol-
diers, Families, civilians and re-
tirees in meeting their 2012 New
Year’s resolutions.
By Pamela Redford
1ST INF. DIV. POST
January can be a tough
time of the year, financially,
for many Families. The holi-
days are over, the gifts are un-
wrapped and the relatives have
all gone home, but the bills are
just beginning to arrive.
A New Year’s resolution
concerning finances might
seem overwhelming right now,
but the Fort Riley Research
and Extension Office and the
Financial Readiness Program
through Army Community
Services offer free classes and
counseling to those who want
to do things differently in
2012.
Laura Weiss-Cook, Fort Ri-
ley extension agent, and Stacy
Johnston, Financial Readiness
Program, ACS, offer the fol-
lowing tips to get back on track
this year:
• Assess the situation.
“Money tends to spend itself
if you’re not paying attention,”
Weiss-Cook said. She sug-
gests taking the time to assess
spending habits before making
any decisions about the future.
Look at where the money is go-
ing.
Tracking to see where the
money has frittered itself away
is a must-do. Many Fami-
lies at Fort Riley are making
an adjustment to going back
to regular pay after a deploy-
ment, Johnston said, adding
the change in income could
be a good reason to take a look
at finances and re-evaluate the
game plan.
Johnston suggested www.
mint.com as a good money
management tool, and said it
can be especially good for cou-
ples because it allows multiple
accounts to be inputted and as-
sessed with financial reports ac-
cording to customized budgets.
Mint.com also offers a free
application for smart phones
Johnston said she personally
really likes and uses often.
• Ask the hard questions.
Consider long-term goals and
values and compare them to
current spending habits, Weiss-
Cook suggests. Is spending
$400 a month eating out at
restaurants reflective of what
matters most? If not, it may be
time to direct that money else-
where – perhaps to a college
fund or a credit card balance.
• Set SMART goals.
S= Specific
M = Measurable
A = Achievable
R = Relevant
T = Time-bound
Whether the goal is debt
reduction, saving or investing,
setting a specific, defined goal
with a structured time frame is
a good way to keep motivated
and measure progress, Weiss-
Cook said.
“Know that each action you
take is getting you closer to
achieving your goal,” Johnston
said. “Once you have that debt
paid off, the money for the
payment is yours. Debt-free is
so much more fun.”
• Consider automation/
auto-pay. It’s the pre-emptive
strike, Weiss-Cook said. Use
automated banking services to
pay a bill, loan or put money
into savings or an investment
as soon as the paycheck comes
in. Weiss-Cook said it makes
life much easier to take the
money off the top before it’s
ever seen. What’s left at the end
of the month is truly what’s left
– if all the bills are already paid.
Johnston also pointed out
it’s just simpler to pay online
because there’s less clutter and
paperwork. In addition, she
said, paying online allows for
quick action; the bill is never
stuck in the mail.
• Take advantage of the re-
sources at Fort Riley. Fort Riley
offers the following free classes
to anyone with a government
ID card, including: Small steps
to health and wealth; Basic
budgeting; Raising money
smart kids; Start investing
with $1 - $1,000; Women and
money; Money management
101; Personal financial man-
agement; Quarterly classes;
and Financial Peace University,
a 13-week course.
Counseling also is avail-
able through the FRP to help
those who want one-on-one
help assessing their situation.
Financial counselors are trailed
to point out trends and make
suggestions for little changes
that will have a long-term ef-
fect, Johnston said.
Additionally, the Army
Emergency Relief program
through ACS is available to
Soldiers and Families who need
emergency financial assistance
in the form of no-interest
loans.
To learn more about the
resources and class available
through K-State Research and
Extension, visit www.fortri-
ley.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.
aspx?tabid=23.
For a financial counseling
appointment, call the ACS
front desk at 785-239-9435.
New Year’s resolutions: Focus on financial readiness
TRAFFIC REPORT
CLOSURES
Estes Access Control
Point is closed for about
12 to 18 months for major
construction. Traffic will
be re-routed to Four
Corners on Vinton School
Road. Rifle Range Access
Control Point is open
from 5 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
and from 3:30 p.m. to 8
p.m., Monday through
Friday, to facilitate Estes
ACP closure.
ACP HOURS OF
OPERATION
The Directorate of
Emergency Services
would like to bring
attention to the
available access control
points for normal and
federal holiday hours.
Four Corners/Ogden/
Trooper/Henry: 24/7
Rifle Range: 5 a.m. to
9:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 8
p.m., Monday to Friday,
closed on federal
holidays
Estes: Closed
12th Street: 5 a.m. to 7
p.m., Monday to Friday
Grant: 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Saturdays,
closed Sundays and on
federal holidays.
Each week, the 1st Inf.
Div. Post will publish a
detailed map with
traffic information from
the week prior. Readers
are encouraged to use
this information to
select the best route to
enter the post. The first
such map is below.
Mr. Curtis Wooten, Directorate of Human Resources, is honored as
the Garrison Employee of the Month ceremony Jan. 19 for month
of December 2011.
Wooten received a Garrison Certificate of Appreciation and a $500
Special Act Award from Garrison Commander Col. William J. Clark,
center left, and Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Colvin D. Bennett Sr.,
left and Deputy Garrison Commander Linda S. Hoeffner, right.
Wooten received two favorable Interactive Customer Evaluation,
or ICE, comments for his assistance as a memorial affairs coordi-
nator. The positive ICE comments recently received from Families
are indicative of his noteworthy achievements. The gratitude
expressed speaks volumes of the quality service, concern, and
assistance provided to Family members during their dire time of
need. Wooten’s individual acts of kindness and understanding pro-
vided grieving Family members with a great sense of relief.
Other nominees for the month of December were Teresa Griffin,
Directorate of Family, Morale, Welfare and Recreation; Brendon
Clark, Directorate of Emergency Services; and Josh Kegley, Direc-
torate of Plans, Training, Mobilization and Security.
Pamela Redford | POST
EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH
On Jan. 6, 2012, Spc.
Walter Clemmons,
165th Movement
Control Team, Special
Troops Battalion, 1st
Sustainment Brigade,
was tried at a General
Court-Martial and found
guilty of unlawfully
carrying a concealed
and loaded Glock 23
pistol, and using that
weapon to assault
another Soldier by
unlawfully pointing it
at him. Clemmons again
assaulted the above
Soldier by pointing
another weapon at him,
a loaded Springfield XC
pistol. For these
offenses, the military
judge sentenced
Clemmons to be
reduced to the grade of
E1, to perform hard
labor without
confinement for 30
days and to be
discharged from the
service with a Bad-
Conduct Discharge.
On Jan. 6, 2012, Spc.
Anthony Hill, HHC, 2nd
HBCT, was tried at a
Special Court-Martial
and was found guilty of
being absent without
leave and using
marijuana. The military
judge sentenced Hill to
be reduced to the
grade of E1 and to be
confined for six months.
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By Gary Sheftick
ARMY NEWS SERVICE
FORT KNOX, Ky. – All
Soldiers planning to separate
from the Army are now re-
quired to begin their transition
process at least a year before
leaving, according to a Depart-
ment of the Army execution or-
der signed Dec. 29.
The order is part of an effort
by the Army to beef up transi-
tion assistance, and it places
responsibility for the program
squarely on the shoulders of
commanders, said retired Col.
Walter Herd, director, Army
Transition Office, Human Re-
sources Command.
“It really changed Army
transition from a staff respon-
sibility to a commander’s re-
sponsibility,” Herd said about
the order.
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Ray-
mond Chandler III said during
this period of transitioning to a
smaller Army, that it’s essential
to have better transition assis-
tance.
“We have a great program,
but we can do better,” he said.
“I believe that Soldiers need
to take some time and take a lit-
tle responsibility for themselves
and to understand that they
are going to be transitioning
out of the service,” Chandler
said, adding they need to look
at their resume, their education
and their skill sets. “Then they
need to speak with their com-
mander, and their commander
has a responsibility to speak
with them.”
The effort to make transi-
tion assistance more robust also
includes the opening this week
of a new toll-free call center for
transition assistance. Soldiers
can call 1-800-325-4715 for
transition advice, 24/7. And a
new website or virtual ACAP
Center will soon be available,
Herd said.
The added emphasis on
transition is partly because of
a study undertaken by West
Point about two years ago. The
U.S. Military Academy Transi-
tion Study sent about two doz-
en scholars, NCOs and officers
all over the Army to talk with
transition counselors and Sol-
diers preparing to separate.
“They came back with a
couple of truisms. Number
one is: the more time a Soldier
has to prepare, the more likely
they are to succeed. And that’s
pretty simple. If you begin the
transition process a week before
getting out of the Army, your
chances of failure are extremely
high,” Herd said. “Two is the
more your commanders are in-
volved, and the more they sup-
port it, again the more likely
you are to succeed. In a nut-
shell, that’s the gist of this (ex-
ecutive order) that was signed
Dec. 29.”
What this executive order
does is tell commanders to get
their Soldiers into the Army
Career Alumni Program 12
months prior to their planned
separation, Herd said. This
allows synchronization of re-
quirements with the unit mis-
sion, with exercises and opera-
tions.
The most common com-
ment from Soldiers participat-
ing in the West Point Transi-
tion Study was, “ACAP is a
great program, but I don’t have
enough time to attend,” Herd
explained.
So no later than 12 months
out, Soldiers now need to sched-
ule a pre-separation counseling
at their installation ACAP Cen-
ter. Counseling could actually
be scheduled as early as 18 or
24 months out, if Soldiers are
able, Herb said.
At that first counseling, Sol-
diers begin to draft their indi-
vidual transition plan, he said.
They will set their goals and
decide if they want to go back
to school, go home to work the
Family farm or business or join
the job market. Then, they will
determine what ACAP services
and programs are necessary to
reach that goal.
“You may want to eat every-
thing on the menu,” Herd said
of the list of available ACAP
services, or just sample a couple
of items.
Programs include a new De-
partment of Labor employment
workshop. Additionally, re-
sume-writing assistance is avail-
able; a Veterans Affairs Benefits
workshop can be attended; and
assistance also can be obtained
about sending job applications
out.
“There are several Army
initiatives to make that con-
nection between industry and
the Soldier,” Herd said, adding
transition offices work closely
with the Employee Partnership
for the Armed Forces, or EPAF,
a group of companies and agen-
cies that have made a commit-
ment to hire veterans.
“Industry is dying to hire
our Soldiers because we are bet-
ter than the average American –
smarter, healthier, cleaner, more
disciplined, better trained,”
Herd said.
About 135,000 Soldiers per
year leave the Army and don ci-
vilian clothes, Herd said.
Army civilian employees
who are leaving because of Base
Realignment and Closure, or
just moving on, also are eligible
to use ACAP separation ser-
vices, he said. National Guard
and Reserve Soldiers are eligible
as well.
In fact, Herd said mobilized
reserve-component Soldiers
are now required to begin the
transition process one year out,
which means they should begin
it at their mobilization station
before deploying.
“What this tells you is …
the Army leaders have really
said that taking care of Soldiers
and preparing them to become
civilians is a (mission-essential)
task,” Herd said. “And we’re
going to dedicate the leader-
ship emphasis, we’re going to
dedicate the time, and we’re
going to dedicate all the re-
sources to set Soldiers up for
success.
New order strengthens transition programAsking for help when
you need it is a sign of
strength. Listening to a
friend in need and getting
them the help they need is
a sign of strength. Suicide
affects us all and preven-
tion is an all-hands effort
all the time. If you or
someone you know needs
help, call 1-800-273-
TALK.
Reach out. Talk. Listen.
Help prevent suicide.
The Irwin Army
Community Hospital
appointment line recently
introduced a new set of
choices when making an
appointment. Patients
will be prompted to select
the Primary Care Medical
Home Clinic they are as-
signed to – such as IACH,
Farrelly Health Clinic or
Custer Hill Health Clinic.
The appointment line
will then directly connect
patients to their clinics. Pa-
tients need to know what
medical home clinic they
are assigned to in order to
make a selection.
Clinic assignments by
brigade:
IACH- MEDDAC,
DENTAC, Active Duty
and Reserve Soldiers and
dependents and
retirees.
Farrelly Health Clinic-
4th IBCT active-duty
Soldiers and their Fam-
ily members, retirees and
their Family members; 1st
HBCT active-duty Soldiers
and their Family members,
retirees and their Family
members; DHHB, 84th
EOD, 1st Eng. Bn., 41st
Eng., 72nd Eng., Sap-
per Co. 3rd Eng., 97th
MP Bn. and their Family
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Irwin Army Community Hospital’s goals are
to provide health care for warriors, military
Families and retirees; support the
deployment of medically ready forces; and
remain agile to meet diverse requirements.
One IACH employee who assists in
accomplishing that mission is spotlighted
each week.
PATRICK ZASTROW
MEDICAL COMPANY CLERK
Hometown: Long Beach, Calif.
Start date at IACH: Jan. 10, 2010
Years in area of specialty: Two
years, with an additional three years
active duty.
What do you like most about
working for IACH? The military has
been my life for 20-plus years. I like
being around Soldiers and the camaraderie that
brings.
What should patients know about you? Because
I do not directly work with patients, I ensure the
providers at all levels can concentrate on their
patients by ensuring all of their administrative
paperwork is completed in a timely manner, and
they receive all of their military training. This
allows the providers to center on the patient.
How are you dedicated to wellness and inspiring
trust? I am dedicated to the Soldiers of IACH. I
am mission-oriented and will do whatever it takes
to complete the mission, whether that mission is
getting documents properly routed and updated
through to the proper channels, helping with
ranges or planning a Soldier readiness
processing. They can trust it will get done in a
professional manner.
FACES OF IACH
Patrick
Zastrow
IRWINFORMATION
Q: “I heard that Tricare
has a website for behavior-
al health questions. Where
can I find it?”
A: Tricare has a behavior-
al health portal on its www.
triwest.com website on the
main page. The portal offers
resources focused on emo-
tional health, deployments,
substance abuse and also
topics to support children
and adolescent well-being.
If you want to speak with
a behavioral health special-
ist, you can initiate an on-
line chat or video chat with
them in the comfort of your
own home at no cost to you.
There also is a resource cen-
ter with information on be-
havioral health and Tricare
coverage, as well as an inter-
active map to help you lo-
cate support organizations.
If you have a question
for IrwINformation, send
it to IACHInformation@
amedd.army.mil or call 785-
239-8414.
If you have a question for IrwINformation, send it to
IACHInformation@amedd.army.mil or call 785-239-8414.
By Katherine Rosario
IACH PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Irwin Army Community
Hospital’s Employee of the
Year said she gets up every day
excited to serve Soldiers and
their Family members.
Susie Mosier, head nurse of
the obstetrician and genecolo-
gy clinic, IACH, was presented
with the Employee of the Year
award during IACH’s winter
ball in December. “This award
is not about me,” she said.
“There are so many deserving
employees at this hospital, but
this is really about those who
have led and mentored me.
It’s also about the nurses and
the staff that I
work with and
learn from ev-
ery day.”
Mosier said
she is appre-
ciative for all
of the support
the OB/GYN
clinic receives
from other ar-
eas of the hospital, which helps
her team take care of their pa-
tients.
Mosier said she encourages
supervisors to acknowledge
their staff for a job well done
and identify a system within
their area to recognize employ-
ees.
“I hope it encourages ev-
ery staff member to nominate
a person for employee of the
month if they go above and
beyond their normal duties,”
she said.
Turning in positive Inter-
active Customer Evaluation
comments on the care patients
receive helps supervisors praise
their employees and even sub-
mit them for employee of the
month, she said.
Mosier said she appreciates
that the hospital has a system
in place, and they are consis-
tent in recognizing people who
go above and beyond in the or-
ganization.
“It is a positive reinforce-
ment, and even returning
Army Provider Level Satis-
faction surveys electronically
or through the mail helps us
know which employees to rec-
ognize based on patient satis-
faction,” she said.
In addition to her recent
award, Mosier previously was
named Civilian Employee
of the Year in the late 1980s,
when she worked at Fort Gor-
don, Ga.
“I love the opportunity to
care for and work with our
military and their Families,”
she said. “It’s not about me, it’s
about the people who I get up
every day to serve, and it’s an
honor to be there for them.”
IACH names top employee for 2011
Connie
Dugan
By Nikia Simon
IACH
A Trust Sustainment and En-
hancement Task Force traveled
from the Office of the Surgeon
General, Joint Base Lewis Mc-
Chord, Wash., to Irwin Army
Community Hospital Jan. 9 to
13 to introduce a set of patient
care and service excellence stan-
dards.
The OTSG’s active focus is
to make overall enhancement
to patient experience, overcome
obstacles to provide great ser-
vice, identify barriers and seek
opportunities, according to
Lucretia Robertson, Trust En-
hancement and Sustainment
Task Force organizational devel-
opment specialist.
“Culture of trust is part of
what you do to make a deliber-
ate and overt effort to enhance
services excellence,” Robertson
said.
The Customer Service
Training team visited IACH
in September 2011 to identify
strengths and weaknesses to out-
line training to address process
deficiencies and improvement
opportunities.
“The Trust Enhancement
Team wants to leave IACH’s
Culture of Trust team with a
different way of thinking as an
approach to care,” Robertson
said. “We view problems as an
opportunity to obtain service
excellence.”
“Begin with the Basics” inte-
grates the behaviors of Culture
of Trust actions in a collabora-
tive effort to enhance the quality
of the care IACH provides, while
optimizing overall experiences,
Robertson said. IACH is a pilot
site for the Begin with the Basics
customer-focused workshops
that will be taught worldwide
throughout the Army Medical
Department.
BASICS guidelines will assist
in facilitating an environment
where participants can learn and
practice the following actions:
• Break barriers
• Anticipate and accommo-
date
• Seek solutions
• Initiate and interact
• Communicate
“Begin with the Basics (pres-
ents) steps for functioning op-
timally,” said Fredrick Larson,
OTSG special assistant. “(Begin
with the Basics and Culture of
Trust) is a collaborative effort
to enhance service excellence
audaciously … transform(ing)
the seemingly impossible into
reality.”
Individuals were direct-
ed to identify and personify the
importance of service as it relates
to the quality of patient care.
“Use your own story; use
your own voice with account-
ability, congruency, transpar-
ency, integrity and engagement
as an empowering, validating
experience,” Larson said.
AMEDD is reshaping its
direction and paths traveled to
standardize care and solutions.
“We are in the solution busi-
ness,” Larson said.
The desired outcome of Be-
gin with Basics is to acknowl-
IACH staff receives BASICS training
By Katherine Rosario
IACH PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Anesthesiologists at Irwin
Army Community Hospital
help patients remain calm be-
fore surgeries and send them
into a relaxed, dream-like state
while doctors work to fix their
ailments.
This week nurses are cel-
ebrating the 13th annual Na-
tional Nurse Anesthetists Week
campaign, “Dream a little
Dream with Us,” Jan. 22 to 28.
Established by the American
Association of Nurse Anesthe-
IACH celebrate National
Nurse Anesthetists Week
Fredrick Larson, Office
of the Surgeon Gener-
al special assistant,
speaks to more than
1,000 IACH staff
members about cus-
tomer service during
a hospital training day
Jan. 13 at a hotel in
Manhattan. The train-
ing day also included
infection control pro-
cedures, fire safety,
risk reduction and a
legal brief.
Spc. Alena Brown
IACH
See BASICS, page 8
Dr. (Capt.) Brian
Elliot adminis-
ters general
anesthesia to
an IACH patient
Jan. 20 in the
operating room.
IACH
See WEEK, page 8
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RILEY ROUNDTABLE
HOME OF THE BIG RED ONE JANUARY 27, 2012
Why do you think we celebrate
Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
“Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve
really loved Martin Luther King (Jr.).
I love American history. I think he is
the reason people stand up for differ-
ent people. I love how he was able to
lead marches, protests and have a lot
of different people protest with him
… It doesn’t matter how old, young,
small or tall, everyone can make a
difference.”
THATCHER SUNDAY | LINCOLN, NEB.
Fifth-grader, Fort Riley Elementary School
“Just because of how he helped so
many people who thought people
weren’t being treated fairly. He was
amazing. I wish I was there to wit-
ness it. In the presence of something
like that, I would be in awe. It was
amazing how good he is and how
he helped so many people. He did
something. He didn’t sit in his house.
Someone like him deserved to be
noticed.”
ASHLYN CASEY | CALIFORNIA
“I think we celebrate Martin Luther
King Jr. Day because he was a very
important person that brought two
people, who thought they could never
be friends, together. He made a differ-
ence. He proved a point that people
should stand united, no matter what.
He said skin color doesn’t make a
difference. That was really important.
Rosa Parks stood by his side, and she
stood up for what she believed.”
BRITTANY STEWART | HAMPTON, VA.
“What it means to me is it helps me
realize black and white, we’re all the
same. If one does something bad,
that doesn’t reflect on the others.
Everyone is different from the oth-
ers. He made me realize how many
honorable men fell for our country, no
matter how we mistreated them. No
one should be enslaved. We can all be
friends. It is also a great day to relax.”
DOUGLAS QUENTIN BUCKLEY
INDIANA
“I think we celebrate Martin Luther
King Jr. Day because that’s the day
he died, and he wanted everyone to
be friends – Native American, black,
white, all people … he put his hard
time and effort into it.”
BROOKLYN WHITMORE
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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By Col. Patrick D. Frank
COMMANDER
3RD BCT, 10TH MOUNTAIN DIV.
F
or the Soldiers, leaders
and Families of the 2nd
Battalion, 34th Armor
Regiment and the 4th Squad-
ron, 4th Cavalry Regiment,
1st Heavy Brigade Combat
Team, 1st Infantry Division,
and the communities around
Fort Riley.
As members of the “Big
Red One” division, you have
played a vital role in continuing
the storied legacy set by your
brothers-in-arms for nearly a
century. The victories you won,
and the territory you secured in
Afghanistan, in places like Pa’in
Kelay, Siah Choy, DeMaiwand
and Mullayan, are among
the many “firsts” 1st Infantry
Division Soldiers have accom-
plished.
During World War II for
example, Soldiers with the 1st
Inf. Div. were the first to reach
England, the first to battle the
enemy in northern Africa and
Sicily, the first on the beaches
of Normandy on D-Day, and
the first to seize a major Ger-
man city.
Now, during the battle
for the Zharay and Maiwand
districts of Kandahar Province,
Afghanistan – the birthplace of
the Taliban - you were mem-
bers of the first unit to advance
south and push the enemy to
the Arghandab River. Never
before in southern Afghanistan
has this much ground been
taken by a unit in such a short
period of time.
“Pale Rider” Soldiers arrived
in March 2011 to a restless
and volatile area in the heart of
Zharay District. The region was
the most kinetic in Afghani-
stan. Through your actions, the
Taliban was silenced in areas
like Pashmul, Kolk, Pankila and
Burmohammad. Progressing
south near the village of Haji
Ramuddin, on the banks of the
river, you sealed shut pockets of
insurgent activity by establish-
ing Combat Outpost Siah
Choy. Your relentless pursuit
of the enemy ultimately led
to the Afghan people gaining
confidence in local security
and going back to “Afghan
normalcy.”
Soldiers with the “Dread-
naught” Battalion, a combined
arms battalion, deployed to
the western flank of Task Force
Spartan’s battle space in April
2011 and immediately began
operations along Highway-1.
The highway is the main thor-
oughfare in southern Afghani-
stan, serving as the gateway
to Kandahar for thousands of
motorists who use it every day.
Insurgents who used
Highway-1 to traffic weapons,
drugs and enemy fighters were
quickly interdicted and de-
tained by Dreadnaught Soldiers
and their Afghan partners. Op-
erating from Hutal and Sarkari
Karez, you found the enemy
continued to move about near
the Registan Desert and north
into the Ghorak mountain
range. The continuous air
assaults you conducted near
the Band-e-Timor region and
into the Ghorak Mountains
significantly disrupted Taliban
operations.
Pale Rider and Dreadnaught
Soldiers will soon return home
to Fort Riley and the 1st
HBCT, proud of their achieve-
ments.
You each had a tremendous
impact on the 3rd Brigade
Combat Team, 10th Mountain
Division and on the 82nd Air-
borne Division. Your achieve-
ments positively affected our
capability to defeat the enemy
and secure the Afghan people.
As you transfer battle space
responsibility to Fort Drum,
N.Y., and Fort Lewis, Wash.-
based units, know the Zharay
and Maiwand districts are more
secure than ever before, and the
foundations you helped to lay
will be carried forward.
We thank you for the hard
work you’ve done for the “Spar-
tan” Brigade Combat Team and
wish your squadron and bat-
talion a great reunion with your
Families, the “Devil Brigade”
and the Fort Riley community.
You are a part of history. Your
victories in Afghanistan will be
recorded.
GIVING THANKS
Commanderthankscommunityforsupport
By Alex Bender
GARRISON SAFETYOFFICE
E
mployees may be ex-
posed to blood and other
potentially infectious
material while at work, and
such exposure can present a
serious health risk.
In order to minimize the
risk, OSHA has adopted the
Occupational Exposure to
Bloodborne Pathogens Stan-
dard, requiring employers to
take affirmative steps to protect
workers. Included among the
steps employers must take to
minimize exposure risk are: the
establishment of an exposure
control plan and the institu-
tion of effective housekeeping
procedures; the use of engineer-
ing and work practice controls;
the use of personal protective
equipment; employee train-
ing; the use of warning labels
and signs; and other necessary
actions.
Bloodborne pathogens
are microorganisms pres-
ent in the blood of infected
persons, exposure to blood or
OPIM could pass on diseases,
including Hepatitis B infec-
tion, Hepatitis C infection and
Human Immunodeficiency
Virus to name a few. Blood-
borne pathogens can enter
the body through open cuts,
skin abrasions, nicks, mucous
membranes in your mouth,
nose and eyes and accidental
punctures.
Bloodborne pathogens
can be transmitted through
blood-to-blood, semen or
OPIM contact, and not by
casual contact, like hugging,
shaking hands or sneezing.
To protect yourself, treat all
human blood as though it may
contain these viruses, and wash
your hands regularly, espe-
cially before you eat and after
contact with blood and body
fluids, since this is the single
most important technique
for preventing the spread of
infectious diseases. Some of the
symptoms of exposure include
weakness, fever, sore throat,
nausea, headaches, diarrhea or
flu like symptoms.
Some people who are infect-
ed show no symptoms after the
initial exposure for many years.
If you accidentally contaminate
yourself with suspect blood or
fluids, or if you get a needle
stick, immediately wash the af-
fected area with soap and water,
report the incident to your
supervisor and seek immediate
medical treatment.
Each employer who has an
employee(s) with occupational
exposure to blood or OPIM is
required to document an expo-
sure determination to identify
which employee job classifica-
tion must be placed in the BBP
program, develop a written
exposure control plan, provide
personal protective equipment,
training, and engineering
controls, offer the Hepatitis B
vaccine to exposed employees
and provide medical consulta-
tion if an exposure occurs. This
consultation is done by the
Occupational Health Branch
at Irwin Army Community
Hospital for Employees of Fort
Riley. The OSHA Bloodborne
Pathogens Standard, 29 CFR
1910.1030 can be found at
http://osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/
owadisp.show_document?p_
table=STANDARDS&p_
id=10051.
SAFETY NOTES
Usecautionif,whenworkingaroundblood
FES
E
ach year in America,
more than 150 people
die from acciden-
tal non-fire related carbon
monoxide poisoning associ-
ated with consumer products.
These products include faulty,
improperly-used or incorrect-
ly-vented fuel-burning appli-
ances, like furnaces, stoves,
water heaters and fireplaces,
according to the Consumer
Product Safety Commission.
Several simple steps can
be taken to protect Families
from deadly carbon monoxide
fumes, according to the U.S.
Fire Administration.
What is carbon
monoxide?
CO is an odorless, colorless
and toxic gas. Because it is im-
possible to see, taste or smell
the toxic fumes, CO can kill
people before they are aware
it is in their home. At lower
levels of exposure, CO causes
mild effects that are often
mistaken for the flu. These
symptoms include headaches,
dizziness, disorientation,
nausea and fatigue. The effects
of CO exposure can vary
greatly from person-to-person
depending on age, overall
health and the concentration
and length of exposure.
Where does carbon
monoxide come from?
CO gas can come from
several sources, including
gas-fired appliances, charcoal
grills, wood-burning fur-
naces or fireplaces and motor
vehicles.
Who is at risk?
Everyone is at risk for CO
poisoning. Medical experts
believe unborn babies, infants,
children, senior citizens and
people with heart or lung
problems are at even greater
risk for CO poisoning.
What needs to be done
if a carbon monoxide alarm
goes off depends on whether
anyone is feeling ill or not.
If no one is feeling ill:
• Silence the alarm.
• Turn off all appliances
and sources of combustion,
like furnaces and fireplaces.
• Ventilate the house with
fresh air by opening doors and
windows.
• Call a qualified profes-
sional to investigate the source
of the possible CO buildup.
If illness is a factor:
• Evacuate all occupants
immediately.
• Determine how many oc-
cupants are ill, and determine
their symptoms.
• Call the local emergency
number, and when relaying
information to the dispatcher,
include the number of people
feeling ill.
• Do not re-enter the home
without the approval of a fire
department representative.
• Call a qualified profes-
sional to repair the source of
the CO.
Protect yourself and your
Family from CO poisoning
• Install at least one carbon
monoxide alarm with an
audible warning signal near
the sleeping areas and outside
individual bedrooms. Make
sure the alarm has been evalu-
ated by a nationally recognized
laboratory, such as Under-
writers Laboratories. CO
alarms measure levels of CO
over time and are designed
to sound an alarm before an
average, healthy adult would
experience symptoms. It is
very possible that you may
not be experiencing symptoms
when you hear the alarm. This
does not mean that CO is not
present.
• Have a qualified profes-
sional check all fuel burning
appliances, furnaces, venting
and chimney systems at least
once a year.
• Never use a range or oven
to help heat a home, and never
use a charcoal grill or hibachi
in a home or garage.
• Never keep a car running
in a garage. Even if the garage
doors are open, normal circu-
lation will not provide enough
fresh air to reliably prevent a
dangerous buildup of CO.
• When purchasing an
existing home, have a qualified
technician evaluate the integ-
rity of the heating and cooking
systems, as well as the sealed
spaces between the garage and
house. The presence of a CO
alarm in a home can save lives
in the event of CO buildup.
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Representatives with the 1st Infantry Division Public Affairs Office meet
with Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s Female
Engagement Team Jan. 19 to conduct mock print and video interviews.
The training was designed to prepare the Soldiers for interviews with
reporters they may encounter during an expected mission to Afghani-
stan. The mission of the FET members is to provide unit support by inter-
acting with Afghan women, a demographic that would be otherwise unap-
proachable by male service members and their Afghan National Army
counterparts. With Afghanistan being an Islamic republic, it is against
religious and local customs for men and women who are not relatives to
interact with one another.
LIGHTS. CAMERA. ACTION.
STAFF REPORT
The following Soldiers and
civilians will be honored for
their service during a retire-
ment ceremony at 9 a.m. Jan.
25 at Riley’s Conference Cen-
ter. The community is invited
to attend.
Sgt. Maj. William J. Sutton,
Operations Company, Division
Headquarters and Headquar-
ters Battalion
1st Sgt. Dewayne D. Gar-
ner, 407th Army Field Support
Battalion Brigade, Fort Hood,
Texas
Master Sgt. Russell C. Riv-
iere, Operations Co., DHHB
Sgt. 1st Class Robert S.
Caldwell, Headquarters and
Headquarters Company, 1st
Heavy Brigade Combat Team
Sgt. 1st Class Marcus J.
Carter, HHC, Special Troops
Battalion, 2nd Heavy Brigade
Combat Team
Sgt. 1st Class Kevin L. Hess,
HHC, STB, 1st HBCT
Sgt. 1st Class Randolph E.
Hanlon, HHC, 4th Infantry
Brigade Combat Team
Sgt. 1st Class Garcia A. Jem-
mott, HHC, STB, 1st Sustain-
ment Brigade
Sgt. 1st Class Gary Howard,
Company B, 554th Engineer
Battalion, Fort Leonard Wood,
Mo.
Sgt. 1st Class Jack A.
Stender, Intelligence and Sus-
tainment Company, DHHB
Staff Sgt. Sheldrick L. Mur-
phy, Co. E, 1st Combined
Arms Battalion, 63rd Armor
Regiment, 2nd HBCT
Staff Sgt. Duane R. Davis,
HHC, 701st Brigade Support
Battalion, 4th IBCT
Staff Sgt. Corey G. Cantrell,
Headquarters and Headquar-
ters Detachment, 97th Military
Police Battalion
Staff Sgt. Dale E. Hudnell,
Operations Co., DHHB
Sgt. Guadalupe R. Ramos
Jr., Headquarters and Head-
quarters Troop, 5th Squadron,
4th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd
HBCT
Sgt. Tommie E. Williams,
Headquarters Support Com-
pany, 601st Aviation Support
Battalion, Combat Aviation
Brigade
Sgt. Michael C. Cosentino,
Co. D, 299th Brigade Support
Battalion, 2nd HBCT
May F. Garlick, Information
Management Division, MED-
DAC
Adelina B. Morales, Educa-
tion Services, Directorate of
Human Resources
Michael J. Keating, Fort Ri-
ley Fire Department, Director-
ate of Emergency Services
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forming Soldiers on their right
to vote,” Stephenson said.
“Our goal is to (get) everybody
that wants to vote – whether
it’s a Family member, a DA ci-
vilian, a Soldier – (to get them
to) understand they can vote,
they know how to vote, they
are afforded the opportunity
to do that, and that they know
where to go to get assistance.”
There are more than 5,500
voting assistance officers, from
company level to installation
level, to help with the voting
process, Stephenson said. “Ev-
ery Army installation has a vot-
ing assistance officer now,” he
added.
Voting assistance officers
are there to help Soldiers reg-
ister to vote and cast their vote
by providing things like voter
registration forms and inform-
ing them how best to return
the ballots, but the responsi-
bility to vote ultimately falls
on the individual, Stephenson
explained.
“You have to register, and
you have to register early, up-
date your address when you
move and vote. You actually
have to cast that vote,” he said.
“The voting assistance officers
have been trained. They can go
through and help you based on
your specific location.”
Soldiers can also visit the
FVAP website at www.fvap.gov
to register and get information
on submitting ballots for each
state.
Soldiers who are deployed
or have moved recently should
update their information so of-
ficials can send them an absen-
tee ballot. However, sometimes
they have to take matters into
their own hands.
“If you hit 45 days before
the general election and you
haven’t gotten anything from
your local election official,
don’t wait for them. There’s a
federal absentee write-in ballot.
Fill that out, send it in – they
may pass in the mail, but you
still got your vote in,” Stephen-
son said.
Absentee ballots can be
found on the FVAP website as
well as voting assistance offices
at the unit level.
“We encourage people to
vote. I would argue that it is
not just a right, but an obliga-
tion,” Stephenson said, noting
that voting is a freedom Sol-
diers defend.
During election season, the
best bet for a Soldier or some-
one representing the Army
with doubts about proper of-
fice etiquette and election
behavior is to talk with the
chain of command, Stephen-
son said. Generally speaking,
don’t do anything in uniform
that might give the impression
that you are speaking for the
Army, or that the Army specifi-
cally endorses a political party,
he said.
“What we’re trying to do
this presidential election year
is establish an irreversible mo-
mentum and make the voting
process so embedded in the
force that we don’t slack off be-
tween (elections),” he said.
For more information on
voting assistance policies, visit
www.hrc.army.mil.
one consolidated team.”
Working together as a team
while training has been benefi-
cial, according to Hutchison.
“This is going to help the
brigade refine what we’ve al-
ready learned,” he said. “This is
going to show us that yes, we’re
ready.”
This will be the Dragon’s
first training experience to
NTC for a future deployment
to Afghanistan. The brigade
has deployed to Iraq for Op-
eration Iraqi Freedom, from
2007 to 2008 and from 2009
to 2010.
VOTING Continued from page 1
Photo illustration by David Vergum | ANS
A screenshot of the FVAP website’s landing page is
pictured above. Officials at HRC want to ensure that
the entire Army Family understands the importance of
voting and wants to make it as easy as possible. FVAP
is one tool to help accomplish that goal.
Sgt. Gene A. Arnold | 4TH IBCT
The 4th IBCT is staged for movement for its rotation
to the NTC at Fort Irwin, Calif., scheduled for February.
NTC Continued from page 1
course at Fort Leavenworth, the
branch manager said work was
being done to figure out ways
to implement distance learning
opportunities and an ILE selec-
tion processes.
Although reluctant to com-
ment on how low the officer
promotion percentage rates will
dip in the coming years, Kaine
did say the changes that will
soon be implemented through-
out the Army’s personnel man-
agement system will be “very
healthy for the Army.”
“This is about getting back
to normal,” he said. “This gets
us back to a best-qualified board
that selects only the best-quali-
fied officers.”
Army Chief of Staff Gen.
Raymond Odierno, in a Dec.
20 message to all colonels, urged
the senior leaders to be thought-
ful and specific in their evalua-
tions of subordinates and ensure
they are properly prepared for
the increasingly critical selec-
tion boards.
“Our selection boards will
continue to select our very best
officers; those who display the
greatest potential to lead our
Army,” Odierno wrote. “Our
Army will be in transition over
the next several years and reduce
in size. We must retain our very
best.”
Padilla, who discussed career
progression with several of the
division’s artillery majors during
one-on-one interviews, said he
and Kaine elected to visit Fort
Riley now to take advantage
of the fact that nearly all 1st
Inf. Div. Soldiers are currently
“home.”
“This doesn’t happen very
often, so we knew we had to
come out here quick,” he said.
Kaine said he welcomed the
opportunity to talk to the “Big
Red One” Soldiers and “demys-
tify” the process of career man-
agement and assignments.
“I think it is important that
we are not just a bunch of bu-
reaucrats sitting at desks at Fort
Knox, Ky.,” he said. “Maintain-
ing face-to-face contact with
the officers we assign is impor-
tant that that’s why we wanted
to take advantage of this sweet
spot in time to talk to everyone
about what we do at HRC.”
CAREER Continued from page 1
Rob McIlvaine
ANS
FORT MEADE, Md.
– The past 10 years of war
assured many Soldiers an as-
signment or promotion with
a high degree of certainty,
said an official with the De-
partment of the Army Pro-
motions Branch. That’s no
longer necessarily the case.
“It has always been in the
Soldier’s best interest to en-
sure his or her personnel file
is up-to-date. But as history
tends to repeat itself and the
Army scales back its force
structure, having an accurate,
updated and complete service
record is now more important
than ever,” said Gerald May-
er, chief of DA Promotions
Branch.
Soldiers need to know
how to present themselves to
the board in the most posi-
tive and professional manner,
Mayer said.
All Soldiers need to be on
top of their personnel file at
any given time because not
only is the file looked at for
promotion boards, but it’s
also looked at for assignments
as well, he said.
“If it’s not kept current to
where you feel that you’re be-
ing best represented, then you
might fall short somewhere,”
Mayer said.
The U.S. Army Human
Resources Command, De-
partment of the Army Sec-
retariat convenes about 80
selection boards each year
for promotions, command
assignments, professional de-
velopment and schools for
officers, warrant officers and
senior noncommissioned of-
ficers.
But if a Soldier doesn’t do
his or her due diligence, “the
assignment that you want
could go to someone else, or
you could not get promoted,”
Mayer said.
The Army will continue
to promote its most quali-
fied and experienced officers
and NCOs based on potential
and performance, he said, but
added this also means boards
will only select the best quali-
fied out of the field of fully
qualified Soldiers.
“The Army recommends
that every Soldier, at a mini-
mum, should maintain con-
tact with their branch man-
ager; check their DA photo,
with emphasis on the proper
wear and placement of the
awards and to ensure that the
data matches their officer re-
cords brief or enlisted records
brief, and what’s filed in their
Official Personnel Manage-
ment File, or OPMF, which is
their electronic record deposi-
tory,” said Randy Gillespie,
chief, Officer Promotions
Branch.
Gillespie added everyone
should:
• Ensure their assignment
data on the officer record
brief or enlisted record brief
is accurate
• Ensure all awards and
badges are properly annotated
on their ORB/ERB and filed
in the OMPF
• Confirm all evaluations
are properly posted in their
OMPF and SSN, height/
weight data and duty title/
description are correct
• Review and certify their
“My Board File” promotion
information is correct, “So
don’t fall short and think that
if you don’t put any emphasis
on your personnel file, which
is kind of your resume and
kind of your handshake to
whomever is looking at your
file – because if it’s not up to
date, this could send the mes-
sage that you’re not diligent
enough, or that you don’t
care what’s happening to you
in your career. After all, this
is a profession of arms, and
it doesn’t speak highly of an
individual if he or she pres-
ents themselves in a way that
is unprofessional or fails to
show due diligence,” Gillespie
said.
Prior to a promotion
board, DA Promotions
Branch publishes a military
personnel or MILPER mes-
sage that gives Soldiers guide-
lines on what they should do
to ensure they are portraying
themselves in the most favor-
able light.
“If a Soldier takes the time
to read the correspondence
sent to them, they are told
exactly what to do and how
to do it, and who may help
them. There’s no guess work
in this process,” Mayer said.
Every Soldier, said Gil-
lespie, should have the habit
of updating their records as
they change.
This makes sure they go
down the right path to get the
right evaluation to ultimately
show how they rate against
their peers.
“It’s not how you stack up
against the Army standards,
it’s how you rate against your
peers because most boards
have a maximum selection
objective that restricts the
number to be recommended
for promotion based upon
the needs of the Army.
“If there’s 100 people on
that board and the Army
can only promote 80, even
though they may all be top-
notch Soldiers ... it’s how they
rank among themselves pro-
vided that they are all fully
qualified,” Gillespie said.
The Army, Mayer said,
is an organization that truly
cares about its people, but it
also knows that not all Sol-
diers can be promoted …
there’s not that much room at
the top.
“So we don’t want anyone
to fall short and think some-
thing is happening or there’s
an expectation when there’s
not. Promotion is not a right
or an entitlement; it must be
earned,” he said.
A Soldier, he said, may say
he did all that’s required.
“OK, you did all that’s
required, but how well did
you do it? Therein lies your
efficiency report that talks to
a Soldier’s potential for ad-
vancement to the next higher
rank.”
“So we’re just trying to
alert Soldiers that (their) re-
cord could be looked at for
just about anything, so just
keep it up to date and make
sure there’s a validating docu-
ment to support whatever
entry is in (the) file,” Mayer
said.
Furthermore, command-
ers and supervisors can assist
by monitoring preparation
efforts and reviewing ORB/
ERB, OMPFs and DA pho-
tos prior to the board-con-
vening date.
The boards will require
complete record evaluations
as outlined in their respective
MILPER Messages.
At a minimum, these se-
nior leaders should ensure
that their officers have an of-
ficial DA photo on file, along
with completed evaluations
that are processed by the es-
tablished cut-off dates with
emphasis on clear, concise,
quantified narrative com-
ments that leave no doubts as
to where these Soldiers stand
against their respective peers,
Mayers said.
Finally, he said all Soldiers
should view the detailed De-
partment of the Army Sec-
retariat video on the actual
promotion board process to
maximize success at DA
boards and for their own pro-
fessional development. This
video is available at https://
www.hrc.army.mil/promo-
tions.
As Army downsizes, Soldiers should be
competitive when seeking promotion
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The closure of Estes Access
Control Point has made traffic
worse in certain areas, reinforc-
ing the need to only run on al-
lows routes, Bennett added.
“Once we open Estes Gate
again, it will relieve some of the
issues we have with near misses
because a lot of traffic is com-
ing through Vinton School
Road,” he said.
Maps of approved and non-
approved routes are included in
the Fort Riley Pam 350-1.
“Everyone is coming back
now, so we need to re-engage
and re-familiarize with the
routes that are out there, and
once that happens, I believe it
will be much safer,” said Ron-
ald Clasberry, garrison safety
specialist, Garrison Safety Of-
fice.
Clasberry also said it’s im-
portant for Soldiers to carry
flashlights and properly wear
reflective belts to be visible by
traffic.
“If you’re not seen, the po-
tential is there for a person to
be hit,” he said.
Key points in accordance
with the Fort Riley Pam 350-
1 are:
• Runs – During PT hours,
from 6:30 to 7:30 a.m., units
will conduct PT runs on the
right side of the road, as far to
the right as possible. Forma-
tions may make full use of the
road on protected routes. Unit
formations must be supported
by internal road guards. Com-
pany and larger units varying
from protected routes must co-
ordinate with the Provost Mar-
shal Office and the Division
Safety Office for guidance and
additional requirements.
• Safety precautions for
night marches – Ensure that
adequate safety precautions are
taken during night marches
and while conducting PT dur-
ing hours of darkness to warn
approaching traffic of the pres-
ence of troops. As minimum
acceptable precautions, one
road guard will march or run
100 feet in front of and behind
the column. The reflective PT
strap will be worn around the
rucksack or Individual Body
Armor, or IBA, so it is visible
from the sides and rear. These
guards and other Soldiers per-
forming similar duties during
hours of darkness and periods
of poor visibility will carry
flashlights and wear luminous
belts or vests. The guards will
slow, or, if necessary, stop traf-
fic to warn drivers of the pres-
ence of the formation.
• Reflective Belt – The re-
flective belt will be worn with
both the summer/warm weath-
er and the winter/cold weather
IPFU. When wearing the sum-
mer/warm weather IPFU, the
reflective belt will be worn
around the waist. When wear-
ing the winter/cold weather
IPFU, the reflective belt will be
worn diagonally from the top
right to the bottom left, out-
side the gray and black jacket.
Soldiers susceptible to or with
a previous cold weather injury
will have a band of blue tape
on the reflective strap. Soldiers
susceptible to heat injury will
have a band of red tape on the
reflective strap.
• Straggler Control System
– All units will establish a strag-
gler control system for those
individuals falling out of for-
mation. A noncommissioned
officer will be placed in charge
of the stragglers. Personnel
that fall out of the formation –
stragglers – will clear the road-
way immediately upon leav-
ing the formation. Straggler
control personnel will police
up these individuals, placing
them in formation to continue
the run at a reduced pace. The
requirements for road guards,
with reflective vests and flash-
lights, as stated above, also ap-
ply to the straggler control for-
mation. Stragglers will run on
the left side of the road facing
traffic. All personnel conduct-
ing PT individually will wear
proper reflective gear, regard-
less of the time of day.
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HOUSE
FILL AD
tists, National Nurse Anesthe-
tists Week was created to en-
courage CRNAs to educate the
public about anesthesia safety,
questions to ask prior to un-
dergoing surgery and the ben-
efits of receiving anesthesia care
from nurse anesthetists.
“One of the many rewards
of being a nurse anesthetist is
providing patients and Soldiers
with the comfort of knowing
that I will be there during the
entire procedure, ensuring a
safe anesthesia experience,” said
Capt. Nancy Kane, CRNA.
“National Nurse Anesthetists
Week serves as an opportunity
to inform the public exactly
what CRNAs do and who we
are.”
CRNAs are often the only
anesthesia professionals in ru-
ral hospitals and have been the
main provider of anesthesia
care to U.S. service men and
women on the front lines since
World War I.
“Nurse anesthetists are
advanced practice registered
nurses who administer approx-
imately 32 million anesthetics
in the United States each year,”
according to the American As-
sociation of Nurse Anesthetists
website.
At IACH, CRNAs admin-
ister anesthesia in operating,
surgical and delivery and oph-
thalmology rooms.
WEEK Continued from page 4
edge AMEDD realities and
to emphasize the importance
of service recovery – identify
approaches for handling and
diffusing problems with vary-
ing levels of severity, he said.
“We are not going to
change everything today. Our
expectation is for you to re-
turn to your respective work
areas and replicate what you
learned in efforts to find solu-
tions,” Larson said. “Concen-
trate on changing one thing
today to make things better
for tomorrow. Begin living the
basics today.”
At the conclusion of the
weeklong training, Larson
encouraged the entire IACH
staff to embrace change.
“When Culture of Trust
and Begin with the Basics
procedures are properly insti-
tuted together, problems are
not solved, they disappear,”
Larson said.
BASICSContinued from page 4
By Chanel S. Weaver
USAPHC PUBLIC AFFAIRS
N
early one-third of
active-duty service
members smoke, and
that figure increases among
troops in a combat zone,
according to the 2008 Depart-
ment of Defense Survey of
Health-Related Behaviors.
Most Soldiers know smok-
ing cigarettes can eventually
cause lung cancer and emphy-
sema, but one does not have to
wait 20 or 30 years to experi-
ence the adverse effects.
Multiple studies by U.S.
Army Public Health Com-
mand scientists show smoking
has immediate health effects,
including increased injury
risk and diminished physical
performance.
“Past studies of Army basic
trainees show the risk of injuries
among Soldiers who smoke was
as much as 90 percent higher
than nonsmokers,” said Mi-
chelle Chervak, senior epidemi-
ologist, USAPHC. “From past
data, as well as analysis of recent
data collected on operational
units, we can definitely say that
smokers have a greater risk of
any injury, and more specifical-
ly, overuse injuries – damage to
musculoskeletal tissue that accu-
mulates with repetitive activities
such as running. Higher injury
risk is likely due to factors that
impair the body’s healing and
repair processes.”
USAPHC studies also
have demonstrated smoking
negatively impacts muscle
endurance, especially as Soldiers
get older.
“Our data show that smok-
ers perform fewer push-ups and
sit-ups on the Army Physical
Fitness Test,” Chervak said.
Smoking also can affect mis-
sion readiness, she said.
USAPHC studies have
shown Soldiers who use tobacco
have reduced night vision and
mental sharpness and increased
risk of heat and cold injuries.
Nicotine decreases oxygen-
ated blood flow, resulting in
a 30-percent reduction in
night vision for normal eyes
and 50-percent reduction
in those wearing corrective
lenses. Likewise, smoking also
causes reduced blood flow to
the extremities, which leads to
more heat and cold injuries as
the body is unable to cool and
warm them, especially fingers
and toes.
Not only does smoking have
a negative effect on a Soldier’s
performance, it also has poor
health consequences for the
smoker and those in his/her
environment.
President Barack Obama’s
National Prevention Strategy re-
port states that cigarette smok-
ing causes about 443,000 U.S.
deaths each year. These deaths
occur as a result of lung cancer,
chronic bronchitis, strokes,
heart attacks, emphysema and
other conditions.
Second-hand smoke also can
be damaging to others’ health,
especially children.
“If Soldiers knew the effect
that smoking has on their
children, I think more would be
encouraged to quit,” said Col.
Heidi Warrington, chief nurse
executive, USAPHC.
Children who are exposed
to second-hand smoke are at
increased risk of suffering from
chronic ear infections, asthma
and learning disorders, War-
rington said.
The financial cost of smok-
ing also is significant. A recent
Army Times article stated
tobacco use costs the Pentagon
$846 million a year in medi-
cal care and lost productivity.
Not to mention the cost to the
smoker, with cigarettes cur-
rently ranging from $5 to $12
a pack.
For more information on
smoking cessation, visit:
• Quit Tobacco – Make Ev-
eryone Proud, www.ucanquit2.
org
• San Antonio Military
Medical Center Quitline,
1-877-SAMMC-11 or www.
sammcquitline.org/
• American Lung Associa-
tion, www.lungusa.org/stop-
smoking/workplace-wellness
• American Cancer Society,
www.cancer.org/Healthy/Stay-
AwayfromTobacco/index
• Become an EX, Online
Tobacco Cessation Program,
www.becomeanex.org.
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Sessions of the 2012 Resilient
Spouse Academy, a weeklong
training seminar for military
spouses that teaches suicide inter-
vention, responding to reports of
abuse or neglect, Master Resilience
Training and financial resilience,
will be:
-Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
-March 5 to 9
-June 4 to 8
-Sept. 10 to 14
For more information or to
register, call 785-239-9435.
Upcoming USO Fort Riley
No Dough Dinners in 2012
will be from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at
Building 7856 on Drum Street
on Custer Hill. Some dinner loca-
tions may change. For informa-
tion, call 785-240-5326 or email
usofortriley@uso.org. USO Fort
Riley also is on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/usofortriley. Click
on “Events” to see the most up to
date information for No Dough
Dinners. Dates for dinners are:
Jan. 31
Feb. 13 and 29
March 14 and 29
April 12 and 30
May 14 and 31
June 14 and 28
July 12 and 31
Aug. 14 and 30
Sept. 13 and 28
Oct. 12 and 30
Nov. 14
Dec. 13
Interested vendors are
encouraged to submit a reg-
istration form for Fort Riley’s
Great Escapes Expo March 31.
For more information on Great
Escapes and vendor registration,
visit www.rileymwr.com or call
785-239-8990.
Flick-N-Float, a movie view-
ing at Eyster Pool, will be at 7
p.m. Jan. 28. Cost of attendance
is $10 per Family or $5 per
person. Hot dogs, chips, juice and
cookies will be served during the
movie. Families are welcome to
bring their own food. For more
information, call 785-239-9441.
Picerne Military Housing will
host a Family Game Night from
6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at the Forsyth
Neighborhood Center. All
on-post Family housing residents
are invited to attend. The event
will include board games and
activities for children of all ages,
snacks and prizes. Children must
be accompanied by an adult. For
more information, contact your
neighborhood office.
AIB International School of
Baking, Manhattan, has a full
tuition scholarship for a person
to attend AIB’s 16-week baking
science and technology course Feb.
2 to May 24. The scholarship is
for a military veteran, active-duty
service member or spouse of an
active-duty service member and is
offered by representatives of the
commercial baking industry to
educate and encourage persons
for positions of responsibility in
the baking industry. For more
information, contact Ken Embers
at 785-539-2819
Riley’s Conference Center
will host a beer tasting event
from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 4. A
limited number of $10 tickets are
available. Participants must be 21
to participate. Tickets are available
at Riley’s Conference Center and
at Army Air and Force Exchange
Services locations.
Riley’s Conference Center will
host a Sweetheart Dinner and
Dance from 6 to 10 p.m. Feb. 10
and 11. Celebrate Valentine’s Day
with your loved one at this event
that will include a cocktail hour
and hors d’ oeuveres, a four-course
gourmet meal, and live music and
dancing. For more information,
call 785-784-1000.
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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK
By Melony Gabbert
1ST INF. DIV. POST
When the Wing Zone at the
Fort Riley Mini-Mall opened at
11 a.m. Jan. 17, a line had already
formed.
“We’re real big on flavor. We
have marketed ‘flavor-holics’ to de-
scribe ourselves,” said C. J. Lawson,
franchise trainer, Wing Zone.
Part of the slogan comes from
the 15 sauces to choose from for a
variety of meats, including buffalo
wings, chicken tenders, hamburg-
ers and shrimp. Sauces also can be
used as salad toppings.
Sauces range from tame and
garlic parm to hot shot and nuclear
habanero.
With nearly 100 locations, the
franchise now has three restaurants
in Army and Air Force Exchange
Service facilities, according to Dan
Wade, Central Regional food pro-
gram specialist, AAFES. The first
facility was established at Joint Base
Lewis-McChord, Wash., in Sep-
tember 2011; the second at Fort
Hood, Texas; and the third at Fort
Riley. Joint Base Lewis-McChord
will receive a second restaurant in
April.
Contracts are awarded based on
consumer demand, Ward said.
What began as two fraternity
boys selling wings out of the frater-
nity kitchen has ended up a global
enterprise, with a stake at Fort Ri-
ley, Lawson said.
In 1991, Matt Friedman and
Adam Scott grew tired of pizza
while studying at the University
of Florida. They perfected sauces
in their fraternity’s kitchen and
began selling wings, Lawson said.
That operation was discovered and
stopped, but the two young men
then borrowed $5,000 from their
parents and opened their first res-
taurant in 1993.
Lawson was on post through-
out the week training employees,
as he did for the week prior to the
opening. Afterward, he will travel
to Saudi Arabia to open another
restaurant.
Wing Zone opens at Fort Riley Mini-Mall
Melony Gabbert | POST
Customers decide what to order at the grand opening of the Wing Zone Jan. 17 in the Mini-
Mall on Custer Hill. Fort Riley’s Wing Zone is the third to be opened on an Army installation.
Tasteful venture
By Sarah Chadwick
PICERNE MILITARY HOUSING
With the hustle and bustle
of work and after-school activi-
ties, scheduling time together as a
Family can be a challenge, not to
mention planning an activity and
deciding on something everyone
can agree upon. Picerne Military
Housing is taking the challenge
out for Families by inviting Picerne
residents to its Family Game Night
from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 3 at the For-
syth Neighborhood Center.
“Family Game Night will fea-
ture jumbo-sized games, such as
Tic-Tac-Toe, Jenga and checkers, as
well as Family favorites, like Would
You Rather, Candy Land, Yahtzee,
Hungry, Hungry Hippos and oth-
ers,” said Jasmine Nelson, event
co-chair. “There will be games and
activities for all ages.”
Snacks will be provided and
prizes will be given away through-
out the night. The grand prize will
be a one-night stay at the Great
Wolf Lodge, Kansas City, Kan.
“iPads, game consoles, televi-
sions and other electronic devices
tend to take the place of Family
time these days,” said JC Calder,
deputy community management
director, Picerne Military Housing.
“We wanted to provide a fun night
where Families can spend time to-
gether and enjoy each other’s com-
pany without other distractions.”
The Forsyth Neighborhood
Center is located at 22900 Hitch-
ing Post Road. Children must be
accompanied by an adult. For more
information, residents may call
their neighborhood office.
Picerne
to host
Family
night
By Melony Gabbert
1ST INF. DIV. POST
Many audience members remarked
on the inspirational nature of Com-
mand Sgt. Maj. Junior Riley’s presen-
tation following the conclusion of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Observance
Jan. 18 at Riley’s Conference Center.
Riley, command sergeant major,
Irwin Army Community Hospi-
tal, Medical Activity, was the guest
speaker at the observance, which was
sponsored by the 1st Infantry Division
Equal Opportunity Office.
Riley built upon King’s, “I Have a
Dream,” speech.
“What is a dream?” Riley asked the
audience. “Dreams act as a compass
and tell us what direction in which to
travel. It is important that you and I
have a dream to get us to a destina-
tion. Don’t let anyone take that dream
away from you. A person with a dream
knows what they are willing to give up
to get up.”
Riley encouraged listeners to get
away from people holding them
down, measure actions by whether or
not they contribute to reaching the
dream, build a support network of
Family and friends and to keep push-
ing.
He asked audience members to
fill in the blank of what their dream
is and answer what they are willing to
do to commit to it.
He also told the audience to dream
and to dream big.
“Your dream is not out of reach,”
he said.
Strength, courage, a good support
network, energy, enthusiasm and de-
termination will help dreams be real-
ized, he said.
He reminded the audience that
King’s “selflessness brought about a
change that many thought was not
possible.”
King’s success and passion were
put forth as examples by Riley before
he made personal dreams the focus of
his speech.
“Dr. King is everywhere … he
showed the world that the principle of
non-violence can be successful,” Riley
said.
King is not just celebrated in our
country, but all over the world, Riley
said, adding that in Japan, an annual
banquet is conducted by the mayor
in his honor. King also is celebrated
in Toronto, Riley said, and a forest in
Israel is named after him, as well as a
school in Cameroon and streets and
boulevards in Italy, India, Brussels,
Brazil and Senegal, a country in West
Africa.
He inspired a national movement
toward equal rights, Riley said.
“His ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was
something special born of that mo-
ment, during that event,” Riley said,
explaining that King had not written
the speech out ahead of time, but was
prompted by Mahalia Jackson from
the crowd while giving his speech.
“Tell them about the dream,
Speaker at Martin Luther King Jr. Observance
encourages audience members to dream big
By Melony Gabbert
1STINF. DIV. POST
A limited number of $10 tickets
are available for the upcoming second
annual beer-tasting event from 5:30 to
8:30 p.m. Feb. 4 at Riley’s Conference
Center.
Tickets are available at the confer-
ence center, Army and Air Force Ex-
change Service sites and at the Leisure
Travel Center, 6918 Trooper Drive on
Custer Hill. Tickets will be available
until the day before the event, if they
are not sold out.
About 50 beers will be served, many
of which are craft or microbrews, but a
few will be imports, according to Chris
Downs, manager, Riley’s Conference
Center.
Beers will be served in bottles or
cans. No draft beer will be served.
Three local vendors will be avail-
able to hand out information to par-
ticipants, and one local brewery will be
represented. Tables with various beers
will be set up, and participants may
choose from the beers.
“This is a great opportunity to taste
and sample,” Downs said.
Participants also will be treated to
light hors d’ oeuvres and take home a
pilsner glass with paid admission.
Annual beer-tasting event
set for Feb. 4 at Riley’s
Maj. Gen. William
Mayville, 1st Inf.
Div. and Fort
Riley command-
ing general, left,
presents MED-
DAC Command
Sgt. Major Junior
Riley, right, with
a certificate of
appreciation fol-
lowing the Mar-
tin Luther King Jr.
Observation Jan.
18 at Riley’s Con-
ference Center.
Melony Gabbert
POST
COURTESY PHOTO
The Fort Riley Middle school Band has announced the
Eighth Grade Band students chosen to perform in the Kan-
sas Music Educator’s Association North Central District
Honor Band. Students are, from left to right, Alexandria
Larsen, clarinet; Joseph Kyser, clarinet; and Sarah Hughes,
flute. These and other area students rehearsed and per-
formed a concert Jan. 14 at the Junction City Middle
School.
BAND STUDENTS PERFORM
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