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  • Officer Education

    January 12, 2012

    By: Captain Daniel Toven


    This past week I packed the car and made the 4-hour trip from Fort Bragg to Virginia Beach, VA to begin the Army music officer Captains Career Course. Many of my colleagues speak of dreading the time spent at the "school house," but I have to confess that has never been my perspective. I relish the opportunity to step back, reflect on past experiences, gain new tools and insights, and interact with colleagues. I confess that my perspective may be shaped somewhat by...read more


  • I Am a Beast...in the best sense of the word.

    January 12, 2012

    By: First Lieutenant Kayley Nammari


    Random Thursday Thoughts 1) My SGM told me I was a beast. Since my ankle has fully recovered from it's latest put-me-back-on-crutches injury, I took a PT test to stop my commander from glaring at me. Somehow folks doubted me. They thought I would barely pass. Say what?! I know, right! To prove all those guys wrong, I busted my you-know-what last Sunday morning. Result: 57 push ups, 92 sit ups, 15:40 run. That run time could have been...read more


  • Army Hummer in Rolla and St. Roberts, MO.

    January 12, 2012

    By: Fred Hermstein


    Next week an Army Hummer will be at St. Robert's and Rolla, Missouri high schools. For more information contact CPT Cory at 573-563-0834.


  • Army Recruiting and ITT-Tech

    January 12, 2012

    By: Fred Hermstein


    This week the Mid-County Army Recruiting Station partnered with ITT-Tech Institute in St. Louis to support Army recruiting. ITT-Tech will also host the next advisory baord meeting in St. Louis to foster community support for Army recruiting. . For more information contact SFC Privitt at 314-291-2626.


  • Soldiers on the Radio

    January 11, 2012

    By: Fred Hermstein


    Today, Soldiers from the Washington, MO station will be featured on the Warrior Wednesday radio program hosted by Missouri State Senator Brian Nieves.


  • Clinic cases

    January 10, 2012

    By: Major Kendall Mower


    I apologized I have slacked on writing here. Things have been pretty busy, and hopefully in the coming week or so I can provide some more info on that. Realizing that I was slacking I began taking pictures today with the intention of photographing something from every case. As the day progressed however, I only got in 3. To give you an idea of what today was like the following procedures were done: - 4 exams (1 also included a 3 surface amalgam) - 1 evaluation on...read more


  • Regional Travel - Mexico part 2 (Teotuhuacan)

    January 10, 2012

    By: Major Dustin Heumphreus


    Our next trip was to Teotuhuacan, an ancient ruins site about 50km to the northeast of Mexico City. Teotuhuacan was incredible. The below picture is an internet download. I was unable to get up quite that high to get the whole landscape view. The grounds are huge and the two primary temples are massive. The word Teotuhuacan is an Aztec word (in the Nahuatl language) and means birthplace of the gods. The city is not an Aztec city, it predates...read more


  • Regional Travel - Mexico

    January 10, 2012

    By: Major Dustin Heumphreus


    Okay, it has been a very very long time since my last post. For that I apologize. Since my last post a lot has happened to me in real time. I think at the time of my last post, my daughter had just been born. She's is a very mobile and precocious nine month old. I graduated from my master's program and I have begun CGSC (ILE). So, I have a lot of things to blog about, but before I can get to those more recent developments, I...read more


  • Band Programs Officer

    January 10, 2012

    By: Captain Randy Bartel


    Had the opportunity to deploy and work for a year as the Band Programs Officer in Baghdad. Beginning in May of 2009, I worked in the C1 at MNC-I (later becoming the J1 at USF-I). I was fortunate to work with some incredible folks in a joint environment, who often spent 12-14 hours a day, 7 days a week doing everything they could to accomplish their mission. All the missions within our office had direct impacts on quality of life of our Service Members and Civilians...read more


  • New Year, New Shoes

    January 10, 2012

    By: First Lieutenant Hannah Guarendi He


    In January, I like to start with a few new goals and resolutions for the coming year. Some of them are reoccuring, like a list of 12 books I want to read. I adjusted that one this year to reading one biography a month. I also usually select a few events I want to attend, some local and some a little farther away. Two events I have pinpointed this year are the Augusta Half Marathon, here in Augusta, GA, on February 26th, and the Iron Girl Triathlon in Atlanta on May 20th. Since I started...read more