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AUSA
Updated
March 16, 2010
 Chick Here to meet some of the nearly 300 who attended our 2009 National Meeting.
2010
Scholarship
Applications
Download your application for a 2010 Central Texas - Fort Hood Scholarship here. Applications must be received by April 15.
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Would you like to contribute to our Soldier & Family Support efforts?
Every year, this chapter (a 501c3 non-profit activity) spends hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting Soldiers and their Families. Fund-raising by local volunteers provides much of the money used for these activities, but your tax deductible donation would surely help extend the reach of our work. Will you donate $20?
Every penny will go to support Fort Hood Soldiers and their Families.
------------------ Photos of our 2009 Washington National Meeting are now posted to the Photos Section of this website Here is your December, 2009, Chapter NewsletterAnd we have Trace Adkins and the West Point Glee Club A Message for AmericaListen here
Go to the News and Photos Sections for the latest:
- Wunter Brings Blizzards and Budgets
- Kenneth Fisher address caps three days of an intense, magnificent AUSA Annual Meeting.
- Chapter Supports Spiritual Fitness Center and Wounded Warrior Care
- Chapter Farewells MG & Mrs. Jeff Hammond and the 4th Infantry Division
- And the winner is ….
- Chapter Co-hosts Statewide TRIAD Conference
- Project Home Front
- Exceptional Volunteers Recognized
- Thanks, Automax and some Hardy Volunteers!
- Golf Tourney Raises $23,000+ for Chapter Programs
- We Thank Our Scholarship Sponsors
- Temple and Belton Host Chapter Event
- Quiet Pride
- We Celebrate Our Army’s 234th Birthday!
- Your Adopt A Fort Hood Unit Involvement is MUCH Appreciated.
- Fisher Foundation CEO to Receive 2009 Marshall Medal
- Golf Tourney A Huge Success - Over $23,000 raised for chapter programs
- Gauer reappointed to AUSA’s National Resolutions Committee
- Tiniest Warriors Showered with Thanks
- Members Briefed on Global War on Terrorism - The JCS/J5 Briefing
Check out Our Latest Soldier VideoSupporting Our Warriors
ARMY STRONG VIDEOWe have the "Army Strong" campaign video. View it here. Opens in new window, abd requires a media player.
Your Link to The Pentagon ChannelFor latest from Senior Military & Civilian Leaders, View them here
UPCOMING EVENTSChapter events give member business and individuals a chance to meet and shape the future direction of our Chapter. Learn more here!
CONTACT USIf you can help support our Chapter's mission, please contact us for more information... and thank you for visiting our web site!
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The Tragedy of 11/5
Moving to the Next Phase
We Will Not Forget
America responds to the Fort Hood tragedy
It has been amazing to watch - and even more amazing to be part of - as America has responded to the Tragedy of 11/5 at Fort Hood.
We have ended our solicitation of funds and are moving into a detailed needs-based distribution of all funds received. We are pleased to report over $900,000 in pledges and over $850,000 actually received to date from not less than forty four states and three foreign countries.
Since the tragedy, the committee has determined that the most immediate expenditures of funds were 1) family member expenses associated with travel to and/or attendance at the Fort Hood memorial or burial of Soldier killed in the tragedy; 2) family member expenses associated with travel to and/or supportive presence at a hospital where a wounded Soldier was, or is, being treated; and 3) behavioral/mental health care for more than one hundred and twenty five Soldiers, DA civilian employees who were on-scene and Soldier Family members (including young children) dramatically affected by the killings. Behavioral health care professionals tell us that we should expect an increase in need in this category of care throughout 2010.
The chapter is managing this fund through a six member committee that includes the chapter President, President Elect, Treasurer, and three other long-standing senior chapter members, and one a practicing attorney. A senior Fort Hood representative participates in all meetings. The committee meets bi-weekly, carefully examining various methods by which the fund might provide the greatest levels of assistance or support to all those affected. And because recent changes in federal law now provide a variety of survivor and family benefits of Soldiers lost while on active duty, we are working as to not duplicate benefits otherwise available under various USG-funded programs.
Also, we are working with Fort Hood’s leadership and plan to place a proper memorial to this tragedy on-post, probably at Fort Hood’s Memorial Park.
More to follow. We sincerely thank you for your continued support.
The Volunteer Leadership
Central Texas - Fort Hood Chapter
Association of the US Army
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A Fort Hood soldier on
patrol in Irag
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Chapter's Scholarship
Program in Full Swing
Applications Due by April 15
Our chapter’s annual scholarship program is in full swing and we anticipate matching last year’s effort when we presented fifty six students with $1,000.00 scholarships. In addition to our traditional corporate-sponsored scholarships, we will again be presenting the Michael Romain Scholarship (goes to a signal/ communications branch enlisted Soldier) while adding the Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship (honoring our chapter’s Past Vice President for JROTC Support) and incorporating JROTC Scholarship presentations.
Recognizing that military families live in a moving society and that home is often referred to as another place far from where they hang their berets, the theme this year will focus on citizenship and the military family. To download an application, simply click here. Applicants must be:
1. Members of AUSA Central Texas Chapter. (or a family member of an AUSA member)
2. Active Duty or Retired Military or their family members.
3. First time recipients will be given the first opportunities.
4 Acceptance into a College, University or Military Academy, or a Letter of Intent to attend a Vocational School or Junior College
5. Complete packets with letters of recommendations and transcripts (do not need to be official copies). Please see the application for all required documentation.
Complete applications must be received by April 15. Applicants will be required to submit a 500 word essay on “meeting the challenge of political participation and other responsibilities of citizens by the military and their families in a high tempo and mobile environment”. The completed application must also include a certified copy of the latest high school, vocational school or college/university transcript with ACT/SAT scores and a school/college/university letter of acceptance. Applicants are also encouraged to provide a list of awards, honors and recognitions received, and up to five letters of recommendation.
Winning recipients will be notified in the first week of May, and scholarships presented at an Awards Dinner scheduled for 6 pm on May 13, 2010 at the Fort Hood Catering and Conference Center. Questions can be directed to Ms. Susan Jones, the chapter’s Vice President for Scholarships at smjones@extracobanks.com or at her mobile number at 254-290-0383.
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Updating Our
Adopt A Fort Hood Unit
Connections!
Even after seven years, our Adopt A Fort Hood Unit program remains an exceptional success story.
Week in and week out, Fort Hood Soldiers or Soldier Families are in contact with their AAFHU partners - exchanging notes, extending a hand and in one way or another insuring that the fence surrounding Fort Hood does not keep us from being neighborly and connected.
But after seven years, some of our website postings are old and may no longer be valid. Contacts might have become broken or partnerships discontinued.
Our problem is simple; we won’t know of a change unless we are told.
So over these next several months, we will be making a concerted effort to update our files with current data on each Fort Hood unit and its civilian partner.
We will be contacting all parties on whom we have data and asking are you still participating? Do you wish to continue? How can we help?
With your assistance, the result of this review will produce a thoroughly up-to-date total listing with more Fort Hood units available for new partnerships in 2010.
More later.
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Joining AUSA makes good sense.
An AUSA membership links you to America’s Army in ways simply not otherwise available.
And for those not now in uniform (and perhaps never were), an AUSA membership provides a superb source of timely information on the men and women who serve this nation in the defense of freedom.
With over 17,000 members, we are AUSA's fastest growing chapter.
Come join our ranks. You - and we - will gain much!!
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137 units
need
your support!
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627 Fort Hood units.
490 adopted units. |
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Updated
March 5, 2010
IMPORTANT
If the unit you want has a partner already listed -
that's OK.
You can partner with that unit, too!!
And if you find errors or
omissions, please tell us
by going to
General Ray Odierno recently called Fort Hood the "epicenter of sacrifice.” Fort Hood Soldiers are either:
1. preparing to deploy;
2. already deployed; or
3. just returned and resetting or reequipping for future missions.
In sheer numbers alone, no other installation in America has experienced such commitment.
In 2009, thirty thousand Fort Hood Soldiers were committed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Today, sixteen thousand remain forward deployed - including elements of the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division; 89th Military Police Brigade; 1st Medical Brigade; 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary); 15th Sustainment Brigade, 57th Signal Battalion, and 13th Finance Center. And soon, the Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Diviision will deploy to Afghanistan while Headquarters, III Corps returns to Iraq for its third tour in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
For years, most Soldiers were rotating in and out of Iraq, now more and more will be heading to that other war in Afghanistan. Different theaters, different battlefield realities, but the same brave Soldiers supported by fabulously generous and supporting Families.
Soldier Families work to keep the home fires burning. And we can help. We can ease their burden and support their efforts by actively participating in the Adopt A Fort Hood Unit program. We can provide truly welcomed and important support to Soldiers and their Families - if we just choose to do so.
And many of you are!! But if you are not, you would be most welcome to join in!!
As you scroll through this list of Fort Hood units, you may find a unit with whom you would particularly like to partner, just enroll. We will be at the other end of that email, fax or phone call to help you make a match.
If you do not have a preference, we can identify an appropriately sized unit that needs a partner, and match them with your request. And if the unit you want already has a partner listed; that's OK, too. Any unit would welcome more than one civic partner.
Read on!
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