Weather alert
Extreme cold weather (single digits) could come this weekend with the potential for freezing rain, sleet and snow-mix beginning Monday. Fort Campbell Soldiers, Family members and the community are encouraged to take precautions to ensure personal safety and help reduce the impact of weather on residences and post facilities.
•Beginning Sunday through Tuesday, post housing residents are asked to remove all vehicles from street/roadside parking in order to allow access for road-clearing and salt trucks.
•Monitor the Fort Campbell Facebook or Twitter page for updates on weather conditions, post or school closures.
•Ensure windows and exterior doors are closed.
•Make periodic checks (every 4 hours) to ensure that the buildings are properly heated will help prevent damage or identify issues faster to prevent more serious damage (i.e. broken water lines).
•Leave a steady stream flowing out of a faucet in kitchens, break rooms, isolated bathrooms, and service rooms can help prevent pipe freezing.
•Leave under sink cabinets open to allow circulation of warm air
Directorate of Public Works Roads and Grounds provides a self-help salt bin which is located at the corner of 1st and Tennessee across from Fire Station #1. Customers must bring their own containers and shovels. Salt is available 24 hours per day although it isn’t replenished after duty hours. For more information call Roads and Grounds at (270) 798-4525.
The garrison’s priority is to ensure essential personnel, vehicle and aircraft safety. As conditions warrant, the post will deploy salt spreading trucks to prevent buildup of ice and snow. As necessary, the post deploys road graders to clear accumulated snow and ice. The post focuses on the highest priority road ways and the airfields. In most cases, accumulated snow and ice will melt before the post crews reach lower priority areas such as parking lots. Building residents should keep their sidewalks clean and free from ice and snow. For more information call DPW Operations at (270) 412-0272.
Bach observes holiday
In honor of the national observance of President’s day, Blanchfield Army Community Hospital personnel will observe the federal holiday Monday. All Soldier and Patient-Centered Homes (primary care services) are scheduled to operate on a normal schedule Friday.
BACH pharmacies at Fort Campbell will operate on a Day of No Scheduled Activities (DONSA) schedule Friday. The Town Center Pharmacy will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., and the Main Pharmacy within the hospital will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., while Byrd and LaPointe Pharmacies will be closed. The Screaming Eagle Medical Home Pharmacy, next to Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville, Tenn., will be open normal operating hours.
The Town Center Pharmacy will open regular Saturday hours this Saturday.
All Patient and Soldier-Centered Medical Homes, ancillary clinics and pharmacies will close on federal holidays. The hospital remains open 24 hours every day, seven days a week, for emergency services, inpatient care and labor and delivery services. Appointments may be scheduled or canceled 24 hours a day, seven days a week at www.TRICAREonline.com. Some medical concerns may be resolved through a telephone consultation by sending a secure message through Relay Health, calling the Nurse Advise Line at 1-800-874-2273, Option 1, or contacting the Call Center at (270) 798-4677 or (931) 431-4677.
Holiday Gate hours
The observance of President’s Day will affect the Fort Campbell gate hours of operation from Friday through Monday. The following gates will be closed Friday through Monday: Gate 2, Angels Gate and Mabry Gate.
Gate 3 and Gate 6 will be open limited hours Friday, from 4:30 until 9:30 a.m., and from 3 until 6 p.m., in order to help facilitate traffic flow during peak hours.
Gate 3 and Gate 6 will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
All other gates (Gates 1, 4, 7 and 10) will continue their normal hours of operation during the weekend. All gates will reopen at their normal operating times Tuesday.
urSano scholarship
The Maj. Gen. James Ursano Scholarship awarded 2,744 scholarships to the children of Soldiers in 2014.
The program, named for a former Army Emergency Relief director who was an advocate for education, can provide scholarships for up to four years.
The application period has a May 1 deadline. The applications can be completed “online,” streamlining the process.
The children of active duty and retired Soldiers are eligible for the Ursano Scholarship. For more information, visit http://www.aerhq.org/dnn563/Scholarships.aspx.
2015 Army Trials
The 2015 Army Trials will be at Fort Bliss, Texas, in El Paso, March 29 through April 2, and is the second run of this event. The 2015 Department of Defense competition is slated for this summer.
The Army Trials help determine which Army athletes compete on the DOD competition Army Team.
The DOD competition brings athletes representing all branches of the military together competing in seven sports: archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, track and field and wheelchair basketball.
Army Trials are open to Soldiers in WTUs, Soldiers who were in WTUs and returned to active duty, and WTU Soldiers who transitioned to Veteran status.
For information about competing contact the WTC Adaptive Reconditioning Office at usarmy.pentagon.medcom-wtc.list.adaptive-sport-branch@mail.mil.
Patton’s Media Workshop
A team from Patton’s Media Workshop will be on-hand from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. Feb. 25 and 26 at The Exchange food court to share information to Fort Campbell Soldiers regarding the free “I Was There” workshop. In the workshop Soldiers make a short film to express creativity and feelings tied to the hardships of deployments/war. This exercise is intended to help Soldiers find a unique and alternate way to express thoughts while learning new skills related to film. Any Veteran is welcome to apply. No prior filmmaking experience needed. All equipment is provided.
The workshop is led by filmmaker Benjamin Patton, grandson of Gen. George S. Patton Jr., and a team of filmmakers. The workshop will be held March 23-26 at Fort Campbell.
OFFICER SCHOOL reunion
The United States Army Officer Candidate School Alumni Association Inc., located in Columbus, Ga., and adjacent to Fort Benning, represents and supports all Army officers commissioned through an Army Officer Candidate School, regardless of location or branch. Meetings, activities and reunions are conducted throughout the year.
The annual USAOCS Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and USAOCS Alumni Association Reunion is scheduled April 26-30 at Fort Benning/Columbus, Ga.
For more information, contact retired Col. John Ionoff at (813) 917-4309 or e-mail at ocsalumni.com.
GATE Access Change
All unescorted, non-Department of Defense ID card holding visitors, contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, suppliers and service providers must successfully pass a criminal background check before they are issued a visitor’s pass.
Escorted visitors with valid photo ID (state driver license, passport) traveling in the same vehicle as a DOD ID card holder (CAC, dependent ID card, retiree ID card) are not required to obtain a pass.
Unescorted visitors who are not traveling in the same vehicle as a DOD ID card holder (CAC, dependent ID card, retiree ID card) must obtain a visitor’s pass from a Visitor Control Center for the duration of their visit.
Contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, suppliers and service providers must obtain a one-day pass or may voluntarily choose to participate in the RAPIDGate program.
Visitor Control Center Hours of Operation:
Gate 4: Open seven days per week, 5 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Gate 7: Open seven days per week, 24 hours.