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FRSA Flash

September 21, 2012

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Government Organization

9/22 – Adirondack Railroad Fall Foliage Trip – Parks and

Recreation

9/22 – UFC at Winner’s Circle – BOSS

9/22 - Trash to Treasure 10-1PM - Crescent Woods

Commu nity Center

9/25 - Investing 101-ROTH IRA 9-11AM - ACS

9/25 – Teen Image-Makers Photography Club – Youth Cen-

ter

9/25 – Family Night: Horseback Riding – The Commons

9/26 – At-Home Career Fair – Army Community Service

9/26 – Teen Cooking Club – Youth Center

9/27 – Federal Employment Workshop - ACS

9/27 - FRG Book Club - ACS

9/29 - Meet the Author: Hope Marston - McEwen Library

9/29 - Skate Jam - Youth Center

10/1-14 - Clothing Give-Away Drop-Off – ACS

10/1-2 - 1BCT DONSA

10/1 – Homemade Christmas Group – ACS

10/2 – English For Speakers of Other Languages – ACS

10/3 – BOSS 5K Fun Run – Magrath Sports Complex

10/3 - OPSEC Safety for Families 10:30AM-12PM - ACS

10/4 – Employment 101 – ACS

10/5 - DIVISION DONSA

10/5 – Couponing Class – ACS

10/5 - In Her Shoes: Living With Domestic Violence – ACS

10/8 - COLUMBUS DAY/DIVISION DONSA

10/9 - EFMP Support Group – ACS

10/9 - Key Caller Class – ACS

10/9 - Build Your Own Business – ACS

10/12 - Veterans’ Information Day – Dulles State Office

Building

10/13 - I’m Alone Youth Training - School Age Center

10/19 - Coping with Deployment Class - USO

10/26 - Daytreat 9:30AM-3PM - Po Valley Chapel

10/26 - Haunted Hayride - Remington Park

10/27 - 2BCT Haunted Hotel

Have questions or concerns? Be sure

to contact your FRG Leader or FRSA.

HHC

Jennifer Cannon

Alpha—Deathstalker

Carole Barlow

Becky Blanchard

C/Co—Warlords

Casey Greene

Heidi Woerheide

D/Co—Dragonhawk

Shaunna Fitzpatrick

Kimberly Perez

E/Co— Knight Rider

Sterling Reep

F/ Co—Firehawk

Jamie Sampsel

Wendy Everett

F/Co—Pathfinder

Ana Hume

Christina Perdue

Advisors

Rebecca Braman

Jessica Chilson

Family Readiness Support

Assistant

Kelley Arnold

315-774-1373

TF 2-10 KNIGHTHAWKPresents…

“THE ROUGH MUDDER”

Who: Soldiers and their Families

When: 29 September 2012 @ 0900 AM

What: A 5k Obstacle Run (think you’re tough?)

Where: TF 2-10 Knighthawk Hangar

Why: To have fun and get muddy!

Bring your families, activities for all ages! Or just come on your own! 5k Run with mud/water obstacles to test your toughness. You will get muddy and dirty. This is an off-road course, no pets!

$10 Entry Fee – All money goes to support the Soldiers!$10 for a “Rough Mudder” T-shirt. First 150 guaranteed a T-shirt.Please Contact CPT John Meier for entry form and any additional information. 315-774-1313 john.a.meier.mil@mail.mil

OBSTACLES:

** Each obstacle will have at least 1x Safety/Instructor

1.Mudd Hill - A huge mound of dirt soaked in water

2.Face in the Mud - obstacle set up with stakes and 550’

chord to set up a low crawl

3.Sand Trap – a pit of sand runners will bearcrawl across

4.Slippery Slalom - runners will have to go up and down

through a drainage ditch

5.Mud Marsh - this drainage ditch will be filled with a

shallow pool of water

6.The Web - Netting is staked down, forcing the

participants to crawl under/through

7.Gauntlet - The final stretch of this race will be lined on

both sides with water sources There are a couple different ways to pay for the event. A check can be written, payable to CPT Martinez (Fernando Martinez) or us can pay cash. CPT Meier will be in the office all next week if you want to drop off your money, or they can bring their money the day of the event. We will have a table set up for registation. CPT Meier would ask anyone who is planning to participate to send him an email (information is on the above flyer), or give him a call so you can by added to the list and a T-Shirts can be set aside. CPT Meier would like to receive the entry form prior to the 29th.

Upcoming Task Force Events:

Spouses lunch: Topic “ Coping with Stress on the Homefront” Date: 27 Sep 2012 Time: 1145-1245 Location: TF Classroom

JRTC Town Hall Meeting

Location: MPA

Date: 9Oct 2012

Time: 1000-Noon, 6:00pm—8:00pm

TF Knighthawk Org. Day

Location: TF Knighthawk Hangar

Date: 18Oct 2012

More information and flyers coming soon for all

events! If you have any question please contact

Kelley Arnold, FRSA 315-774-1373.

Children may participate in this run, for every child participating a con-

sent form MUST be filled out.

PRICE:

Per person: $10

Family of 3+: $25

A power outage has been scheduled for 29 September 2012, starting at 5 am and will continue until 6 pm. The outage will take place close to the intersection of South Riva Ridge and Nancy Drive and at the intersection of Chapel Drive and South Riva Ridge. The reason for the outage is to upgrade the current power lines and make Coblenz Circle able to be back feed from another direction. We are combining two outages into one. The outage will be for the same 12 hours but ¾ of the homes will only be out of power for up to 4 hours. Below is a break-down of who will be affected and for how long. It will affect the 9000 area housing (Coblenz Circle only), MP Sta-tion, CID, FD, CDC's, Main Post Chapel, Car Wash for approx 12 hours starting at 5 am. The following housing areas will be affected for up to 4 hours starting at 5 am. 9000 area(9050 thru 9086) 9100, 9200, 9300, 10800. Again, the outage is scheduled for approx 12 hours but if done sooner power will be restored immediately. If you have any questions please contact Jeff Carroll at 523-0458.

Managing Military ID Cards Just Got Easier

By Lisa Daniel

American Forces Press Service

The center has launched its RAPIDS http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/self_service/rapids/unauthenticated?execution=e1s1 -- Real-time

Automated Personnel Identification System -- self-service portal to allow anyone with the Defense Department's common access

card, or CAC, to apply for family ID or retirement cards or update dependents' statuses online.

"It's really exciting," Mary Dixon, the center's director, said. "We've been working for some time now to try to improve and trans-

form our whole ID card application process so people can do things online and not spend long hours going to a site and waiting to

be seen."

The change may seem procedural, but its impact will be big for those who, without it, have had to spend countless hours waiting

in line with their families to get ID cards. Before RAPIDS, service members, retirees and families had to go together to a Defense

Manpower Data Center to submit an application form and wait while the ID card is being made, Dixon said.

"This is big project," she said. "It takes away time from your work, and if you are separated – maybe the spouse is out on a ship or

on deployment or your child is away at college – it makes it a huge problem."

Now, the CAC holder can go onto the RAPIDS site, call up the listing of their dependents, and fill out and digitally sign form No.

1172-2 for their family members to receive an ID card. That family member then can go alone to the closest DMDC office – they

are listed on the website and linked to Google Maps <blockedhttp://maps.google.com/> for driving directions -- to pick up the

card, Dixon said.

“RAPIDS” is a win for both the department and families, the director said. "You can do this from your desk," she said. "As long as

your computer is CAC-enabled, it could be from your home or office. You can do it without going to a physical site, which is

huge."

The site also allows you to get a DOD self-service user name and password, known as a DS Logon, which allows you to access

several DOD and VA websites with the logon information, rather than a CAC. DS Logon, which is available only to CAC holders,

also has a "premium account," which gives the highest level of access, allowing you to view personal data about yourself in the

DOD and VA systems, apply for benefits online, check the status of your claims and update your address records. You must apply

in person for the premium account.

DMDC will continue to expand its self-service options to include changing email certificates and information about family mem-

bers, Dixon said. The upgrades include an effort to put the fingerprints of new recruits into the system, so lost paperwork can

easily be replaced, she said.

Dixon said she hopes the site also will one day include alerts for when an ID card is about to expire, and will be integrated with

DMDC's MilConnect

http://www.dmdc.osd.mil/milconnect/faces/

index.jspx_afrWindowMode=0&_afrWindowMode=0&_afrLoop=1976018236000&_adf.ctrl-state=mvj0t2p8k_4 website to access all

DOD and Veterans Affairs benefits.

"We still have to have the face-to-face, which is important for legitimate ID proofing," she said. "But we're saying, 'What are the

ways to reduce the time you spend at the sites?'"

News From Your Sci-Tech Museum Find out about: 1) Free Telescopic Observing Night To Feature Our Moon 2) Sci-Tech To Be Open On Columbus Day With A Special Deal 3) New Display Of Indian Artifacts 4) 100 Years of the Electronic Vacuum Tube 5) Strategy Game Club Returns To Saturdays 6) Our Wish List 1) Free Telescopic Observing Night To Feature Our Moon - Join us for a free observing session on Friday, September 21, at

8:00pm at the Perch River Air Monitoring Station. This is a free event, with telescopes set up to view a variety of celes-tial phenomena, learn about some of the constellations, and see how to find directions from the stars.

2) Sci-Tech To Be Open On Columbus Day With A Special Deal - Sci-Tech will be open on Columbus Day, Monday October

8, from 10:00am to 4:00pm, with a special deal for children. Any child who brings in a newspaper story about exploration or discovery on Columbus Day will be admitted for just

$1.00 3) New Display Of Indian Artifacts - Don't miss a new display on Sci-Tech's first floor, showing a variety of American Indian

arti facts. Included in the display case are dolls, sewing tools, arrowheads, flint cutters, and even a totem. Tribes represented in the display include our local Onondaga Nation, cliff dwellers, Mashpies, Navahoes, Seminoles, and more.

4) 100 Years Of The Electronic Vacuum Tube - The vacuum tube was critical to early electronic technology, and drove the development of radio, television, telephone systems and computers. Although a crude forerunner was developed by Lee De Forest in 1906, using what was known as the "Edison Effect" to demodulate radio signals, it was not until about 1912 that the modern tube was born. 5) Strategy Game Club Returns To Saturdays - Our Strategy Game Club, the Syracuse Wargamers, play a variety of board and card strategy games as well as chess. Starting on October 13, they will again be meeting each Saturday morning at 10:00am on Sci-Tech's second floor. All teenagers are invited to participate 6) Our Wish List - To help us prepare new exhibits and programs, we'd like to ask you to look around your garage or base-ment, and see if you have any of the items we are searching for. Our complete wish list is on our web site at: www.scitechcenter.org, but there are a few items we hope to locate quickly. These are: Bicycle generators - the type that rub against a bicycle wheel to power a headlight High intensity illuminators - medical/fiber optic OK Small kiosks - display units Plexiglas - Acrylic plastic - sheets or scraps, but clean Drill Press Film reel winders - for 16mm or 35mm film, or editing station with reel winders Low pressure sodium light (yellow light) Micro-Amp meters Small X-ray viewing box If you can help with the donation of any of these items, please contact Steve Karon at Sci-Tech - 788-1340 Sci-Tech Center of Northern New York 154 Stone Street Watertown, NY 13601

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