FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md.-- As part of the installation's observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Fort Meade will celebrate Denim Day on April 25. Denim Day is an annual campaign to help raise awareness about sexual assault and rape. Fort Meade organizations are encouraged to join the observance and allow service members and civilians to wear denim. The movement began … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2012
Military Wives Eligible for Vocational Scholarships
Airman 1st Class Zachary Vucic Defense Media Activity 4/19/2012 - FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- Operation Homefront and the Women's Self Worth Foundation will offer the Saban Military Wife Educational Scholarship to wives of uniformed service members who attend certain vocational training programs in the medical field and meet eligibility requirements. Two $30,000 … [Read more...]
25th ID Mortar Men Put Rounds on Target in Korea
April 19, 2012 By Sgt. 1st Class Joel F. Gibson, Eighth Army Public Affairs RODRIGUEZ LIVE FIRE COMPLEX, South Korea -- "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." This probably apocryphal quote applies to modern combat about as much as ramrods, steel pikes and cavalry charges. To mortar men, purveyors of indirect fire from concealed locations, the idea sounds … [Read more...]
New Housing Website Prepares Airmen for Moving
April 19, 2012 by 1st Lt. Nicole White Air Mobility Command Public Affairs SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- With the summer moving season just around the corner thousands of Airmen and their families can now use a new housing website to help prepare for their move. The website,www.housing.af.mil, provides dormitory information for unaccompanied Airmen while detailing housing … [Read more...]
Army Engineer School launches ENFORCE 2012
April 18, 2012 By J.D. Leipold FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. -- The Army Engineer School Wednesday launched ENFORCE, its annual regimental conference, bringing together more than 300 military engineers to focus on future operations, capabilities, threats and how the regiment will engineer in future conflicts into 2020. Aside from common themes that are looked at yearly, such as how … [Read more...]