erald Union H Vol. XXIII, No. 27
Wiesbaden: Our home in Germany
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Oct. 13, 2016
Milley: Army on cusp of change
‘Lighting the Way’ for victims of domestic violence
By C. Todd Lopez Army News Service
“This event is to raise funds for our performance season,” Saturday said. It will help fund the playhouse’s Christmas production, “Annie.” The cost for the haunted house is $8 per person, or $7 with a canned food donation to ACS, which will also help stock their food pantry for the holidays. Dozens of volunteers from the AEP and Wiesbaden units are making this event possible, Saturday said. Also on Oct. 29, the Taunus Theater is having a Halloween lock-in beginning at 10 p.m. and running all through the night. The
WASHINGTON — The future of the Army may not involve divisions, corps, tanks or Bradley fighting vehicles, said the Army’s chief of staff. And that future isn’t 100 years away, or even 50. It’s only about 25 to 30 years away. Gen. Mark Milley spoke Oct. 4 at the 2016 Association of the U.S. Army Annual Meeting and Exposition’s Eisenhower Luncheon. The Army of the future he described in his remarks bore little resemblance to the Army that Soldiers know today, not just in its technology, but also in how it fights and where it fights. “I suspect that the organizations and weapons and doctrines of land armies, between 2025 and 2050, in that quarter-century period of time, will be fundamentally different than what we see today,” he said. He cited the scenario of a Civil War combat Soldier attempting to visualize a World War II or Vietnam Soldier as the appropriate comparison for what Soldiers of today should expect in the way of change over the next two decades. While the evolution of soldiering from the Civil War era to Vietnam took about 100 years, Milley said it won’t take a century for that level of change to happen again. It will happen in the next 20 to 30 years, the amount of time it takes a second lieutenant who commissions next spring to become a general. “Rapid change has become increasingly compressed,” he said. “Those of us today will find it difficult to recognize the battlefield of 2035, let alone 2050.” Future conflicts will come about in the same way conflicts come about today; nation states will fight to protect their interests, he said, and engage in conflict over territory or resources.
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Sarah Gordon (right), victim advocate coordinator with the Family Advocacy Program and Lucky Mumina, victim advocate, place an LED candle in Bldg. 1205 on Clay Kaserne Oct. 3 as part of the ‘Light the Way’ campaign against domestic violence. The attached note reads “Domestic violence victims lose nearly 8 million days of paid work per year in the U.S. alone – the equivalent of 32,000 full-time jobs.” The candles will remain lit throughout the garrison during the month of October. Read more about Domestic Violence Awareness Month on page 3.
There’s no place like Wiesbaden for a frighteningly good time By Emily Jennings
U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Public Affairs
A dead Dorothy clicks her heels together three times and is transported, along with those who dare to join her, to her dead world. Then, as a guide leads brave souls through the different sections of her haunted world, they will get the feeling that they are not in Kansas anymore. The Amelia Earhart Playhouse and U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden are coming together to put on a production that is sure to give even the toughest warrior the heebie jeebies. The haunted house will be open from Oct. 28 through 31 from
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6 to 10 p.m. each night, with the first hour reserved for kids age 5 to 13, accompanied by an adult. No one under 5 will be admitted. After 7 p.m. comes the real fright fest for those 13 and older. If haunted houses aren’t your thing, a trunk-or-treat event, geared toward the littler lions, tigers and bears, will take place in the parking lot behind the Taunus Theater from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 29. Organizers wanted to have a scary haunted house, but also have something fun for kids of all ages, said AEP volunteer Sgt. Heather Saturday, who is spearheading the haunted weekend.
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