Inside Valentine’s Day
Taking the holiday back for everyone — singles included. See page 2.
Fasching
Soaring Eagles
Enjoy this German tradition, but keep a few safety tips in mind for your health and wellbeing. See page 14.
Troop 107 honors six to achieve Scouting’s highest rank. See page 17.
erald Union H Vol. XVI, No. 9
Super Bowl
Wiesbaden: Your home in Germany
Feb. 13, 2014
BOSS, MWR, USO treat Soldiers to super bashes By Shayna Brouker U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Public Affairs Office
For football fans, no time difference is too big to miss the Super Bowl. The game aired at 12:30 a.m. in Germany, and U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden catered to these dedicated diehards with various festivities. Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers and the USO hosted a chili kickoff, Madden X-Box tournament, Texas Hold‘em poker tournament and game viewing at the Warrior Zone. The Wiesbaden Entertainment Center offered food specials, the game airing on every screen and bowling lanes open until kickoff. The Cappuccino Casino also broadcast the game. About 80 people attended the BOSS event from 6 p.m. into the wee hours of the morning. “Madden is being
played, there’s free food — it’s pretty legit,” said Spc. John Wetzel, 24th Military Intelligence Battalion. BOSS takes pride in doing what Soldiers want, said Steve Eclavea, Warrior Zone manager. More than 100 people attended the WEC event. “There comes a time at the beginning of the year when you have to decide where to watch the Super Bowl,” said family member Mike Balzer. “We made the right choice. Great food, good people.” Super Bowl XLVIII featured the Seattle Seahawks in their first Super Bowl appearance pitted against the Denver Broncos. The game was held at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The Seahawks quickly dominated the game, scoring a safety in the first quarter and charging on to win 43-8.
Photo by Shayna Brouker
Football fans enjoy the Super Bowl festivities in the Warrior Zone on Feb. 2 — and Feb. 3.
Photo by Chrystal Smith
German-American wounded warrior showdown
Kai Cziesla, a German Bundeswehr Soldier, makes a pass over Warrior Transition Unit Company A players during adaptive wheelchair basketball action at the Wiesbaden Fitness Center Feb. 6 as a part of the WTB-Europe Commander’s Cup Challenge. The battalion’s companies will compete and earn points in several adaptive sports through the end of April in hopes of capturing the cup. See page 13 of this issue for more coverage.
Making it personal Sexual assault prevention trainer offers proactive approach to prevention By Shayna Brouker U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Public Affairs Office
“If you could keep one person safe, who would it be?” asks the petite woman of a roomful of military police men and women. “Bring that person to your mind’s eye and constantly reflect on that person throughout this training.” “I can’t change the whole world, not on my
own” said Jennifer Quain, a trained sexual assault victim advocate and prevention educator, during the rape culture and consent awareness class.“But if I can convince you to say, ‘I’m going to stop using the words slut or whore to stop rape culture,’ I’ll take it.” Staff Sgt. Kasey Trapp, platoon sergeant for the 529th Military Police Company, asked Quain to speak with his platoon
for the company’s weekly Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention training after hearing about her background through word of mouth. “When you have 21plus years of learning one thing, it might take seeing something else every week to get it ingrained,” Trapp said. “But this week we wanted to try something new, something proactive instead of reactive.”
Quain was trained through the Missouri State Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and Phelps County (Mo.) Family Crisis Services as a victim advocate for domestic and sexual violence, a hospital sexual assault advocate and a prevention educator. During her job at a women’s shelter, she spoke at more than 200 public venues in See Sexual assault on page 5
‘My name is Tyce, and I’m a Soldier’ ... see page 16