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• Longshoremen, a licensing team and a typewriter
  USAG Schinnen, Netherlands - When a U.S. expeditionary force docks hundreds of tactical vehicles in the port of Bremerhaven who ya gonna call -- the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command or an Army garrison drivers testing and licensing team?
• Under Secretary of the Army Helps Cut Ribbon, Marne Point Open for Business at Fort Stewart
  Under Secretary of the U.S. Army Ford visits Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Dec. 16. Helps cut ribbons to quality of life facilities.
• DES firefighters, police host hazardous material training
  Members of the Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) at Fort McPherson and Fort Gillem, along with Forest Park Fire Department firefighters, Forest Park, Ga., teamed up in early December for hazardous material training. Each certification level is a DoD and International Fire Service Administration Firefighter certification requirement. The training included awareness, operations and technician and incident command levels proficiencies.
• Delta opens airport lounge for traveling troops
  It was a free-for-all of food Dec. 12 at the official opening of the Delta Holiday Military Lounge on concourse B at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Servicemembers and their Family members, Delta Airlines employees and volunteers shared an abundance of donated food platters in celebration of the lounge’s availability to traveling troops.
• New Fort Campbell Family Housing Website user-friendly
  Fort Campbell family housing launches user-friendly website
• Strike brigade, family members attend anniversary for Gander's fallen
  23rd anniversary of the Gander, Newfoundland crash that killed 248 Fort Campbell Soldiers
• Priests pastor to Soldier parishioners despite shortage
  He’s one of the few, one of the proud, but he’s not a Marine. As a Catholic chaplain ministering to military Catholics, Chap. (Lt. Col.) Dennis Niemeier is a minority in the ranks of the Armed Forces.
• Army historians unearth yesterday, keep history alive for tomorrow
  In the basement of the U.S. Army Reserve Command (USARC) Headquarters building, he lives on, despite having drawn his last breath more than 64 years ago.
• Gold Star Mothers charter new chapter at Fort Leavenworth
  Article and photos on new Northeast Kansas Gold Star Mothers chapter chartering at Fort Leavenworth.
• Honoring a covenant for Heidelberg
  HEIDELBERG, Germany – In the little more than a year since the Army Family Covenant was signed at U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg, it has made a positive impact on the garrison’s family programs.
• 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.
• West Point Cadets study ways to improve medical/physical evaluation boards
  WEST POINT, N.Y. -- The pressure has been building on a small think tank inside Mahan Hall here. The fact the Army's top general will hear their ideas isn't entirely what makes the senior project of these four U.S. Military Academy cadets so important. Their work could change the lives of Soldiers and their families across the Army.
• West Point Soldier receives award from President Bush
  Soldier receives award from President Bush story and photo
• Retired First Sergeant Cited for Boy Scout Work
  Retired 1st Sgt. Albert “Al” Farrar wasn’t at the Veterans Day Dinner when his name was called out as the recipient of a lifetime achievement award presented by the North Alabama Veterans and Fraternal Organizations Coalition. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to be present to receive such a prestigious award. If he had known about the award, which he didn’t, he would have rearranged his schedule to make sure he was there. But, without realizing the momentous occasion he was missing, Farrar went about taking care of a previous engagement he had scheduled with a few young men. While other veterans and community leaders were dining at the Von Braun Center’s North Hall, Farrar was going over the details of a flag retirement ceremony that members of Boy Scout Troop 400 would be involved in on Veterans Day. “What I enjoy doing is changing the character in boys. I’m not doing this to get recognition,” said Farrar, who has been the Scoutmaster for Troop 400 since it was started in 1988.
• Project Office has Precise Procurement Needs
  As 2008 winds down and ’09 ramps up, the Precision Fires Rocket and Missile Systems Project Office is living up to its name -- Precision. “We are ceasing the procurement of Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions after deliveries of work in progress,” project manager Col. Dave Rice said. “We are also pursuing technologies that will meet the requirement to engage broadly dispersed area targets.” An Army Configuration Steering Board has resulted in the release of a request for proposal for two or more competing contractors to provide Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Alternative Warhead technology solutions.
• Blessings Abound for Family Facing Health Crisis
  Rick Gray’s faith has been tested to its very core. And, yet, he counts his blessings every day. He’s thankful to God for his wife Lisa, his twin daughters Hannah and Lauren, his church and community, and his job with AMCOM’s Integrated Material Management Center that now allows him to work from home. Those blessings mean a lot to a man who is struggling with incurable stage 4 Renal Cell Carcinoma. But that’s not the only health challenge faced by Gray and his family.
• National Guard Celebrates 372nd Birthday
  In a year when the Alabama Army National Guard has gone through one its most significant transformations, the commander of a state theater-level headquarters said Alabama’s Guard is ready for its dual mission in support of the state’s governor and the nation’s president. Maj. Gen. Joe Harkey, commander of the Alabama Army National Guard’s 167th Theater Sustainment Command, provided an outline of the Guard’s history and its future at a National Guard 372nd birthday breakfast sponsored by the Redstone-Huntsville Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army on Friday at the Heritage Club. Harkey said the state activated 41 units, deactivated 54 units and converted another 44 units during its transformation from “a strategic reserve to an operational force” that provides flexibility in its dual mission to provide states with units trained and equipped to protect life and property, and to provide the nation units trained, equipped and ready to defend the U.S. and its interests anywhere in the world.
• Redstone School Bus Operation Nearing End
  Redstone Arsenal is getting out of the school bus business. The change began this school year when Huntsville started transporting Redstone youngsters who attend Columbia and New Century high schools. The next phase will begin Jan. 5, after the Christmas break, when the city will start transporting students to J.E. Williams Middle Sc