12-04-2015 - Eglin Dispatch

Friday, December 4, 2015
Inside
 Helicopter used
for survival training.
See story Page 2
 Updated off-limits
list released for military
personnel.
See story Page 3
Flags fly
at memorial
 The Son Tay Raid,
need for special
operations forces.
See story Page 4
 Staying healthy during
holidays.
See story Page 5
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Updated off-limits list released
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Effective immediately, the following establishments have been deemed off-limits
to all armed forces personnel and shall
remain restricted until issuance of an updated notice:
 Psychedelic Shack, which has three
locations in Pensacola, remains off limits
due to the sale of narcotic analogues and
drug paraphernalia.
 Harry Heady’s, located at 196 Miracle
Strip Pkwy, Fort Walton Beach, remains off
limits due to the sale of narcotic analogues
and drug paraphernalia.
 Skunk’s Smoke Shop, located at 1097
Navy Blvd, Pensacola, remains off limits
due to the sale of narcotic analogues and
drug paraphernalia.
 The Mansion Club, 125 1st Street SE,
Fort Walton Beach, has been added to the
off-limits list due to drug use and shootings
in and around the club that have resulted
in injuries.
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Above, Capt. Timothy
Fulkerson, F-16 Fighting
Falcon pilot from the 40th Flight
Test Squadron connects with a
tanker during aerial
refueling while on a captive
avionics test bed mission on
Sept. 16. At right, Fulkerson
soars above the clouds.
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Armed forces personnel (whether in
uniform or civilian clothing) found entering,
leaving or conducting business with either
of these prohibitory establishments may
be subject to disciplinary actions under the
Uniform Code of Military Justice.
The signed off-limits restriction announcement dated November 2015, can be
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The Son Tay Raid, need for special operations forces
U.S. Special Operations
Command
In May 1970, U.S. intelligence analysts learned
approximately 70-80 American POWs were being held
at Son Tay Prison, located
about 30 miles west of Hanoi, Vietnam.
On June 1, 1970, Army
Brig. Gen. Don Blackburn,
the special assistant for
Counterinsurgency and
Special Activity, briefed Air
Force Lt. Gen. John Vogt,
JCS/J3, and Army Lt. Gen.
Donald V. Bennett, director
of the Defense Intelligence
Agency, on options for a
rescue attempt.
By mid-July, a study
group had developed a
plan, and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff approved the concept.
Ironically, mid-July was
precisely when the North
Vietnamese moved the
POWs from Son Tay.
Training took place at
Eglin Air Force Base in
Northwest Florida. Air
commentary
Force Brig. Gen. Leroy
Manor commanded the
Joint Contingency Task
Group and Army Col. Arthur “Bull” Simons served
as his deputy.
At Eglin, helicopter
and C-130 crews began a
regimen of night flying,
refueling practice and close
formation work. The crews
also practiced negotiating terrain similar to what
they would fly in Vietnam
to avoid North Vietnamese
radar.
By mid-September, the
aircrews were ready to
train with the ground force,
an all-volunteer force selected from Army Special
Forces, commanded by
Army Lt. Col. Elliott “Bud”
Sydnor. The ground troops
consisted of a 20-man command and security group, a
14-man compound assault
team led by Army Capt.
Dick Meadows, and a 22man support group led by
Simons.
TECH. SGT. SAMUEL KING JR. | USAF
On Sept. 17, night training began using a mockup
of the Son Tay Prison
Compound that had to be
taken down during the day
to avoid being spotted by
Russian satellites.
In mid-November, the
force deployed to Thailand
to make final preparations.
Despite conflicting last
minute intelligence reports
about the prison’s status,
the raid was given the
green light to proceed.
The importance of light
conditions necessary to
conduct the raid led to two
prime windows of opportunity - Oct. 21-25 or Nov.
21-25. Unable to get Presidential approval before the
October window, leaders
decided to execute during
November. An approaching
typhoon and the resulting
weather conditions however, forced Manor to shift
the execution date earlier
than planned, to Nov. 20-21.
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and refuelers took off. As
the choppers approached
North Vietnam, 116 mission support aircraft took
off from bases in Thailand
and carriers in the Gulf
of Tonkin to conduct diversionary strikes. Upon
entering the objective area,
the raiders dropped flares,
fire-fight simulators, and a
pallet of napalm to create a
fire as an anchor point for
the medium attack aircraft,
the Douglas A-1 Skyraiders.
The helicopter carrying
Simons’ forces mistakenly
landed in a nearby military
school. By the time Simons
realized what happened,
his troops had already
breached the wall and were
encountering heavy resistance. The helicopter pilot
rushed back to the landing
zone to pick up Simons
and his troops. Within
three minutes, they were
on the way to the prison
compound, leaving behind
numerous dead enemies.
The helicopter with
Meadows’ forces “crash”
landed in the compound
as planned. Troops rushed
out the rear ramp, each
running to his assigned
objective. Using a bullhorn,
Meadows shouted, “Keep
down! We’re Americans.”
Within 12 minutes however,
all teams had reported no
signs of POWs. Sydnor’s
force had landed, realized
they were alone and immediately put an alternate
plan in action to search all
the buildings and block enemy reinforcements from
reaching Son Tay.
Fortunately, they were
quickly reunited with Simons’ force and conducted
the mission as originally
planned. The entire raid
lasted 29 minutes.
The raid, the diversionary attacks by naval
aircraft, and the air cover
were executed precisely
and almost flawlessly. The
fortuitous “mistake” of
landing Simons’ force at
the school may have saved
the lives of many of the
raiders. Twenty-two of his
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Staying healthy during holidays
By ALISON DECARO
96th Medical Group
commentary
I have been working
here in the health and
fitness field for almost 20
years and every year the
same question arises “How do I stay fit through
the holidays?”
Most people will gain
two to three pounds over
the holiday season, but
there are recommended
strategies to stay fit, even
when time is tight.
My philosophy anything is better than
nothing! Even 10-20
minutes of exercise is
beneficial. For the most
bang for the buck, I
recommend high intensity
interval training. Check
out free online HIIT
workouts, such as www.
fitnessblender.com.
When out holiday
shopping, try power
walking to increase your
heart rate and burn more
calories. A pedometer
or fitness tracker can be
used to count steps. Aim
for at least 10,000 steps
per day, which is equal to
approximately five miles.
For strength training,
performing body weight
exercises, such as pushups, squats and lunges,
is a good route to go.
No equipment or gym is
needed.
Try making exercise
a family affair by taking
a walk after dinner or
playing outdoor games.
I’d like to emphasize
even though someone
is active, the amount of
food consumed should
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men killed 100-200 enemy
before getting out and moving to the correct position.
Meadows’ assault team,
Sydnor’s ground forces, and
the aircrews performed
perfectly.
Manor and Simons
took a group of volunteer
Airmen and Soldiers and
trained them together in
isolation in order to conduct the raid. The time
required to build and train
this specific task force was
necessary since there was
no standing task force at
the time. This was just one
example used to convince
Congress of the need for
a standing joint task force
that eventually led to the
establishment of U.S. Special Operations Command.
This raid demonstrated
the definite need for correct
and timely intelligence for
special operations missions. The Son Tay Raid
was a highly classified and
compartmentalized operation. However, the strategic
importance of the mission
was understood at the highest levels, leading to unheard of inter-service and
interagency cooperation.
Even though the mission
was not successful in recovering American POWs,
it showed in no uncertain
terms, the United States
had the ability and the political will to conduct a raid
deep in North Vietnam.
Shortly after the raid,
all the American POWs
were consolidated in two
prison complexes in downtown Hanoi where they
were held in large groups,
as opposed to the solitary
confinement they had
been forced to live through
before the raid. There, the
prisoners learned the details of the raid, which along
with slightly better living
conditions, did quite a bit to
improve their morale.
Further reading: Schemmer, Benjamin. “The Raid:
The Son Tay Prison Rescue
Mission.”
still be monitored.
Moderation is the key;
don’t over eat at meals.
Drink plenty of water
during the day and right
before a meal to create
a feeling of fullness, so
over indulgence is not
as likely to occur. Also,
don’t starve all day in
anticipation of a big
holiday meal - eat a small
meal a few hours before to
prevent being famished or
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eral bases, with no luck,
they learned neighboring
Team Eglin Public Affairs
Tyndall Air Force Base
The 96th Logistics Readi- had the same model fire
ness Squadron’s Fire Truck
engine slated for the salvage
Maintenance Section recent- yard. However, the part the
ly saved the wing thousands maintainers needed was
of dollars through a little
serviceable.
bit of luck and innovative
“We were very lucky and
thinking.
fortunate to find that fire
The $25 thousand savengine,” said Ostrander.
ings came when Airmen and “The fire engine is a critical
civilians here procured and
vehicle. It provides water
installed a 5,000 pound axle
support needed to respond
and differential assembly
to emergencies. Eglin is
on Tanker 46, a broken 1989
required to have a certain
model 2,000 gallon water
amount of water on hand
tanker fire truck.
based on the number of
“Finding
aircraft
parts and
and range
repairing
size.”
Tanker 46
Shortly
was more
thereafthan effiter, LRS
cient. It was
personnel
priceless,”
made the
said Tech.
four-hour
Sgt. Golanround trip
gia Jenkins,
to get the
vehicle conold fire entrol officer
gine here
for the 96th
for parts.
Civil EngiThe eightneer Group.
hour job in“Its parts
volved the
are obsoremoval
Airman 1st Class Thomas
lete and
of
the axle
Zak assists in the roll out of a
the repair
and
dif5,000 pound serviceable axle
job saved
ferential
and differential assembly from assembly
money the
a salvage fire truck.
Air Force
from the
didn’t have.
Tyndall
There is no funding in the
engine for reinstallation
foreseeable future to replace into the frame of the 54,000
that vehicle.”
pound water tanker.
Tanker 46 is a vehicle
“It’s what we do; it’s not
used when hydrants are not that difficult of a job, but it is
available. It provides support a heavy job,” said Ostrander.
for missions on the range up “It is very unusual to do a
to 30 to 45 minutes away at
complete assembly repair
locations where water syslike that. Those parts don’t
tems are not available.
break very often.”
“These days, it’s difIt was also the first time
ficult and expensive to
the fire truck maintenance
obtain parts for a 1989
shop removed an entire axle
model truck,” said David
and differential assembly
Ostrander, fire truck mainfrom a truck to reinstall it
tenance section supervisor.
onto another truck. During
“We thought, let’s try to find
most repair cases, the shop
a cost effective alternative
removes individual comfirst, and find a vehicle in our ponents for repair, but the
area.”
damage to this part of the
After some calls to sevfire engine was irreparable.
By ILKA COLE
Dealing
with holiday stress
expenses. If anyone needs
help managing holiday
spending, make an appointment with a financial adviIt’s that time of year
sor or go to the Airman &
again. All things pumpkin
Family Readiness Center.
spice become all things
Family - I adore my fampeppermint; television
ily. The more I miss them,
networks start showing
the more I adore them.
nostalgic, holiday-themed
Each year, I approach the
movies; in Northwest
holidays longing to reconFlorida, we complain about nect with my siblings, parcold weather while the rest ents, nieces and nephews.
of the country actually deals By January 2, I cannot
with winter; and I write the wait to get away from them
“holiday stress” mental
again. Time with famhealth message.
ily can be simultaneously
My challenge of course,
wonderful and fulfilling
is to write something of
and frustratingly stressful.
value not already heard or
We can get overwhelmed
read ad nauseam. This can if we forget to schedule in
be a real challenge, consid- personal time or “little getering the main stressors
aways” when visiting with
this time of year remain
family. For me, an afternoon
relatively constant.
spent in the book store or
Finances - I should
at a local Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
recommend creating a holi- school can help me get
day budget and stick to it,
some down time, rememspend time with loved ones ber that I really do love
instead of spending money
these people, and re-engage
on presents, and consider
renewed and happy.
thrifty options when gift
Without scheduled
shopping. If you do these
breaks, I get irritable and
things effectively, then you
relationships begin to
should be writing me advice rapidly deteriorate. Figure
- not the other way around.
out what you need in order
No matter how well
to manage family visits
I plan and budget, I find
and protect it because it
myself blind-sided by unmatters.
expected expenses beyond
Sadness, worry and
gifts. There are holiday
grief - For many people, the
cards, parties, meals out,
winter holidays and New
entertainment events, and
Year’s celebration carries
postage I consistently fail to meaning and/or memories
consider. Some strategies
that can conjure feelings of
can help with damage consadness, anxiety or grief. I
trol, though. I maintain my
hesitate to call these “negayear-round savings habits
tive” emotions because in
by setting up automatic,
certain circumstances they
on-line funds transfers into can be not only appropriate,
retirement and savings acbut helpful. However, for
counts, limit (or eliminate)
some, these feelings can
credit cards with high inter- seem overwhelming, espeest ratings. I also create a
cially when juxtaposed with
“tighten the belt” plan for
the happiness and cheer
early January to help me
they see around them.
recover from the holiday
First, know that feeling
By CAPT. JERRY NOVACK
96th Medical Group
Above, Airman 1st Class
Thomas Zak, 96th Logistics
Readiness Squadron, pushes
a 5,000 pound serviceable
axle and differential assembly under Tanker 46, Nov. 10
at Eglin Air Force Base. The
part was procured from a
Tyndall AFB fire truck slated
for the salvage yard and reinstalled into Tanker 46, a
broken 1989 model 2,000
gallon water tanker fire
truck. The repair job saved
the Wing $25 thousand and
maintained response readiness. At left, Airman 1st
Class Thomas Zak removes
the hardware from the damaged differential component.
ILKA COLE | USAF
This was a much more timesaving way to get the big job
done.
The repair of this fire
truck not only saved the
wing money, it also helped
maintain the Fire Department’s ability to respond to
emergencies.
“Without the parts, Eg-
lin would have been down
one fire truck which would
have brought down our mission-essential levels and
impacted readiness,” said
1st Lt. Rachel Lyons, 96th
LRS vehicle management
flight commander. “A new
fire truck would have been
unlikely as the Air Force is
down is perfectly normal
from time to time. Do not
forget we are resilient, even
when we do not necessarily
feel that way. Also, “time
outs” are perfectly acceptable. Just like with family
visits, temporarily disengaging from holiday cheer
can provide a much needed
break and enable you to
reconnect with renewed
excitement and joy.
If feeling overwhelmed
with holiday stress, or notice that a wingman does
not seem to be coping well,
reach out for help. Talk to
friends, family, chaplain or
mental health providers.
Accompany the wingman to a helping professional, if she/he refuses to
go alone. If confused about
the difference between
Family Advocacy and Airman & Family Readiness,
just go to ANY helping
agency. We will get you
where you need to go. The
most important thing is just
get the support you or your
wingman need. Be safe,
take care of yourselves and
each other, and never hesitate to call at 580-883-8374 if
I can be of any help. I wish
you a wonderful holiday
season.
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Friday, December 4, 2015 | THE EGLIN DISPATCH | Page Congress, beneficiary groups prepare for health reforms
Last January the Military Compensation and
Retirement Modernization
Commission proposed replacing the current triple
option TRICARE benefit
with a menu of commercial insurance options,
similar to those offered to
federal civilians, but with a
break on premiums except
for working age retirees.
As the military community studied those details,
the Obama administration
released its latest defense
budget, which continued
a pattern, adopted during the George W. Bush
administration, of proposing hefty TRICARE fee
increases, particularly for
younger and non-disabled
retirees.
After months of consideration, Congress rejected
both paths for the 9.5 mil-
Tom
Philpott
lion military
health
care beneficiaries.
Instead, the
big legislative lift for
2015 was an
overhaul
of military
retirement
for future
generations.
Now eyeing 2016, the
chairmen of the House
and Senate armed services committees promise
to begin to reform the $50
billion military health system. Their staffs already
are doing groundwork.
Beneficiary associations, recognizing the serious intent of the two
powerful committees, are
urging they keep as a priority the needs of military
families, retirees and Reserve and Guard members
as well as sacrifices made
daily by active duty forces.
Rep. Mac Thornberry
(R-Texas), chairman of the
House committee, said
reforms will begin not with
the commission’s recommendations but with its
findings – what it learned
of weaknesses and inefficiencies in the system.
“Part of where we begin
is with their…concerns
about access [and] about
the way TRICARE functions,” Thornberry said.
But “the first purpose of
the military health care
system is to have service
members able to fight and
win our wars, and to take
care of them as they do.”
In this first year as
chairman, Thornberry not
only tackled retirement
but took first steps to overhaul the defense acquisition system. He suggested
health reform, like fixing
acquisition, might occur in
stages.
“I don’t know that we’re
going to come in with
some sweeping package
and overhaul the whole
system,” Thornberry said.
“I want to be careful that
we don’t do unintended
damage.”
Thornberry said he can
and will rely on the military health care expertise
of personnel subcommittee chairman Rep. Joe
Heck (R-Nev.), a career
Army Reserve physician
who “lives and works in
that system.”
What Thornberry
knows is that problems
with access and quality
of care vary by location,
with rural areas particularly challenged. He also
has met “at least some
TRICARE providers who
believe they can provide
significantly better service
if they can bring some of
what they’re doing in private sector into TRICARE.
That’s something we want
to explore.”
TRICARE regulations
“might be limiting their
ability to offer the access
to service, maybe even
quality, that they are able
to offer other places.”
On whether beneficiaries should pay more
for their health benefit, Thornberry said that
would be decided as part
of a wider reform focus.
“The Pentagon keeps
sending over these proposals, year after year, to take
more money out of folks’
paychecks, and that’s it,”
Thornberry said. “That’s
not right. We need to look
at the broader TRICARE
system, see how it might
be improved. Perhaps that
might involve some higher
fee or premiums; I don’t
know. But we need to look
at it in broader context:
the purpose of the military
health care system, the
role it plays in pay and
benefits, in recruitment
and retention, over the
long term.”
He added, “There may
well be some higher fees,
but there ought to be
greater benefit that goes
with it.” For example, he
said, a better system of
scheduling initial health
care appointments and
timely referrals.
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The House committee
has held a roundtable discussion with the military
surgeons general and
informal talks with beneficiary organizations.
National Military Family
Association sponsored a
panel discussion on Capitol Hill last week where
Thornberry made opening
remarks.
Military Officers Association of America (MOAA)
is polling its members on
health care issues. More
beneficiary groups are to
testify before Heck’s subcommittee next Thursday.
The Military Coalition,
an umbrella group of 34
military associations and
veterans groups, has prepared principles and goals
to consider for health care
reform in the coming year.
Most associations
reject the commission’s
TRICARE Choice Plan as
going too far to replace
current TRICARE offerings. However, there’s
agreement that continuity of care is a problem
for Guard and Reserve
members. So Reserve
Officers Association is
urging adoption of the
commission’s TRICARE
Reserve Choice plan if alternative fixes to reserve
component health care fail
to advance soon.
Some advocates argue
TRICARE beneficiaries
simply need to be better
educated on the value of
using TRICARE Standard,
the fee-for-service option,
in areas where managed
care in TRICARE Prime
networks is limited.
Retired Vice Adm. Michael Cowan, former Navy
surgeon general and current executive director of
the Association of Military
Surgeons of the United
States, recently was invited to share his views
on TRICARE reform with
House committee staff.
Cowan told them TRICARE works, he said, and
rejected the commission’s
claim that the current system is broken.
Military direct care,
Cowan said, is sized to
support war plans. It is
not big enough to take
care of all families, retirees and other beneficiaries. So it purchases care
via TRICARE networks
and programs. When military doctors need more
patients for training, they
pull more back into direct
care.
As proof the concept
works, Cowan pointed to
military medicine’s performance in recent wars,
including a “90-percentplus survival rates from
some of the most horrible
war wounds mankind has
ever seen.”
The system can be
made to operate more
efficiently, to see more
patients and provide more
timely care, Cowan said.
But he doesn’t feel replacing current TRICARE
with commercial insurance plans is the solution.
The commissioners
shaped its recommendations “through only
the prism of the disaffected. If you only look for
problems, you only see
problems.”
In doing so it missed
what’s working well, including the new Defense
Health Agency, which is
implementing systemwide efficiencies.
“It’s been, in my view,
spectacularly successful,”
Cowan said.
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“Our design and construction team are donating or
discounting their services
and materials, but it’s still
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The Jingle Bell Jog is
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to the 7th SFG (A).
“We’ve sent out a letter
asking for donations and
sponsorships, and we just
started a GoFundMe page,”
Smith said. “But we’re hoping to see an additional 100
to 200 runners at the race.
This is very important to
us.”
The Jingle Bell Jog is one
of Northwest Florida’s more
festive events. Participants
and spectators frequently
wear holiday-themed outfits,
and there’s even an award
for best costume. The event
features both a 5K and 10K
run/walk.
“We’re going to have a
drawing for a motorcycle,
as well as several guns, a
mountain bike and other
prizes,” Smith said.
Despite the fun, however, the race’s purpose is
very serious: to support the
members of the group and
their families, and to remember the fallen.
“The 7th’s new home
on Eglin is an appropriate
place to build this wall,”
Smith said. “It’s fitting, because people can go there
to remember their buddies
they served with who gave
their lives. It also gives the
families a place to come
back to and remember.”
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Christmas Tree
Lighting
The annual Eglin
Christmas Tree Lighting will be at 5:30 p.m. on
Friday, Dec. 4, at the West
Gate Chapel. This is one
of Eglin’s Biggest Family
Events with caroling, choir
performances, tree lighting, Santa arriving on a
fire engine, presentation of
the greeting card winners
and refreshments following the ceremony. This is
free to anyone with base
access. Bring the kids and
begin the holiday season
with us. For more information, please call the chapel
at 882-2111.
Breakfast with
Santa
Everyone’s invited to enjoy a special breakfast with
Santa featuring a free pancake and sausage breakfast
for Eglin Bayview Club
members, their immediate
family, and all children ages
12 and under on Saturday,
Dec. 5. Breakfast will take
place from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m.,
Santa will be available from
9 to 10:30 a.m., and special
activities from 9:30 to 11:30
a.m. TDY club members
will receive Bayview pricing. Admission is $5 for all
other club members and
nonmembers ages 13 and
older. Activities include a
bouncy castle, face painting, make-and-take crafts,
pony rides, and giveaways
for the kids.
12 at 12:30 p.m. is Disney
Pixar’s Inside Out. Parents
are welcome to watch the
movie or use the computers,
wifi, game room, or quiet
room during the movie, but
must remain in the facility.
Hangar 3 is located next to
Legends Sports Grill, Bldg.
825, by the Fitness Cen- from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturter. For more information, day, Dec. 5. A free shoreline
please call 850-882-9308.
fishing license is required to
participate. Cost is $25 and
includes all equipment and
bait required for class use.
A class to teach parents Class is for parents only. For
on how to make fishing fun more information, please
for kids will take place on call 850-882-5058.
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Horseback Riding
Enjoy a three hour horseback ride along the beautiful
trails of Sunshine Horseback Riding located north of
Panama City on Wednesday,
Dec. 9. Call Outdoor Rec. at
850-882-5058 to sign up.
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Wednesday-Thursday, Dec.
2-3; Thursday-Friday, Dec.
10-11; and Wednesday-Thursday, Dec. 16-17. Call 850-8828518 or email Elizabeth Allen
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appointment. The studio will
be closed Dec. 18-Jan. 1 and
return to regular hours of
operation Wednesday-Friday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.
beginning Jan. 6. Studio96
is part of 96th Force Support
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843, upstairs at the Fitness
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Family Movie
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a free family fun day with
games and crafts, movie,
free popcorn and prizes. All
ages are invited. The movie
showing on Saturday, Dec.
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11:00 am Morning Worship
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