News

  • Preventing heart disease, recognizing symptoms

    “The Seven Deadly Myths of Heart Disease”
    February is Heart Health Month and Health Net Federal Services wants to help all servicemen and women in the TRICARE North Region maintain a healthy heart.
    Did you know heart disease claims approximately 600,000 lives each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? That’s one in four deaths in the United States, the most common killer of both men and women.

    Saving lives involves fighting misconceptions. Here are some common myths about heart disease:
    1. All those who suffer from heart disease have obvious symptoms. A person can be thin and in good shape yet still have high cholesterol. High blood pressure is generally silent.
    By the time you experience symptoms from high cholesterol or high blood pressure, it may be difficult to reverse the damage already done to the heart. Read More


    Posted on February 21st, 2013 5:21 pm

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Sports

  • Gymnastics finishes runner-up at All-Academy Championships

    Junior Kip Webber.      Tommy Gilligan/USMA PAO

    am and individual titles in all six events en route to defending its All-Academy Championship title for the third straight year Feb. 16 at the Georgia State Sports Arena in Atlanta. Army was runner-up to the Falcons for its highest finish at this meet since 2007.
    The 14th-ranked Falcons outdistanced the field in claiming the title with a 427.05 to No. 13 Army’s 410.6 and No. 15 Navy’s 407.3.

    Junior Nicholas Fettinger and freshman Chris Short tied for runner-up honors on parallel bars (14.0), freshman Jesse Glenn took third on vault (14.65) and high bar (14.15), and junior Kip Webber tied for third on floor exercise and parallel bars, and was fourth on still rings (14.7) to set the pace for the Black Knights. Read More


    Posted on February 21st, 2013 5:27 pm


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Leisure

  • Command Channel 8/23

    Feb. 21-28
    Army Newswatch
    Thursday, Friday and Monday
    through Feb. 28
    8:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. Read More


    Posted on February 21st, 2013 8:00 am


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