Special to GUIDON

Brig. Gen. James Bonner assumed commandancy of the U.S. Army Chemi-cal, Biological, Radiological and Nucle-ar School during a change-of-comman-dancy ceremony May 26 held in Lincoln Hall Auditorium.

Bonner replaces Brig. Gen. Maria Gervais, whose new assignment is as

Combined Arms Cen-ter — Training deputy commanding general at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Bonner arrives to Fort Leonard Wood after an assignment in Washington, D.C., as the director of Ma-teriel, Office of the

Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8.“As you can image, this is such a bit-

tersweet moment for Chris and I,” Ger-vais said. “Almost two years to the date, I stood up here telling you just how good it felt to be back home here at Fort Leonard Wood and just how thrilled we were to be joining the great Maneuver Support Center of Excellence team.

“This morning, I’m going to tell you just how much it is hurting to leave this unbelievable installation and this com-munity that goes above the call of duty to take care of the Soldiers, Airman, Sailors, Marines, civilians and Family members. We can’t thank you enough for all you do.”

Under Gervais’ leadership, the CBRN School expanded existing cre-dentialing opportunities to include an Associate Emergency Manager certi-fication, through partnership with the International Association of Emergen-cy Managers. Additionally, the school implemented a 14-week CBRN War-rant Officer Basic Course and recently completed the first Warrant Officer Ad-vanced Course.

Other accomplishment were a Force Design Update coupled with the field-ing of the (Nuclear, Chemical, Biologi-cal, Reconnaissance Vehicle and the

Story and photo by Mike BowersManaging editormichael.bowers4.civ@mail.mil

Steve Thurman must serve and pro-tect the occupants of three-quarters of Fort Leonard Wood’s approximately 63,000 acres. His weapons are educa-tion and the experience of more than 24 years as the installation’s forester.

His biggest challenges are fire and training that can destroy or disturb nat-ural habitats. Of the post’s total acreage, more than 53,000 are used for training. Additionally, there are Family housing and camping areas that can pose fire hazards.

“Fire prevention is a big part of my job,” Thurman said. “I am in charge of prescribed burning. I am also working on an installation wild-land fire plan.”

Thurman, a southwest Missouri na-tive, said the wild-land plan encompasses prescribed burning and preventing and fighting wildfires. He said such a plan is especially useful on ranges, where tracer ammunition is used.

“There (at particular ranges), we have firebreaks to help contain fires and

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Ways to entertain your children for free this summer. Page A2

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See FORESTER, Page A4

CBRN School welcomes newcommandant, chief of chemical

Bonner

Photo by Mike Curtis, Visual Information Center

From left, Brig. Gen. James Bonner, accepts the Chemical Regimental colors from Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood com-manding general, during the U.S. Army CBRN School’s change-of-commandancy May 26 in Lincoln Hall. Bonner assumed responsibility as the 29th Chief of Chemical.

Faces of the Fort

Forester ensures fires, training don’tdestroy, disturb natural resources

Steve Thurman, installation forester, manages Fort Leonard Wood’s approximately 63,000 acres and has been doing so for more than 24 years.

conduct prescribed burning to minimize the chance of any fire issues,” Thurman said.

According to the University of Mis-souri-Columbia graduate with a master’s

in forestry, part of his job is to regulate fire-starting activities, based on the

Chance to givegift of life atblood driveSpecial to GUIDON

A community-wide blood drive is scheduled from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday at Fort Leon-ard Wood’s Swift Gym.

The the drive is open to ev-eryone 17 years old and older — military or civilian.

Potential blood donors must weigh at least 110 pounds and should have been feeling well for at least three days.

Donors must also be well hy-drated and have eaten something before donating.

Those wanting to donate should bring a list of medica-tions they’re taking, a list of foreign countries traveled to — be sure to include when, where and for how long — and a photo ID (military ID, driver’s li-cense, etc).

Swift Gym is located at the corner of West 16th Street and Buckeye Avenue.

For more information, call Sgt. Sheila Reyna, 14th Military Police Brigade, at 573.596.0131, ext. 64484, or Carl Norman, Fort Leonard Wood Blood Do-nor Center donor recruiter, at 573.596.0131, ext. 65385.

Post honorsfallen atMemorial DayceremoniesBy Public Affairs staff

Fort Leonard Wood service members, civilians and Family members paid honor to the fallen, during several Memorial Day ceremonies conducted Monday throughout the area.

During a morning ceremony at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery on H Highway near Polla Road, senior leaders and community leaders paid their respect to the service members lost in combat.

Following an opening prayer by Chaplain (Lt. Col.) James Paulson, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Leon-ard Wood, Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, Maneuver Support Center of Ex-cellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, spoke to the assembled crowd on the true meaning of Memorial Day.

“There are many veterans among us today, including me, but today is not our day of recog-nition. Today is the day we honor and remember the lives, the cour-age, the legacies and the service of those who left home, but did not return,” Savre said.

“Memorial Day was borne out of the Civil War to honor the un-imaginable number of fallen Sol-diers the country endured during those four long and gruesome years, and now, 150 years after in-ception, from Arlington National Cemetery to the smallest towns across the country, millions of Americans are gathering today for ceremonies and parades to honor all who have fallen in bat-tle, fighting to preserve our way of life, and today, as a nation, we humbly say ‘thank you — we re-member,’” he said.

Savre continued and said this day and this ceremony, reminds

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Which of the Army Values do you feel is most important?During Values Tag Ceremonies at the completion

of Basic Combat Training, I always stand between the integrity values rock and the personal courage values rock, because it is at this critical intersection of values that we sustain our professionalism as Soldiers. Our individual responsibility to do what’s right, legally and morally, challenges our personal courage. As we accept risk and embrace the right path, we increase the trust others have in us, demonstrate honorable living and execute stewardship of our profession.

What is the best advice you have ever received? Listen to your sergeant major, and “it’s a marathon,

not a sprint.”

Command Team Spotlight

Lt. Col. Jeff Bergmann

Hometown: Paris, Missouri

Hobbies:Coaching youth bas-ketball, engaging in mental health coun-seling, attempting to keep up with the interests of my 12-year-old twins and keeping my wife happy

Favorite Movie: “Apocalypse Now”

Favorite Book: “The Servant Leader”

Command Sgt. Maj.Paul Millius

Command Sgt. Maj.Paul Millius

Command Sgt. Maj.

Hometown: Amenia, New York

Hobbies:All sports

Favorite Movie: “We Were Soldiers”

Favorite Book: “The Great Gatsby”

What does leadership mean to you? Leadership means getting a group to collectively

work together to accomplish a task to standard. This is accomplished by, if possible, providing the “why,” the resources and tools of the “how,” while simultaneously fostering a climate that motivates success.

What advice would you offer new Soldiers?To be a master of your craft, a steward of our profes-

sion and a leader in your organization, regardless of your grade or position.

Which of the Army Values do you feel is most important?Honor is the most important Army Value, because it

means to live and follow the remaining six.

787th Military Police BattalionTransform civilian volunteers into U.S. Army Military Police Soldiers who are an asset to

combatant commanders; provide the necessary and required training to become combat ready, disciplined, motivated, physically fit and technically competent Warrior Police Soldiers and leaders inculcated with the Army Values and Warrior Ethos; capable of

immediately contributing to the next unit’s mission and able to survive in any environment.

U.S. Air Force photo

May 19:— Seven civilians and five service members issued tick-

ets for speeding — Civilian issued a ticket for failure to stop — Civilian issued a ticket for using cell phone while driv-

ing without hands-free device — Civilian issued a ticket for seat belt violation — Civilian issued a ticket for failure to provide proof of

insurance — Service member issued a written warning ticket for

speeding

May 20:— Civilian apprehended

for driving while driver’s license suspended, North Gate

— Five civilians and three service members issued tickets for speeding

— Civilian issued a ticket for seat belt violation

May 21:— Traffic accident, Iowa

Avenue/20th Street, vehicle attempting to make a right into a parking lot and got stuck in a ditch

— Civilian apprehended for active warrant, North Gate

— Service member and civilian issued tickets for speeding

— Civilian issued a ticket for failure to stop — Civilian issued a ticket for seat belt violation — Service member issued a ticket for using cell phone

while driving without hands-free device

May 22:— Service member apprehended for driving while intox-

icated, Replacement Avenue— Three service members and civilian issued tickets for

speeding — Civilian issued a ticket for failure to stop

May 23:— Traffic accident, Missouri Avenue adjacent to GL-

WACH, vehicle attempting to make a left hand turn, failed to yield the right-of-way and struck another vehicle

— Two civilians apprehended for operating motor vehi-cle while driver’s license is suspended, North Gate

— Civilian issued a ticket for speeding — Civilian issued a ticket for seat belt violation

May 24:— Three service members and three civilians issued

tickets for speeding — Civilian issued a ticket for using cell phone while driv-

ing without hands-free device

Excessive-speed violations:— 1 to 5 mph over: 0— 6 to 10 mph over: 5— 11 to 15 mph over: 26— 16 to 19 mph over: 7— 20-plus mph over: 0

School-zone citations: fourCommercial-vehicle citations: 0

Current post driving privilege suspensions is 146, which is an increase from last week. Out of that total, 11 are re-stricted driving privileges.

The Fort Leonard Wood Ticket is a representation of incidents and accidents occurring on Fort Leonard Wood involving service members and civilians.

The information contained in this column is for general information purposes only.

The information is provided by the Fort Leonard Wood Directorate of Emergency Services and, while we endeav-our to keep the community aware of offenses occurring on the installation, the Fort Leonard Wood DES reserves the right to restrict or omit potentially sensitive and confiden-tial information.

To ensure that privacy and investigative concerns are protected, report data may be “filtered” prior to being made available to the public.

What to do with your military kids this summerEntertain

them for free

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ABOVE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape instruc-tor Airman 1st Class Daniel Foret speaks with chil-dren attending the Blue Green Sum-mer Youth Camp. The children learn to make a shelter in the wilderness, read a compass and repel from rocks during the camp, which gives prior-ity to children with a deployed parent. LEFT: Entry to na-tional parks is free for active-duty ser-vice members and their Families.

By Katie LangeSpecial to GUIDON

It’s that time of year again, everybody. We’re thinking about summer and what

to do with our days off — or, more likely, finding ways to keep our school-less children from uttering those dreaded words, “I’m bored.”

Luckily, there are a lot of op-tions for military Families that don’t involve much money (or are just plain free). Check out some of the things to do below:

A free week of campIf you didn’t already know

about this, you might want to start taking advantage of it.

The National Military Fam-ily Association’s Operation Purple offers military children a free week of camp every year, giving kids the chance to connect with others like them through kayaking, zip lining, horseback riding, photogra-phy, ceramics and all sorts of other fun activities.

While several of the camps have filled all of their spots for this year already, some of them run their own versions of that camp concurrently, and some are still taking applications.

So check out the camps in your area via www.military-family.org/kids-operation-purple/camps/ to see what’s available. At the very least, you can see what’s out there and plan ahead for next year!

There are also teen adven-ture camps and deployment support camps sponsored by the Defense Department that are offered at little to no cost, and there are camps held at each installation’s Family and Morale, Wellness and Recre-ation facilities every year.

Free national park accessMilitary kids and their

Families can hit up all of America’s 2,000-plus federal recreation sites and national parks not just in the summer, but all year long.

So if you’re anywhere near Yosemite, Acadia National Park or the Badlands, definite-ly take advantage of it.

Most people have to pay $80 a year for the annual National Parks and Federal Recreation-al Lands Pass, but for military

folks — nada. Find out what the benefits are and how you can use it here.

Free access to art, museums and exhibits

Starting Memorial Day weekend, the Blue Star Museums program gives all active-duty, National Guard and Reserve personnel and their Families free access to more than 2,000 art centers, museums and exhibits.

That’s a lot of museums, including spots such as the Met and Guggenheim in New York City and Rocky’s iconic Phila-delphia Museum of Art, as well as small-town centers like the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Gardens in Florida and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming.

Summer reading programsSummer might be time for

Slip-N-Slides and outdoor forts, but your kids need to keep reading all summer long to keep their reading skills strong. That’s what DoD’s MWR Sum-mer Reading Programs are for.

As the world watches Olym-pic athletes in Rio this year, mili-tary kids can join the fun and reap rewards through this year’s

theme, “Read for the Win!” Events include story times, crafts, STEM activities, games and possibly even parties.

There are also prizes like T-shirts, toys and more to motivate kids to read. To find out more about this year’s program, go to www.ila.org/dodsumread or contact your installation’s library.

The DoD Education Activity’s Online Summer High School Program is available for older students who want to continue their learning over the summer.

Low-cost entertainment dealsNot everything can be free,

but with your military ID, you can get a lot of extra discounts and savings on things like travel, theme park tickets, sporting events, day trips and all forms of entertainment. For more information, visit your local Tickets and Travel Office for more details.

There’s also always stuff going on locally at your instal-lation for your kids over the summer. Check in with your local MWR office.

Otherwise, have a fantastic summer enjoying the perks that come with being in the military.

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Buy reusable over disposable items. Look for items that can be reused. For example, you can bring your own silverware and cup to work, rather than using disposable items.

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Nonappropriated fund jobs available on Fort Leonard Wood

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Briefs

Change of CommandLt. Col. William Hannan Jr. will for-Lt. Col. William Hannan Jr. will for-Lt. Col. William Hannan Jr. will for

mally relinquish command of the 35th Engineer Battalion to Lt. Col. Michael Helton in a ceremony scheduled for 9 a.m. today on Gammon Field.

AMEDD recruitingThe U.S. Army Medical Department

recruiter is scheduled to be on Fort Leon-ard Wood June 15 and 16 in Truman Edu-cation Center, Building 499, Room 18.

Informational briefings for Soldiers will be held at 11:30 a.m., 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.

The educational opportunities dis-cussed will include Interservice Phy-sician Assistant Program, AMEDD

Enlisted Commissioning Program, Health Professional Scholarship Pro-gram, Physical Therapy Baylor Pro-gram, Masters of Social Work and the Medical Service Corps.

Each programs qualifications, re-quirements and board dates vary, so attend the briefings to receive the most updated information.

DOD sexual assault safe helplineThe Department of Defense sexual

assault helpline is 877.995.5247. Fort Leonard Wood military mem-

bers, Department of the Army civil-ians, and Family members can also call the post’s 24/7 SARC number at 573.855.1327.

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SJA assistance officehelps with legal issuesBy Capt. Benjamin SzanySpecial to GUIDON

It is time for a refresher on one aspect of the newcom-ers’ briefing you received upon arrival to Fort Leonard.

For those of you who have called the post home for several years, it is time for a reminder about the Legal Assistance Office.

The office provides free legal services to active-duty military, retirees and Fam-ily members with valid de-pendent ID cards.

Services offered include:— Powers of attorney and

notary services: Powers of attorney and notary services are performed on a walk-in basis. Powers of attorney al-low one person to act on the behalf of another.

— Family law: Individu-als considering separation or divorce should speak with an attorney to better understand their options going forward.

An attorney can answer questions such as what sup-port obligations might ex-ist for the Soldier before a divorce is finalized, should a person hire an attorney or represent himself/herself or how long must an individual be present in Missouri before he or she may file for divorce?

Additionally, the LAO can help answer child support, child custody or other Fami-ly-law questions.

— Wills & estate planning:The first step toward a rock-solid estate plan is attending the weekly brief on 8:30 a.m. Wednesdays. From there, clients can speak with at-torneys to identify an estate planning approach.

Attorneys can then draft and execute wills, living wills, healthcare powers of attorney and other estate planning documents.

— Military administrative issues: Soldiers receiving a General Officer Memoran-dum of Reprimand, a finan-cial liability investigation for property loss, a Qualita-tive Management Program letter, or an erroneous OER or NCOER should speak to a legal assistance attorney.

In some circumstances, it is possible to remove docu-ments from a permanent file.

— Consumer law: If debt collectors are calling in the middle of the night, the help of a legal assistance attorney can stop that harassment.

Alternatively, if a business engages in unfair practices towards a consumer, an at-torney can contact the busi-ness or explain what legal options may be available to the consumer.

— Landlord-tenant prob-lems: Unsure about a partic-ular term in a lease agree-ment? Struggling to collect a security deposit from a prior landlord? A legal as-sistance attorney can help.

The LAO is located in Building 315. Walk-in hours are 9 to 11 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Appointments are encouraged by calling 573.596.0131, ext. 60629.

(Editor’s note: Szany is a Legal Assistance Attorney.)

Nurturing flowering bulbs after the blossoms fadeSpecial to GUIDON

If you were one of the many homeowners who mowed down your daffodils, tulips and hya-cinths after they spent their last flower, that was a bad idea if you want them to flower year after year.

Spring-flowering bulbs need to photosynthesize and pro-duce food in order to enlarge the bulb and set the stage for next year. To do that you need leaves.

“The plants are collecting the groceries for next year’s flower,” said David Trinklein, horticulture specialist for Uni-versity of Missouri Extension. “The longer we can encour-“The longer we can encour-“The longer we can encourage spring-flowering bulbs to photosynthesize, the better the flowering performance will be next year.”

Some homeowners don’t mow them down but tie them up into little columns.

“You might as well cut them off, because only the outer leaves will get sun and the light will be at a very poor angle. Therefore, photosynthesis will be minimal at best,” Trinklein said.

The foliage of spring-flower-The foliage of spring-flower-The foliage of spring-flowering bulbs eventually will turn yellow and die back naturally, Trinklein said. These are cool-season plants, so they’ll disap-pear from the landscape when summer heat arrives. That’s usually late June, if not before. Once the foliage has died back, it can be removed and discard-ed without harming the bulb.

Rather than cutting them down or tying them up, this is a good time to give them some fertilizer. Trinklein said organ-ic fertilizers, like bone meal, are good choices for bulbs. “They break down slowly and release their nutrients over time. That reduces the risk of ‘burning’ plant roots from ex-cessive fertilizer.”

“Most organic fertilizers are

fairly low in nitrogen, which is important since too much ni-trogen tends to promote bulb rot,” Trinklein added.

If you’d rather use an inor-If you’d rather use an inor-If you’d rather use an inorganic form of fertilizer, Trin-klein says a fertilizer grade of 5-10-5 would work. It’s rela-tively low in nitrogen, very high in phosphorus and has a bit of potassium. Just sprinkle it lightly around the base of the plant. Avoid getting any of the inorganic form on the leaves because it can cause salt burns.

After the flowers fade, re-move them. “We don’t want the plant putting any energy into making seeds. We want that energy put back into the bulb,” Trinklein said.

Don’t forget about water. Both during and after flower-Both during and after flower-Both during and after flowering, bulbs need plenty of mois-ture to grow. If rain is scarce, water plants as long as the leaves are alive, he said.

Sometimes, after years of growing in the same spot, the flowers start to decline. This happens because the clump of bulbs becomes too large and the bulbs compete with each other for water, sunlight and nutrients, Trinklein said.

When this happens, rejuve-nate the bulb clump by divid-ing it. But wait until the fall to divide or relocate bulbs. Since these plants are busy stor-these plants are busy stor-these plants are busy storing groceries for next year, spring is a bad time to shock the plants with dividing and re-planting. Any time you move a plant, roots are destroyed and lost. Right now the bulbs need all their roots to take up wa-ter and nutrients so the leaves can manufacture food for next year’s bloom. Trinklein sug-gests marking where the bulbs are so you can find them in the fall.

If you must transplant them in the spring, do so with great care.

“Try to remove as much soil as you can around the clump of bulbs,” Trinklein said. “Dig a hole of equal size in the new location and very gently make the transfer.”

You might not have as many blooms next year, but at least they’ll be in a new location, Trinklein said.

(Article provided cour-(Article provided cour-(Article provided courtesy of the University of Mis-souri Extension, in Columbia, Missouri.)

Photo courtesy of the University of Missouri Extension

Spring-flowering bulbs need to photosynthesize and produce food in order to enlarge the bulb and set the stage for next year.

Listed below are Non-appropriated fund job va-cancies on Fort Leonard Wood as of Friday:Summer hire vacancies

— Laborer NA-02, Field Maintenance, in-termittent, $9, position open/continuous.

— Recreation Aid NF-01, MWR Rec Plex, inter-01, MWR Rec Plex, inter-01, MWR Rec Plex, intermittent, $7.65, position open/continuous.

— Recreation Aid (Life-guard) NF-01, FMWR Outdoor/Indoor Pools, in-termittent, $10, position closes Aug. 31.

— Recreation Aid NF-01, LORA, intermittent, $8.90.

— Recreation Aid (Lifeguard) NF-01, LORA, intermittent, $10. Current vacancies

— Food Service Work-er NA-01, Pershing Com-munity Center, intermit-tent, $8.45, position open/

continuous till June 30. — Food Service Work-

er NA-02, Pershing Com-munity Center, intermit-tent, $9, position open/continuous till June 30.

— Food Service Work-er NA-02, Daugherty Bowling Center, inter-Bowling Center, inter-Bowling Center, intermittent, $9, position open/continuous till June 30.

— Waiter, NA-01, Per-— Waiter, NA-01, Per-— Waiter, NA-01, Pershing Community Cen-ter, $8.45, intermittent.

— Waiter, NA-02, Pershing Community

Center, $9, intermittent, position open/continuous.

For updates, check the FMWR website, www.fortleonardwoodmwr.com and the Facebook page, www.facebook.com/mwr.ftwood/.

For questions, issues applying online or need-ing assistance, the NAF Personnel Office is locat-ed at 13486 Replacement Ave. (Building 470), first floor, Suite 1207.

The NAF office phone number is 573.596.0131, ext. 60283.

Hours of operations are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon-days, Tuesdays, Thurs-days and Fridays (closed from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. for lunch) and 8 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays.

Vacancies are also listed on www.Facebook.com/FLWCPAC.

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Foresterfrom page A1

have to sometimes help each other out,” Thurman said. “So besides working in the forest, I may help with fisheries or wildlife projects. Still, there is unfor-tunately a whole lot more time spent behind a computer than out hugging trees.”

One of Thurman’s responsibilities is managing firewood cutting on the in-stallation, and he said there are a lot of misconceptions about the much-sought-after program.

He explained that post trees, wheth-er standing or fallen, are government property. A process exists to transfer ownership to a private entity.

According to Thurman, a standing tree is attached to the earth and there-fore considered real property. So, sell-ing trees as standing timber can be an involved process that is covered by multiple regulations.

“Once the tree is on the ground, it is a ‘forest product’ and simpler to sell,” Thurman said. “We sell firewood per-mits for some of that on-the-ground wood, when it is available and safely accessible.”

He said permits have varying costs and cutting limits, however, “we cur-rently have a lot more demand than we have wood available to cut.”

Whether managing tree cutting or range fires, Thurman said his worst days are “when it’s beautiful outside and he’s stuck inside.” He said that is probably universally true for all natural resource managers.

“A good day is any day spent out in nature away from everything and ev-eryone,” Thurman said. “My best days are when I get to see something I have never seen before, or learn some new, cool thing about nature from someone else, or just come across a sight that

convinces me God was there (yes, even on military installations).”

Thurman said the Army rates his success on a form, but he, and other natural resource managers, obtain per-sonal success based on the condition of the resource.

“It may take years or decades for my work to show up in the forest,” Thur-man explained. “I can see results of work by my predecessor that he never got to see.”

Ironically, Thurman said prescribed burning gets quick results on the suc-cess of his actions.

“In one day, we can change a firing range from a fire hazard to fire safe. We can also go back in the summer and look at the incredible transformation of burned areas from brown to black, to loaded with prairie wildflowers and grasses,” he said.

current fire danger. “I still have to deal with wildfires,” Thurman said, “even though the Fort Leonard Wood Fire De-partment does the fighting part.”

A byproduct of thinning pine planta-tions is timber sales, he said, and such for-est management in-termingles with pro-tecting the forest’s animals. Among those is an endangered bat.

“Our forests pro-vide a habitat for a

threatened bat species,” Thurman said. “Work is beginning soon that will help determine how to incorporate such ac-tions as forest management into help-ing those species survive and thrive.”

As one of only 100 U.S. Army forest-ers, Thurman said his job indirectly aids environmental protection.

“Air and water are essential to hu-man existence,” he said. “In forested areas, trees provide the primary fil-ter for the rain that enters streams and groundwater, they take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store that carbon for decades or centuries, and they give off oxygen.”

Thurman said some sensitive species live part of the year in the forest or live in the streams.

“The forest helps filter the water,” he added. “You could say that, by me help-ing protect the forest, I help protect the environment.”

Assigned to the Directorate of Pub-lic Works Natural Resources Branch, Thurman isn’t always dealing with the forest or its animal and human inhabitants.

“We’re a small organization, and we

Thurman

“It may take years or decades for my work to show up in the forest. I can see results of work by my predecessor that he never got to see.”

Steve ThurmanInstallation forester

all of us that freedom isn’t free. It comes with a hefty price, and so much is owed to the genera-tions of heroes who gave every-thing they had — not for glory or gratitude, but for something greater than themselves.

“Before I leave you today, I’d just like to say how truly amaz-ing it is to stand here and look out at all of you who made the effort to attend this ceremony — the community that we have, both on Fort Leonard Wood and in the surrounding area, really speaks to the patriotism and support our service members and veterans experience every day, right here in the heart of America,” Savre said.

In St. James, Missouri, at the Missouri Veterans Home, Brig. Gen. James Bonner, U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Ra-diological and Nuclear School commandant, spoke to tyhe residents of the home, Fam-ily members, friends and the home’s staff regarding how a community comes together and remembers those departed.

“I believe it’s very fitting that we all come together as a community on Memorial Day. I say this because the connec-tion between the community and Fort Leonard Wood has al-ways been strong. As a commu-

nity, we share the same love of country; a country that stands for freedom, not tyranny; lib-erty, not subjugation; justice, not injustice. We also share the

same understanding that the liberties we enjoy in the coun-try have come with a heavy price — a price that cannot be repaid or compensated — a

price that sadly many of you know all too well,” Bonner said.

Bonner said the fallen he-roes of this nation gave every-thing to protect the ideals that

built this country. He went on to say that those veterans in at-tendance were part of that pro-tection and how each of them were part of the greater good to secure freedom and liberty for today and future generations.

“There’s a quote Gen. George S. Patton made toward the end of World War II that I’d like to share. It goes “Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.’ And rejoice we should. Because of them we have been resilient in meeting the chal-lenges of war and safeguard-ing the ideals this nation was founded on,” Bonner said.

The 554th Engineer Battal-ion provided an honor guard for the ceremony at the Veter-ans Cemetery and the Noncom-missioned Officers Academy provided a joint services color guard for the occasion.

The 399th Army Band pro-vided trumpeters for the play-ing of “Taps” at both locations.

In addition to Bonner’s com-ments, Company E, 3rd Bat-talion, 10th Infantry Regiment, posted the nation’s colors and presented a wreath in honor of those veterans who passed away during the past year, and Chap-lain (Maj.) Mark Miller, 3rd Chemical Brigade chaplain, pro-vided invocation and benedic-tion for the St. James services.

Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, speaks to 94-year-old, World War II veteran Lloyd Bohannon from St. James, Mo., Monday during the Memorial Day ceremony at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery - Fort Leonard Wood. Community members attended the ceremony to re-member and honor those service members killed in combat.

Photo by TIffany Wood, Public Affairs Office

Dismounted Reconnais-sance Set, Kit and Outfit are the most evolution-ary changes to the Regi-ment in the past 30 years.

“These improve our ability to guard the force, protect the homeland

Photo by Mike Curtis, Visual Information Center

Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, center, Brig. Gen. Maria Gervais and Brig. Gen. James Bonner take part in the U.S. Army Chemi-cal, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School change of commandancy in Lincoln Hall Auditorium May 26.

and address the emerg-ing CWMD mission our Army will lead for the Department of Defense,” Gervais said.

Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, Maneuver Support Cen-ter of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general,

praised Gervais for her time as the 28th Chief of Chemical.

“There’s no branch in our Army that has gained more positive momentum over the past few years, with respect to readi-ness, than the Chemical Corps,” Savre said.

“That was a critical pe-riod in which Gen. Ger-vais has served as com-mandant and provided the exact right leader-ship, vision, direction and inspiration to drive change and posture the Chemical Corps for the unknown, unknowable and complex challenges that lie ahead and all while taking a total Army approach,” Savre added.

Gervais’ knowledge and critical thought on the complex challenges of countering weapons of mass destruction and conducting homeland defense have been at the forefront, Savre said.

Savre made refer-ence to the Army’s song words of “first to fight for the right and to build the nation’s might, and the Army goes rolling along” to introduce Bon-ner as the CBRN School commandant.

“New leaders step up, and there is none finer than Brig. Gen. Jim Bon-ner to continue the mo-mentum and lead the CBRN School into the fu-ture,” Savre said.

Bonner has past con-nections to Fort Leonard Wood. He served as the 3rd Chemical Brigade’s deputy commander from July 2008 to August 2009.

He returned to Fort Leonard Wood as com-mander of the 3rd Chem. Bde. two years later.

In between his assign-ments on Fort Leonard Wood, the Anna, Illinois, native attended the U.S. Naval War College and deployed as part of Oper-ation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, where he served as the execu-tive officer to the deputy chief of staff for joint operations, Internation-al Security Assistance Force Joint Command.

“I’m indeed honored in having the privilege to serve as the 29th Chief of Chemical,” Bonner said. “This day would not have been possible without the training and mentoring I have received from many noncommissioned and commissioned officers throughout my career — too many to name in-dividually. To all of them I say, ‘thank you, and I’m extremely grateful.’”

Bonner is also no stranger to the Ozarks.

“My wife and I are excited to be back in the Ozarks,” Bonner said. “We’re from the Midwest. Our daughters graduated from Waynesville High School. We look forward to being part of the commu-nity again and members

of the MSCoE team.”Bonner was also de-

ployed to OEF as the 23rd Chemical Battalion com-mander and Operation Just Cause in Panama as a chemical officer with the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.

He is a 1988 distin-guished military gradu-ate from Southern Illinois University and earned a master’s degree from Cen-tral Michigan University.

His military education includes the chemical of-ficer’s basic and advanced courses, basic Airborne, Ranger, Jumpmaster and Pathfinder schools. He is authorized to wear the Master Parachutist and Ranger badges as well as the Pathfinder tab.

Other military decora-tions include the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and Defense Meritorious Ser-vice Medals.

Bonner made a prom-ise to the regiment’s past and present members.

“The regiment’s excel-lent reputation is well known,” he said. “To-gether we will continue the fine tradition and prepare ourselves to ac-complish any challenge our nation requires of us. I am immensely proud and honored to be your commandant.”

Forester’s historyIn the past, the role of Army forest-

ers was to manage and develop forest resources for the commercial produc-tion of forest products.

In 1947, the Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, requested that the USFS con-duct a study of installation resources and make recommendations to place the forests under sound management

plans. These first forest management plans provided for personnel, improve-ments, equipment, and a harvesting schedule.

In 1956, legislation was passed that established a reimbursable fund for the DOD’s forestry program (Sale of Certain Interests in Land; Logs. 10 USC 2665). This established the pro-gram that is known today as the Army Conservation Reimbursable Forestry Program. Congress provided authority for the military departments to retain the receipts from sales of forest prod-ucts; these receipts would otherwise have been deposited as miscellaneous receipts in the U.S. Treasury. The law stated that “appropriations of the DOD available for operation and mainte-nance may be reimbursed during the current fiscal year ... for all expenses of production of lumber or timber prod-ucts ... from amounts received as pro-ceeds from the sale” of timber.

Following the passage of the law, the forestry program expanded and man-agement activities increased.

Since the 1961 authorization to use timber sale proceeds to reimburse program expenses, the Army-wide for-estry program has only once required appropriated funds.

Unlike the initial focus on soil sta-bilization, erosion control, and coordi-nating the production of commercial forestry products, the modern Army forester sees Army lands as an integral part of Army training that also provide biological diversity, wildlife habitat, air and water quality, soil conservation, watershed protection, and recreational opportunities. While all installations with forests have forestry responsibili-ties, not all installations have reimburs-able forestry programs.

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‘It’s the arm of the future’DARPA’s mind-controlled robotic arm does everythingBy C. Todd LopezArmy News Service

“This is the most advanced arm in the world. This one can do anything your natural arm can do, with the exception of the Vulcan V,” said Johnny Ma-theny, using his right hand to mimic the hand greeting made famous by Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy. “But unless I meet a Vulcan, I won’t need it.”

Matheny was at the Pen-tagon, May 11, as part of “DARPA Demo Day,” to show military personnel the robotic arm he sometimes wears as part of research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

DARPA is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the develop-ment of emerging technologies for use by the military.

Matheny lost his real left arm to cancer, and he said had doctors not cut it off — above the elbow — the cancer would have spread to the rest of his body. “I’d have been dead in three months,” he said.

Before you are dazzled by the “mind-controlled” aspect of the Matheny’s robotic arm, one of the most striking things you notice is that the arm is not attached to his body with the regular fiberglass cup and straps that are common to most prosthetic arms.

Instead, there is a piece of metal sticking out of the end of his bicep onto which the ro-botic arm can be attached. The metal device has been surgi-cally implanted into his arm, into the bone — a true man/machine interface. That tech-nique is called “osseointegra-tion,” and he’s likely the first in the U.S. to have that done.

But what’s really amazing about the robotic arm he wears is that he doesn’t have to use his right hand to tell it what to do. Instead, he uses the muscles and nerves in what remains of his left arm to send signals to the robotic arm and hand. And then the arm and hand respond, just like a real arm.

“This is part of the Revolu-tionizing Prosthetics Program,

where we set out to restore near-natural upper extremity control to our military service members who have lost limbs in service of our country,” said Dr. Justin Sanchez, director of the Biological Technologies Office at DARPA. “The goal is to control the arm as naturally as possible. Before DARPA got into all of this, there weren’t a whole lot of options for people living with that kind of condi-tion. So we asked if we could develop an arm with the same size, weight, shape and grip strength compared to an adult human arm.”

Sanchez said Matheny has had some procedures done to re-map some of the nerves in his arm so he is able to con-trol them in a different way, to make use of the robotic arm.

“But it is a more natural way to control this arm, compared to switches or levers,” Sanchez said.

Matheny bragged on the arm’s capabilities.

“So far this thing works great,” he said. “It’s the arm of the future. This arm here, it can do 45 pounds. I can take on any one of these big old bur-ley Soldiers around here. We’ll get a 45 pound weight and keep going. I can keep going till the battery wears down. And when I feel it starting to go down, I say swap me out. They take it out, pop another battery in, and

I keep going. I never miss a beat.”

The real advances in the research being done by DARPA, S a n c h e z said, goes beyond the myoelectric control that Matheny is now using

to control his robotic arm. In-stead, Sanchez said, they want to provide real, direct control by the brain over the arm, over other prosthetics, or over any device.

“We are thinking deep-ly about how direct neural

interfaces interact with com-plex military systems,” San-chez said. “An aircraft is one of them.”

They had a video on display at their booth in the Pentagon courtyard, where a completely paralyzed subject is controlling an aircraft that is part of a vid-eo game, using only her mind.

“If you really want to get to natural control, you have to do this — where we have human subjects have direct neural interfaces in their brain,” he said. “They can think about moving their robotic arm and the signals come directly out of their brain, process in the arm, and can actually move the arm.”

That kind of control requires neural implants into the sub-jects. And Sanchez said that the signals between the brain im-plants and the potential pros-thetics don’t have to just flow in one direction. They can put sensors in the prosthetic that

feed signals back to the brain, so users can “feel” again.

“We have not only move-ment, but also sensation,” he said. “For our most recent sub-ject participating in this, we put sensors in their fingertips. And as you press on the finger-tips, it sends signals back to the brain and he can feel you are pressing on his fingertips.”

Michael McLoughlin, the chief engineer at the Research and Exploratory Development Department at Johns Hop-kins Applied Physics Labora-tory, said the benefits of the research they are doing for DARPA are aimed at making life normal again for Soldiers and other service members who come back from conflict with missing limbs — to pro-vide normalcy for them again.

“A lot of service members to-day that have come back from the current conflicts, they are teenagers, or in their 20s,” he said. “They have young Family

members, young kids. This is about getting them back to life. That’s what they want. They want to be able to go back and be able to do all the things we all did. This is about bringing them back to a capability they had before their injury.”

Matheny’s robotic arm is completely exposed black com-posite material and metal. You can see how it connects to his body, and you can see how it’s put together. One wonders if it will be covered one day with a material that makes it appear to be a real arm. But McLough-lin said that hasn’t been a prior-ity for the team developing the technology that makes it work.

“The thing they are most interested in is that it moves naturally,” he said of those who might benefit from it one day. “A lot of them like that look. They think it’s cool they have a robotic arm. It’s not so much a cosmetic thing, as it is functionality.”

Uses the m u s c l e s and nerves in what re-mains of his left arm to send sig-nals to the robotic arm and hand.

Blue Star Museums launches free admission program for military, FamiliesBy Terri Moon CronkDepartment of Defense News

In a celebratory launch at the Hamp-ton Roads Naval Museum in Norfolk, Virginia, May 26, Blue Star Museums launches its seventh annual summer free-admission program for service members and their Families to more than 2,000 museums and nature centers across the nation and two territories.

From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Sept. 5, all active-duty, National Guard and reserve component troops,

members of the U.S. Public Health Ser-vice and National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration commissioned corps and their Families can visit a vast array of exhibits in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa and Puerto Rico.

The program is offered by the De-fense Department, Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts and participating museums.

Museums for everyoneThis year’s Blue Star Museums

represent not just fine arts museums, but also science museums, history mu-seums, nature centers and dozens of children’s museums.

New participants this year include the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Children’s Mu-seum of New Hampshire in Dover, New Hampshire; the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History in Pa-cific Grove, California; the Roch-ester Museum & Science Center in Rochester, New York; and El Rancho de las Golondrinas, a living history

museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico., NEA officials said.

Free fun for summer“The Blue Star Museums program is

a fun, free activity for military Families to enjoy during the summer months,” said NEA Chairman Jane Chu.

NEA officials estimate that last year, 840,000 military Families took part in the Blue Star Museums program, and since its 2010 launch, 3.2 million Fami-lies have benefitted from the free mu-seum admission.

Johnny Matheny, with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Phys-ics Lab, shakes hands with a vis-itor during DARPA Demo Day, May 11, at the Pentagon. Ma-theny wears a prosthetic arm that attaches to his body, through his skin, and into his bone. Research-ers at Johns Hopkins, working for DARPA, have developed the ex-perimental arm controlled by nerves with the goal of restor-ing a sense of normalcy to service members who have lost limbs.

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Becoming a U. S. citizen greatest thing, says Soldier

Sgt. Yaseen Witwit, his wife and daughter visit San Antonio, Texas, while he was stationed with the 163rd Military Intelligence Battalion, 504th MI Brigade in Fort Hood, Texas.

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By David VergunArmy News Service

Joining the U.S. Army and becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen are the best things he ever did, said Sgt. Yaseen Wit-wit, who hails from Iraq.

After the fall of President Saddam Hussein in 2003, there was more freedom and democ-racy in Iraq, Witwit said, but not a lot of jobs or upward mo-bility in the nation’s stagnated economy.

Despite having a baccalau-reate degree in engineering, he said the jobs just weren’t there. He opted instead to work as an Iraqi civilian doing linguist work for the U.S. Ma-rines. He did that work from 2005 to 2008.

Having made friends with the Marines and liking their culture and way of life, got him thinking about possibly joining the U.S. military and coming to the United States, he said. The Marines encouraged him to give it a shot, so in 2009 he did.

Chose Army for benefitsWitwit said he studied the

Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery exam for just two weeks and surprised his Army recruiter by scoring 65 out of a possible 100. He added that he chose the Army over the other services for its gen-erous benefits package.

After successfully complet-ing initial entry training near the end of 2009, Witwit became an ammunition specialist.

However, the Army even-tually realized it could use

Witwit’s talents in a different and more beneficial way, so Witwit became a cryptology lin-guist. To do that required a top secret clearance and American citizenship, so the Army also helped him with that, he said.

Witwit added that becom-ing an American citizen wasn’t simply to get the clearance. He said he loves America and had wanted badly to do that. He said he considers himself a 100 percent loyal patriot. “I’m real-ly happy being an American,” he said.

The Army also helped Wit-wit navigate the paperwork process of bringing his wife to America, where she’s studying English and eventually wants to become a naturalized citizen like her husband. They have a one-year-old daughter.

Although the Witwits are in the U.S., the sergeant’s brother and father are still in Iraq. Wit-wit said he calls his Family in Iraq once or twice a week. His mother passed away in 2010.

Witwit’s father, who served in the Iraqi army, has his own interesting story. He was cap-tured by Iranian forces and served time as a prisoner of war during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, he said.

Currently, Witwit is attached to the 163rd Military Intelli-gence Battalion, 504th MI Bri-gade in Fort Hood, Texas. He’s on temporary duty now, attend-ing Recruiter School at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, a ca-reer move he didn’t volunteer for but said he’ll try his hard-est to be successful at.

He graduates in three weeks but already received orders to his first recruiting assignment, which will be in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Off-duty, Witwit said he en-joys watching American mov-ies and world-soccer matches, as well as playing pool with his buddies. He splits his music

listening time to Arabic songs and American ones, particu-larly country music.

As for future plans, he said he wants to get a master’s de-gree in the medical field to become a pharmacist or physi-cian assistance.

Asked about the connection between those fields and his current linguistics specialty, Witwit said they’re both “peo-ple professions” — and he said he loves interacting with and helping people.

In America, opportunities abound to do whatever you want and to go into any profes-sion you choose, he added. “It’s a great country.”

“In America, oppor-tunities abound to do whatever you want and to go into any pro-fession you choose.”

Sgt. Yaseen WitwitU.S. Army Soldier

Department of the Army announces Associated Units pilot

The United States Army an-nounced the implementation of the Associated Units pilot, estab-lishing formal relationships be-tween identified units across the Active Army, Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard that would allow those units to train together before deployment.

A Fort Leonard Wood unit is part of the pilot program. The 5th Engineer Battalion will be associated with the 35th En-gineer Brigade from the Mis-souri Army National Guard.

“Much of America’s Army’s capacity is resident in the Re-serve Components and we must rely more heavily on them to meet the demands of a complex global environment,” Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, Gen. Mark Milley said. “The Associat-ed Units pilot allows us to lever-age the capabilities and capaci-ties of the Active Component, Army Reserve and the Army Na-tional Guard as One Army.”

“The Associated Units pilot facilitates readiness and strate-gic depth across components,” Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley, Chief of Army Reserve said. “These units will train, build readiness, and ul-timately fight as One Army.”

The planned association of Georgia-based units will be the first Associated Units. This summer, Task Force 1-28 In-fantry, an Active Army infan-try battalion stationed on Fort Benning, Georgia, will be as-sociated with the 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, a Geor-gia Army National Guard unit. The 48th Infantry Brigade, meanwhile, will be associated with the Active Component’s 3rd Infantry Division.

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