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2-321 Field Artillery Regiment (ABN) Bldg B-1329 Salerno Road Fort Bragg, NC 28310 BN Staff Duty Phone: 910-396-0896
Greetings to the Troopers, families and friends of the Professionals. I hope everyone enjoyed their Valentines Day and had an opportunity to spend time with their loved ones! The Professionals have had another great month of training and have finally had an opportunity to fire our howitzers for the first time in almost two years. In addition, members of the Hurricanes, Assassins, Barbarians, and Grizzlies participated in a mock airfield seizure training exercise. During this training event members of the Battalion jumped, assembled, and employed a howitzer during hours of limited visibility. Like firing our howitzers, this is the first time in two years we have had an opportunity to exercise this capability. If you have not yet done so, like our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/2321st-ABN-FA/142210282533?ref=hl#) where you can view photos of our training; it is truly an awe inspiring site to see these Troopers in action.
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Volume 1, Issue 3
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FRG Meeting : 12 MAR 2013 1800 @ BN Classroom FTX : 4-8 MARCH 2013
Greetings Friends and Families! February has been a busy month for the Hurricane Battery. As we surpass the mid-point of the 2d quarter, Troopers continued to hone their individual weapons skills at day and night qualification ranges in accordance with our 2d quarter training guidance. In addition to coordinating and running the aforementioned ranges for the entire battalion, HHB Troopers also facilitated receipt of new radar and communications equipment that will be used to support the battalion as it builds its digital communications capability in preparation for our Intensive Training Cycle I. But, of course, we are not all work and no play. Several of our single Soldiers attended a ski training retreat at Beech Mountain and we also held two free barbecue lunches for the Troopers. The FRG also conducted a Valentines Day fundraiser, continuing its outstanding support for the battery. So, if you happened to receive a single rose on Valentines Day, chances are, you have the FRG to thank.
SSG Devries promotes SPC Adan Buelna to Sergeant
Promotions
SGT Buelna SPC Larson SPC Verdugo SPC Hunt SPC Rudolph PFC Thackeray
Birthdays
PFC Thackeray teaches a Communications & Radio Seminar at Butner Elementary
Volume 1, Issue 3
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Alpha BatteryAssassins
Alpha Battery Upcoming Events
Birthdays
MAR
SGT Carado29 MAR
SPC Esguerro13 MAR SPC Fox20 MAR SPC Franklin24 MAR PFC Majchrzak10 MAR PFC Morales6 MAR SGT(P) Rogers5 MAR PV2 Shilo27 MAR SGT Merino12 MAR PCS SSG Gibson SSG Oros SGT Allen SGT Barefoot SGT Carado
Promotions
SGT Joseph SGT Jenkins SPC Bruce SPC Fox ETS PFC Tovar
PFC Morales SPC Abbott SPC Carlton SPC Cermenosoler SPC Groover SPC Hankins SPC Hutchings SPC Hiebert SPC Holder SPC Joyal SPC Moorhead SPC Reynolds SPC Schelburg PFC Morales
Volume 1, Issue 3
Bravo BatteryBarbarians
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Bravo BatteryBarbarians
Bravo Battery Upcoming Events
It seems as though February has flown by. During this month, we have had Four Section Chiefs attending and graduating from the Advanced Leaders Course, had Troopers out to the range to conduct rifle marksmanship, and have had our troopers focusing on conducting, ever important, section certification. During this month we also conducted a well attended FRG meeting, at the Airborne Lanes Bowling Alley here at Fort Bragg.
SSG Furler conducts an Air Assault Rigging Class
SSG Matos studies the 82nd Redbook with SGT Vanscoyk in preparation for Section Certification
We continue to ready ourselves for upcoming field training exercises where we will finally get to put some steel down range from our M119 Howitzers as well as get the opportunity to showcase the Batterys performance, by providing a Salute Battery for the FORSCOM Change of Command in March. While our focus will remain on training, we look forward to having a Trooper Planned Family Fun Day on the 22nd of March. This Trooper Planned Family Fun Day was an initiative to allow our young troopers to plan and organize an event that would provide a recreational environment for the Battery as well as an opportunity to build their leadership skills.
Brittany Yeager received the Outstanding Civilian Service award for her service to Bravo Battery
SSG Walrath and 1st Section of 1st PLT conduct Section Certification
Birthdays
Promotions
SPC Joel Jones SPC Lawrence Cook SPC Stephen Scholesser SPC Bruce Saunders
PCS SGT Vankirk ETS SPC Cameron SPC Wilson SPC Malone
SSG Mowbray received a print for his wife Lisa for her dedication to the Battery FRG as the Battery Treasurer
Volume 1, Issue 3
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Golf CompanyGrizzlies
Golf Company Upcoming Events
This month went by fast. We conducted and supported a lot of training this month. We sent our Paratroopers to the range to qualify both during the day and night. We helped push some of the last pieces of equipment through the post-deployment radio communications maintenance as well as repaired all of our night vision devices. The firing Batteries had two weeks of boom-packed training that helped us review our operations and note any weak areas we need to improve upon. We could not have done this without you. Thank you for all your support. Our Paratroopers heavily rely on everyone in their circle of Family and friends to accomplish all missions at work. Home is were we go to relax, reset, and have fun. I want to meet each one of you and thank you personally, so please join us at our next FRG Meeting! I look forward to seeing you there.
A gorgeous Fort Bragg sunrise viewed from the 2-321st Motor Pool
Birthdays
PFC D. Brown9 FEB PFC D. Medina12 FEB SPC R. Diaz10 FEB SGT K. Johnson16 FEB SGT D. Lake2 FEB SGT J. Reyes3 FEB
Promotions
Chaplains Corner
Hails
2LT Logan- Bravo 2LT Hunt- HHB SFC Dulanto- HHB 1SG Dean- Alpha CPT Martinus- HHB
FRSA Corner
Love is in the air! Dont believe me, just check out the front of your local Wal-Mart or jewelry store. Valentines Day is the day we think about l-o-v-e. Americans think they know a lot about love, but do we? Scripture has some very clear definitions for what love really is (and is not). Maybe youve heard these words recited at a wedding or have seen them on a wall plaque. Does your definition of love look like the one below? Do you live by this standard? Try it itll revolutionize all your relationships! 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT) Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Here to Serve, CH (CPT) Cliff Jones Clifford.l.jones16.mil@mail.mil 910-396-0909 SPC Grant Van Brimmer (CH Assistant)
Farewells
CPT Dudley- HHB 1LT Hopkins- HHB 1LT McDarment- HHB SFC Truax- HHB MAJ Felter- HHB CPT Holdaway- HHB
PRO Re-enlistments HHB: SPC Andrew Berry Bravo: SPC Alberto Pagan Golf: SSG Warren Martinez
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Mr. Leon Walden (FRSA) Leon.l.walden.civ@mail.mil 910-396-0956