UPDATES IN BOLD. FORT HOOD (Now designated Fort Cavazos), Texas — A former 1st Cavalry Division Soldier is scheduled to be presented the Distinguished Service Cross in a ceremony to be conducted on March 20 at 4:30 p.m. on Cooper Field here. Sgt. (Retired) Daniel E. Cowart, who was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry […]
Fort Cavazos News
Change starts Tuesday, Automated Installation Entry beginning next week
The implementation of a new Automated Installation Entry system will begin Tuesday according to officials from Fort Hood (Now designated Fort Cavazos)’s Directorate of Emergency Services. The AIE equipment and its components have been undergoing testing to this point, and beginning Feb. 19, in-lane registration will begin at selected access control points for Department of […]
New Army personnel, pay system tested by PA National Guard across 6 cities
By Lt. Col. Rudy Grimes, Senior Test Officer, Mission Command Test Directorate, U.S. Army Operational Test Command FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Despite numbing cold, whiteout snow conditions, high winds, freezing rain and occasional falling two-foot icicles, Soldiers of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard (PAARNG) here are midway into testing a radically different personnel and […]
CRDAMC celebrates the Army Nurse Corps 118th anniversary
By Patricia Deal FORT HOOD (Now designated Fort Cavazos), Texas—Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center celebrated the Army Nurse Corps 118th anniversary and reflected on past and future achievements of nurses of all ranks and specialties with a traditional cake cutting ceremony here February 4. Nurses have treated American Soldiers throughout our nation’s conflicts […]
Operational test of commercial airmobile crane aims to improve Army battlefield aviation maintenance
By Sgt. 1st Class Richard. A. Sosa, Rotary Division Research, Development, Test and Evaluation NCO, Aviation Test Directorate, U.S. Army Operational Test Command JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. — The ability of Army helicopter repairers to support maintenance in remote locations may improve enormously if the airmobile Expeditionary Crane proves effective in austere environments during operational […]
Greywolf unit to host remembrance ceremony
Gold Star families along with current and former Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team “Greywolf,” 1st Cavalry Division will gather Saturday at the 1st Cavalry Division Memorial on Cooper Field to pay respects on the 10th Anniversary of the death of four former Soldiers in Iraq. Lt. Col. Gary […]
