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The intent of the CJ Reddy Leadership Course is to identify Top-Tier Army Nurse Corps junior officers, based on work performance, professionalism, special projects, APFT, and military bearing. The Company-grade officers selected are considered the ‘cream of the crop’ and ‘best in class’ for their respective year groups. In fact, selection to attend the CJ Reddy Leadership Conference is a Talent Marker for these junior officers, who are targeted for career tracking within the Army Nurse Corps.
CPT Robertson is a multi-talented and ambitious Army Nurse Corps officer who thrives under pressure and excels in challenging, austere environments. He leads by example in all dimensions of leadership and is a role model for physical fitness maintaining a 300 score on his physical fitness test. As the Clinical Nurse OIC of the Emergency Department, his passion for patient centered clinical excellence helped drive several process improvements and policy updates both at the departmental and organizational level. CPT Robertson’s commitment to professional growth, both of himself and through mentorship of others, distinguishes him as a leader with vast potential as a future Army senior leader.
By Michelle L. Gordon
MEDDAC Public Affairs Office
The New Year often brings a renewed focus on health so the Fort Stewart Medical Department Activity is starting a new program to help you achieve your weight-loss goals.
Entitled, “BMI: A Healthy Weigh to a Healthy You”, the program focuses on ensuring each beneficiary has a current Body Mass Index recorded in their medical history. Body Mass Index is a number calculated from a person’s weight and height. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it provides a reliable indicator of body fatness and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems. In general, adults at a healthy weight have a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9, people between 25 and 29.9 are considered overweight, and anyone with a BMI more than 30 is obese. However, this isn’t about numbers said MEDDAC Commander Col. Ronald J. Place.
“We’re talking about a healthy lifestyle,” said Place. “The number is merely a frame of reference to help us [as health-care providers] give guidance.”
The program is scheduled to begin Jan. 1 at all Fort Stewart MEDDAC facilities as well as Tuttle Army Health Clinic. From then on, all patients will have their BMI calculated at every medical appointment, regardless of clinic specialty. This means if you visit your provider for back pain, a yearly physical, or even an eye exam, you will be weighed and measured as part of the new BMI program. Place said the timing of the program’s kick-off is not a coincidence.
“With the challenges Americans have with healthy lifestyles and the large number of people who have New Year’s resolutions that revolve around losing excess weight and increasing fitness, we see this as a unique opportunity to fill the needs of the community and help them on their journey toward a healthier lifestyle,” he said.
Place said the new BMI program is the second in a series of steps that began earlier this year when all Fort Stewart medical facilities became tobacco-free campuses. He also hinted there is more to follow in 2013 as MEDDAC continues to emphasize wellness rather than treating illness.
“In the future,” he said. “We look forward to partnering with the Garrison leadership on additional ways to make Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield healthy communities.”
Congratulations to CPT Jessica Cassidy and CPT Amy Staub on their selection to attend the CJ Reddy Leadership Course.
The intent of the CJ Reddy Leadership Course is to identify Top-Tier junior officers, based on work performance, professionalism, special projects, APFT, and military bearing. The Company-grade officers selected are considered the ‘cream of the crop’ and ‘best in class’ for their respective year groups. In fact, selection to attend the CJ Reddy Leadership Conference is a Talent Marker for these junior officers, who are targeted for career tracking within the Army Nurse Corps.
CPT Cassidy is a fervent and passionate Army Nurse Corps officer who has fully embraced her role as an AMEDD leader. She was recently selected above her peers to serve as the interim Director of the Medical Management Center (MMC) at Ft. Stewart. She is working to staff the new Medical Management Center structure and has responsibility for more than 1,500 Medically Not Ready Soldiers. Flawlessly she has assimilated her new role and is claimed by the Division Surgeon as one of our best future FORSCOM nurse leaders.
CPT Staub consistently demonstrates outstanding capacity to acquire complex knowledge and grasp intricate concepts as a Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse. She focuses on quality nursing while always incorporating patient and family centered care. Demonstrating commitment to enhance her professional education, she was selected above her peers for the Army Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesia Program. She leads by example and her commitment to wellness and readiness is remarkable. Simply unsurpassed by her peers and a balanced leader by all accounts she maintains a score of 300 on the Army Physical Fitness Test.
Dear Army Medicine Family,
Today is an historic day in Army Medicine. On behalf of the entire Army Medicine Team, it is my pride and pleasure to congratulate MG Patricia Horoho for her selection as our 43rd Army Surgeon General (TSG) and the Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Command (CG, USAMEDCOM)! Patty is the first female and first Nurse Corps Officer nominated by the President of the United States as TSG & CG, USAMEDCOM in Army Medicine’s almost 236 years of service to the Soldier, the Army Family, and the Nation. She is absolutely the right Soldier-Medic Leader for these important responsibilities.
MG Horoho is currently serving as the U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General and 23rd Chief of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. She is a trusted friend, valued mentor and respected colleague–the quintessential military medical leader. She has a very distinguished career which includes command at every level and a variety of strategic positions which have more than adequately prepared her for serving as TSG & CG, USAMEDCOM. The perspective she has gained and enlightened leadership skills she has honed in serving as a nurse at the bedside of her patients, in senior clinical leadership roles, in command of deployable and garrison hospitals–including command of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center–in Regional Medical Command and in senior staff positions developing strategic policies for the Army and Military Medicine have invested her with unique talents. MG Horoho has received numerous military, service and unit awards. Her civilian accolades include recognition in 1993 by “The Great 100″ as one of the top one hundred nurses in the State of North Carolina. She deployed to Haiti with the Army’s first Health Facility Assessment Team. Major General Horoho was honored on December 3, 2001, by Time Life Publications for her actions on September 11, 2001, at the Pentagon. On September 14, 2002, she was among 15 nurses selected by the American Red Cross and Nursing Spectrum to receive national recognition as a “Nurse Hero.” In April 2009, she was selected as the USO’s “Woman of the Year.”
MG Horoho is a sterling example of the many talented and dedicated Army Medicine leaders in our ranks. I have been blessed with the most gifted senior colleagues and advisors with whom I have ever served. As I complete my tour in December as your Surgeon General & Commanding General and anticipate transitioning this great Army Medicine Team, I will retire knowing that our Army communities, especially the Nation’s wounded, ill and injured–and their Families–are in good hands and that Army Medicine has been left in the caring hands of a remarkable and compassionate servant-leader.
We are and will continue to be – Army Medicine: Bringing Value …Inspiring Trust.
MG Horoho’s biography may be found at: http://www.armymedicine.army.mil/leaders/horoho.html
EBS
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
The Surgeon General & CG, USAMEDCOM
Yogi Bear will be playing at the Patriot Auditorium on May 13 2011. Doors open at 6:30pm and the movie starts promptly at 7:00pm. Kids can bring sleeping bags, pillows, and a covered drink. Popcorn will be provided! Tickets are $1.00 per person.
Please contact the FRSA in Bldg. 301 Rm. 111 at 912-435-5087 or 912-318-3788 for tickets!
Event Information:
First Steps is a primary non-profit child abuse prevention agency that provides FREE parenting education, emotional support and resource referral for all the new families that deliver their babies at
LRMC as a way to help them through their “first steps” of parenting. About 30% of the population served are military families. Anyone who might be interested in helping a good cause and having a good time, please come out and show your support.
Thank you so much for your help! Hoping to see you there.
Please review the attached flyer!
The offense happened at the North Central Medical Plaza in Dallas. (From the SecurityWeek article referenced in the Slashdot blog entry.)
The Slashdot entry:
“A former contract security guard who admitted hacking into a hospital’s computer systems (where he worked), was sentenced to 110 months in Federal prison. Why did he do it? He admits that he intended to use the bots and the compromised computers to launch DDoS attacks on the websites of rival hacker groups. The FBI says he posted video of himself hacking into the hospital
computers on YouTube http://www.securityweek.com/behind-bars-hospital-guard-hacker-who-posted-his-crime-youtube – While the theme of ‘Mission Impossible’ played, he described his hack, step by step, including the insertion of a CD containing
the OphCrack program, which allowed him to bypass all security. The FBI found the CD containing the OphCrack program in McGraw’s house and found the source code for the bot on his laptop.”
From the SecurityWeek article:
“McGraw broke into the room containing the HVAC computer. He downloaded a password recovery tool from a website, inserted a removable storage device and then executed a program which allowed him to emulate a CD/DVD device. With remote access to the HVAC computer established, he then hacked a nurses’ station computer. McGraw made a video and audio recording of what he
called his “botnet infiltration.” While the theme of “Mission Impossible” played, McGraw described his hack, step by step, including the insertion of a CD containing the OphCrack program, which allowed him to bypass all security. The FBI found the CD containing the OphCrack program in McGraw’s house and found the source code for the bot on his laptop.”
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/03/23/1442254/Hacker-Posts-His-Crime-On-YouTube-Lands-In-Jail
WILLIAM C. CARVER III
Command Sergeant Major
Winn Army Community Hospital
CSM Carver was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and began his military career at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri on 15 September 1982. He went to Fort Sam Houston, Texas to continue his initial training and upon completion of his Advanced Individual Training was assigned to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana as a 91G, Behavioral Science Specialist.
CSM Carver will serve as Command Sergeant Major for Winn Army Community Hospital, Fort Stewart, Georgia, beginning 06 MAY 11. He has served in every enlisted leadership position from Section NCO to Command Sergeant Major. CSM Carver’s other assignments include Hawley Army Community Hospital, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Indiana; 2nd Field Hospital, Bremerhaven Germany; Martin Army Community Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia; Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee; 121 Evacuation Hospital, Korea; Field Recruiter Dallas Recruiting Battalion, Arlington, Texas; 306th Military Intelligence Battalion, Fort Huachuca, Arizona; U.S. Army Medical Department Heidelberg, Germany; 801st Main Support Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Raymond W. Bliss Army Community Hospital, Fort Huachuca, Arizona; and the 14th Combat Support Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia. He has deployed to combat zones with Task Force Eagle in Bosnia, Task Force Medical Falcon in Kosovo, and three times to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
CSM Carver holds an Associates Degree in Business Management and a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee.
CSM Carver’s military education includes Warrior Leaders Course, Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course, Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course, Army Recruiter Course, Battle Staff, Instructor Course, First Sergeant’s Course, and Sergeants Major Academy Class 57.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal (3 Awards), Meritorious Service Medal (5 Awards), Army Commendation Medal (8 Awards), Army Achievement Medal (3 Awards), Army Good Conduct Medal (9 Awards), Kosovo Liberation Medal, Kosovo NATO Campaign Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, National Defense Service Medal (2), the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary and Service Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon (numeral 4), Korean Defense Service Medal, Overseas Service Medal (5 Awards), Gold Recruiting Badge with three silver sapphires, driver’s badge, German Army Gold Shutensnur Badge, German Navy Silver Shutensnur badge, the Combat Medical Badge, and the coveted Air Assault Badge. He is also the recipient of the Order of Medical Military Merit.
On behalf of all of Army Medicine we honor the life and achievements of CPL Frank Buckles, America’s last known World War I veteran, who died 27 FEB at the age of 110. At 16, he enlisted in the Army on 14 August 1917, while America was involved in World War I.
Buckles joined the ambulance corps and served in England and France. In 1942 he was captured by the Japanese and spent three-and-a-half years in Japanese prison camps at Santo Tomas and Los Banos. He was rescued by the 11th Airborne Division on 23 February 1945.
Buckles is remembered for his service and sacrifice for this country.
Read more about CPL Buckles at:
http://www.army.mil/-news/2011/02/28/52573-last-wwi-veteran-dies/ or https://blog.amedd.army.mil/tsg/
