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Year No. 3 Edition No. 13
Army Sgt. Aaron Hale and his family get a place designed just for them
By LAUREN DELGADO
Northwest Florida Daily News
S
ANTA ROSA BEACH
— As the front door
swung open, Army Staff
Sgt. Aaron Hale paused
a moment on the stoop for his
wife Kelly to peer into their new
home. Kelly took in the new furniture and renovations, and a smile
spread across her face.
“Oh my gosh!” she said before
clapping a hand over her mouth
and wiping her feet on the new
mat.
“Everyone wiped their feet,
right?” Aaron joked as he hurriedly wiped his own.
Hundreds of friends, family,
well-wishers and dignitaries from
the military and local community
welcomed the Hale family to their
newly renovated, mortgage-free
home Saturday, April 6.
“This is the most beautiful
crowd I have ever seen,” Kelly
said minutes earlier.
People began gathering outside the house Saturday morning, with shuttles bringing many
them to Pelican Bay Drive in
Santa Rosa Beach.
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Above, Kelly Hale hugs Andy Pujol, president of Building Homes for Heroes, alongside her husband, Army
See home page 4
Staff Sgt. Aaron Hale.
At right, Army Staff Sgt.
Aaron Hale and his wife
Kelly enter their home on
Pelican Bay Drive in Santa
Rosa Beach on Saturday,
April 6.
At far right, Randy Wise
Homes renovated the
house after Chase Bank
donated it to Building
Homes for Heroes.
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in preparation for its over-
seas contingency operations
in Afghanistan this coming
spring by conducting over
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74 (SOTF-74) to commence
what turned out to be the
largest combined pre-mission training exercise since
7th SFG (A) moved to Eglin
Air Force Base.
This was also the battalion’s first major training
event since its activation
on Sept. 28, 2012. A total of
877 Soldiers participated
at various locations in Fort
Bliss; Playas Training and
Research Center, N.M.; and
at the Joint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, La.
(JRTC), for around 30 days.
The training included the
SOTF’s Headquarters, 12
of its Special Forces Operational Detachment- Alphas
(SFODA), support Soldiers
from the Group Support Battalion, three of the Group’s
Multi-Purpose Canine
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deployment.
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communicate drills, live-fire
exercises and counter-IED
training. The teams also
developed and refined their
intercultural and interpersonal skills, language proficiency skills and Foreign
Internal Defense essential
tasks during the conduct of
Village Stability Operations
at the Playas Training and
Research Center.
During this essential part
of the training, the teams established 12 Village Stability
Platform sites, conducted
over 46 key leader engagements, 15 Afghan shuras,
and trained over 220 Afghan
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Building Homes for Heroes receives tour of 7th Group
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Combat operations were
not the only focus of this
training; the battalion support section provided over
40,000 meals to forwarded
deployed teams at different training sites, delivered
close to 20,000 gallons of fuel
and distributed over 800,000
rounds of ammunitions. The
maintenance section maintained, received, issued and
turned-in over 1,077 pieces of
equipment, spent over 2,400
man-hours on equipment
maintenance and repair and
provided 130 hours of driver’s
training on a gambit of tactical vehicles.
SOTF’s signal section
proved to be one of the best
in the Group at providing C4I
to the Task Force by employing a wide range of command
and control platforms. Some
of these included Tactical Local Area Network, Blue Force
Tracker, Command Post of
the Future and other individual and teams’ organic communication platforms that
the unit can expect to employ
while supporting both United
States Central Command
and United States Southern
Command theater security
objectives.
Enablers such as CA and
MISO also provided invaluable expertise and knowledge
essential to the battalion’s upcoming deployment. These
teams along with the Special
Forces Operational Detachment-Alphas conducted civil
military operations and tactical radio station operations to
identify and address the root
causes of instability affecting each of the villages. They
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Parade to honor military members past and present
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The Parade of Heroes on
— Those attending the next April 20 will honor veterans
parade along Eglin Park- and current military mem-
bers. The public is encouraged to come out to cheer
and wave flags as those who
have given their service
march through town.
“I don’t know if there’s
ever been a true military
parade in celebration of all
WANT TO PARTICIPATE?
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Anyone wishing to be in the parade should contact the Greater
organizer and veteran MiFort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce at 244-8191.
chael Taz WrightReynolds.
“We want to show our respect and pay tribute to our military and the fighting which is organizing the pamen and women who serve rade, will have transportaour country.”
tion available for those in
The grand marshals of need.
the parade will be the surAnyone wishing to parviving Doolittle Raiders, the ticipate is encouraged to
World War II heroes who contact the chamber at
will be in town for their 71st 244-8191.
and final reunion.
Participants will line up
All veterans and active- outside the Okaloosa Counduty military are encour- ty School District headquaraged to participate. The ters on First Street starting
Greater Fort Walton Beach at 9 a.m. The parade will
Chamber of Commerce, kick off at 11.
NWFSC Open Enrollment for Summer
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New & Returning Students Enroll Anytime by Web or at 7 Sites,
Military Center Classes Open to Anyone with Base Access
Open Enrollment for Summer Term at
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for NWFSC classes that begin May 9 and June
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both current and new students to enroll by
web or in-person at all of the college’s seven
area locations at any date during the entire
enrollment period. Additionally, web and
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NWFSC’s centers at Eglin and Hurlburt has
been expanded and is open to
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college sites in Niceville, Fort
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community sites such as public libraries. The
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2, Session 2 Fast Track May 9 to June 20 and
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Northwest Florida State College
50th Anniversary Kick-Off Assembly
& Doolittle Raiders Exhibit Dedication
April 17, 2013
A year-long 50th Anniversary celebration of Northwest Florida State College officially
begins with a festive 50th Anniversary Kick-Off Assembly on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at
9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. in the college’s 2,100 seat Raiders Arena on the Niceville Campus.
Free and open to the public, the event also features the
dedication and opening of a permanent Doolittle Raiders
historical exhibit that is being constructed in the lobby of the
Arena. Three of the surviving WWII Doolittle Raiders crew
members are scheduled to appear at the event and will be
honored by the college, which has used the Raiders name
for its athletics mascot since the early 1960’s.
The college, which was established by the Florida
Legislature in April 1963 as Okaloosa-Walton Junior
College, and first opened its doors to students in August 1964, will celebrate its
50th Anniversary with a series of events from April 2013 through August, 2014.
See the 50th Anniversary website www.nwfsc.edu/50 for information.
The NWFSC 50th Anniversary Kick-Off Assembly on April 17 opens the anniversary
year with entertainment, display of college historical items, the dedication of the
Doolittle Raiders Exhibit and more. As a companion event to the Doolittle Raiders
Reunion hosted by the Fort Walton Beach Chamber, the appearance of Raiders at
the college’s April 17th 50th Anniversary event will be the first public appearance by
the WWII heroes during the reunion weekend. It should be noted that the Doolittle
Raiders will not be available for autographs during their appearance at the college.
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