WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! 001268. Hometown News set to hit Holiday Greetings trail by Tech. Sgt. Miconna J. Boaldin Air Force Print News SAN ANTONIO -- Three Army and Air Force Hometown News Service teams will, once again, hit the Holiday Greetings trail in September. The three teams of military broadcasters will deploy Sept. 9 simultaneously to the Pacific, Europe and Southwest Asia theaters. They will be recording video messages from Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine servicemembers overseas that will air on more than 1,100 hometown television and cable outlets. This year the teams will cover servicemembers in more than 57 military installations in 35 days. The videotaped greetings then will be sent to the member's hometown television stations for broadcast during the 2000 holiday season, according to Army Staff Sgt. Tom Wenz, a holiday greetings team chief. "The response to these messages has been phenomenal," he said. "TV programmers are enthusiastic about providing this community service to the families of those in the armed forces." The primary goal is to help boost the morale for servicemembers away from home during the holidays. "Our priority is to hit the remote areas like Kosovo, Bosnia, Kuwait and Egypt," said Tom Taylor, Hometown News video production chief. The Hometown News teams collected 8,000 greetings during the 1999 effort, which ultimately reached an audience estimated in the tens of millions, according to Taylor. National coverage included ABC's "Good Morning America" Taylor said. "We cannot give the TV stations enough when it comes to the holiday greetings," Taylor said. "The response from families has been very positive and their expressions of appreciation makes the grueling travel and production schedules well worth the effort." In conjunction with the video taping by the Hometown News teams, at least two additional locations will have the greetings shot by local military broadcasters and production facilities. This allows coverage in areas the teams can't fit in their already packed shooting schedule. Along with airing on hometown TV stations, some 600 holiday greetings can be viewed on the Hometown News web site at http://hn.afnews.af.mil/webpages/holidaygreetings.htm. Due to the size of the files, and the shear numbers, not all greetings are put on the web site, Taylor explained. To add to the success of the TV holiday greetings, the audio from these messages are extracted and sent to hometown radio stations as well. "We use the audio from the video greetings as well as tapes sent to us from bases throughout the armed forces," said Larry Gilliam, Army and Air Force Hometown News deputy director. The greetings are edited into radio spots that are sent to stations interested in receiving the free hometown news information. All the greetings are sent to radio and TV stations based on the submitter's hometown zip code. Stations from their area that subscribe to the Hometown News products receive the video and audio spots to air as a public service over the holidays. Below is the list of areas scheduled to be visited by a team beginning in September. Interested servicemembers should contact their Public Affairs Office for the time and location at their respective locations. -- Sept. 11: Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland; Royal Air Force Mildenhall, UK; Andersen Air Force Base, Guam -- Sept. 13: Hanau, Germany; RAF Lakenheath, UK -- Sept. 14: Bad Kreuznach and Wiesbaden, Germany; RAF Alconbury, UK; Kadena Air Base, Japan -- Sept. 15: Darmstadt, Germany; Croughton, UK -- Sept. 16: Babenhausen, Germany; Camp Butler, Japan -- Sept. 18: Wuerzburg Community, Germany; Aviano AB, Italy; Yokota AB, Japan -- Sept. 19: Camp Zama, Japan -- Sept. 20: Kitzengen Community, Germany -- Sept. 21: Camp Darby, Italy; Misawa AB, Japan -- Sept. 22: Schweinfurt, Germany; Vicenza, Italy -- Sept. 23: Bamberg, Germany -- Sept. 25: Ramstein AB, Germany; Incirlik AB, Turkey; Camp Casey, South Korea -- Sept. 26: Sembach AB, Germany; Camp Red Cloud, South Korea -- Sept. 27: Heidleberg, Germany; Boniface, South Korea -- Sept. 28: Mannheim, Germany; Izmir AB, Turkey; Chunchon, South Korea -- Sept. 29: Kaiserslautern, Germany -- Sept. 30: Vogel Weh, Germany -- Oct. 2: Spangdahlem AB, Germany; Egypt; Pusan, South Korea -- Oct. 3: Taegu, South Korea -- Oct. 4: Baumholder, Germany; Kunsan AB, South Korea -- Oct. 6: Camp Humphries, South Korea -- Oct. 7: Bosnia; Prince Sultan AB, Saudi Arabia; Camp Long, South Korea -- Oct. 8: Camp Eagle, South Korea -- Oct. 9: Eskan Village, Saudi Arabia; Osan AB, South Korea -- Oct. 11: Camp Doha, Kuwait -- Oct. 12: Kosovo; Al Jaber AB, Kuwait; Yongsan Army Garrison, South Korea -- Oct. 13: Ali Al Salem and Cabal, Kuwait (This schedule is subject to change.) 001268a.gif and 001268a.jpg Staff Sgt. Jeramie Brown, left, adjusts a video camera to capture a practice holiday greeting during training at the Air Force News Agency, San Antonio, Texas. The pretend couple is Army Sgt. Chris Seaton and Staff Sgt. Melissa Hess. All three are broadcast producers with the Army and Air Force Hometown News Service and members of a Holiday Greetings road team. Three teams will be hitting the road in September and will cover servicemembers at more than 57 military installations in 35 days. The videotaped greetings then will be sent to the member's hometown television stations for broadcast during the 2000 holiday season. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Miconna J. Boaldin) 001268b.gif and 001268b.jpg Senior Amn. Amy Schleper, left, and Staff Sgt. Jeramie Brown set up video camera equipment at the Air Force News Agency, San Antonio, Texas, during training for holiday greetings. Both are broadcast producers with the Army and Air Force Hometown News Service and members of a Holiday Greetings road team. Three teams will be hitting the road in September and will cover servicemembers at more than 57 military installations in 35 days. The videotaped greetings then will be sent to the member's hometown television stations for broadcast during the 2000 holiday season. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Miconna J. Boaldin) 001269. Holiday Greetings now available to hometown newspapers by Tech. Sgt. Miconna J. Boaldin Air Force Print News SAN ANTONIO -- The Army and Air Force Hometown News Service Holiday Greetings program has added a new medium -- hometown newspapers. The new program is unique not only due to full automation but because troops of all services stationed worldwide can send a holiday greeting to any and all of their family members through their local hometown newspapers. The ever-popular radio and TV holiday greetings produced each year are expanding to the newspapers thanks to computer technology, according to Gerry Proctor, Army and Air Force Hometown News Service chief of marketing. The program is totally automated using the Internet as the mode of delivery. "This is a strictly text-based format that will work for all services worldwide," explained Proctor. "This fully automated program will allow us to do hundreds of thousands of releases without spending a penny." The new program has been a year in its construction stage. Hometown News spent the time building a newspaper client list for the product before launching the program through military public affairs offices. The public affairs office at the servicemember's location administers the program. The greeting form is filled out on a computer and is never touched by human hands, Proctor explained. "Since the installation only needs a computer with Internet connection, the program implementation possibilities are endless," Proctor said. "Although the public affairs office is the administrator of the program, a monitored computer located at the recreation center, library or dining facility, can be used to produce and send the holiday greetings." The operation is simple. The public affairs office logs in to the Army and Air Force Hometown News Service Web site. Each registered public affairs office has a login that gets them into the secured area of the web site where the forms are. The individual then simply fills in the blanks of the form and hits send. The form is sent to Hometown News where releases are generated. "We have more than 500 hometown newspapers signed on for the print greetings and they each cover several zip code areas," Proctor explained. "Each form can generate several releases according to zip codes and state. Submissions without a zip code or an incorrect zip code go no where. When the service member puts in his or her zip code, it is picked up by the computer and generates a release for every newspaper covering that area." In addition to having several releases generated from each form, the service member can input multiple forms as well. "Each person can submit as many greetings as he or she wants," Proctor said. "You can send holiday greetings to your parents, in-laws, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and any relative as long as you have their city, state and zip code." The print greetings will be formatted and held at the Army and Air Force Hometown News Service until sometime around Thanksgiving when the releases will be sent to the appropriate hometown newspapers. Military servicemembers who take part in the free program can tell family members to start looking for their holiday message in their hometown newspapers after that time. Anyone interested in completing a holiday greeting should contact his or her installation public affairs office. 001269a.gif and 001269a.jpg Tech. Sgt. Tom Mullican fills in an electronic Army and Air Force Hometown News Service holiday greeting for release to his hometown newspaper. This is the first year that holiday greetings have been offered in a print format. The program is open to all Department of Defense employees worldwide. Mullican is a technician with the Air Force News Service news technology branch, Air Force News Agency, San Antonio, Texas. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Miconna J. Boaldin) 001264. National Guard introduces youth program by Army Master Sgt. Bob Haskell National Guard Bureau Public Affairs ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Dorothy Ogilvy-Lee put her foot down in metropolitan Nashville, Tenn. Barbara Claudel picked up the torch in rural Gilead, Maine. The two women, who do not savor the limelight, stepped up in late July and early August on behalf of the kids -- the children of the nearly 468,000 men and women who serve in the National Guard. This is the National Guard's Year of the Family. These two women have introduced programs intended to help youngsters who frequently feel left out of the loop when their parents leave home for two weeks of annual training in Belize or for six months of peacekeeping duty in Bosnia. Ogilvy-Lee has been the civilian chief and the matriarch of the National Guard Bureau's Family Program for 16 years. "It should not hurt a kid to be in the National Guard," she insisted recently in Nashville, where she introduced a new national youth program to the 500 people attending the final full day of the National Guard Bureau's 12th annual Family Program Workshop. The Family Program's first youth symposium will be part of next summer's national workshop in Washington, D.C., said Ogilvy-Lee in the company of three teenage daughters and one son of National Guard fathers. Youngsters will organize their own program, she added. "We've been concerned, as we should be, about the spouses and about the employers during the 10 years since Desert Storm," said Ogilvy-Lee who observed that the Gulf War made her program part of the National Guard's varsity team. "But I've been wondering. When do we get to the kids?" she added. "Well, perhaps we've finally gotten to the place where we should have started." Claudel, an Army Guard sergeant first class and mother of three young sons, has led the Maine National Guard's Family Program since September. She directed Maine's first youth camp for 60 sons and daughters, ages 9-12, of Maine Guard members during August's second week at the Bog Brook Training Area in western Maine. Reveille, retreat, rappelling, company formations, drill and ceremonies, climbing aboard a stationary Black Hawk helicopter, even a "traditional" military breakfast of gravy on toast were part of that busy, six-day program that stressed cooperation, not combat. "We want to give something back to the kids. They serve, too," explained Claudel whose husband is a Maine Army Guard recruiter. "We want to help them understand what their parents do when they go away. "We also want to teach the kids that they have choices," Claudel added. "Their parents can't do well in Bosnia if the kids are doing drugs back home." Drugs, however, are not so much of a concern among these young people as just not knowing what their parents are doing. "My dad's going away again. That can't be a very good job," said Lindsey Callahan, 18, in Nashville of her mixed feelings about her Guard father's frequent absences. "But the Guard has taught me that when someone leaves, they will come back." "I worry that my father will have to defend our country, but it would be a privilege to have him do that," said Anthony Goodnough, son of another Guard member. "I'm proud of my dad, but I miss him, too." Those comments support observations by Ogilvy-Lee and others that Guard children bear a sort of sadness and tolerance for what their parents do -- especially if most of their friends do not come from Guard families. "The biggest sacrifice these kids make is time because their parents are so busy," said Shirley Davis in mid-August while visiting five New England states with her husband, Lt. Gen. Russell Davis, chief of the National Guard Bureau. "We cannot do enough for our children," said Mrs. Davis who met with Family Program leaders at every stop and who supports the youth program idea. The youngsters respond when people do pay attention. "This helped us understand our parents who are in the Guard," said Stephanie Wilcox, 10, on the Maine youth camp's final day. "It was totally awesome to sit in that helicopter. I also learned to be more respectful to others." "We forget that the kids make greater sacrifices in some ways than the spouses," observed Brig. Gen. Bill Libby, Maine's deputy adjutant general. "Hopefully, the next time their dad or mom goes away for a weekend drill or for annual training, these kids will have a better appreciation for what they do." Next year's national youth symposium is one way to shed light on the young people, said Ogilvy-Lee who has one ultimate goal in mind: "I want them to be excited about being Guard kids." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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