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News
from Combat Equipment Group -- Europe
(U.S.
Army Field Support Command)
For more
information, contact the public affairs office at (31) 045-5677346,
DSN 363-7346
CEG-E
delivers combat equipment for Afghan mission
KAISERSLAUTERN,
Germany - It's an expeditionary Army, able to move fast and hit
hard - thanks largely to pre-positioned equipment ready to hand
over to Soldiers at a moment's notice.
Just such a mission is underway now as Army Materiel Command's
Combat Equipment Base Rhine Ordnance Barracks and 1st Battalion,
4th Infantry Regiment Soldiers out of Hohenfels, Germany, team
up to support a NATO mission in Afghanistan.
News from Letterkenny
Army Depot
(U.S.
Army Aviation and Missile Command)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 717-267-5102, DSN 570-5102.
Letterkenny's
safety record on track
Letterkenny Army Depot's
safety efforts support President Bush's Safety, Health, and Employment
(SHARE) initiative to lower lost-time injury and illness case
rates and reduce lost workdays.
Comparing pay data provides a
total annual average lost day rate. Letterkenny has drastically
reduced its lost day rate in the last two years from 31 to 7.
The formula for "lost day rate" is the number of incidents
per 100 employees. Additionally, Letterkenny's continuation of
pay rate, total last workday claims, and COP lost workday claims
rates have all decreased.
News from Tobyhanna Army Depot
(U.S. Army
Communications-Electronics Command)
For more information contact
public affairs office at 570-895-7308, DSN 795-7557.
Depot 'Resets'
Army division's tactical operation centers
by Anthony J. Ricchiazzi
Public Affairs Office
TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT,
Pa.-Technicians here have begun an $8.5 million mission to repair
and upgrade an entire division's Tactical Operations Centers
after heavy use in Southwest Asia.
TOCs are command and control systems used for communications
and data transmission. The systems, in shelters and other facilities,
serve as a commander's planning, coordinating, monitoring, advising
and directing agency. TOC systems include radios, such as the
Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System, telephones,
networking equipment, computers and other systems.
News from Armament,
Research, Development and Engineering Center
(U.S. Army Research, Development
and Engineering Command)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 973-724-6365, DSN 880-7243.
First
responders check out Picatinny's homeland defense, readiness
training
by
Eric Basek
Special to The Voice
Training
for local first-responder agents and officers may have just gotten
a little easier because of Picatinny's future homeland defense
and security training site.
Nearly two dozen police officers and representatives from the
Office of Emergency Management visited Picatinny Aug. 26 to tour
the installation's multiuse Homeland Defense Technologies and
Security Readiness Center.
Sussex County chiefs, prosecutors, sheriffs' officers and training
officers toured the site to explore the facilities and joint-training
opportunities with Picatinny personnel.
News
from Soldier
Systems Center
(U.S.
Army Research, Development and Engineering Command)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 508-233-5340, DSN 256-5340
Pathfinder
seeks to increase battlefield communication
Laser beam trip wires,
flying cameras, roving toy-sized vehicles and a local wireless
network boosted by “SuperCrumbs” are shaping up into
a connected system of systems under the Pathfinder Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstration (ACTD).
Pathfinder ACTD, sponsored by
the Special Operations Command with the ACTD and Urban Technology
Office at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass.,
serving as technical manager, is an effort to integrate unmanned
ground vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles and unattended smart
sensors into a mobile, self-forming and self-healing network.
The network enhances situational awareness, command, control
and communications to commanders and assault forces operating
in urban areas.
Process clears
supplies, equipment for airdrop
Concerned manufacturer
representatives, cringing at the thought of a new military vehicle
undergoing airdrop certification at the Drop Tower, find that
the nearly 13-foot plummet onto a concrete surface usually results
in little, or more likely, no damage to their product.
The Drop Tower is one stop along
the airdrop certification process managed by the Aerial Delivery
Engineering Support Team at the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center
in Natick, Mass. Every piece of equipment or consumable product
that the military delivers from the sky needs a stamp of approval
that the cargo will safely and reliably reach the ground ready
for combat.
News
from Umatilla
Chemical Depot
(Chemical
Materials Agency)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 541-564-5312
Umatilla
successfully destroys first rocket
UMATILLA CHEMICAL DEPOT, HERMISTON, ORE. - Umatilla Chemical
Depot (UMCD) successfully destroyed its first GB-filled (sarin)
M55 rocket on Sept. 9. The process started midmorning and was
completed mid afternoon.
“Today, there is one less rocket at Umatilla that could
be harmful to the public,” said Army Site Project Manager
Don Barclay this afternoon when addressing community residents
at the Umatilla Chemical Disposal Outreach Office.
News
from Deseret
Chemical Depot
(Chemical
Materials Agency)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 435-833-4575, DSN 790-4575
Deseret
eliminates more than half of chemical agent stockpile
DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT,
STOCKTON, Utah - Workers at Deseret Chemical Depot and Tooele
Chemical Agent Disposal Facility reached and surpassed the halfway
mark in safely eliminating the chemical nerve and blister agent
stockpile here.
Prior to TOCDF chemical operations
beginning in August 1996, there were 13,616 tons of chemical
agents in storage at DCD contained within more than one million
munitions, the nation's single-largest stockpile of chemical
weapons. With the processing of a VX agent-filled spray tanks
early this morning, DCD storage area and TOCDF workers marked
the destruction of 6,817 agent tons of chemical agent, marking
the elimination of more than half of the depot's chemical agent
stockpile.
News
from Rock
Island Arsenal
(Tank-Automotive
and Armaments Command)
For more information,
contact the public affairs office at 309-782-1121, DSN 793-1121
School
opens at Rock Island
by Allen Marshall
Editor
It's the first of its
kind in the Army and it sets the standard for those that follow.
And, it is right here at Rock Island Arsenal. It is the newly
opened School Age Center.
The facility opened its doors Aug. 26 and an official ribbon
cutting ceremony was held Sept. 16.
The state-of-the-art structure located on Rodman Ave. just across
the street from some of the residents' quarters, is designed
to provide programs for children 6- to 18-years-old and is the
culmination of more than 15 months of construction. It was the
first major construction project at Rock Island Arsenal in nearly
12 years.
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