Official web site for the Central Texas - Fort Hood Chapter of the Association of the U.S. Army, providing valuable morale support to our troops and financial assistance for the Chapter's activities of behalf of soldiers, families and the Fort Hood community.

AUSA

Updated

September 1, 2010

Click Here to meet some
of the nearly 300 who attended
our 2009 National Meeting.

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.

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To review the
Adopt A Fort Hood Unit
Command Team Orientation
presented at Club Hood on June 22nd
CLICK HERE

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Photos of our 2009 Washington National Meeting are now posted to the Photos Section of this website

Here is your June 2010

Chapter Newsletter

And we have Trace Adkins and the West Point Glee Club
A Message for America
Listen here

Today’s Hot Topic

(In the News Section)

Get Ready for

the Next War

1. Your June, 2010 newsletter -

accessed by hotlink (above) reports on

* 2/4 Aviation Heads to Afghanistan - with Guitars in Hand

* 2010 Annual Meeting

* 4th AUSA Region Leadership Changes:

Jones steps down; Gauer steps up

* Annual Golf Tournament Raises $23,000

for Soldier Programs

* Business Plan & Budget Now On-Line

* Chapter Members Recommend HHG,

TRICARE & Spousal Employment

Improvements

* Chapter Presents Record Sixty One

$1,000 Scholarships

* Chapter Supports TRIAD 2010

Conference

* Leon County Host 41st Fires Brigade:

Military Appreciation: Where Vets Meet Vets!

* MG Allyn Featured at Chapter Awards

Dinner

* Our 2010 Scholarship Sponsors

* Our 2010 Scholarship Winners and their

School Choices!

* Our 2010-2011 Leadership Team

* Our Phantom Warrior Club Members We Thank You

* Playing in the Mud

* ROTC Scholarships

* Scrubbing Our Adopt A Fort Hood Unit Membership

* Ten-Miler reaches 30,000 runner cap in

35 hours

* The Tragedy of 11/5: We Will Not Forget

* We Celebrate our Army’s 235th Birthday

* We Thank Our Golf Sponsors

2. Chapter Members Recommend

Improvements - the details

3. Quiet Pride - Adopt A Fort Hood Unit Program part of Fort Hood Campaign Plan

4. JCS/J5 Global War on Terrorism Briefing (popular & remains available)

ARMY STRONG VIDEO
We have the "Army Strong" campaign video. View it here. Opens in new window, abd requires a media player.

Your Link to The Pentagon Channel
For latest from Senior Military & Civilian Leaders, View them here

UPCOMING EVENTS
Chapter events give member business and individuals a chance to meet and shape the future direction of our Chapter. Learn more here!

CONTACT US
If you can help support our Chapter's mission, please contact us for more information... and thank you for visiting our web site!

The Tragedy of 11/5

We Will Not Forget.

September 1, 2010

Some have adjusted to a “new normal,” able to push the pain aside and accept what they can not change. But for others, it is not that easy. November 5 will never again be just a date on a calendar.

In the midst of it all, our Community Response to the 11/5 Tragedy Fund continues to work with families of those lost, and with those wounded and their families. The fund received $969,527.16 and thus far distributed $385,650.03, leaving a balance of $583,877.13. And in accordance with federal law, distributions are made based on need to victims or families directly affected by the November 5 shootings.

In a few cases, Soldiers’ families would have totally collapsed were it not for the financial support this fund has been able to provide. Even after nine months, several Soldiers remain hospitalized - either continuously or on an in-and-out basis - with temporary releases while they recover from yet another in a series of operations.

That said, the largest single cost category of care still continues to be mental health or traumatic stress treatments provided through a Scott & White Hospital program underwritten by the 11-5 fund.

We continue to work closely with Fort Hood and on November 5, 2010, we will place an inscribed granite memorial at Fort Hood’s Memorial Park - with a simple, straight-forward message of sorrow and respect. This memorial service, along with other events being planned by Fort Hood for that weekend, will need Tragedy Fund support. Later and within our abilities, we are preparing to meet whatever presents itself in the future.

More to follow.

The Volunteer Leadership

Central Texas - Fort Hood Chapter

Association of the US Army

Our National Meeting - October 25-27.

AUSA's Best Chapter Celebrates!
Plan to Attend!

(Data as of 8-27-10)

Mark your calendar - and plan now to attend our 2010 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition October 25- 27 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C. Learn more here, and check back as we frequently update and add information.

For this year's plans and activities, CLICK HERE.

For a roster of those signed up to attend, CLICK HERE.

For a roster of the individual and corporate members who generosity allow us to meet this year’s expenses,CLICK HERE.

To make all of this happen, we will need your prompt registration, active participation and financial support. Please review and complete the sponsorship and registration forms below, selecting the sponsorship level at which you, your firm, organization or city would like to participate, and the ticketed events that you would like to attend.

Please complete a separate registration form for each individual attendee. And we ask that you mail your forms to our postal box so that they arrive NLT Tuesday, August 10:

Sponsorship form
Registration form

A Fort Hood soldier on
patrol in Irag

Transformation, Modularity and our nation’s ongoing efforts to “Grow The Army” are dramatically affecting Fort Hood and Central Texas. Learn how our state sees and values the Fort Hood installation and its surrounding communities.

Members of the Central Texas - Fort Hood AUSA Chapter benefit from a number of national and local programs for scholarships, discounts and more.

The business plan for this Chapter calls on us to grow our corporate mambership while maintaining our Star Chapter status.

Check It Out:

Chapter Members Recommend

HHG, TRICARE & Spousal Employment Improvements

(In the News Section)

To review the
Adopt A Fort Hood Unit
Command Team Orientation

presented at Club Hood

on June 22nd

CLICK HERE

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 14,000 members, we are AUSA's fastest growing chapter.

Come join our ranks. You - and we - will gain much!!

154 units need your support!
	625 Fort Hood units. 471 adopted units.

Updated August 18, 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 leadership@forthoodausa.org. 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. Last year, well over thirty thousand Fort Hood Soldiers were committed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Today for the first time in more than seven years and although our III Corps Headquarters is back in Iraq, roughly 75% of Fort Hood's 48,000 Soldiers are here - at home in Central Texas Regrettably, this pause will be short-lived. By late summer, several of our brigade-size units will return to Iraq while others head to Afghanistan. Major General Dan Allyn, commanding our 1^st Cavalry Division recently reminded us all, “with 94,000 US troopers now in Afghanistan and 88,000 in Iraq, America’s rucksack is heavy,” and such deployments are, and will remain, a reality for Fort Hood Soldiers and the communities that surround “The Great Place.” Meanwhile, our Soldier Families work to keep the home fires burning. And we 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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