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FORT HOOD — Lt. Gen. Lee Quintas, the deputy commander of U.S. Forces Command, hosted a farewell ceremony on Friday for Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Kamper, the outgoing III Corps deputy commander for maneuvers.
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BELTON — After hearing testimony from four veterans, including the defendant, at a sentencing hearing on Thursday, a Bell County judge sentenced a Killeen man to eight years of deferred adjudication probation for two second-degree felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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The Veterans Crisis Line in Killeen is looking for volunteer responders, according to the organization’s Facebook page.
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This weekend is packed with events tailored to a variety of interests and hobbies. The semi-annual Hood Howdy event will be at Club Hood, welcoming new soldiers and their families to Fort Hood. If golfing with friends is your thing, check out the Phantom Warrior Golf Scramble, or head to the…
A total of 84 dentists, 84 dental assistants and 30 dental hygienists and students — all volunteers — are expected to offer free dental care for veterans in Killeen this weekend.
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A new book, written by a Lampasas author, has hit the shelves of bookstores and online retailers.
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The Fort Hood USO will soon be the largest in the world, according to the USO’s director of internal and regional communications, Eugenia Gardner.
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III Corps and local U.S. Army recruiters will host a Career Expo on March 3 and 4 for high school juniors and seniors that is expected to draw more than 9,000 students to Fort Hood.
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FORT HOOD — Nearly half of the roughly 4,000 Fort Hood soldiers from Fort Hood’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division are now home from a deployment to Korea.
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A total of 84 dentists, 84 dental assistants and 30 dental hygienists and students — all volunteers — are expected to offer free dental care for veterans in Killeen this weekend.
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The Central Texas Chapter of the Military Officer Association of America will host John. S. Vasser, provost of University of Mary Hardin Baylor, as the guest speaker at its monthly member meeting on Friday.
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Central Texas College will host a military history presentation in the campus library at noon Feb. 25. Featured speaker is Steve Draper, director/curator of Fort Hood’s 1st Cavalry Division Museum. Also scheduled are Texas A&M University-Central Texas faculty members Timothy Hemmis, assi…
Grammy-winning singer and Austin native, Ciara, is coming to Fort Hood in March.
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COPPERAS COVE — Brandon Brown attracted local attention as he decided to give a Christmas card to each of his fellow students at Copperas Cove Junior High last December.
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The Department of the Army released an assignment list for general officers this week which includes several changes for Fort Hood leadership.
The chairman of the Texas Veterans Land Board is asking people to attend the funeral service for a Navy veteran who will be buried this week in Killeen, with no family expected to attend.
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HAMILTON — The Hamilton Spring Fling on March 9 will feature the San Antonio kennel manager for nonprofit K9s for Warriors as a guest speaker.
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The chairman of the Texas Veterans Land Board is asking people to attend the funeral service for a Navy veteran who will be buried this week in Killeen, with no family expected to attend.
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Fort Hood officials and the Texas Department of the Public Safety released information Friday about a Williamson County wreck last weekend that claimed the lives of three people, including two soldiers.
One Facebook message sent to Killeen ISD about one special teacher led to a surprise reunion of a family of six Friday morning.
The first few hundred soldiers of about 4,000 troops from Fort Hood’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, are beginning to return home after a deployment to South Korea.
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FORT HOOD — Fort Hood soldiers have a new option for getting a meal on post as the The Culinary Outpost food truck opened up for business on Thursday in front of III Corps headquarters.
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The Temple VA needs Valentine’s Day cards to show veterans how much the community cares about them.
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The sixth annual Homecoming for Heroes dinner will benefit the National Mounted Warfare Museum, which could begin construction soon.
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The National Mounted Warfare Foundation has raised its goal of $10.9 million needed to build Phase I of a new, state-of-the-art museum near Fort Hood’s main gate.
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FORT HOOD — The 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team “Ironhorse,” 1st Cavalry Division, welcomed a new command sergeant major on Friday during a ceremony at Fort Hood’s Cooper Field.
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A Fort Hood soldier received decades in prison after being convicted on one count of rape by a military court.
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The 1st Cavalry Division’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion loaded their vehicles onto rail cars this week at the Fort Hood Rail Operations Center as they prepare to deploy in support of Defender 20, a joint U.S. Army multinational training exercise series scheduled through May in cen…
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Maj. Gen. Jeff Broadwater, commander of Fort Hood’s 1st Cavalry Division, talked about the readiness and future of his brigades at the Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce Military Relations Council luncheon on Wednesday.
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FORT HOOD — The lives of two Gold Star spouses were changed forever on Friday when they each received a refurbished Nissan Altima through the National Auto Body Council’s Recycled Rides program.
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FORT HOOD — Fifteen students, mostly soldiers transitioning out of the Army, graduated from Caliber Collision’s Changing Lanes course on Friday during a ceremony at the Phantom Warrior Center.
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The Department of Defense’s Joint Task Force Civil Support is conducting a training exercise at the Killeen Special Events Center and Fort Hood until Jan. 29.
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FORT HOOD — U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, toured some of the barracks under construction on Fort Hood on Thursday to see the progress being made on soldiers’ living quarters.
If you hear booms in the distance, the sounds may be from a Fort Hood artillery unit conducting live-fire training this week
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If you heard booms in the distance, the sounds may be from a Fort Hood artillery unit that conducted live-fire training Monday.
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The U.S. Army appointed a Killeen business owner as a new civilian aide to the Secretary of the Army, or CASA, during an investiture ceremony in the Perot Building in Dallas on Jan. 8.
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Veterans in Central Texas can receive free dental work Feb. 21 and 22 at Fairway Middle School, 701 Whitlow Drive, Killeen. The free dental work is part of a charity event of the Texas Mission of Mercy.
Every other week, Copperas Cove residents set their green bins with cardboard, paper, plastic and aluminum cans by the curbs. Recycle trucks roll through the neighborhoods, collecting the materials.
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Friday’s storms caused the wreath retrieval from the veterans cemetery to be moved to Sunday.
In order to help Killeen residents who may need a passport but can't necessarily make the trip to the post office during normal business hours, the main office in Killeen, 300 N. 10th St, will be holding a passport fair from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday.
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Taking out Iran’s top general was not only the right decision, but it was long overdue, according to some retired Army generals in the Fort Hood Area.
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BELTON — Central Texas local governments are rallying behind a proposed grant to improve roads on Fort Hood.
The Combined Joint Task Force for Operation Inherent Resolve, currently led by III Corps, Fort Hood's top headquarters unit, has issued a statement on the ongoing mission to defeat the Islamic State group.
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The Friends of the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery is inviting volunteers to help with wreath retrieval, according to a news release by Killeen spokeswoman Hilary Shine.
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