02-07-2014 - Eglin Dispatch

Friday, February 7, 2014
Inside
 Security forces
respond in active shooter
exercise.
See story Page 2
 96th Test Wing 2013
Year in Review.
See story Page 3
 Bomb threat forces
building evacuations,
search on Eglin.
See story Page 3
 AFMC promotes
American Heart
Month.
See story Page 7
index
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Welsh
visits Eglin
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Classifieds...................... Page 15
Philpott........................... Page 10
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Samuel King Jr. | USAF
Airman 1st Class Brandon Gorgas, from the 96th Security Forces Squadron, points his weapon
toward scene of an active-shooter exercise at Eglin Air Force Base, Feb. 4. The active-shooter
was the second of a series of 96th Test Wing exercises occurring all week.
Tech. Sgt. Enoch Williams, of the 96th Security
Forces Squadron, moves up the stairs toward
an active-shooter scenario during an exercise
at Eglin Air Force Base Feb. 4. Williams was
the first responder on scene and entered the
building to assess the situation. Williams waited
for back up before entering the floor where the
911 call came from.
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Above, a civilian guard checks a person for any weapons during the clearing stage
of the active shooter exercise at Eglin Air Force Base Feb. 4. At left, civilians wait to
be removed from the scene as 96th Security Forces Squadron personnel look for suspects during an active shooter exercise at Eglin Air Force Base Feb. 4.
Friday, February 7, 2014 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page 96th Test Wing 2013 Year in Review
By Brig. Gen.
David Harris
96 TW Commander
With 2013 behind us, I’d
like to take the opportunity
to highlight a few of the
many outstanding accomplishments of the 96th Test
Wing.
We earned impressive
awards to include the Air
Force Materiel Command
Commander-In-Chief Installation Excellence Award
and the Medical Group’s
award for top hospital in the
Air Force. Altogether, your
efforts garnered nine Air
Force and 72 AFMC individual awards, with the tally
not yet complete.
We provided exceptional
base operating support to
Team Eglin by completing
a housing privatization project that will give us 747 new
homes within the next five
years. We also partnered
with the public and private
sector to acquire conservation easements that will
protect the eastern approach to the Eglin range.
We made significant improvements to our medical
facilities including a new hybrid operating room, a new
emergency department and
dialysis service. The Food
Transformation Initiative
delivered a new campus
dining option, a completely
renovated dining facility and
new food truck to improve
quality of life for more than
1,000 Airmen.
Our staff agencies stood
up a new integrated Inspec-
commentary
an unmanned QF-16, giving
our Air Force a 4th generation threat representative
tor General Inspections and target for use in air-to-air
Evaluations Office while
weapon system test probesting AF IG case time
grams. We completed the
by 725 percent. The InforAir Force Chief of Staff’s
mation Protection Office
number one priority weapboasted the busiest foreign
ons program by successdisclosure program in the
fully testing the massive
command, while our legal
ordnance penetrator. Our
team supported the acquisi- maintainers kept our fleet
tion community with 4,858
flying safe and effectively,
contract actions.
producing 3,706 sorties, for
In a year that saw sea total of 5,518 flight hours.
questration impact us all,
Another historic
our comptroller squadron
milestone in testing
and financial management
was reached when the
shops provided outstanding Range Group performed
support and innovative solu- the 2,000th sled test mistions to keep programs and sion at the Kinetic Energy
pay checks on schedule.
Munitions Test Facility
Our Operations and
and continued support of
Range Groups contributed
fuze development for the
to the historic first flight of
Hard Target Void Sensing
Fuze Program.
Taking warfighter support to a new level, the Test
Group at Holloman AFB,
N.M., organized and executed the first-ever warfare
festival to provide multiple
customers a low-cost GPSdenied and emerging threat
test environment at Red
Flag not previously available anywhere. They also
set a world-record on their
magnetic-levitation test
track while testing a new
high-speed free stream air
test capability.
The Air Force Seek
Eagle Office planned and
executed small diameter
bomb certification with
ground and air testing
involving more than 25 specialist personnel and nine
organizations from across
the Air Force Test Center,
significantly enhancing the
load configurations for the
F-16 fleet.
Finally, I want to offer my
personal congratulations to
all of you for an outstanding
year. While 2014 will bring
an array of opportunities
and challenges, we will continue to test and evaluate
state-of-the-art weapons for
the warfighter and provide
superior installation support to all associate units
while serving as responsible
stewards of our resources.
I truly appreciate all
the significant and valuable work you have done
and continue to do to make
the 96 TW the most agile,
responsive, and cost effective test and support
organization.
Bomb threat forces building
evacuations, search on Eglin
Daily News Staff Writers
Hundreds of employees were evacuated from
their buildings late Monday morning after a man
threatened that explosives
had been placed around
the base.
At least 19 buildings
were closed for several
hours while explosive
ordnance technicians
searched the area. The
East Gate entrance and
some area roads were also
shut down.
Nothing was found during the search, said Lois
Walsh, a spokeswoman for
Eglin Air Force Base.
The buildings, roads
and gate access were all
reopened by about 3 p.m.
At about 10:45 a.m., Eglin security forces personnel were called to the East
Gate Shopette where the
man was making threats,
Walsh reported. He was
found shortly afterward
about a block away, near
E g l i n Fe d e r a l C r e d i t
Union.
He then made further
threats, telling security
forces personnel that explosives had been placed
in nearby buildings.
He was taken into
custody and was still being held late Monday afternoon, Walsh said. No
charges had been filed.
Walsh said they were
not yet releasing any information about the man,
including whether he was
an employee on base. She
said it did appear that he
had some type of base
access.
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Friend: Airman was responsible, friendly, intelligent
By ANGEL McCURDY
Northwest Florida Daily News
DESTIN — Senior Airman Ignacio Arostegui was
known for making friends
easily and laughing at every
joke he heard, whether or
not others thought it was
funny.
The 23-year-old assigned
to 96th Operations Support
Squadron airman at Eglin
Air Force Base died Monday
morning, Feb. 3 in a motor-
cycle wreck on U.S. Highway 98 in Destin.
“It’s just really shocking,” said Devyn Marquez,
a friend of Arostegui’s.
“We’re all trying to swallow
the whole situation. He had
so much going for him. He
was extremely intelligent
and responsible.”
Okaloosa County sheriff ’s investigators believe
Arostegui’s motorcycle collided with the back of a Ford
F-350 pickup truck about 3
a.m. on westbound U.S. 98.
The 23-year-old assigned to 96th Operations Support Squadron airman at Eglin Air Force Base died
Monday morning, Feb. 3 in a motorcycle wreck on
U.S. Highway 98 in Destin.
Arostegui died at the scene.
The truck’s driver, 27year old Leland Hathaway,
of Manhattan, Kan., was not
injured.
Marquez said Arostegui
had purchased the motorcycle Saturday and likely
was not used to driving it,
especially in the thick fog
early Monday. Marquez said
Arostegui was on his way to
his girlfriend’s home when
the wreck occurred.
“He was not that familiar
with it yet,” Marquez said. “I
think there was a mixture of
a lot of different things that
caused the wreck. He had
a really good head on his
shoulders and was always
responsible.”
Arostegui, who lived in
Destin, originally was from
Spain, according to Marquez, and spoke with his
mother and sister constantly. She said his family and
friends are still coming to
terms with the loss.
“He was super friendly
and just got along with
everybody,” she said. “He
would laugh at everything,
even if it was stupid, and
was very genuine. Always
listened and very social. He
was just a really good guy.”
The crash is under investigation. Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman Michele
Nicholson said Monday that
investigators found a helmet
at the crash scene.
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Former POW finally gets new wheels
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The 72-year-old had put
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of thousands more.
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adorned with an airbrushed
bald eagle, a POW license
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bumper stickers. He’s driven from coast to coast several times over: four trips
to San Diego, up to Oregon,
down to South Florida.
It was finally time to
trade in “the beast.”
“We’ve been all over,”
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vehicle, lots of memories.”
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Friday, February 7, 2014 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page From Air Force Materiel Command
Wellness Support Center
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE
BASE, Ohio — February is American
Heart Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report
approximately 600,000 Americans
die from heart disease each year —
that’s one out of every four deaths.
Heart disease is the leading cause
of death for both men and women,
but heart disease is preventable and
controllable when individuals make
healthy lifestyle choices and manage
their health conditions.
Risk factors are conditions and
lifestyle habits that increase your
risk of heart disease. The more risk
factors you have, the higher your
chances of having a heart attack.
According to the American Heart
Association, risk factors for heart
disease include:
 High blood pressure
 Being overweight
 Physical inactivity
 Tobacco smoke exposure
 High blood cholesterol
 Diabetes
 Uncontrolled stress
 Increasing age
 Family medical history
While certain risk factors - such as
age and family history of early heart
disease - cannot be changed, it is
important to understand that you can
lower your risk for heart disease. The
CDC states that on average, people at
low risk of heart disease live nearly
10 years longer than people at high
risk. Keys to prevent or delay the onset of heart disease include healthy
lifestyle habits that focus on weight
management, being physically active, avoidance of tobacco smoke, and
proper nutrition.
To help prevent heart disease and
increase awareness of its effects, Civilian Health Promotion Services is
promoting the “Do You Know Your
Numbers” wellness campaign during American Heart Month. Some
risk factors for heart disease, such
as high blood pressure or high blood
cholesterol, may not have obvious
signs or symptoms. The Cardio Risk
Profile screening available through
CHPS can help with early identification of risk factors for heart disease.
The CRP screening is free to all Department of Defense (appropriated
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Welsh thanks Team Eglin Airmen, families
By Sara Vidoni
Team Eglin Public Affairs
A
ir Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark
A. Welsh III visited Team Eglin
Jan. 26 to 28 to thank Airmen and
their families for their service and
sacrifice, discuss current challenges and
opportunities facing the service.
Though the general’s second visit
to the base as chief of staff included his
birthday celebration, the focus was truly
on the Airmen.
“On behalf of the Secretary and on
behalf of myself, I want to say thank you
for what you’ve been doing not just for
the last year, but for your entire careers,”
Welsh said. “I want you to remember how
critically important you are to what we
do.”
In addition to his wife, Betty, Welsh
was accompanied by Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, the Air Force Materiel Command
commander, and her husband retired
Col. Craig Wolfenbarger, for a portion of
the two-day visit. The generals and their
spouses visited with Airmen and families
from across Team Eglin, the Armament
Directorate, 53rd Wing and 96th Test
Wing.
Welsh held an All-Call for all three
Team Eglin wings and tenant units.
Hundreds of Airmen from across Eglin
packed into Hangar 103 for a chance to listen to Welsh’s remarks on the current and
future state of the Air Force.
Throughout the course of the call,
Welsh emphasized the importance of
looking forward to becoming a stronger,
prouder Air Force. He described the need
to focus on the Air Force’s core missions
as we move into more challenging years
ahead.
“Where we are going is where we have
been, but how we do business is going
to change, and that’s what we have to be
thinking about for the future,” said Welsh.
“We know what the budget is going to look
like in 2023. It will not support the same
size Air Force we have today. The Air
Force has to be more capable, credible
and viable. We have to invest now in order
to have that force in 2023.”
Going forward, Welsh encouraged
three keys to success that will be vital
to keeping the Air Force resilient in the
years to come: common sense, communication and caring more.
“We have to get into a mindset of
questioning the way we do things all the
time,” said Welsh. “If your people are doing something that doesn’t make common
sense, if it doesn’t make the mission better... then quit doing it.”
He urged the Airmen in the room to
communicate more efficiently up and
down the chain of command and across
all levels.
Welsh also emphasized the need for
all Airmen to know each other better and
care more.
“I know you care about each other, you
care about your people, you care about
the job, but if our job is to fight and win
the nation’s wars, we will never be good
enough at caring,” said Welsh.
Welsh closed his remarks by reminding the Airmen in the hangar, “that every
Airman has a story. If you don’t know the
story, you can’t lead the Airman. Know the
story.”
During the question-and-answer session, Welsh talked candidly about critical
Air Force topics including force shaping,
retirement benefits, the Thunderbirds,
fleet divestiture, promotions, tuition assistance and the F-35 Lightning II program.
Although a winter storm loomed over
his departure Jan. 28, Welsh was able to
meet with F-35 pilots and maintainers
from the 33rd Fighter Wing.
Instead of a standard briefing and tour,
Welsh sat down with the Airmen for an
open discussion on the Air Force’s newest weapons system. He told them he
wanted first-hand feedback from users of
the joint strike fighter. Topics included the
Autonomic Logistics Information System,
aircraft generation, helmet and weapon
issues, initial operational capability,
command relationships and leadership,
among others.
He assured the Airmen he was fully
behind their efforts and in support of the
F-35 and its future.
“We don’t plan to slow the F-35 program down. This is the right thing for the
DoD. This is the right plane,” he said.
During her time with Team Eglin, Mrs.
Welsh visited with base leaders and family
members to discuss Airmen and family
care programs, participated in a Sexual
Assault Prevention and Response Office
/Victim Advocate Forum and toured the
hospital to talk to Airmen and volunteers
about the latest improvements to medical
care at the base.
Samuel King Jr. | USAF
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III meets 33rd Fighter Wing maintainers, who work on the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter at Eglin Air Force Base Jan.
28. Welsh held a candid discussion with the maintainers and pilots on successes and
challenges they’ve faced while working on the Air Force’s newest weapons system.
Samuel King Jr. | USAF
Above, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III speaks to an Airman in the
audience during an All Call Jan. 27. At left, Dale Julio, of the 780th Test Squadron,
briefs Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III and Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger,
Air Force Materiel Command commander, about the Small Diameter Bomb II test
progress and findings at Eglin Jan. 27. The generals received the brief as part of a developmental and operation test orientation to the 96th Test Wing and the 53rd Wing.
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Senators vow COLA cap repeal; grocery price hikes eyed
Bipartisan
Budget Act.
At the
same hearing, senior
Defense officials said
for the first
time since
the COLA
cap became
law that
they too want all retirees
and the current force protected from it and any future changes to retirement.
Christine H. Fox, acting
deputy defense secretary,
and Navy Adm. James A.
Winnefeld, vice chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, clarified
DoD support for full repeal
of the cap. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had not
yet done so, telling journalists and troops only that the
cap should be modified to
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protect medically retired
and survivors, which Congress has done. But Fox said if Congress
elects to retain the COLA
cap for other younger military retirees, “we strongly
recommend it be modified
to include grandfathering.”
Winnefeld said COLA
caps 1 percent below inflation, set to start January
2016, have caused “considerable and understandable
anxiety” among retirees
and careerists. It also ignores past guidance from
military leaders who have
said current retirees and
members already in service
should be protected from
any changes to retirement.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.,
chairman of the House
Budget Committee, has
defended the cap since
he and Sen. Patty Murray,
D-Wash., chairwoman of
the Senate Budget Committee, included in their
December budget deal,
which has otherwise been
hailed for avoiding another
government shutdown and
easing automatic cuts of
sequestration, particularly
for defense.
Indeed, Ryan told “CBS
This Morning” in mid-December that the cap was a
reform “asked for by the defense folks, by DoD…This
is a part of their budget that
is squeezing all the readiness, all the things they
want to buy.”
Although not mentioning Ryan by name, several
senators asked Fox and
Winnefeld whether they
or anyone in DoD had proposed, consulted on or supported the COLA cap. Both
answered no.
“To my knowledge,”
Winnefeld said, “there were
no DoD officials consulted. We heard about it in the end
game, as other people did.”
A spokesman for Ryan
declined comment on the
discrepancy.
Sen. John McCain, RAriz., gave the budget committee a verbal slap for the
cap, suggesting members
are “not renowned for their
expertise on military personnel issues.”
“This didn’t come out
of the budget committee,”
Sen. Roger F. Wicker, RMiss., who serves on that
committee, shot back. “It
came from behind closed
doors and was authored
by two individuals and presented to us as a package,
take it or leave it.”
Wicker also rejected
Fox’s recommendation that
Congress delay repealing
the COLA cap until after
the Military Compensation
and Retirement Modernization Commission delivers
its report next February.
That “doesn’t make any
sense if we’re all in agreement” on repeal, Wicker
told her. “Unless you want
to hold out the possibility
that we may stick with this.”
Wicker reminded any
colleagues inclined to delay
COLA cap repeal, perhaps
to avoid a near-term fight
over how to pay for it, that
Defense officials gave assurances over and over for
more than a year that budget sequestration wouldn’t
happen. And it did.
The COLA cap represents a broken promise,
Wicker said.
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Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Armed
Services Committee vowed
Tuesday to clear with unusual speed a bill to roll
back the cap on cost-of-living adjustments for military
retirees under age 62, long
before it can ding anyone’s
retired pay or cause more
damage to troop morale.
“It is our intention and
belief that it should be immediately repealed, and
as soon after (saying) ‘immediately’ as is humanly
possible in a legislative
body,” said Sen. Carl Levin,
committee chairman.
“You guys have already
won,” Sen. James Inhofe of
Oklahoma, the ranking Republican, assured military
association leaders who
testified against the recent
devaluation of military
retirement as part of the
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Airman
wins AFRC
command
post award
THE EDUCATION YOU WANT.
THE SUPPORT YOU DESERVE.
Congratulations to Senior
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the 919th Special Operations Wing, on his selection
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Airman of the Year for
2012. He was presented
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commander, Dec. 8.
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“And now we are being told, ‘Let’s just wait 13
months before we fix that.’ I can’t go along with that,”
he said.
Committee colleagues
soon became a chorus for
swift repeal, and the next
panel of witnesses added
to it.
Retired Gen. Gordon
Sullivan, former Army chief
of staff and president of
the Association of the U.S.
Army, told senators that
in 36 years of service he
never had to worry about
the safety of his retirement.
The COLA cap, however,
has this force worried.
Sullivan urged swift
repeal, too, so soldiers
“sitting around a stove in
Afghanistan in the middle of
the night will not be talking
about this issue.”
Are commissary
prices at risk?
The Department of Defense is weighing a set of
legislative proposals that
would help lower the $1.4
billion subsidy for base
commissaries.
An industry source
said the proposals, if adopted, would cut savings
for patrons, which average 30 percent compared
to prices in civilian stores,
and perhaps over time put
some stateside stores at
risk.
For the fiscal 2015 defense budget request to be
delivered to Congress in
early March, he said, Defense officials are weighing
a plan to make graduated
cuts in the commissary
subsidy so deep it falls to
$400 million by fiscal 2017,
as first reported by journalist Amy Bushatz with military.com
Tools sought from Congress to achieve such dramatic budget cuts, and still
preserve attractive grocery
discounts on base, include:
 Lifting the ceiling of 5
percent on the surcharge
patrons pay at checkout. Allowing the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA)
authority to raise the sur-
charge would help it meet
lowered budget targets.
 Passing on to suppliers more than $150 million
in transportation costs now
paid by DeCA. Suppliers
could be expected to pass
some of their added costs
on to patrons in form of
higher product prices.
 Authorize “variable
pricing” in commissaries to
level out and lower overall
patron savings. The business model would shift
from selling groceries at
cost plus a surcharge to
cost plus a variable margin
and a surcharge.
A decade ago, the Bush
administration ordered a
$500,000 study of variable
pricing for commissaries. It found the complexity of
such a move likely would
lead to higher operating costs, and so advised
against it.
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eglin Briefs
closures and evacuations at to provide students with an
the same times if needed.
awareness and appreciation
of the organization, motivation, operational capabilities,
and threat posed by terrorists on an international, naDuke Field and several
tional, and regional basis.
Attention military and
roads will be closed Feb. 14
Seating is limited so signU.S. government civilians. up now through your unit
due to Eglin’s test mission.
The next Dynamics of In- training manager. For inDuke Field will be closed
ternational Terrorism (DIT) formation, visit www.afsoc.
and personnel will be evacucourse will be Feb. 24-28 at af.mil/usafsos/dit.asp.
ated prior to 8:30 a.m. Feb 14.
the USAF Special Operations
The base, U.S. Highway 85,
School, 357 Tully St., Bldg
Highway 285 and surround90503, Hurlburt Field. DIT
ing roadways to include
is a basic course designed
range roads will be closed
The 96th Test Wing
Munitions Flight will be
performing a semi-annual
AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION’S ANNUAL
wall-to-wall inventory of the
base stock munitions account from March 3-14. During this period no munitions
issues, turn-ins, or shipments will be scheduled unless an emergency situation
exists. Any requests during
this time must be submitFebruary 20-22, 2013
ted in writing and approved
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transactions against the ac„ Professional Development and Networking Opportunities
count during the inventory.
Normal issue requests will
*Symposium registration is free to all DOD civilian employees and uniformed
be accepted until close of
military personnel.
From staff reports
Roads to close
for test mission
from 8:30 -10 a.m. The 7th
Special Forces Group facilities will remain open, but access from the East (Hwy 85)
will be stopped.
All employees working on
Duke Field, to included 96th
Test Wing, Air Force Special
Operations Command and
919th Special Operations
Wing, etc., should contact
their leadership for proper
reporting instructions.
A backup mission date is
scheduled for Feb. 15 with
Terrorism Awareness
Course Feb. 24-28
Munitions Inventory
AIR WARFARE SYMPOSIUM
AND TECHNOLOGY EXPOSITION
DEERS/ID office
The DEERS/ID office
will be closed for training on
Feb. 19 and back to normal
business hours on Feb. 20.
Hurlburt Field is available
for expired ID cards and urgent DEERS updates. Their
customer service can be
reached at 884-2657. To avoid
long wait times, ID card appointments can be made at
https://rapids-appointments.
dmdc.osd.mil. For information, contact Tech Sgt. Rosemarie Moore at 882-6120.
Movie night for
dorm residents
All dorm residents are
invited to a movie night out
at 8 p.m. Feb. 20 at Legends. The night will include
treats and a movie on the
screens at Legends. Come
by for chances to win some
of the awesome date pack-
ages. The event is sponsored by Family Advocacy
to celebrate healthy and safe
dating.
Scholarships for
Military Children
Applications for the 2014
Scholarships for Military
Children Program became
available Dec. 3 at commissaries worldwide or on
the Internet at http://www.
militaryscholar.org. Applications must be turned in to
a commissary by close of
business Feb. 28. Packages
must be hand-delivered or
mailed. The packages may
not be emailed or faxed.
This year’s award amount
has risen to $2,000, and the
program awards at least one
scholarship at each commissary with qualified applicants. Applicants should
ensure that they and their
sponsor are enrolled in the
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System database and have a military ID
card. For more information,
students or sponsors should
call scholarship managers at
856-616-9311 or email them
at [email protected].
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of the inventory.
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A parent teen dinner on
internet safety will be held
at 5 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Eglin
Youth Center. The event is
free and open to any parent
of a child in fifth grade and
older. The Okaloosa County
Sheriff’s Office will be leading separate discussions for
parents and teens on topics such as online predators
and cyber bullying. Come
see how to keep your teen
safe online and enjoy a free
dinner provided by the Youth
Program. Reserve your spot
now by calling Family Advocacy at 883-8149.
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military spouse this event
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local employers and education opportunities. If your
company is interested in
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by contacting the NCOA at (
210)837-5200.
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TRICARE military health
plan service centers will end
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April 1, 2014, Pentagon officials said.
“This change only affects
customer walk-in services,”
said Stanley McGill, 1st Special Operations Medical and
Dental Support Squadron
TRICARE and Patient Administrator. “It does not reduce TRICARE benefits or
alter health care delivery to
beneficiaries.”
While the 189 facilities will
stop taking walk-ins, beneficiaries can accomplish any
administrative task online
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Steve Warren, Pentagon
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not be affected.
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This is an open house type
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Information about planting
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Visitors are encouraged
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“Walk-in customer service at centers is the most
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for customer service,” said
McGill.
Fifty percent of the visits
to the centers are for in- and
out-processing and requests
to change primary care providers and the rest involve
billing-related questions, officials said. The Department
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these services when they
could be handled more efficiently by phone or online.
TRICARE gets about
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to ensure the website and
call center can handle the expected increase in volume.
“This is being driven by
the fact that technology has
gotten so much better,” Warren said. “The TRICARE
service centers have been
around since the 1990s, and
contractors staff them.”
Customers who need
the type of assistance being
done in these walk-in service
centers can quickly and efficiently receive help online or
via phone, Warren said.
Beneficiaries can get
more information and sign
up for updates at http://www.
tricare.mil/tsc.
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$100
HaMMOck bay
Gardens
192 CAMELLIA CT
Homesite 37 - Madeline
1,830 Sq. Ft. | $ 219,725 **
Freeport
new HOMes
HaMMOck bay
Gardens
174 CAMELLIA CT
Homesite 38 - Bonaventure
1808 Sq. Ft. | $ 228,100 **
new HOMes
850-835-2700
HaMMOck bay
Gardens
315 CAMELLIA CT
Homesite 60 - Oakley
1,736 Sq. Ft. | $209,050 **
850-835-2700
moves you in!
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HaMMOck bay
Gardens
281 CAMELLIA CT
Homesite 61 - Bonaventure
1808 Sq. Ft. | $229,150 **
HaMMOck bay
Whispers
481 WINDCHIME WAY
Homesite 83 - Berkshire
3616 Sq. Ft. | $347,700 **
Crestview new HOMes
brOwnstOne
ManOr
414 CITRINE CIR
Homesite 422 - Cynthia
2,357 Sq. Ft. | $230,300 **
Home and community information, including pricing, included feature, terms,
availability and amenities are subject to change and prior sale at any time without
notice or obligation. Pictures, photographs, features, color, sizes are approximate
for illustration purposes only and may vary from the homes built. DHI Mortgage
Company, Ltd. Branch NMLS #928545. 2842 US Highway 98 W, Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459.
Company NMLS #14622. DHIM is an affiliate of D.R. Horton. For more information about
DHIM and its licensing, please visit www.dhimortgage.com/affiliate.*$100 in earnest money
required at time of contract in conjunction with 100% VA financing offered by DHI Mortgage
on select homes. If Buyer qualifies for the VA Loan, earnest money to be applied towards
closing costs. Additional closing costs may apply.This is not a commitment to lend; not all
buyers will qualify. Down payment is required if the purchase price exceeds the reasonable
value of the property, if the loan amount is greater than $417,000 or if the borrower has less
than the full entitlement available. **Prices effective 02/4/2014. Buyer must contract on, or
before,3/02/14 and close on, or before, 4/15/14 to receive the incentive in the communities
listed in this advertisement: Brownstone Manor, Liberty Oaks, Hammock Bay and/or Reserve
Pointe. Square footages are approximate. Some restrictions apply.
Liberty
Oaks
228 PARADISE PALM CIR
Homesite 405 - Kingston
3,014 Sq. Ft. | $266,915**
Navarre new HOMes
reserve
POinte
8899 WHITE IBIS WAY
Homesite 1103 -Palm
1551 Sq. Ft. | $148,280 **
reserve
POinte
8897 WHITE IBIS WAY
Homesite 1104 -Palm
1551 Sq. Ft. | $148,930 **
HaMMOck bay
Schooners Landing
499 FANNY ANN WAY
Homesite 145 - Madeline
1830 Sq. Ft. | $195,975 **
850-306-2060
Liberty
Oaks
309 WINDMILL WAY
Homesite 411 - Wyngate
3,134 Sq. Ft. | $277,175 **
850-939-3508
reserve
POinte
8895 WHITE IBIS WAY
Homesite 1105 - Palm
1551 Sq. Ft. | $148,280 **