You are invited to cover and take part in the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division family Tank family gunnery day on Tuesday, Aug. 9 and Bradley family gunnery day on Aug. 11 at Fort Hood (Now designated Fort Cavazos), Texas.

This event will run from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and offers a great opportunity for military family members to experience what it entails to be a Tank or Bradley crewman while watching their Troopers participate in a live gunnery range at Pilot Knob Multiuse and Henson Mountain Multiuse.

Media desiring to cover this event must RSVP to Staff Sgt. Ashley Dotson no later than 4:30 p.m. Aug. 8.

A public affairs representative will meet the media at the south parking lot of Marvin Leath Visitors Center located on T. J. Mills Blvd. at 8:30 a.m. for an escort to the event.