By Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch

Commanding General

Installation Management Command

Resilience is the ability to bounce 

back in the face of adversity ... 

it’s mental toughness! Webster 

defines resilience as, “the capability of a 

strained body to recover its size and shape 

after deformation caused especially by compressive stress” and 

“an ability to recover 

from or adjust easily 

to misfortune or 

change.”

 The strength of 

our Nation is only 

as strong as the 

Soldiers, Families 

and Civilians that 

courageously support and defend it.

 Over the last eight years, more than one 

million Soldiers have deployed to combat, 

more than 3,900 Soldiers have sacrificed 

their lives, and more than 25,000 have been 

wounded in service to our country.

 Army units and Families across the 

globe are relocating in compliance with 

the Base Realignment and Closure Law, 

and we continue to transform our business 

practices. To remain strong in this dynamic 

environment, leaders must proactively 

maintain and develop resiliency programs 

and services to enable the total Army Community (Soldiers, Civilians, Families and 

Retirees) to maintain healthy relationships 

and happy lives.

 Our approach to supporting resiliency 

for the Army Community is to enhance 

their ability to adapt to stress by supporting, 

maintaining, and developing programs and 

services that promote total wellness. As I 

have said before, I am convinced that the 

Army spends too much time fixing Soldiers 

after they break, evidenced by the rise 

in suicide and substance abuse rates. We 

should be spending our time, energy, and 

resources to make the Army Community 

resilient to prevent them from breaking.

 We will use the Public Health Model 

of assessment, education, intervention, and 

treatment to integrate and deliver services 

to help prevent Soldiers, Civilians and 

Families from breaking. By applying this 

model before a crisis happens we will be 

better able to keep the Army Community 

strong in all dimensions of resiliency. 

 Individuals must be fit mentally, physically and spiritually to achieve optimum 

resilience.

 The Installation 

Management Community will provide 

the best care, support 

and services for the 

Army Community 

by improving quality 

of life through 

initiatives, such as 

the Army Family 

Action Plan, the 

Army Family Covenant, Army Community 

Covenants, the Installation Management 

Campaign Plan and the Comprehensive 

Soldier Fitness Program. 

 When I was the senior commander at 

Fort Hood, Texas, I built a Resiliency 

Campus to enable the Army Community 

to become resilient before deployments, 

during deployments and to solve many 

other challenges faced by Army Families.

 Other IMCOM garrisons are also focusing on resilience. 

 Fort Bliss, Texas, has a Restoration and 

Resilience Center that offers a Warrior Resilience Program and a Family Resilience 

Program. Fort Jackson, S.C., is opening a 

Master Resilience Training school that will 

offer a 10-day Master Resilience Training 

Course to equip leaders to teach coping 

skills to unit members. At Fort Campbell, 

Ky., the Family Resiliency Council has 

teamed up with key organizations to be one 

of the first installations to publish an online resource guide to provide accurate and 

accessible information to Soldiers, Families 

and Civilians. 

 These are but a few initiatives underway 

dedicated to enhancing Soldier, Civilian 

and Family resilience.

 The strain of multiple deployments and 

other stress factors may continue into the 

future.

 Therefore, I challenge leaders and personnel throughout the Army Community to 

think of new ideas to enhance installation 

resiliency initiatives and to send your ideas 

to your installation leadership or me. I also 

challenge each of you to take advantage of 

existing programs and services on your installation and in your community to remain 

mentally, physically, and spiritually fit.

 The Army Community is the strength of 

our Nation, and IMCOM garrisons are the 

Army’s Home!

2 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

Notes from the IMCOM Commander:

 Leaders challenged to maintain,

 develop resiliency programs 

“To remain strong ... 

leaders must proactively 

maintain and develop 

resiliency programs and 

services ...”

Lieutenant General Rick Lynch, commanding general of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command, addresses an audience of garrison commanders in 

San Antonio.

Photo by Jean Skillman
 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill May 21, 2010 3

Since the Installation Management Campaign Plan was released recently at the Campaign Plan Rollout Conference in San 

Antonio, IMCOM Northeast Region has 

been hard at work implementing the plan.

 The plan focuses the command on six 

lines of effort: Soldier, Family and Civilian 

Well-Being; Soldier, Family and Civilian 

Readiness; Installation Readiness; Leader 

and Workforce Development; Safety; and, 

Energy Efficiency and Security.

 “These are our priorities,” said Russell 

B. Hall, Region Director of IMCOM 

Northeast Region. “This is not foreign 

to us; we’ve been doing these things. But 

this campaign plan puts them all in a consolidated command playbook. We will focus 

on these lines of effort, we will resource 

these lines of effort and we will meet the 

IMCOM Commander’s goals.”

 The real work of the Installation Management Campaign Plan begins with 

IMCOM employees at the region and on 

garrison staffs reading and understanding 

the campaign plan, which can be found 

online at http://www.imcom.army.mil/hq/

kd/cache/files/D46D0DD8-423D-452D4213C8335482DBEC.pdf. 

 “Every member of the region and the 

garrison staffs should print it out, read it, 

make notes in it and base their work on 

the priorities outlined in the campaign 

plan,” said Col. Frederick Swope, Deputy 

Director of IMCOM Northeast. “We all 

have a role in focusing this organization on 

the lines of effort so we can better serve our 

Soldiers and Families.” 

 For Northeast Region, implementation 

of the lines of effort will be overseen by the 

functional chiefs most closely associated 

with each area. Soldier, Family and Civilian 

Readiness will be lead by the Northeast 

Region Operations Division Chief, Steve 

Hayward. The lead for Soldier, Family and 

Civilian Well-being is Art Webb, Family 

Morale Welfare and Recreation chief. Al 

Pagliarello, Northeast Region Human Resources chief is in charge of the Leader and 

Workforce Development line of effort. 

 Installation Readiness is assigned to the 

Directorate of Public Works headed by 

acting region DPW chief Jorge Blanco. He 

also leads the effort for Energy Efficiency 

and Security. Region Safety Chief Bob 

Bessette is charged with leading the Safety 

line of effort. 

 The leaders for each line of effort will 

develop working groups to be able to focus 

on all the aspects of each area.

 “The working groups for each line of effort 

will assess the situation, develop a plan to 

improve, assess and reengage,” said Steve 

Hayward, NE Region Operations chief. 

“That kind of focus means we can find and 

share the best way of doing business, so the 

entire region and IMCOM overall will gain 

from the experience.”

Plan focuses efforts to better serve Soldiers, Families

IMCOM rolls out plan, unveils new logo 

 Military community members will now 

see a symbolic icon representing the progressive goals of the U.S. Army Installation 

Management Command, headquarters of 

all Army garrisons worldwide.

 The logo, developed to coincide with the 2010-2017 

IMCOM Plan rollout is representative of the four major 

facets of Army Community 

life: stewardship, readiness, 

facilities and families.

 Kathy Aydt, IMCOM chief 

of Strategic Communications of Assistant 

Chief of Staff was asked by Lt. Gen. Rick 

Lynch, IMCOM commander, to create a 

logo representative of the new goals.

 Lynch wants to instill pride and ownership within the workforce as well as something that really symbolized the importance 

of that work, Aydt said. “He felt it should 

be a logo that people could really relate to 

and get behind.”

 The team drew on the creative efforts 

of the Family and Morale, Welfare and 

Recreation Command and the U.S. Army 

Environmental Command, as well as engaging members of the IMCOM Community to ensure the new image magnified 

the most significant aspects of the Army.

 “We extended it to our community at large 

in a type of contest format and solicited all 

the input,” Aydt said.

 The result, after only a oneweek window for submissions, 

was more than 70 different 

versions. More than 2,000 

people then voted on a symbol 

of which contained all the 

elements the project team had 

hoped for.

 “We were thrilled that it 

was the one selected,” Aydt said. “It was 

designed to invoke pride in our command 

and our mission. The symbols are strong 

and the colors are bold, as is our mission 

and our commitment to fulfilling that 

mission.”

 Aydt explained that each element of the 

logo represents specific facets of the Army 

community as well as the command’s objectives for the coming years.

 “You have the green with the tree which 

symbolizes our stewardship,” she said. “You 

have the flag at the top that symbolizes our 

readiness in support of the Army. 

See IMCOM LOGO, page 10

Garrison Commander

Lt. Col. John W. Haefner

Garrison Command

Sergeant Major

Command Sgt. Maj. Mark V. Brandenburg

Public Affairs Officer

Vacant

Community Relations Officer

Jennifer Erickson

Editor / Photojournalist

David San Miguel

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4 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

Defense, Veterans Affairs step closer to integrated records

By Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden

American Forces Press Service

 The Defense Department soon will join 

the Veterans Affairs and Kaiser Permanente 

in a partnership designed to improve the 

way Veterans and the nation receive health 

care, said the VA’s top health affairs policy 

advisor. 

 Kaiser Permanente and VA – the nation’s 

two largest electronic medical records systems – have been working to integrate their 

standards for Veterans using the Nationwide 

Health Information Network. 

 The network was developed by the Health 

and Human Services Department in 2008, 

and allows government and several private 

sector health care providers like Kaiser to 

share health exchanges, such as integrated 

delivery networks, pharmacies, labs and 

patient information. 

 The partnership has been successful so 

far, and is the culmination of decades of 

work in the medical community, stated Dr. 

Stephen L. Ondra, senior VA policy advisor 

for health affairs. 

 “This is the very first multi-party exchange 

to the nationwide health information network,” he said. “[VA] feels committed and 

responsible to go forward to extend this to 

other providers and across the nation as we 

build on this effort.” 

 The VA is the largest integrated health 

system in the nation, serving more than 5.4 

million Veterans of which more than half of 

them seek some medical services elsewhere 

and, more than 1.5 million who don’t use 

VA healthcare services at all, Ondra said. 

 Although, VA and the Defense Department are leaders in health information exchanges, Ondra said, it’s important for their 

systems to be integrated into the private 

sector. 

 “We’ve got to take care of those patients, 

and we really need to have the visibility ... 

to understand conditions and to understand what treatment they’ve had, what 

medications, what allergies they’ve had,” 

he said. “Those are all things that this exchange will do. ”

 Ondra explained that the network isn’t so 

much a system as it is a set of standards and 

protocols, meaning that no organization is 

tied to any single system.

 Interoperability in sharing health record 

information and administrative data 

can occur in any system that follows the 

nationwide standard. 

 “[The network] empowers the private sector with standards to develop more choices 

that are always good for consumers,” he 

said. “With a standard, it opens up space 

for new solutions and ultimately it aims to 

lower cost and better the health system for 

the public.” 

 Ondra noted that such an integrated system will relieve the burden on patients and 

families who are often ill. 

 With the network, and with patients’ 

consent, they won’t have to “scurry back 

and forth between providers with records,” 

he said.

By Jim Garamone

American Forces Press Service

 President Barack Obama signed 

legislation, May 5, to improve health 

care for Veterans and to recognize the 

role that family caregivers play in the 

recovery of wounded personnel.

 Obama recognized retired Army Sgt. 

Ted Wade and his wife, Sarah, before 

signing the Caregivers and Veterans 

Omnibus Health Services Act at the 

White House ceremony.

 A roadside bomb wounded Wade 

when he served in Iraq in 2004, and his 

wife was an important reason why the 

sergeant made it through, Obama said.

 This legislation expands mental health 

counseling and services for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, including reservecomponent servicemembers.

 “We’re authorizing the [Veterans 

Affairs Department] to utilize hospitals 

and clinics outside the VA system to 

serve more wounded Warriors ... with 

traumatic brain injury,” the president 

added.

 The new law also increases support 

for Veterans in rural areas with the 

transportation and housing needed to 

reach VA hospitals and clinics.

 It expands health care for women 

Veterans to meet their unique needs, 

including maternity care for newborn 

children, and it allows VA to launch a 

pilot program to provide child care for 

Veterans receiving intensive medical 

care.

 The legislation also eliminates copay 

charges for Veterans who are catastrophically disabled, and it helps Veterans 

who are homeless.

 “We’re expanding support to homeless 

Veterans, because in the United States 

of America, no one who has served this 

nation in uniform should ever be living 

on the streets,” Obama said.

 The president said the legislation 

marks a major step forward in America’s 

commitment to families and caregivers 

who tend wounded Warriors every day.

 “They’re spouses like Sarah,” he said. 

“They’re parents, once again caring for 

their sons and daughters. Sometimes 

they’re children helping to take care of 

their mom or dad.

 “These caregivers put their own lives 

on hold, their own careers and dreams 

aside, to care for a loved one,” he continued. “As Sarah can tell you, it’s hard 

physically and it’s hard emotionally. It’s 

certainly hard financially. And these 

tireless caregivers shouldn’t have to do 

it alone.”

 The law gives caregivers a stipend to 

care for a severely injured Veteran from 

Afghanistan or Iraq. They also will receive lodging allowances and get the 

training they need to care for their loved 

ones.

 “If you need counseling, you’ll receive 

it,” Obama said. “If you don’t have health 

insurance, it will be provided. And if you 

need a break, it will be arranged – up to 

30 days of respite care each year.”

 The president said the new law recognizes the obligation Americans have for 

those who served.

 “Just as we have a responsibility to 

train and equip them when we send 

them into harm’s way,” he said, “we have 

a responsibility to take care of them 

when they come home.”

Obama signs Veterans, caregivers legislation
 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill May 21, 2010 5

Story & Photo by Erica Vinyard

Public Affairs Office, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment

Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) converged at Fort A.P. Hill to 

conduct testing for the coveted Expert 

Infantryman Badge, Mar. 18. 

 While Old Guard Soldiers conduct 

ceremonies on a daily basis, it’s crucial for 

them to maintain tactical proficiency. After 

spending weeks of training and testing their 

infantry skills, 22 of 266 Soldiers or just shy 

of 10 percent of the candidates, returned to 

Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall with the 

badge.

 Testing began with an Army physical 

fitness test in which the EIB candidates had 

to score at least 75 percent in each event 

for their age group. Candidates passing the 

APFT moved on to the day land navigation 

course where they were challenged to find 

three out of four points within a two-hour 

time limit. The candidates who passed this 

event moved on to night land navigation.

 The same testing standards applied as 

candidates worked to find their points. 

Those passing the challenge advanced to 

mission-focused lanes testing where they 

rotated through urban traffic control point 

lane and mission patrol lanes. These new 

standards of testing were set to provide 

Soldiers with a testing environment similar 

to what a Soldier may encounter while conducting missions in a combat zone. For the 

first time, these lanes were validated by the 

Fort Benning EIB committee.

 “On the urban lane, a candidate would 

find themselves loading, firing and reducing 

stoppage on an M4/M16 (rifle), identifying 

terrain features on a map, operating an 

advanced system improvement program 

radio, performing first-aid on an abdominal 

wound, preventing shock, performing first 

aid for burns, calling for a nine-line medical evacuation, controlling a detainee using 

the native language of the detainee and 

identifying foreign weapons,” said Staff Sgt. 

Franklin Hayes, EIB noncommissioned 

officer in charge. 

 After completing the mission-focused 

lanes, candidates had to complete a 12-mile 

road march within three hours. Staff Sgt. 

Colton Smith, E Company, 4th Battalion, 

reached the six-mile turnaround point in 

52 minutes and crossed the finish line first.

 “EIB was the most motivating experience and this badge is a permanent mark 

of expertise,” Smith said. “Soldiers who 

didn’t make it through testing still left with 

a better knowledge of their job and the 

ability to continue the tradition of being fit 

to fight.” 

 EIB is about experienced Soldiers 

advancing their knowledge to other Soldiers 

to carry on the Army’s worldwide mission.

 “EIB was a challenging but rewarding 

event,” said Staff Sgt. Keith McDonald of 

Headquarters and Headquarters Company 

Regiment. The rewarding part was training my three young Soldiers who had never 

done anything like this before. They told me 

they learned more than they had before and 

that feeling was as good as actually earning 

my EIB.

 “That was the big difference this year. 

Junior leaders got a chance to put their 

knowledge and experience and teach these 

young Soldiers how to put it in a combat 

scenario,” McDonald added.

 At the badge-pinning ceremony, Maj. 

Matthew McCreary, HHC Regiment, 

received the 1st “Dam Beaver Award” for 

completing the day and night land navigation testing in the shortest amount of 

time. McCreary; Capt. James Stultz, HHC 

1st Battalion; 1st Lt. Ruben Costa, A Co., 

4th Battalion; 1st Lt. Brian Thompson, 

D Co., 1st Battalion and Staff Sgt. Keith 

McDonald, HHC Regiment earned the 

“True Blue” EIB, which means completing 

all of the testing without receiving a single 

“no go.” 

 “Being a ‘True Blue’ this year was one of 

the greatest feelings I have had in my time 

in the Army and being the only enlisted 

person to do it made it that much better,” 

McDonald said. “The big motivation for 

getting your EIB is so that you don’t have 

to go back out next year.”

‘Old Guard’ tests Soldiers for coveted badge

Soldier candidates 

from the “Old 

Guard” converged 

at Fort A.P. Hill 

recently in pursuit of 

the coveted Expert 

Infantryman Badge.

Here, the Soldiers 

plot their points 

during the day land 

navigation test.
6 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

By Alan J. McCombs

Fort Meade

Something alarming could be a 

click away for computer users 

who are not cautious.

 The Network Enterprise Center is experiencing a spike in virus-infected computers 

as machines are corrupted by a new type of 

Internet scam: Scareware.

 Scareware is an emerging Internet 

threat in which people surfing the Web 

see a screen pop onto their monitor. The 

screen warns that a threat or vulnerability 

has been discovered on the computer.

Scareware programs then prompt the user 

to run a system scan or download a patch 

that will “solve” the problem.

 The “solution” is, in fact, a virus that could 

hide on a computer or potentially solicit 

the user’s personal or financial information, 

said Joseph Carr, chief of the NEC’s Information Assurance Division.

 Last month alone, 10 computers out of 

the 2,000 garrison and tenant computers 

monitored by the center were infected by 

Scareware programs. Since then, the NEC, 

formerly known as the Directorate of Information Management, has been finding 

at least one or two infected computers each 

week, Carr said.

 While scareware represents a rising issue, 

overall it remains a small concern for the 

NEC, Carr said.

 “This is a minor problem but it has 

the potential of going crazy,” he said.

Once a computer is infected with a virus, 

the Army’s anti-virus software, Synamtec, 

should pick up the intruder and notify 

both the computer user and the NEC. The 

computer user is prompted in an E-mail to 

power down the machine to prevent further 

infection across the DoD network.

 DoD’s only cure for a scareware infection 

is to haul away the blighted machine, erase 

its hard drive and restart the computer’s 

system from scratch.

 Resetting a machine takes anywhere from 

20 minutes to two hours. Most computer 

users should have their machine returned 

after a day, said Gwen Hamilton, a NEC 

information specialist who handles the 

resetting process.

 Once the computer is reset, the user loses 

any notes or files stored on the machine, 

Hamilton said.

 “It used to be that we’d try and save the 

person’s files, but now the requirement is 

that it be totally deleted,” Hamilton said.

 It’s an experience those working at the 

NEC are familiar with.

 After a week-long vacation in December, 

Shaun Cronk, a NEC Information 

Assurance network officer, returned to 

work to find that a scareware program had 

infected his computer.

 “No one’s immune to this,” he said.

 The damage was minimal for Cronk as 

he made a habit of saving most of his files 

to a network drive, but he still lost some 

items, he said.

 “It was not that someone found me or 

went after me, it was just something that 

was sent out,” Cronk said. “I felt a little 

violated.”

 The long-term solution for scareware is 

unclear. 

 Previous threats to computers tend to 

be fixed by patches to the computer or 

the anti-virus software, Carr said. But 

Scareware is usually concealed in ads on 

Web sites ranging from popular search 

engines to social networks. 

 DoD could potentially decide to limit 

access to those parts of the Internet.

 Limiting the number of scareware infections now could forestall such action, Carr 

added. “We’re trying to avoid locking 

people out of stuff or blocking it off.”

NEC urges users to beware of Scareware

By Spc. Darron Salzer

National Guard Bureau

 ARLINGTON, Va. -- Over the last 

few years, social media platforms such 

as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter have 

revolutionized not only person-to-person 

communication, but how organizations 

such as the National Guard communicates 

with current members and reaches out to 

potential new recruits.

 To capitalize on this phenomenon, the 

Army National Guard kicked off a new 

recruiting campaign in April with the 

release of a new personal video experience 

called “Moments of Pride.”

 The video aims to promote the Guard to 

its target demographic of 18- to 32-yearolds and is found at www.nationalguard.

com/momentsofpride.

 “What we have developed is a video 

experience that uses [the participants] 

public information on Facebook, and 

integrates it into a typical drill weekend 

or state active duty situation,” said Chief 

Warrant Officer Bonny Bell, the marketing 

officer for the Army Guard’s Strength 

Maintenance Division.

 In this case, the situation is a flood rescue, 

which is timely because we are currently in 

flood season, said Bell.

 Holding up a storyboard, Bell explains 

how the participant moves through the 

story, seeing their name on a uniform, their 

public Facebook photos being integrated 

into a hometown news story, and then 

sifting through debris and finding a photo 

album with a user photo on the cover.

 Bell said that over the past four months, 

the division developed ideas and images for 

the video campaign internally and worked 

with an outside firm to create the actual 

application that would pull a participants 

information from their Facebook profiles.

 “The application only pulls information 

that you already have public on your 

Facebook profile,” she said. “We are not 

taking anyone’s privacy away from them.”

 The new “Moments of Pride” video campaign uses footage from the Guard’s other 

campaign titled “At This Moment.”

 Bell said she hopes this campaign will 

encourage potential recruits to find out 

more about what the Guard is all about.

 “It’s a pretty powerful message that makes 

you feel like a part of something bigger,” 

she said.

 “In the last 30 days on our Facebook 

page, we’ve had 19,426 referrals go to 

our Website to find out more about the 

National Guard,” Bell added. “Of those, 

101 interested parties filled out a recruiter 

contact card.”

 Army National Guard recruiters also 

have a presence on MySpace, Twitter and 

YouTube.

 All of these social media sites are 

inexpensive ways of marketing, Bell said. 

They help the National Guard reach its 

target demographic, and the numbers show 

just how successful these sites are for the 

Guard.

Guard launches new ‘Moments’ campaign
 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill May 21, 2010 7

By David San Miguel

Editor

Committed to maintaining a first-rate 

emergency response 

capability, the Fort A.P. Hill 

leadership has recommissioned 

the last remaining fire engine to 

be upgraded with a traditional 

“Push In” ceremony, Mar. 23, at 

Fire Station 7.

 The “Push In” ceremony is an 

age-old tradition dating back to 

the 1700s when manufacturers 

would deliver the “new pumper” 

wagon to the fire station with a 

team of horses, explained Chief 

Daniel Glembot, Fort A.P. Hill 

fire department. 

 Since the team of horses 

couldn’t back up, he added, 

the receiving party would unhitch the wagon, push it into 

the station, then load up the 

equipment and hitch their own 

team of horses - ready for its 

initial response. 

 At a cost of $300,000, the 

upgrade has saved the installation what it would have cost to 

purchase a new fire engine, said 

Glembot. “A new truck costs a 

little more than half a million 

dollars.”

 The upgrade brings the 1999 

E-1 Fire Truck up to 2010 

standards and will better accommodate today’s mission. 

Refurbishing the fire engine 

took six months and includes 

the addition of a new 750-

gallon water tank, a 50-gallon 

foam tank, a scene-lighting 

system and a completely rebuilt water pump, engine and 

transmission.

 The “new” engine compliments the installation’s existing 

fleet and will provide area fire 

departments added first response 

capability as part of an ongoing 

Mutual Aid Agreement with 

the local community, the chief 

said.

 Chief David E. Layman, 

Caroline County Fire and 

Emergency Services, said that 

any asset that the installation 

can provide to the county 

is certainly a resource it can 

utilize.

 “It’s been part of an ongoing 

relationship that’s been established over the years,” he said. 

“I think we’ve made it even 

stronger within the last 12 

months.”

 Just this past November, the 

installation commissioned a 

$350,000 fire training facility 

which offers area firefighters 

the opportunity to practice live 

fire strategies and fire rescue 

tactics in a safe and controlled 

environment.

 According to Lt. Col. John W. 

Haefner, garrison commander, 

The upgrade will increase 

Fort A.P. Hill’s ability to support all members of the local 

community, the installation and 

Caroline County with that essential aid expected out of local 

government, he added.

 Presently, the installation 

provides more than $250,000 

a year in mutual aid support to 

the county. 

FIRST RESPONSE READY!

Photo by David San Miguel

Installation fire department personnel “push in” their new fire engine -- “ready for action.”

Fire engine 

enhances area 

support, post’s

training mission
8 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

By David San Miguel

Editor

 “It was arson! ... cold-blooded 

murder!”

 Steve Phillips, a veteran firefighter and newly commissioned fire marshal with the 

Hannover County Fire and 

Emergency Medical Services, 

snapped another photo.

 Collecting evidence is crucial 

if the case should go to court, 

he commented. “Justice has to 

be served.”

 He, like 31 other recent 

graduates of the Fire Marshal 

Academy recently held here, 

now have joined the ranks 

of those fire investigators in 

Virginia who will be charged to 

enforce the law.

 According to Bob Bailey, 

division chief for the State of 

Virginia Fire Marshall Academy, 

this course is mandatory for any 

individual seeking to earn a fire 

marshal appointment.

 He said the 360-hour academy 

includes three weeks of basic 

investigative techniques for fire, 

followed by nine weeks of law 

enforcement training. 

 Ed Fuzy, Virginia Department 

of Fire Programs, explained 

that the law enforcement 

phase provides candidates instruction on marksmanship, 

shoot/don’t shoot scenarios, 

building searches, car stops and 

negotiating the shoot house. 

 After all, he said, they will 

also serve as law enforcement 

officers with full police powers.

 The training culminates with 

a field training exercise in which 

each candidate must investigate 

several fires in succession, 

Bailey added. “They must apply 

the lessons learned.”

FIRE INVESTIGATORS

Academy conducts extensive 

training, graduates 32 fire marshals

Firefighters respond to a vehicle fire before fire marshals can investigate its cause.

Photos by David San Miguel

Uriel Barnes, fire marshal candidate from the City of Suffolk, 

collects evidence from the crime scene. See MARSHAL, page 9
 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill May 21, 2010 9

Barnes and classmate, Matt O’Daniel from the Lynchburg Fire Department, 

pause to discuss possible causes of the fire.

Jeremy Luttrell, fire marshal candidate, Winchester City Fire and Rescue, prepares to gather 

evidence.

 The lessons learned here, Fuzy 

said, will serve them well when 

they present their cases before 

the court.

 “They’ll have to determine 

the cause of the fire, identify 

the suspect, make the arrest 

and pursue a court conviction,” 

he said. “The investigation has 

to be thorough and able to 

withstand court scrutiny.” 

 Eight out of the nine weeks 

provided the candidates extensive training on the Virginia 

state legal system, its laws of 

arrest and the proper handling 

of evidence,” added Marshall J. 

Flournoy, instructor, Virginia 

Department of Fire Program.

 On the ninth week, a field 

exercise evaluated the candidates practical application of all 

this training. 

 “The facilities here are 

phenomenal,” stated Barbara 

Quick, role player and cadre 

member with the Prince William 

County fire department. 

 “Fort A.P. Hill was very 

hospitable – anything we 

needed, the installation staff 

provided,” she added.

 The facilities included ranges 

for marksmanship training, 

classrooms, training facilities to 

run various shoot/don’t shoot 

scenarios, meal and billeting 

accommodations.

 “It is good stuff,” added Flournoy. “We couldn’t have asked 

for any better support!”

Fire marshal candidates converge on the scene of a “residential fire” to collect evidence.

MARSHAL continued from page 8
10 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

 Summer is right around the corner and 

there’s no time like the present to shed 

those extra pounds.

 The Community Activities Center offers 

a multitude of exercise programs to help 

individuals achieve their fitness goals. 

 Classes include: 

Mondays

4:15 p.m. -- Butts and Guts

4:45 p.m. -- Cardio Combat

Wednesdays

4:15 p.m. -- Step Express

4:45 p.m. -- Muscle Pump

Fridays

4:15 p.m. -- Wellness Workshop

4:45 p.m. -- Go with the Flow

 Individuals participating in the Our 

Walk-to-Hawaii program will receive 80 

miles for each one hour class taken or hour 

of exercise and 40 miles for each 30-minute 

class. Participants will also receive 80 miles 

for the Friday Wellness Workshop class!

 All participants reaching the 1,500 mile 

mark will be invited to attend the Luau 

Celebration at the end of May.

Individuals can accumulate a number 

of miles by enrolling in the Commander’s 

Fitness Program or by participating in the 

many wellness-related activities offered at 

the installation. 

 For more information or to set up a fitness consultation, contact Chrissie Mack at 

(804) 633-8219. 

Activity Center offers fitness classes

NEWS NOTES

 Fort A.P. Hill Soldiers and Department 

of the Army Civilians may be eligible to 

receive financial assistance and help finding high quality child care because no such 

facilities are currently available on post. 

 The Military Child Care in Your Neighborhood is for eligible Families of Active 

Duty, Active Guard and Reserve Soldiers 

and DAC employees. 

 Spouses of eligible personnel must be 

working, looking for work or attending 

school. The same rules apply to unmarried 

legal parents living in the same household.

 Contact the Child Care Aware staff at 

(800) 424-2246 for a personal consultation 

or search online at www.naccrra.org under 

the MCCYN program for more information and/or application requirements. 

Child care assistance 

available for eligible 

Soldiers, DA Civilians

 The freedom and security that 

America enjoys today are direct results of the bloodshed and continued 

vigilance given by the U. S. Armed 

Forces throughout this nation’s 

history.

 In 2004, Congress passed a resolution proclaiming May as National 

Military Appreciation Month. 

 In keeping with the intent of the 

resolution, the Veterans of Foreign 

Wars calls on all Americans to pause 

and recognize those who gave their 

lives in our nation’s defense and to 

honor those who’ve served as well as 

those who are presently serving in 

the Armed Forces.

 For more information, visit the 

National Military Appreciation 

Month Website at www.nmam.org/

participate.htm.

Veterans invite all 

Americans to show 

military appreciation

 “You see the facilities -- the structures 

which represent the infrastructure that 

we’re responsible for and, of course, you see 

the family grouping at the bottom,” Aydt 

said. 

 “You may note that you can’t tell who 

are Soldiers or if there are Soldiers there 

... we also have a large civilian workforce 

that is very important to us. In this day 

and age not only Soldiers deploy but [so 

do] civilians,” she explained. “Those things 

were intentionally built into this logo, and 

probably on some level it’s why it has such 

a wide appeal.”

 The campaign plan outlines the goals and 

areas deserving particular focus over the 

next seven years.

 Lynch, who implemented the campaign, 

outlined the purpose of the plan in the 

mission statement; “To provide standardized, 

effective and efficient services, facilities and 

infrastructure to Soldiers, families and 

Civilians for an Army and nation engaged 

in persistent conflict,” - emphasizing the 

focus on increasing the effectiveness of post 

programs and agendas.

 Lynch further underlined his aspirations 

for garrisons by choosing six major topics 

on which to focus funds, energy and manpower.

 “My intent is to provide the facilities, 

programs and services required to support 

Army readiness, sustain the All-Volunteer 

Force and provide the infrastructure for 

current and future mission requirements,” 

Lynch wrote. 

 “I will do so through six Lines of Effort: 

Soldier and Family Readiness, Soldier and 

Family Well-being, Leader and Workforce 

Development, Installation Readiness, 

Safety, Energy Efficiency and Security as 

imperatives in all that we do,” he said.

IMCOM LOGO continued from page 3
 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill May 21, 2010 11

NEWS NOTES

 The Department of Defense has released the Net Generation guide, a 

128-page report by the Federal Chief 

Information Officers Council that focuses 

on preparing for change in the Federal 

Information Technology workforce.

 The report identifies the challenges 

agencies currently face to backfill IT 

positions with the shrinking workforce, 

as 957,000 federal workers will become 

eligible to retire in the next few years.

It also discusses how to attract workers 

between 17 and 31 years old, known as 

the Net Generation.

 “Clearly one of the things we want to 

do with the report is create a sense of 

urgency around the idea that we have 

to embrace new ideas and approaches to 

attract and retain the workforce of the 

future,” said David Wennergren, DoD 

Deputy CIO.

 The Net Generation is a cohort that has 

grown up with the Internet and expects 

to work with cutting edge technologies.

 Wennergren noted that “the report 

addresses the importance of providing 

the Net Generation workforce with 

access to information age tools and 

capabilities, as well as providing them 

with an environment that unleashes and 

nurtures the fire of their innovation and 

creativity.”

 The guide is available online at http://

www.cio.gov/Documents/NetGen.pdf.

DOD Releases Net 

Generation Guide

VA updates online application for health benefits

Photo by David San Miguel

Veterans to commemorate Memorial Day

 The public is invited to join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign War 

Post 10295 for their annual Memorial Day ceremony to be held on the Caroline 

County Courthouse lawn in downtown Bowling Green. 

 The memorial event will start at 11 a.m. and will be followed by a wreath laying 

ceremony to commemorate those military men and women who paid the ultimate 

sacrifice.

 For more information, please contact James Koch, VFW Post 10295, at (804) 690-

7348.

 Veterans will find it easier to 

apply for their health care benefits now that the Department 

of Veteran Affairs has updated 

its online Form 10-10EZ, “Application for Health Benefits.”

 “VA is committed to tapping 

into the best that technology 

has to offer to ensure Veterans 

receive the benefits they have 

earned,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki.

 “We continue to look for new 

ways to improve access to care 

and benefits.”

 This revised online application provides enhanced navigation features that make it easier 

and faster for Veterans to apply 

for their health care benefits.

 The most significant enhancement allows Veterans to save 

their application to their desktop and return to the application at any time without having 

to start over. Previously, Veterans had to complete the form in 

a single session.

 This updated online form, 

along with the revised VA Form 

10-10EZ, reduces the collection 

of information from Veterans 

by eliminating some questions.

 Further enhancements to the 

online application are expected 

to be delivered in increments 

throughout 2010.

 Veterans may complete or 

download the 10-10EZ form 

at the VA health eligibility 

website at https://www.1010ez.

med.va.gov/sec/vha/1010ez. 

 Veterans may also contact VA 

at 1-877-222-8387 (VETS) or 

visit the VA health eligibility 

website at www.va.gov/healtheligibility. 

-- Washington
12 May 21, 2010 Down Range - Fort A.P. Hill

SERVICE WITH A SMILE! -- Whether greeting or assisting 

customers over the telephone or in person, Inez Jeter, desk clerk 

at the Lodging Office, ensures each visitor’s stay is memorable. 

 Working at Fort A.P. Hill since July 2006, Jeter enjoys every 

opportunity to meet and help customers. 

WATCHING OUT FOR THE TROOPS! -- Billy Briggs, 

Wilcox Camp manager, has worked at Fort A.P. Hill for 

the past eight years.

 He says keeping the troops happy by providing them 

with the best available mess and billeting accommodations is his top priority. 

POST PRODUCTION! --

James Sanford, an electronics 

technician, joined the Fort 

A.P. Hill staff two years ago.

Employed at the

Faulkenburg Range

Operations Center, Sanford 

edits video to afford

commanders a chance to 

review their unit’s actions 

while negotiating various 

combat scenarios.

Our Fort A.P. Hill 

FAMILY