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AUSA
Updated February 2, 2010
 Chick Here to meet some of the nearly 300 who attended our 2009 National Meeting. 2010 Scholarship ApplicationDownload your application for a 2010 Central Texas - Fort Hood Scholarship here. Applications must be received by April 15.
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Would you like to contribute to our Soldier & Family Support efforts?
Every year, this chapter (a 501c3 non-profit activity) spends hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Soldiers and their Families. Fund-raising by local volunteers provides much of the money used for these activities, but your tax deductible donation would surely help extend the reach of our work. Will you donate $20?
Every penny will go to support Fort Hood Soldiers and their Families.
------------------ Photos of our 2009 Washington National Meeting are now posted to the Photos Section of this website Here is your December, 2009, Chapter NewsletterAnd we have Trace Adkins and the West Point Glee Club A Message for AmericaListen here
Go to the News and Photos Sections for the latest:
- A New Year with New Challenges
- Kenneth Fisher address caps three days of an intense, magnificent AUSA Annual Meeting.
- Chapter Supports Spiritual Fitness Center and Wounded Warrior Care
- Chapter Farewells MG & Mrs. Jeff Hammond and the 4th Infantry Division
- And the winner is ….
- Chapter Co-hosts Statewide TRIAD Conference
- Project Home Front
- Exceptional Volunteers Recognized
- Thanks, Automax and some Hardy Volunteers!
- Golf Tourney Raises $23,000+ for Chapter Programs
- We Thank Our Scholarship Sponsors
- Temple and Belton Host Chapter Event
- Quiet Pride
- We Celebrate Our Army’s 234th Birthday!
- Your Adopt A Fort Hood Unit Involvement is MUCH Appreciated.
- Fisher Foundation CEO to Receive 2009 Marshall Medal
- Golf Tourney A Huge Success - Over $23,000 raised for chapter programs
- Gauer reappointed to AUSA’s National Resolutions Committee
- Tiniest Warriors Showered with Thanks
- Members Briefed on Global War on Terrorism - The JCS/J5 Briefing
Check out Our Latest Soldier VideoSupporting Our Warriors
ARMY STRONG VIDEOWe have the "Army Strong" campaign video. View it here. Opens in new window, abd requires a media player.
Your Link to The Pentagon ChannelFor latest from Senior Military & Civilian Leaders, View them here
UPCOMING EVENTSChapter events give member business and individuals a chance to meet and shape the future direction of our Chapter. Learn more here!
CONTACT USIf you can help support our Chapter's mission, please contact us for more information... and thank you for visiting our web site!
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Would you like to help?
Contribute to a fund established to appropriately memorialize this tragedy and care for the affected Soldiers and their Families. One hundred percent of all funds received will go to meet these needs.
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A Community responds to the Fort Hood tragedy
of November 5, 2009
For an Update Report as of February 1, 2010
Click Here
What can we say but THANK YOU.
(Originally posted, Nov. 5, 2009 @ 1830 CST)
We are all hurting.
We did not want to believe what we saw and heard - and feel compelled to respond. Central Texans are strong, and caring - especially for our military.
So, our AUSA Chapter has stepped forward and is answering the question: what can I do to help?
The answer: Contribute to a Central Texas-Fort Hood Chapter, AUSA fund established to appropriately memorialize this tragedy, and care for the affected Soldiers and their Families.
At this moment, we do not know just what those needs might be, but we have learned from prior experience that such tragedies always create need - and Americans always want to help.
Our chapter (an entirely volunteer led 501C3 organization, IRS Tax # 53-0193361) has a 50-year record of always supporting our Soldiers and their Families. One hundred percent of all funds received will go to meet these needs.
So, if you are so inclined, we invite you to contribute, by check or credit card online via Pay Pal, to:
The Central Texas- Fort Hood Chapter
Association of the US Army
Attn: Community Response to 11/5
PO Box 10700
Killeen, TX 76547-0700
Write Community Response to 11/5 on the memo line of your check.
And thank you.
The Volunteer Leadership of
The Central Texas- Fort Hood Chapter
Association of the US Army
leadership@forthoodausa.org
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Would you like to help?
Contribute to a fund established to appropriately memorialize this tragedy and care for the affected Soldiers and their Families. One hundred percent of all funds received will go to meet these needs.
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A Fort Hood soldier on
patrol in Irag
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III Corps HQs Prepare to Deploy
LTG Cone to brief on Iraq Mission.
On Wednesday, February 17, Lieutenant General Robert W. Cone will update the Central Texas community on III Corp's role in their upcoming deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The Corps Headquarters is in the midst of deploying now, with an Advance Party already in-country, and the remainder enroute in February and early March. For most Central Texans, this will be the last opportunity to hear from our III Corps Commander prior to the corps’ return to Iraq - this for a third time. Here are the details: What: A Chapter Dinner Meeting - open to all Members and their Guests. Speaker: LTG Robert Cone, Commanding General, III Corps & Fort Hood. When: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, beginning at six o'clock. Where: Killeen Civic & Conference Center, WS Young in Killeen. Dress: As is our custom, Texas Casual. Dinner: Schoepf's Old Time Pit Barbeque - rated by Texas Monthly as one of the state’s 50 Best. Cost: $12.00 per person Tickets: Available on 3 Feb 10 at the following locations: - III Corps Executive Services, third floor III Corps HQs
- Fort Hood National Bank on TJ Mills Blvd, Fort Hood
- And local Chamber of Commerce offices in Belton, Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove, Gatesville, Salado & Temple.
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Teamwork Made
It Happen
Odierno Update Broadcast Worldwide
We had known for some time that our chapter would host General Raymond T. Odierno’s Operation Iraqi Freedom update. The target audience was to be the leadership communities of Central Texas.
That meant not just our chapter - but also representatives from three counties, eight cities and a multitude of local business or veteran groups. OK; we could handle that.
What we did not know until a few days before the event was that General Odierno had asked if his remarks might be made available for broadcast worldwide via the Department of Defense Digital Video and Imagery Distribution, or DVIDs, System.
That took a bit more effort, but with the help of KWTX News 10 and the Fort Hood Public Affairs Office, we all got it done - without a hitch!
As a result, on Monday, December 7, when General Raymond T. Odierno updated the leadership communities of Central Texas on Operation Iraqi Freedom, his remarks were streamed, available and enjoyed around the world, via the worldwide web.
We are told this was the first time any AUSA Chapter General Membership meeting had been broadcast to the world.
We thank all of these Central Texas Community Partners for their support:
- KWTX News 10
- Wal-Mart, Killeen
- Belton Area Chamber of Commerce
- Copperas Cove Chamber of Commerce
- Gatesville Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce
- Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce
- III Corps & Fort Hood Executive Services
- III Corps & Fort Hood Public Affairs
- Killeen Civic and Conference Center
- Lampasas County Chamber of Commerce
- Salado Chamber of Commerce
- Temple Chamber of Commerce
Teamwork Made It Happen!
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Joining AUSA makes good sense.
An AUSA membership links you to America’s Army in ways simply not otherwise available.
And for those not now in uniform (and perhaps never were), an AUSA membership provides a superb source of timely information on the men and women who serve this nation in the defense of freedom.
With over 17,000 members, we are AUSA's fastest growing chapter.
Come join our ranks. You - and we - will gain much!!
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133 units
need
your support!
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629 Fort Hood units.
496 adopted units. |
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Updated
January 14, 2010
IMPORTANT
If the unit you want has a partner already listed -
that's OK.
You can partner with that unit, too!!
And if you find errors or
omissions, please tell us
by going to
General Ray Odierno recently called Fort Hood the "epicenter of sacrifice.” Fort Hood Soldiers are either:
1. preparing to deploy;
2. already deployed; or
3. just returned and resetting or reequipping for future missions.
In sheer numbers alone, no other installation in America has experienced such commitment.
In 2009, thirty thousand Fort Hood Soldiers were committed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Today, sixteen thousand remain forward deployed - including elements of the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division; 89th Military Police Brigade; 1st Medical Brigade; 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary); 15th Sustainment Brigade, 57th Signal Battalion, and 13th Finance Center. And soon, the Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Diviision will deploy to Afghanistan while Headquarters, III Corps returns to Iraq for its third tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
For years, most Soldiers were rotating in and out of Iraq, now more and more will be heading to that other war in Afghanistan. Different theaters, different battlefield realities, but the same brave Soldiers supported by fabulously generous and supporting Families.
Soldier Families work to keep the home fires burning. And we can help. We can ease their burden and support their efforts by actively participating in the Adopt A Fort Hood Unit program. We can provide truly welcomed and important support to Soldiers and their Families - if we just choose to do so.
And many of you are!! But if you are not, you would be most welcome to join in!!
As you scroll through this list of Fort Hood units, you may find a unit with whom you would particularly like to partner, just enroll. We will be at the other end of that email, fax or phone call to help you make a match.
If you do not have a preference, we can identify an appropriately sized unit that needs a partner, and match them with your request. And if the unit you want already has a partner listed; that's OK, too. Any unit would welcome more than one civic partner.
Read on!
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