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The Fort Jackson Leader March 15, 2018

TODAYProtestant Women of the Chapel 9:30-11:30 a.m., Lightning Chapel 9476 Kemper St. Lunch is provided and free childcare, but children must be registered with CYS. For more information, contact [email protected].

Story Time at the Library11:30 a.m.-noon. Thomas Lee Hall Library. Wear your green as we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Join us at the library to learn about this green holiday with stories, songs, and a make a leprechaun magnet. This is a free event. For more information, contact (803)751-5589. MARCH 22Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash. This event is free and for ages 8-12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MARCH 23-24WHACK That Ball Fitness5 p.m. Perez Fitness Center, March 23. 10 a.m. Perez Fitness Center, March 24.First 20 registrants sign up today and get your game on. For more information, contact 751-3700 or 751-6258.

MARCH 26-30Unit Prevention Leader Class8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., ASAP Classroom, Building 4310 MaGruder Ave. The Army Substance Abuse Program will offer a Unit ��

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MARCH 27Story Time at the Library11:30 a.m.-noon, Thomas Lee Hall Library. The Easter bunny is hopping his way to Storytime at the Library to hear stories, sing a song, and make an Easter egg picture frame. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

MARCH 30Fort Jackson Passover Seder7-8:45 p.m. at Anderson Chapel, located at the corner of Anderson and Jackson Blvd. If you plan to attend respond no later than March 26. For more information, contact Chaplain (Capt.) Joseph Messinger at [email protected].

Fort Jackson Good Friday11:30 a.m., Main Post Chapel, Bldg. 4580 Scales Ave. For more information, contact Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Rodie L. Lamb, Deputy Garrison Chaplain, [email protected].

APRIL 1Protestant Easter Sunrise Service8-9 a.m., Hilton Field. All Soldiers, civilians and Family members are invited to attend. All chapel worship services on Fort Jackson will continue as scheduled. In case of inclement weather, the service will take place 10-11a.m. at the Solomon Center. For more information, contact Chaplain (Capt.) Christopher R. Ball at 751-3882 or [email protected].

APRIL 3Maude Leadership Lecture3 p.m., at the Solomon Center. Maj. Gen. Joseph R. Calloway, director of Military Personnel Management, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, G-1 will speak during the event. The lecture series is aimed at offering professional development to leaders and Soldiers.

APRIL 12Lego Club at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library.Test your Lego brick building skills at the library. We have the Lego bricks, you bring the creativity. This is a free event. For more information, contact 751-5589.

APRIL 212018 USA Powerlifting Event7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 21 at the National Guard Army, 1225 Bluff Road in Columbia. The South Carolina National Guard’s Warrior Fitness Team will be hosting the 2018 USA Powerlifting’s “Power lifters against bullying: Words have weight” competition. For more information call 803-508-9003 or email Ron Dorian, director of the Warrior

Fitness Program at [email protected].

APRIL 23Alcohol Awareness Month TrainingSession 1: 9-10:30 a.m. Session 2: 1:30-2:30 p.m. Both sessions will be held at the Solomon Center. Mothers Against Drunk Driving will be the guest.

APRIL 23-27Unit Prevention Leader Class8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., ASAP Classroom, Building 4310 MaGruder Ave. The Army Substance Abuse Program will offer a Unit Prevention ��

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APRIL 26Gaming at the Library2-3:30 p.m. Thomas Less Hall Library. Show us your gaming skills on an Xbox or PS4 to try your hand at coding with Dot and Dash. This event is free and for ages 8-12. For more information, contact 751-5589.

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SPORTSMAN’S ADVISORY COUNCIL

Are you interested in learning more about the Fort Jackson Sports-man Club? Come to a meeting of the Sportsman Advisory Council Working Groups.

The Cycling working group meets April 10 at Magruder’s Pub. The group leader Maj. Stephen McKin-ney can be contacted at 751-1041 or [email protected].

Maj. Matthew Hintz is the lead for

the Run/Adventure and Shooting Work-ing Groups, and can be contacted at 751-7629 or [email protected]. The next meeting is 6 p.m. March. 27 at Magruder’s Pub.

The next Hunting and Angling Working Group meeting will take place 6 p.m. March 15 at Alpine Lodge. The group leader Command Sgt. Maj. Cur-tis Wesson can be contacted at 751-8037 or [email protected].

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Army generals: Modernizing Army network key to battlefield advantage

New TRADOC commander visits postGen. Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, visited Fort Jackson for the first time since taking over the organization that leads Army training efforts March 2. Townsend was escorted by Maj. Gen. Pete John-son, Fort Jackson commander, right, as he toured various parts of the installation including the 3rd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment, where he witnessed an in-ranks inspection. He also visited the 120th Adjutant General Battalion (Reception) and Basic Combat Training units conducting the Forge.

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The U.S. Army Financial Management School and Finance Corps welcomed Command Sgt. Maj. Gennaro Penn as its 11th command sergeant major during an assumption of respon-sibility ceremony March 9 at the Soldier Support Institute.

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ADDRESSES,PHONE NUMBERS

� Anderson Street Chapel, 2335 Anderson St., 751-7032

� Lightning Chapel, 9476 Kemper St., 751-4101/4542

� Chaplain Family Life Center, Bldg 5460, 751-4961

� Daniel Circle Chapel, 3359 Daniel Circle, 751-1297/4478

� Education Center, 4581 Scales Ave., 751-5341

� Fort Jackson Garrison Chaplain and Religious Support Office, 4356 Hardee St., 751-3121/6318

� McCrady Chapel, 3820 McCrady Road at McCrady Training Center, 751-7324

� Magruder Chapel, 4360 Magruder Ave., 751-3883

� Main Post Chapel, 4580 Scales Ave., 751-6469/6681

� Warrior Chapel (120th Adjutant General Battalion), 1895 Washington St., 751-5086/7427

CATHOLICSunday� 7:30 a.m., Confessions, Solomon Center� 8 a.m., IET Mass, Solomon Center� 9:30 a.m., CCD, Education Center� 9:30 a.m., Mass, Main Post Chapel� 10:30 a.m., Reconciliation (after Mass or by appointment), Main Post Chapel

Monday through Thursday, First Friday11:30 a.m., Mass, Main Post Chapel

CHURCH OF CHRISTSunday10:30 a.m., Worship Service, Magruder Chapel

EASTERN ORTHODOXSunday9 a.m., Worship and Liturgy, Hospital Chapel

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Sunday10:30 a.m., Worship Service, Anderson Street Chapel

ISLAMICFriday12:45 p.m., Jumah Services, Main Post Chapel

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PAGANSunday11 a.m., Pagan Circle Sacred Well Congregation worship and study, Magruder Chapel

HISPANIC PROTESTANTSunday9 a.m., Worship Service, Magruder Chapel

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FORT JACKSON WORSHIP SCHEDULE

By NICK SPINELLIMEDDAC Public Affairs

A ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. March 21 to mark the long awaited opening of Fort Jackson’s Army Wellness Center that recently began accepting appointments.

The ceremony will be followed by tours of the building and demonstrations of the vari-ous services to be provided there.

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baseline and assists with estimating a healthy body weight. It also acts as a great motivator for clients to track progress when compared to body weight measurements alone.”

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Maurquez Smith, a fourth-grade student, is given a congratulatory hug for meeting his reading goals March 8 as C.C. Pinckney and Pierce Terrace Elementary schools conducted its annual Reading Prize Patrol.

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By LATRICE LANGSTONFort Jackson Leader

Flashing lights and loud sirens announced the arrival of the Reading Prize Patrol as the caravan of community police, educators and volunteers weaved its way through the hous-ing area, March 8.

The annual Reading Prize Patrol for C.C. Pinckney and Pierce Terrace Elementary schools took place March 8, on Fort Jackson. Each year the schools hold a reading prize pa-trol in the spring and a math prize patrol in the fall to recognize the hard work students are putting in each year.

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Prize Patrol event,” she said. “We truly see prize patrol events as a Fort Jackson school specialty and we look forward to next year.”

Funding for the educational materials and goodies placed in the reading prize patrol bas-kets was provided via a grant awarded to C.C.

Pinckney PTO President Maureen Voorhees, from the Fort Jackson Thrift Store.

The prize patrols were developed and implemented by Ammons, a member of the Continuous School Improvement Team and the Pickney Stakeholder Team, said she was looking for ways to engage and interact with Fort Jackson Families in a way that focused on the importance of education when the idea of the Math and Reading Prize Patrol came about.

“I guess you could say I was in the right place at the right time and was able to devel-op the concept of ‘prize patrols’ as a way to marry school, home and education,” she said.

The prize patrol would not be possible without willing families who send back forms and teachers who make visits after school hours, she added.

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Fifth-grade student Ayanna Spivey is congratulated by her teacher, Ms. Cooper, during the March 8 Prize Pa-trol Event.

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First group of Soldiers graduate fromDrill Sergeant Conversion CourseBy LATRICE L. LANGSTONFort Jackson Leader

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Staff Sgt. Marcus Robinson, a newly-mint-ed drill sergeant from Fort Lee, Virginia, said he is looking forward to sending better trained Soldiers to the operational forces.

“We will to build on the training they re-ceived in BCT and continue to Soldier them so that they will go to (Forces Command) more prepared than what they were,” he said.

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Command Sgt. Maj. Mi-chael L. Berry, comman-dant of the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant Academy, Com-mand Sgt. Maj. Lamont Christian, senior enlisted leader for Fort Jackson along with other members of the official party, depart the Drill Sergeant Conver-sion Course Graduation Ceremony.


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Also, encryption in a smartphone is relatively simple, com-pared to high-level encryption used in SINCGARS radios, he said. “The difference is in the order of magnitudes.”

There’s an algorithm approval process that has to be validated by the National Security Agency, he added, explaining that en-cryption is accomplished through algorithms that are uploaded into the software.

However, “algorithms have a shelf life,” he said. As adversary hacking ability improves, new algorithms need to be continually written and then approved by the National Security Agency prior to upload. That process of NSA review can be lengthy, in some cases taking weeks or even months.

In addition, for an added layer of security, military radios use something called “frequency hopping,” he said, explaining that radio frequencies are changed many times per second to avoid adversaries from eavesdropping by honing in on a single fre-quency.

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Ostrowski said the Army is using a multifaceted approach aimed at getting to the network problems.

One idea, he said, is to tap into the power of having many small, low-orbit satellites that could be linked to the radios that would provide communications seamlessly at any time or place in the world.

Another idea is to improve how the radio operates, he said, noting that there are only around 5,000 companies in the U.S. doing business with the Defense Department. There are another 23 million companies in the U.S. that are not. “We’re not tapping into that yet.”

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