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One of the proposals for the Department of Defense to cut costs is having a Base Realignment and Closure round in fiscal year 2013, which begins on Oct. 1. While there is a possible impact on Fort Huachuca, exactly what it could be — closure, reduction of missions or new units being assigned — is unknown. The BRAC possibility is leading the co-chair of the Arizona Military Affairs Commission and former president of the Fort Huachuca 50 Tom Finnegan of Sierra Vista to issue a call to arms to not only defend the post but other military installations in the...

FORT HUACHUCA — While the first blood drawn during the annual Turkey Bowl on the post was by the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade, it was the last drop exacted by the 11th Theater Tactical Signal Brigade which proved to be the difference in Tuesday’s flag football contest on post. Over the past three years, the Blues of the MI Corps took home the trophy, but this year the Orange Signaleers won it by a 20-13 count. If there were a game MVP it would have been shared by two Signal soldiers — quarterback Warrant Officer Marcus Thomas, or wide receiver/corner...

FORT HUACHUCA — While an environmental opponent to Ft. Huachuca contends most of the post’s missions can be done elsewhere to ensure two endangered species — a plant and a bird — can survive, Garrison Commander Col. Timothy Faulkner disagrees with Dr. Robin Silver’s view on at least two issues. “We have been through this before (environmental lawsuits). We have a great team of experts who will work closely with the Department of Justice and the Fish and Wildlife Service,” Faulkner said. Noting the fort’s conservation efforts are substantial and the fort’s leadership continue to sustain the land is why...

The Arizona Wildcats' trip to Fort Huachuca has been a long and stressful one. Saturday morning, they got to have some fun. Coaches cancelled the first half of Saturday's two-a-day in favor of an Army demonstrations. For about a half hour, UA strength coach Corey Edmond, defensive end Ricky Elmore and running back Nicolas Grigsby tried to outrun Knuppel, an Army attack dog. Elmore succeeded; the other's didn't. Check it out at the source URL!

FORT HUACHUCA — Christian is home. Sunday, slightly after the noon hour, a plane carrying Spc. Christian Michael Adams landed at Libby Army Airfield. Waiting for him were family members and an honor guard of soldiers. The homecoming was sad, somber and sorrowful, as his family watched from just inside one of Libby’s hangars as the 26-year-old soldier’s body was taken from the plane to be returned to his family, by members of his extended family — fellow members of the Army. As the honor guard stood on one side of a red line on the tarmac, the bright sun...

SEND IN THE DRONES: PREDATORS TO FLY ABOVE TEX-MEX BORDER Tue Apr 27 2010 19:39:41 ET Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate hearing Tuesday that unmanned aerial drones will soon fly through Texas skies! "Big Sis" declared that over the past 15 months, federal law enforcement initiatives have made the border more secure than in any other time in history, the SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS reports in Wednesday editions. The new "predator bees" have the capability to fly at altitudes used by commercial aircraft, and are designed to enhance intelligence capabilities of federal, state and local law enforcement. But...

FORT HUACHUCA — Stunned. That’s the word used by Larry Chavez to describe his feelings at a Saturday morning ceremony to honor his late father, a soldier who served in combat during World War II. It was a simple, short ceremony that was years in the making, remembering Pfc. Mack Chavez, who began his Army service in November 1942 and ended them in September 1945. On the stage of the Fitch Auditorium in Alvardo Hall were the late soldier’s son and Col. Michael Joiner, the chief of staff of the Intelligence Center of Excellence and Fort Huachuca. On the large...

Dateline Sunday 16 November 2008 Sierra Vista, AZ., Fort Huachuca. Today was the day the “Say No to Torture” Protest by the southwest weekend of protest group also sponsored by code pink. The day for my wife and I, started at 9 am as we headed to town to pick up a new Flag, a quick stop at the local “Evil Wal-Mart” and we were on our way to the park to counter protest. The park they chose to begin their protest is named “Veterans Memorial Park” and I am saddened by the fact that they chose this park to...

Just got back from the FREEP of the proteters outside Ft Huachuca. There were about 100 or so Freak-A-Zoids with the requisite (in their miniscule mine minds) Abu-Gharib jumpsuits and the leftover '60s hippies. There were close to 100 patriots on our side with American flags, Service Flags, loud speakers playing patriotic music, a highland bag piper. The patriots brought their children and they jooined in loudly FREEPing the protesters (bless their little hearts). When I left the Freak-A-Zoids had yet to try to tresspass onto post. Lots and lots of local police presence as well as military police present...

FORT HUACHUCA — The Main Gate will be closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday to all traffic including foot traffic, due to a planned demonstration. The event is part of the Southwest Weekend of Witness, which is sponsored by Southwest Witness, Tucson SOA Watch and Torture on Trial. The events will have a “No to Torture” rally at Veterans’ Memorial Park, followed by a procession and presence at the Main Gate. These events occur between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Canteen Mission Statement Showing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. Fort Huachuca Old Post Barracks and Historical Museum Last of the Indian Scouts, Fort Huachuca, Arizona Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and veterans and their families, and is family friendly.

FORT HUACHUCA — The defense of the United States is going to require highly trained military intelligence professions, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Friday. Preparing critical intelligence providers is being done on this Southern Arizona post, said U.S. Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who assumed the chairmanship of the committee in January. Having an intelligence force that is the best will ensure the United States can counter any future enemy, he said. “It’s going to be the intelligence world that makes the difference,” he said after spending an afternoon on the post. It was Skelton’s first trip...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Law enforcement documents have revealed security measures at Fort Huachuca in Arizona were changed after warnings of a possible terror attack. The documents said an estimated 60 Afghan and Iraqi terrorists were planning with the help of Mexican drug cartels to sneak into the United States through underground tunnels and attack the base, the largest intelligence-training center in the country, with high-powered weapons, The Washington Times reported Monday. "A portion of the operatives were in the United States, with the remainder not yet in the United States," said one of the documents, a Federal Bureau...

FORT HUACHUCA — A federal report in May that this southern Arizona Army post may be the target of Middle Easterners who were smuggled into the United States from Mexico is “not valid or credible,” a FBI spokesman said Monday. While an agency report has been leaked to some members of the media it does not mean the document contains vetted and true information, Special Agent Richard Kolko said. More information will be published in Tuesday's Herald/Review.

U.S. to Offer Turkey Help on PKK The U.S. is to offer Turkey a package of measures to dissuade Ankara from mounting a large-scale military incursion into Iraq to attack PKK Kurdish guerrillas, who have killed scores of Turkish soldiers in recent weeks. Ahead of a meeting in Washington on Monday between President George W. Bush and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s prime minister, U.S. officials said Ankara would have to get concrete American help to combat the PKK, which has bases in northern Iraq from where it frequently launches attacks into Turkey. “Erdogan has to go back with the...

KOLD News 13 Tucson is currently running a special report focused on a urgent FBI report outlining a possible terrorist threat in southern Arizona. It speaks specifically to Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. The document gives no timetable or explanation of how the threat will be carried out. But it does say, “a group of Iraqis may have entered the United States through tunnels from Mexico into Arizona,” and those same “Iraqis are believed to be the ones who will perpetrate the attack on Fort Huachuca.

Tucson police are searching for a suspect in a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning that left one man dead and another seriously injured. At about 2 a.m. three soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista were leaving Tucson hip-hop club Envy, 6211 E. Speedway, following an argument with the suspect, Jurel Dionne Roberson, 21. As the three soldiers were driving west bound on Speedway, Roberson pursued them in a borrowed car, pulled up along side the victims and fired several shots into their car.

The commander of the Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca is restricting soldiers' assigned to the fort from traveling into Mexico. Additionally, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast is advising Army civilian personnel and family members of military and civilians to be careful. Following is her message: "In view of the recent increase in drug-related violence just across the Mexican border near the towns of Cananea and Naco, until further notice, I am directing that all military personnel and strongly advising all Department of the Army civilian personnel and their families to restrict their travel by avoiding the border towns of Mexico. If...

FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – The U.S. Army Intelligence Center and Fort Huachuca will host a POW/MIA Walkathon, open to the public, 6-8 a.m. Sept. 16 at Chaffee Parade Field. The event pays tribute to the profound sacrifices POWs, MIAs and their families have made for their country. POW/MIA Recognition Day is customarily observed on the third Friday of September. The slated keynote speaker is Norm Wiseman, a former POW held for nine months by the German government during World War II. Military uniforms may be worn to display Esprit de Corps while walking the two-mile course. No individual support teams/vehicles...

Aug 26, 2005, 3:16 PM The Department of Defense took its final vote on Ft. Huachuca. It will not be one of 33 major bases closed, but it will be one of the 29 bases realigned.That means a loss of 371 jobs.The DOD is moving the communications security division from Ft. Huachuca to a base in Maryland, taking those 300-plus jobs with it.It's a tough move for families, but experts say it will have little impact on the base, considering the 12,000 other positions at Ft. Huachuca remain intact. Sierra Vista's city manger also projects little trickle-down economic impact.Mary Jacobs, Sierra Vista Assistant City Manager says, "What...

FORT HUACHUCA - Army traditions means a lot for soldiers and the units in which they serve. Thursday saw the end of a company at this southern Arizona Army post as those assigned to it transition into another company that is still in the process of being formed. At a hot breezy morning ceremony near the gazebo on Brown Parade Field, the guidon of Headquarters Company, 306th Military Intelligence Battalion was cased. Unlike other major ceremonies on the fort, this one was watched by less than 150 people. No band. "The National Anthem" was sung and a recording of the...

The Arizona-Mexico border and the pathways to northern cities and farm fields have always been dangerous places. Just ask the granddaughter of a Cochise County rancher. The 13-year-old was surprised on a hike by armed immigrant smugglers who were bringing their human cargo across her grandfather's ranch and through the desert. She still has terrible nightmares of these men with guns. Or the 13-year-old immigrant girl named Montserrat who was making a trek to find work. Montserrat told the New York Times she thought she would go to school and eventually get a good job in the United States. Instead...

Hello Fellow FReepers. There is a situation here at Ft. Huachuca that requires our attention. This Sunday on 21Nov some anti-military folks are busing like-minded individuals to our front gate to protest our military training center. Here are some sweet things they had to say about our guys: “The Army Intelligence Training Center at Fort Huachuca educates military personnel in torture and these students go on to train people in torture all across the globe. The United States is responsible for using torture and training other governments in the most modern methods of torture.” ”Abu Ghraib is only one of...

At the moment there are three Channel 3 news (I believe from Phoenix) trucks on the parade field filming and interviewing a bunch of Signal and MI troops, sailors and Airmen. The Signal brigade has hauled out a lot of Satelite comm equipment. This is a big production. The interesting thing is that the Channel three trucks have also CNN logos and they have thrie satellite dish up. I am pretty sure this is being fed to CNN. I hope Ft. Huachuca pulls of a good dog and pony show!!!!

As I type, on the FT Huachuca parade field, the 11th Signal Brigade was (what I thought) practicing for a change of command ceremony. As I was watching the rehearsal, the speaker at the podium said that this event is to present the 11th Sig with the Presidential Unit Citation (PUC)for Iragi Freedom. Way to go 11th Sig!!!!!! Hooo Ya

Fort Huachuca Preservation Amendment Included in National Defense Authorization Act (Washington, D.C.) - The House of Representatives Friday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 1588, legislation that included the Fort Huachuca Preservation amendment. H.R. 1588 sets policies, programs and funding levels for the nation's military, authorizing $400 billion for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy. This bill passed the House 362-40 and is expected to also pass the Senate early next week and then be sent to President Bush for his signature and enactment into law. The Fort Huachuca Preservation Amendment...

SALEM - He was the quiet, well-groomed man in the suit, who kept to himself in this neighborhood nestled at the edge of a bustling college, where almost everybody seemed to be from somewhere else and nobody stood out. But yesterday, a different Ahmed Fathy Mehalba was on display, this time in a federal court, where he appeared in jeans and an orange golf shirt, accused of possessing classified information he allegedly acquired at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he worked as a civilian translator. Just what route the Egyptian-born Mehalba, 31, took after his days...

As the last part of the Ash Fire is being contained, the 560 acres that were burned will be surveyed to see what kind of rehabilitation is needed, a Forest Service spokeswoman said this morning. A Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation Team will evaluate what is needed to minimize erosion, said Joan Vasey, the incident information officer for the Sierra Vista Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest. Even before the special team, a program started about two years ago to review the fire site hot shot crews will begin building water bars today, she said. The fire, which began around...

A brief follow-up on the fire….. I attended the operations meeting this evening at Valley View school in Palominas and have some more information that may be of interest to you. While the fire is still burning – it is being contained. None of the people in charge of the effort wanted to comment on exactly how ‘contained’ it is, though. The estimate is that a little over 1000 acres have been burned. The fire has not gone over the crest of the mountain because of strong winds from the southwest coming up the back of the mountain. These winds...

Arizona delegation seeks drones for border patrol Mike Sunnucks The Business Journal Republican members of Arizona's congressional delegation have put their letter-writing hats on the past few days. U.S. Sen. John McCain and U.S. Reps. Jim Kolbe, John Shadegg, Jeff Flake, J.D. Hayworth, Rick Renzi and Trent Franks penned a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge asking for unmanned aerial vehicles to be used to help patrol the Mexican border. The May 7 letter asks Ridge to develop a UAV patrol program in southern Arizona. The congressional members endorse Fort Huachuca as a good location for unmanned drone...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The fight to exempt the military from various environmental laws moves into the House on Tuesday, and groups ranging from environmentalists to state water districts and the National League of Cities are suiting up for battle with the Pentagon.</p>

(Source link changed daily.) FORT HUACHUCA -- There has been an increase in the number of illegal immigrants apprehended on the post, but Maj. Dan Ortega said he believes it is due to a more vigilant approach by a special six-member Military Police team whose main job is to protect the environment. Ortega, the fort's director of public safety, said 89 illegal immigrants have been apprehended and turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol in the first three months of the current fiscal year -- October through December. For all of the 2002 budget year, 153 were apprehended, Ortega said....

FORT HUACHUCA -- As a precaution, a small part of a housing area was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after a resident there received an unsolicited package with anti-government messages. The package was one of three anti-government mailings received this week by families on post, Fort Huachuca officials said this morning. The packages did not contain powder or other hazardous materials but did have "unsolicited anti-American government propaganda," said Frank Shirar, the post's deputy public affairs officer. The fort's emergency response team and the FBI responded around 3:45 p.m., and traffic to the area around Stedman Street was stopped, said Lt. Col....

Brian Prosser's wife, Shawna, stands next to her husbands stepfather, Al Solhaug, on Fort Huachuca Thursday. Prosser was killed in Afghanistan on Dec. 5. Shawna is here from Clarksville, Tenn., to be on hand for honors that are being bestowed to her husband.(Mark Levy-Herald/Review) FORT HUACHUCA -- Shawna Prosser was teaching her fourth-grade class fractions when a knock came on her classroom door. She had an uneasy feeling that fifth day of December when she heard the news that a bomb from a U.S. Air Force plane had gone off course and killed and wounded a number of Army...