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• CSA visits Warrior Country
  Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Chief of staff of the Army, visited the 2nd Infantry Division Dec. 18.
• Film crew uses 3rd HBCT Soldiers for recruiting
  A film crew from Ignited LLC, an advertising agency in El Segundo, Calif., came to Kelley Hill Dec. 12-14 to capture Soldiers at work for a new series of recruitment videos. The videos will be used to put together interactive videos for recruiters to show potential recruits various military occupation specialties (MOSs) and what each job entails.
• Third generation paratrooper earns Airborne wings
  First Lt. Philip Sakala became a third generation paratrooper Dec. 13 when his grandfather, retired Col. Jack Ancker, pinned his Airborne wings on during a graduation ceremony at Eubanks Field on Fort Benning, Ga.
• Training through the eyes of a drill sergeant -- blue phase
  It’s almost 5 a.m. on Dec. 11. Sgt. 1st Class Gabriel Lopez just got to work. The first thing he does is check the weather forecast online. The chance of rain is 100 percent and thunderstorms are anticipated. Lopez is a drill sergeant with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment and his Soldiers are supposed to spend the day on the range. “The rain won’t stop us,” he says, “but if there’s lightning, we’ll have to wait it out in the shelter.”
• BCT Soldiers clinch MAC 1
  Staff Sgt. Aaron Price, a drill sergeant with Company F, 2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment, had never punched one of his Soldiers. On Tuesday, he did it repeatedly –– in the presence of Lt. Col. Collin Fortier, his battalion commander, and Capt. Matthew Graessle, his company commander. Price was not out of line, though. His job was to act as an assailant during the company’s certification of 32 Basic Training Soldiers in Level 1 of Modern Army Combatives. The objective during the certification is for the Soldiers to ward off an attacker by achieving one of four possible clinches.
• BCT Soldier sets record unit APFT score
  One-hundred thirty-two push-ups in two minutes, 114 sit-ups in two minutes and an 11-minute, 53-second 2-mile run. These scores earned Pfc. Holden Isley a total of 402 points on the extended scale of his Basic Combat Training Army Physical Fitness Test, one of the highest 3rd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment’s drill sergeants have seen.
• New AG CSM sets standard in caring for other Soldiers
  Hold your head up, hold it high! More than just a cadence, those words are the message the new command sergeant major for the Adjutant General School and the AG regimental corps has for all Soldiers in the adjutant general branch. Command Sgt. Maj. Darlene Hagood became the sixth Soldier, and the first female, to hold those positions during a change of responsibility ceremony, Dec. 11, at the SSI auditorium. Hagood said one of her first priorities is to instill a greater sense of pride throughout the corps.
• Gen. Casey Visits Korea
  Lt. Gen. Joseph F. Fil, Jr., 8th U.S. Army Commander, salutes farewell to Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., Chief of Staff of the United States Army at Yongsan Garrison, South Korea during the Chief of Staff’s annual holiday visit Dec. 18. Photo by SSG Sadie E. Bleistein, 8th U.S. Army PAO
• Bush shares leadership vision with Army War College
  President George W. Bush gave the Army War College students a unique opportunity to hear his thoughts on strategic leadership and national security as he thanked them for "the honor of a lifetime: to serve as your Commander in Chief."
• 53-year-old lieutenant graduates from BOLC II
  Mike Finnegan might be the oldest first lieutenant to graduate from Basic Officer Leader Course II at Fort Benning, Ga. At 53, he completed the end of course Army Physical Fitness Test Monday with a score of 295, completing 84 push ups, 66 sit ups and running two miles in 15:22. But it took Finnegan 30 years to get there.
• USACAPOC(A)'s Civil Affairs Qualification Course - Mobilized
  Soldiers with the U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), interact with Pineland role player as part of the Mobilization Civil Affairs Course (MCAC) graduating later this month. Forty-five military personnel, including two U.S. Marines and two Navy officers, are nearly finished after completing nine-weeks of intense classroom and field instruction. The final exam for these new Civil Affairs officers is a four-day operation through the fictional country of Pineland
• USAREC puts commitment to Families in writing
  Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Bostick and Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier reaffirmed the Recruiting Command’s commitment to Families by signing the Army Family Covenant Dec. 15 at the USAREC Headquarters on Fort Knox.
• Future envisioned: Blueprint unveiled; strategy in works
  Sweeping change is on its way to Fort Jackson. As 2008 winds down, post leaders are charting a course for the future, beginning with a new vision: “Team Jackson, a proud legacy of training American Soldiers for over 90 years, committed to transforming individuals and institutions, while at the same time providing the highest quality of life and care for our Soldiers, Civilians and Families. Fort Jackson: Tradition Training, Transformation.”
• Program ensures Soldiers' readiness
  Early in his tenure as tactical support operations supervisor at Fort Jackson, Harvey J. Jackson heard a comment from a Soldier that he said bothered him. “I got another broken weapon,” Jackson recalls hearing the Basic Combat Training Soldier say. The statement made Jackson wonder.
• Forces command top enlisted sees improvement in the Iraqi NCO firsthand
  CAMP TAJI, Iraq – There has been a 180-degree turnaround in the Iraqi noncommissioned officer corps since 2005, according to the top enlisted Soldier at U.S. Army Forces Command in Atlanta.
• Army releases new training manual
  The Army released the new field manual FM 7-0, Training for Full Spectrum Operations, at the Training General Officer Steering Committee conference at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 15.
• Volunteers unite for Holiday Social at Carlisle Barracks
  More than 400 volunteers gathered to share in holiday festivities with senior citizens from local retirement homes at the Letort View Community Center on Carlisle Barracks, home of the U.S. Army War College.
• WHINSEC Board of Visitors provide leadership, legislative updates
  The federal oversight committee known as the Board of Visitors for the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation met here Dec. 5 to discuss engagement strategies for a new Congress and the way ahead for WHINSEC.
• Fort Monroe Tree Lighting
  Fort Monroe youths join Garrison Commander in 2008 tree lighting ceremony
• Technology improves unit communication
  The annual Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment concluded this week with an open house on McKenna MOUT Wednesday that showcased more than 30 kinds of technology. The open house presented an opportunity for industry and military leaders to learn about the uses and advantages of technology studied during the experiment, said Harry Lubin, chief of Fort Benning’s Live Experimentation Division with the Maneuver Battle Lab. Now in its fifth yea