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Four San Antonio Recruiting Battalion Soldiers recognized for separate lifesaving efforts
August 16, 2012 — Four Soldiers from the San Antonio Recruiting Battalion were recognized for performed lifesaving efforts in their local communities during a ceremony at the Dodd Chapel on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort... MORE

San Antonio Recruiting Battalion commander Lt. Col. David A. Grant looks on as Maj. Gen. David L. Mann, U.S. Army Recruiting Command commanding general, presents the Army Commendation Medal to Sgt. 1st Class David A. Mendoza for a lifesaving action. (U.S. Army Photo by Lisa Masters)

San Antonio Military Medical Center recognizes youth volunteers
August 16, 2012 — A group of teens were recognized and honored for their volunteer services this summer at San Antonio Military Medical Center Aug. 6.The ceremony, hosted by Brooke Army Medical Center volunteer... MORE

Volunteers Ryan Teich and Haley Richards label IV bags in the post-anesthesia care unit at the San Antonio Military Medical Center. The volunteer program brought 66 high school teens with more than 35 assigned supervisors throughout the medical center. (U.S. Army Photo by Kelly Schaefer, BAMC Public Affairs)

BAMC volunteers fill vital role in health care mission
August 16, 2012 — Brooke Army Medical Center's health care mission is growing by leaps and bounds, and as it grows, so does the hospital's need for volunteers. BAMC supervisors create positions and duties so that... MORE

Volunteer information desk greeter Ed O'Boyle helps a vistor to San Antonio Military Medical Center navigate the hospital. Greeters are often the first person a patient, family member, vistor or vendor meets. (Photo by Mike Dulevitz, Brooke Army Medical Center Volunteer Services)

ARSOUTH, Colombian army, partner nations, kick off PANAMAX 2012
August 15, 2012 — Members of U.S. Army South, along with armed and security forces from 17 nations, officially kicked off the annual U.S. Southern Command-sponsored Fuerzas Aliadas PANAMAX exercise taking place... MORE

Sailors from Special Boat Team 22 and service members from Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Panama and Peru participate in a hot extraction training exercise as part of PANAMAX 2011. PANAMAX focuses on the defense of the Panama Canal with participants from 17 countries and involving more than 3,500 personnel throughout the U.S. Southern Command.

New mural depicts San Antonio's rich military history
August 15, 2012 — A newly designed mural depicting the history of the military in San Antonio adorns the upstairs hallway in the 502nd Air Base Wing headquarters on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston."We wanted to... MORE

Peter Law, 502nd Air Base Wing historian, admires the new mural depicting San Antonio’s rich military history at the 502nd ABW headquarters on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. (U.S. Army photo by Lori Newman)

SAMMC’s Nuclear Medicine Clinic receives ‘seal of approval’
August 10, 2012 — The San Antonio Military Medical Center's Department of Radiology-Nuclear Medicine Clinic was recently granted a three-year re-certification by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission of Nuclear... MORE

ARSOUTH Soldiers get a real-world lesson in captivity avoidance, Krav Maga style
August 10, 2012 — Self-defense tactics based on the human reaction to stress in an urban warfare environment was the basis of a captivity avoidance course held for a group of U.S. Army South Soldiers at the STW Krav... MORE

ECMO still saving lives of infants, children at SAMMC
August 10, 2012 — After a long and distinguished history of saving the lives of infants and children at what was formerly Wilford Hall Medical Center, the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine is still a vital... MORE

Experts detect West Nile Virus on post, offer preventive tips
August 10, 2012 — The West Nile Virus has been detected on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston; however, a few simple preventive measures can help to abate the issue, post officials said."Three sample pools of... MORE

Nuclear forensics group helps identify attackers
August 10, 2012 — It sounds like the plot to Hollywood blockbuster. A terrorist has detonated a nuclear device in a major Midwestern city. More than 300,000 have been killed; hundreds of thousands more are wounded or... MORE

Experts detect West Nile Virus on JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
August 9, 2012 — Summer brings backyard barbecues, hiking, camping and increased outdoor activities. It also brings more mosquitoes, and with them potentially serious illnesses from germs some mosquitoes carry.West... MORE

Many mosquito problems can be reduced by eliminating breeding sites of standing water and emptying containers that hold water. (Courtesy of Onondaga County, N.Y., Health Department)

JBSA members benefit from anger management course
July 20, 2012 — Joint Base San Antonio offers an anger management course called Building Effective Anger Management Skills every six weeks at Fort Sam Houston and as requested alternating between Randolph and... MORE

METC deputy commandant takes command of Navy Medicine Education and Training Command
July 19, 2012 — Navy Capt. Gail L. Hathaway, the deputy commandant of the Medical Education and Training Campus, based at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, assumed command of the newly reorganized Navy... MORE

Navy Capt. Gail Hathaway salutes during colors at the Navy Medicine Education and Training Command change of command ceremony at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville., Fla., ceremonial hangar July 11. Hathaway, reporting from her previous assignment as the Medical Education and Training Campus deputy commandant at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, assumed command during the hour-long ceremony. (U.S. Navy photo by Larry Coffey)

MICC members earn contracting awards
July 19, 2012 — Five members of the Mission and Installation Contracting Command were among those recognized at the U.S. Army Contracting Command's annual contracting awards ceremony May 16 at Huntsville, Ala."It's... MORE

Maj. Christopher Center is awarded the Army Commendation Medal from Dr. Carol Lowman during an awards ceremony May 16 at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., after being named the Army Contracting Command's Outstanding Contingency Contracting Officer for 2011. Lowman is the deputy to the commanding general at ACC. Also pictured are Brig. Gen. Kirk Vollmecke, the Mission and Installation Contracting Command commanding general, and ACC Command Sgt. Maj. John Murray. (Photo by Larry McCaskill)

Program improves contract administration
July 19, 2012 — Officials from the Mission and Installation Contracting Command here continue to implement phases of its Quality Assurance Program aimed at improving contract administration and oversight to help... MORE

Christopher Rinard teaches a module of an Mission and Installation Contracting Command Enhanced Contracting Officer Representative Class as part of his training to become an instructor. Rinard, who is a MICC quality assurance specialist at Fort Drum, N.Y., received his certification as an enhanced contracting officer representative trainer. (Photo by Laramie Johnston)

Back in fight: Contracting officer returns to help Soldiers
July 19, 2012 — A trip to today's military hospitals reveals American warriors afflicted with many different ailments, including battle injuries, missing limbs and severe scars. Time and medical care eventually heals... MORE

Lt. Col. Rick Skeen is a contracting officer for the Mission and Installation Contracting Command-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, who manages pre- and post-award procurement actions, conducts market research, and develops acquisition strategies and plans that directly support Soldiers and their families. (Photo Credit: Mr. Ryan Mattox [ACC])

Senator visits Wounded Warriors, Families at WFSC
July 19, 2012 — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas attended a private Purple Heart ceremony July 2 at the Warrior and Family Support Center for a Soldier wounded in Afghanistan during a dismounted patrol in June... MORE

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas (center) meets with Capt. Larkin O’Hern, a triple-amputee, and his wife, Rachael, during a July 2 visit to the Warrior and Family Support Center. O’Hern, who is working as a planner at U.S. Army North, told the senator about his desire to work in the Army Congressional Fellowship program. O’Hern was injured after an improvised-explosive device detonated while he was conducting a dismounted patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan, New Year’s Eve 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Keith Anderson, Army North PAO)

Army North CG recognizes San Antonio WWII veteran for his service to nation
July 19, 2012 — The Soldiers who fought in World War II were part of an incredible legacy that spoke of heroes and the great deeds they had performed in the service of a grateful nation. There are fewer and fewer of... MORE

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV presents a Lifetime Achievement Award to Darrell G. Harris on behalf of the 82nd Airborne Division Association for his actions and service during WWII July 13 at the U.S. Army North Headquarters in the Quadrangle here. Harris is a veteran paratrooper of 3rd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, from World War II. Caldwell is the commanding general of U.S. Army North and senior commander of Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher DeHart, Army North PAO)

Public affairs staff consolidates JBSA websites
July 19, 2012 — As the site goes live July 20, an easily accessed, everything-at-your-fingertips experience is the vision of the developers of the consolidated Joint Base San Antonio website. Managed by the 502nd Air... MORE

Army North celebrates historic battalion change of command
July 19, 2012 — U.S. Army North celebrated a historical milestone July 12 as the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion conducted its inaugural change of command and change of responsibility at Fort Sam Houston's... MORE

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV passes the battalion colors to Lt. Col. Zoltan Krompecher as the Soldiers and civilians of Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, U.S. Army North, witnessed the battalion’s inaugural change of command and change of responsibility ceremony at Fort Sam Houston’s Rehearsal of Concept Drill Facility July 12. Caldwell, the commanding general of U.S. Army North and senior commander of Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, served as the reviewing officer for the ceremony. Krompecher assumed command from Lt. Col. Shannon Miller, and Command Sgt. Maj. Alvin Chaplin Sr. assumed responsibility for the battalion from Command Sgt. Maj. Eddie Fields III. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Corey Baltos, Army North PAO)