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Army surgeon on track to head off cancer
WASHINGTON (Army News
Service, April 18, 2012) — An
Army doctor has helped develop
a vaccine that he believes will
prevent cancer, or at least its
recurrence.
The drug NeuVax began
phase III clinical trials Jan. 20,
which Col. George Peoples said
could lead to its Food and Drug
Administration, or FDA, approval. Peoples is chief of surgical oncology at the San Antonio
Military Medical Center when
he’s not traveling the world to
provide surgical expertise or
working to try and find a cure
for cancer.
He is currently deployed to
Honduras.
The phase III clinical trial
for NeuVax will involve at least
700 breast cancer patients at
100 sites in the United States
and abroad. The trial is titled
PRESENT, Prevention of
Recurrence in Early-Stage,
Node-Positive Breast Cancer with Low to Intermediate
HER2 Expression with NeuVax
Treatment.
Participants will receive one
intradermal injection every
month for six months, followed
by a booster inoculation every
six months thereafter. The primary endpoint is disease-free
survival at three years.
“The first patient was vaccinated with NeuVax in January
at San Antonio Military Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas,” Peoples said.
Peoples is the director and
principal investigator for a Cancer Vaccine Development Program that he has been working
on since the early 90s. The vaccine carries the generic name
E75.
This third and final phase of
testing before FDA approval will
bring NeuVax one step closer
to the market and to the breast
cancer patients who need more
options, Peoples said.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
about 203,000 individuals in the
United States are diagnosed
with invasive breast cancer each
year.
U.S. Army
Dr. Jose Mejia, left, and Col. George Peoples, Mobile Surgical Team,
work together to perform surgery on a Honduran boy March 15, 2012,
at Santa Teresa Hospital in Comayagua, Honduras. The seven-member
Mobile Surgical Team travels around Honduras to provide medical assistance to hospitals as a part of their medical readiness and training
exercises.
VACCINE
DEVELOPMENT
The current vaccine is the result of nearly 20 years of research
by Peoples and others, and has
paralleled the development of the
drug Herceptin.
“Herceptin is one of our biggest breast cancer drugs right
now. It targets a protein commonly over-expressed in breast
cancer cells called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, or
HER2/neu,” Peoples said.
This drug, he said, has cut the
rate of breast cancer recurrence
in half ; the first drug to ever have
this dramatic of a response.
“So of course, HER2/neu became the molecule of the decade
and Herceptin now is a multi-billion dollar drug,” Peoples said.
At the time that this was all
being developed in the 90s, he
said, HER2/neu had also been
identified as a potential target for
vaccination at two different labs.
“During my surgical residency
in Boston, I was working with
a lab at the Harvard Medical
School in the Laboratory of Biologic Cancer Therapy, and there
was another lab working on a
very similar type approach at MD
Anderson Cancer Center at the
University of Texas,” he said.
After identifying the protein
HER2/neu as a potential target,
both labs continued their search
for the portion actually recognized by the immune system.
The immune system knows
HER2/neu is a dangerous protein, particularly during adult
development, and if it sees a lot
of this protein, it will kill that cell,
Peoples said.
The E75 peptide was discovered at MD Anderson by Dr.
Constantin Ioannides and his
then-graduate student Bryan
Fisk. Interestingly, Bryan would
later become an Army physician,
Peoples related.
“But then, as luck would have
it, after I finished my surgical
residency in Boston, I did my surgical oncology fellowship at MD
Anderson,” Peoples said, adding
that he shifted his focus to this
peptide, working in the lab with
Dr. Ioannides and helping initially
with one of the first clinical trials,
run by Dr. James L. Murray, a
medical oncologist there.
After finishing his fellowship,
Peoples went back to Walter
Reed to start as staff surgical
oncologist where he initiated a
similar clinical trial of E75, but
focused on using the vaccine to
prevent the recurrence of cancer.
During this time, he did vaccine trials on multiple HER2/
neu-related peptides and other
antigens, which he says work well
for breast cancer, but also other
similar-type proteins made by
cancers that can be targeted as
cancer vaccines.
VACCINE MIGHT PREVENT
OTHER CANCERS
“People who are in my f field
approach this by saying, yes
there are ways to treat cancer,
but why wait and treat, why not
try to prevent?
The desire to prevent disease,
he said, is what led to the eradication of smallpox and hopefully
will lead to the eradication of
polio.
“If you vaccinate enough
people, you prevent the disease
and it can no longer exist in the
population; eventually it’s eradiSee cancer page 5
Friday, April 27, 2012 | THE RED 7 | Page Robin Sage exercise to run in North Carolina counties
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (USASOC News Service) — This
month, Special Forces candidates will participate in the
Robin Sage training exercise,
held within 15 North Carolina
counties as the final test of
their Special Forces Qualification Course training.
Between April 28 and May
9, approximately 100 of these
students will participate in
this exercise before graduating the course and moving
on to their first assignments
in the Army’s Special Forces community. Robin Sage
is a two-week exercise run
eight times a year, once for
each class of Special Forces
candidates.
These candidates are students at the U.S. Army John
F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center and School, based out
of Fort Bragg.
The exercise’s notional
country of Pineland encompasses 15 counties in North
Carolina including Alamance,
Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham,
Davidson, Guilford, Hoke,
Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Rowan,
Scotland, Stanly and Union
counties. Throughout the
exercise, Special Forces
candidates and Robin Sage
role-players not only conduct
training missions such as
controlled assaults and keyleader engagements, but also
live, eat and sleep in these
civilian areas.
All Robin Sage movements
and events have been coordinated with public safety officials throughout and within
the towns and counties hosting the training. Residents
may hear blank gunfire and
see occasional flares. Controls are in place to ensure
there is no risk to persons
or property. Residents with
concerns should contact local law enforcement officials,
who will immediately contact
exercise control officials.
With the help of civilian
authorities and local citizens,
Robin Sage has been con-
ducted since 1974; before that
time, similar exercises were
run under the names Devil’s
Arrow, Swift Strike and Guerilla USA.
For the U.S. Army John
F. Kennedy Special Warfare
Center and School, safety
is always the command’s
top priority during all training events. The following measures have been
implemented:
 Formal written notification to the chiefs of law
enforcement agencies in
the affected counties, with
a follow-up visit from a unit
representative.
 All civilian and non-student military participants are
briefed on procedures to follow if there is contact with
law enforcement officials.
 Students will only wear
civilian clothes if the situation
warrants, as determined by
the instructors, and will wear
a distinctive armband during
these instances. Personnel
role-playing as Pineland law
enforcement officers wear
distinctive hats and armbands, as well.
U.S. Army
Soldiers train for a year to earn the Green Beret. This photo is from Robin Sage 2009.
 Training areas and vehicles used during exercises
are clearly labeled.
Approximately 200 military service members from
units across Fort Bragg will
also support the exercise.
These military members act
as realistic opposing forces
and guerrilla freedom fighters, also known as Pineland’s
resistance movement. These
troops play a critical role in
the training exercise. To add
realism of the exercise, civilian volunteers throughout
the state act as role-players.
Participation by these volunteers is crucial to the success of this training, and past
trainees attest to the realism
they add to the exercise.
Robin Sage is the U.S. military’s premiere unconven-
tional warfare exercise and
the final test of over a year’s
worth of training for aspiring Special Forces Soldiers.
Candidates are placed in an
environment of political instability characterized by armed
conflict, forcing Soldiers to
analyze and solve problems
to meet the challenges of this
“real-world” training.
During this exercise,
these future Special Forces
Soldiers must infiltrate areas
in small groups and train guerilla forces to independently
and effectively use tactical
force to liberate Pineland by
teaching them to communicate, move, fight and provide
medical aid.
U.S. Army students who
successfully complete this
iteration of the Robin Sage
exercise will graduate the
Special Forces Qualification
Course in a ceremony May
17 in Fayetteville. In addition,
foreign military soldiers participating in Robin Sage and
the SFQC as part of exchange
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EOD techs fight to keep motto
Billboard, U.S. House bill lay case for preserving ‘Initial Success or Total Failure’
By JUSTIN HEINZE
Florida Freedom Newspapers
BLUEWATER BAY — At
one time the billboard that
towers over the intersection of State Road 20 and
Range Road was like most
of its kind — a series of advertisements for lawyers
and fast food that flashed
after two-second pauses.
But for at least the next
month, one of those slides
will have a very different
purpose: the preservation
of the Explosive Ordinance
Disposal community’s unofficial motto, formerly displayed at the Navy school
on Eglin Air Force Base.
“Four or five past and
present EOD techs have
anonymously donated for
the (billboard) sign,” said
retired Senior Master Sgt.
Ken Pettibone, a former
Air Force EOD technician
and Bronze Star recipient. “I know at least one of
them is active duty at the
school.”
Pettibone said the advertisement cost more
than $1,000 and is set to
display the motto for at
least the next month. He
is the administrator of the
Facebook page “Keep ‘Initial Success or Total Failure’ in EOD School,” which
he launched in February
when it was announced
that the sign would be removed from the school.
At the time, Rear Adm.
Michael Tillotson, commander of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command,
interpreted the motto as
insensitively implying that
dead or wounded troops
had somehow failed.
“People embrace it because it’s stark,” Pettibone
said of the motto. “Every
action they do, whether
they’re talking about working on an IED or their own
work ethic, it comes back to
the same idea: Do it right
the first time. When they
say “total failure”, they
don’t automatically think
that it means they’re a fail-
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They think that they tried
not to fail as hard as they
could.”
Uproar over the decision has extended beyond
the sign at Range Road. A
bipartisan bill was introduced last week in the U.S.
House by Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Ariz., a former EOD
technician, which would
declare “Initial Success or
Total Failure” as the official motto of the EOD organization. Rep. Susan Davis,
D-Calif., co-sponsored the
bill.
Navy officials said
the EOD school has never had an official motto,
even before Tillotson’s
order that the sign be removed from the school’s
property.
But on Pettibone’s page,
which has more than 2,000
likes, members from all
branches in the tightlyknit EOD community have
expressed an intense faith
in the field-tested accuracy
of the motto. They seem to
have reached a cvvonsensus that Tillotson and Navy
command are sacrificing
tradition for the sake of political correctness.
In a ceremony honoring Eglin EOD technicians
last week, 96th Air Base
Wing commander Col. Sal
Nodjomian commented
that for the EOD soldiers,
standing on a stage in front
NICK TOMECEK | Daily News
A billboard at the intersection of State Road 20 and
Range Road in Bluewater Bay displays the motto of Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians. A sign bearing
the same slogan at the Navy EOD school was ordered
removed in February.
of a huge crowd to receive
“They just want to take
recognition was something care of business,” Nodjothey did not particularly mian said. “That’s the EOD
enjoy.
motto, that’s their creed.”
Friday, April 27, 2012 | THE RED 7 | Page surgeon From page 2
cated. So, if you believe
that concept, then we need
to figure out a way to prevent cancers, as opposed
to detect them earlier or
treat them better,” Peoples
said.
He said one of the advantages of HER2/neu is
the majority of cancers
actually express some levels of the protein. It’s not
exclusive to breast cancer,
either, Peoples said.
“Clinically, we think
about it mostly being associated with breast cancer,
but that’s just because
of the popularity of Herceptin,” he said.
Unfortunately, Peoples
said, Herceptin is not effective in most cancers. In
fact, in breast cancer only
20 percent have a sufficient
amount of the HER2/neu
protein for the antibody to
work, and in other cancers
it’s even less than that.
“So that leaves the
other 80 percent of breast
cancer out and not eligible
for Herceptin,” Peoples
said. He added that fortunately, the NeuVax vaccine
can target breast cancers
that have lower levels of
HER2/neu expression.
Along with the 20 percent of breast cancer that
has high enough levels of
HER2/neu for Herceptin
to work, Peoples further
explained that another
20 percent of breast cancer has no HER2/neu
expression.
“But then there’s that
middle 60 percent that has
some level and that’s actually the group of people
we’re primarily targeting
with the vaccine right now,
because we’ve shown that
the vaccine works well
in that group and that
group has no Herceptinlike treatment right now,”
Peoples explained.
“Probably the bigger
point there is ... if it works,
if the vaccine works in that
lower level of HER2/neu
expression group, then
you can go look at other
cancers that are not being
targeted by Herceptin...”
And those other cancers, he said, are anything
that comes from an epithelial cell, which are the
big cancers - lung cancer,
prostate cancer, colon cancer, some blood cancers,
ovarian cancer, and gastric
cancer.
“So it’s all of the big
cancers that we face in
the United States, all of
those have a significant
proportion of the tumors
expressing some level of
HER2/neu and, therefore,
theoretically targetable by
the vaccine.
“So that’s the more
exciting piece to this. We
have tested the vaccine in
prostate cancer, we’re testing it currently in ovarian
and endometrial cancer,
we have not done lung or
colon, yet, though that’s on
the list for future trials.
“So we have tried to
show that the vaccine can,
in fact, be used in multiple
cancers, and it’s more
related to HER2/neu ex-
pression than it is to the
that are necessary for
actual name on the tumor,” cancer to form. And if you
Peoples said.
have immunity, such that
your body can recognize
TRULY PREVENTIVE those proteins as soon as
VACCINE
they show up, then theoretically, you could prevent
A lot of times, he said,
a person from ever develpeople actually do have
oping a cancer.”
cancer cells, or “cancer“The good news is,
esque” cells. It’s just they
I
think
those proteins
haven’t formed the cancer
yet. And so those cells will are likely to be common
proteins, shared among
theoretically be recognizmultiple cancer types. So if
able to the immune system, and can be affected by you have immunity against
one of those proteins,
a vaccine.
we’ll use HER2/neu for an
“Ultimately, that is the
example, if you had imgoal - to provide a protecmunity against HER2/neu,
tive-type vaccine so that
then you could prevent the
a person never actually
develops the cancer,” Peo- development of any one
of these types of cancers.
ples said.
So, it wouldn’t be a cancerHER2/neu, he said, is
specific vaccine, but a vacan important antigen, but
cine that would protect you
it may not be the most
against lung cancer, colon
critical antigen. There
may be others, particularly cancer, prostate cancer,
etc.”
ones that are common in
“I think that is theothe development process
retically
possible, it’s just
of the cancer.
“So you could ultimately a matter of identifying the
envision a vaccine that tar- most useful antigens to
gets those critical proteins target,” Peoples said.
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Eglin competing for free
advance screening of ‘Battleship’
By JUSTIN HEINZE
Florida Freedom Newspapers
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Eglin Air Force is running second in a nationwide
competition between military bases to bring a free advance screening of the film
“Battleship” to theater.
Nearly 300 bases are
competing in the Battle of
the Bases. Votes are being
tallied online. Bases which
finish in the top 10 will have
the chance to see the film between May 15 and 17 before
it opens nationwide May 18.
“We wanted to do something different as a thank
Nearly 300 bases are competing in the Battle of
the Bases. Votes are being tallied online. Bases
which finish in the top 10 will have the chance to
see the film between May 15 and 17 before it opens
nationwide May 18.
you to our troops,” said Holly
Anderson, vice president of
marketing and artist relations with Eventful, which is
working with Universal Pictures on promotion.
Voting began April 12 and
will continue to May 8.
As of Wednesday night,
Eglin trailed only Andrews
Air Force Base in Maryland
275 to 267. Third place was
Fort Bliss in Texas with 209.
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story of an invading alien
force that is engaged by
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Hawaii, and destroyers take
pot shots that mimic the old
children’s board game.
Some military officials
have viewed past treatments of their trade with
suspicion.
“In terms of the awareness it spread of IED’s,
“Hurt Locker” may have had
a positive impact,” said Billy
Martin, public affairs officer
at Eglin’s Naval Explosive
Ordinance Disposal School.
“But as far as accurately
representing the day-to-day
experience of an actual EOD
tech, no.”
“Battleship” director Peter Berg spent three days
doing research at sea on the
USS Preble, a guided-missile destroyer.
“They gave us a full run
of the ship,” Berg wrote in
his production notes. “They
ran war scenarios for us that
helped us make things as
realistic as possible.”
Friday, April 27, 2012 | THE RED 7 | Page Rangers to receive awards for role in Afghanistan
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD (USASOC News
Service) – U.S. Army Rangers from 2nd Battalion, 75th
Ranger Regiment will be
recognized for their combat
actions in a combat awards
ceremony at Tacoma Exhibition Hall in the Tacoma
Dome May 10 at 6 p.m.
The public is invited to
attend the event.
Among the awards
scheduled to be presented are Bronze Star Medals for valor, Joint Service
Commendation Medals for
valor, Army Commenda-
tion Medals for valor, and
Purple Heart Medals.
Rangers returned earlier
this year from Afghanistan,
marking the 14th combat
deployment of the battalion
in support of the War on
Terror since October 2001.
During this deployment,
four Rangers were killed in
combat and several more
were wounded.
In addition to the valorous awards, 2nd Bn.,
75th Rgr. Rgt., will also be
awarded two Valorous Unit
Awards for combat actions
conducted in Iraq and Af-
ghanistan during the summer months of 2005.
During combat operations, June 14, 2005, in Iraq,
elements of Headquarters
and Headquarters Company, Alpha Company and
Bravo Company, 2d Bn.,
75th Rgr. Rgt., and its subordinate units displayed
extraordinary heroism in
action against an armed
enemy in Iraq resulting in
the capture of a top Abu
Musab Zarquwi network
officer.
From June 28 to July
12, 2005, elements of Head-
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
memorial service set for May 5
Team Eglin Public Affairs wall. This year’s keynote
speaker is Air Force
Chief of Staff Gen. Norton
The Department of Defense Explosive Ordnance Schwartz.
The EOD Memorial
Disposal community is
Foundation was estabhosting the Annual EOD
lished in 1969 to honor
Memorial Ceremony on
the men and women of
Saturday, May 5, at
the EOD community.
9 a.m. at the EOD MeEach year on the first
morial, Range D-51 in
Saturday in May the EOD
Niceville.
community and EOD
Eighteen names will
be added to the memorial Foundation holds a cer-
quarters and Headquarters
Company, Bravo Company
and Charlie Company, 2nd
Bn., 75th Rgr. Rgt., conducted a rescue of a U.S. service
member and repatriation of
remains of several fallen
U.S. military personnel in
Afghanistan in an enemy
controlled territory.
The Rangers of 2nd Bn.,
displayed remarkable ded-
ication to duty, discipline
courage and commitment
to completing the mission.
In more than 10 years of
combat, Rangers have established themselves as the
nation’s elite Special Operations offensive infantry
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and executing complex
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75th Ranger Regiment has
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the killing or capturing of
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Taliban, and other insurgent leaders.
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Hefty payments to reach military foreclosure victims
So far, several hundred
military members who lost
homes to illegal foreclosure
actions by big banks and
mortgage servicers have
received settlements of
$116,785 each for economic
loss and emotional distress. They also have been
paid any equity lost plus
interest.
The number of hefty
payments to military members and recently-separated veterans likely will
swell to several thousand,
predicts Thomas E. Perez,
assistant attorney general
for civil rights in the Department of Justice.
Since last May, Perez
and his division of attorneys have reached eight
settlements involving
groups of military borrowers and banks that violated
protections in the Ser-
vicemembers’ Civil
Relief Act
(SCRA).
The
first two
involved
home foreclosures
conducted
without
court orders by BAC Home Loans
Servicing LP (formerly
Countrywide Home Loans
Servicing), a subsidiary of
Bank of America, and by
Saxon Mortgage Services
Inc., a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley.
Those settlements
“were critically important because they were
the template for all of the
subsequent agreements
we reached with other servicers,” Perez said.
Tom
Philpott
Agreements to compensate more military victims
of illegal foreclosures were
finalized April 4 with JP
Morgan, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Ally Financial.
The settlements are not
seen as proof of intentional
efforts by banks to prey on
vulnerable military families, said Perez. Rather,
they reflect “a chronic ignorance and inattention to
legal obligations pertaining
to service members” by the
biggest players in the mortgage service industry.
That ignorance has
ended thanks to enforcement actions by the justice
Department in cooperation
with attorneys general in
49 states and the District of
Columbia.
“I am very proud of the
work we did in all of these
cases because I think we’ve
really raised awareness
and, frankly, we have been
able to change the industry
practice. Every (mortgage)
servicer is now clearly on
notice of their obligations
under the SCRA,” Perez
said.
“To put a human face on
this,” he added, “we had a
number of cases of service
members who had been
deployed overseas (and)
injured in battle and, to add
insult to injury, their homes
were being illegally foreclosed on. When service
members are protecting
our nation, they need to
know that we have their
back, and that’s really what
these cases have been
about.”
Since collapse of the
real estate market, tens
of thousands of military
members have lost homes
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and thus have suffered illegal foreclosures to qualify
for compensation.
The most common illegal practice was to foreclosure on homeowners
without a valid court order,
which the SCRA requires
for mortgage debt acquired
before a service member
came on active duty. This
occurred most often in
states such as California
that otherwise don’t require servicers to go to
court before foreclosing on
homes.
“When you’re doing a
volume business, (as is)
occurring right now in
foreclosure, the due diligence was not being done
to ensure that this person
wasn’t a service member protected under the
SCRA,” Perez said.
In other cases, when a
court order requirement
was recognized but homeowners failed to appear,
servicers filed affidavits
regarding active-duty status that were inaccurate.
So the court orders had
been obtained under false
pretenses. In such cases,
SCRA protection is violated
even if the debt had been
acquired after a service
member entered active
service.
Also, the SCRA requires
that interest rates on certain debts incurred before
entering active duty be
reduced to 6 percent. In
many instances, banks had
ignored this. The largest
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— It didn’t take long for Norman J. Evans to sum up his
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“He reminded me of Will
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commander of the former
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has been renamed.
Evans recalled the first
time he met Eckhoff, a longtime post commander and a
dignitary in many veterans’
organizations.
“I saw his chief ’s hat,
’cause he was a chief master
sergeant in the Air Force,”
Evans said. “I told him I liked
it and he said, ‘Well, would you
like to have it?’ That’s just the
kind of guy he was. He’d give
you the shirt off his back.”
Eckhoff served 30 years
in the Air Force and was a
VFW member for more than
30 years.
Aside from his work at
Post 7674, Eckhoff served as
district and state VFW commander, and was a grand
quartermaster of the Military
Order of the Cootie.
“He was just about everything in Florida that you can
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Evans said the post could
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Eckhoff died in January.
“He went up to Capitol Hill
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Eckhoff. “All the veterans and
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“We had no idea, but apparently it was a no-brainer
for them to name the post after him,” said Dave Pearson,
Eckhoff’s son-in-law. “It was
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refund with interest any
amounts charged in access
of 6 percent, and also to pay
triple the amount refunded,
or $500, whichever is larger.
The banks involved also
agreed to strengthen foreclosure protection beyond
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for fair lending in the Justice Department’s civil
rights division.
The servicers also will
provide short sale agreements to military folks
who are ineligible for the
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were forced to sell homes
below what they owed on
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orders. This benefit applies
to service members who
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July 1, 2006, and Dec. 31,
2008, or received PCS orders after Oct. 1, 2010.
The settlement deals,
Perez said, have “already
helped hundreds. I suspect
by the end of our thorough
review … we will probably
end up helping thousands
of service members. And
what’s important to understand is that there is no
cap” on total dollars paid.
Service members who
believe SCRA rights were
violated through foreclosure are invited to contact
the Department of Justice
at 800-896-7743. But they
don’t have to, Perez said.
The agreements require
that mortgage servicer
records with names of
foreclosed homeowners
be cross-referenced with
personnel lists kept by the
Defense Manpower Data
Center.
“That will provide us
with the universe of potential service members who
were foreclosed while on
active duty,” Halperin said.
“From that group, we will
determine who had their
SCRA rights violated.”
A team of department
lawyers and paralegals are
overseeing the process.
“The process will take
time but we will work as
quickly as we can,” Halperin said. Contact information for
local offices is available
online at: http://legalassistance.law.af.mil.
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military Briefs
From staff reports
Continuing
Education Fair
The Year of Continuing Education Fair will be
held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
May 11 at the Eglin BX.
Participants include over
20 on-base and off-base colleges and universities, plus
several on-base agencies
including the Education
Center, Library, Jobs Plus,
A&FRC, and the School Liaison office. Entertainment
will be provided including
the chance to dunk a Chief
in the dunk tank. For information, contact Ms. Thomas at (850)279-3509.
heart! Singles and singles
again are invited to Picka-Partner: How Not to Fall
for a Jerk or Jerkette,”
presented by Eglin’s Airman & Family Readiness
Center and the Family Advocacy Program. This fun
and interactive 2-part series teaches singles how to
use their heart and head
to build and maintain a
healthy relationship, and
how to plan their relationship while exploring the
key areas that predict their
partner’s future behavior.
Sessions will be held at the
A&FRC on May 1 and 8
from 1:30-3:30 p.m. To register, contact Ms. Boggess
at 850-883-8616.
Used book sale
slated for May 15
Sale sponsored by the ESC
from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. May 15.
Donations of used books,
CD’s, DVD’s, children’s
VHS and audio books can
be dropped off during library hours. The proceeds
will support the Eglin Library programs and ESC
scholarships and charitable
programs. For information
contact Valene Harris, [email protected] or Carla
Nodjomian, carla@eglinsc.
com . This is a private organization. It is not a part
of DoD or any of its components and has no governmental status.
Cinco de Mayo
celebration May 4
in the Sanddollar Lounge.
The food and the fun are
free for Bayview Club members, immediate family
members, and all children
age 5 and under. Admission is $7.50 for guests and
other AF Club members.
First Friday will also be the
kick-off event for the 2012
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sign up a new member will
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shop open
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the East Gate. Shop offers
window tinting for auto,
marine, and commercial
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850-678-2000.
Swim instructors
needed
Are you interested in
teaching swim lessons?
Outdoor Recreation is looking for enthusiastic people
certified as an American
Red Cross Water Safety Instructor to teach swim lessons to all ages at the Eglin
East Pool June through
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Signups for summer swimming lessons begin May 12
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Bowling instruction
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A series of five basic bowling instructional
classes will be offered at
2 p.m. beginning May 2 at
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ages to improve basic bowling skills. For information,
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Canoe and kayak
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Eglin Outdoor Rec hosts
a brief introductory course
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9 – 11 a.m. Saturday, May
5 at Post’l Point. Students
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rescues. An entry level of
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