Fort Campbell 4th of July Celebration – The Carnival

The Independence Week Carnival, presented by USAA and Morale, Welfare and Recreation, began June 30th at 5:00pm and ran through July 5th. This year’s festivities included carnival rides and games provided by Belle City Amusements. The July 4th celebration is kicked off with a free concert and ends with a 20 minute fireworks display.

The Tennessee Titans pay a visit Fort Campbell

The Tennessee Titans closed out their thirteenth Titan’s Caravan yesterday with a visit to the Fort Campbell Kentucky Army Base. The caravan made 5 stops on base, including the Fort Campbell High School Football team, visiting with wounded soldiers at the base hospital, a visit to the 160^th SOAR (Nightstalkers), and a stop at the Fort Campbell PX. “We always save the best for last, and Fort Campbell is our final date” said Bob Hyde the Vice President of Community Relations for the Tennessee Titans.

Unlike most of the Caravan stops which generally feature only one Titans player, for the Fort Campbell visit five Titans players were on hand, Jared Cook, Jacob Ford, Ahamard Hall, Donnie Nickey and Craig Stevens. In addition to the players there were 4 Titans cheerleaders: Briane B., Chocez H., Jena L., and Jessi P. Last and certainly not least, who could forget the ever flamboyant T-RAC!

The Titan’s take very seriously this opportunity to come and say thank you to the Soldiers and their families at Fort Campbell, as Bob Hyde said, “When we go through and the guys find out that it’s recruiting day to see who’s goes to Fort Campbell, we have more volunteers than we can handle. I sheepishly go though and get a couple of guys and then go because they are all going to be mad at me because they don’t get to come.”

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Photo Gallery

You can view a gallery of images from the Titans visit on our Photo Gallery at:

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The Titans Caravan paid a visit to Clarksville

The Tennessee Titans Caravan stopped in Clarksville, TN yesterday at the Shoe Carnival on Wilma Rudolph Blvd. Each day a different player headlines the Titans Caravan, on this day it was #71 Michael Roos, one of the NFL’s top linemen and a building block of the Titans’ future. He was joined by Titans mascot T-Rac, the “Voice of the Titans” Mike Keith, Titans Radio Gameday Host Larry Stone and other Titans staff members. The vast majority of Caravan visits are presented by one of the nearly 70 affiliates of the Titans Radio Network, the exclusive radio home of the Titans, in this case it was local Radio Station WJZM, which was represented by its owner Hank Bonecutter and other station staff.

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Fort Campbell breaks ground for new Commissary

FORT CAMPBELL – Fort Campbell officials including Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell held a ground-breaking ceremony Friday for a new 63,134 square foot Commissary, located on a 12 acre site.

The new $21,980,000 Commissary is expected to be completed in June 2011, replacing the existing structure which has been in use since 1974, and remodeled several times.

 

The new facility will be one of the largest in the Department of Defense, with nearly double the available parking spaces, 2 entrances, more cold storage capacity, wider aisles and more shelving space. The new facility will also be Eco-friendly with measures taken to reduce the need for environmental heating & cooling, along with the associated electrical use. [Read more]

Week of the Eagles kicks off with division run

Fort Campbell – The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) began “Week of the Eagles” with a division run at 6:30 a.m. today. More than 18,000 Soldiers from the 101st and additional units stationed at Fort Campbell ran together in a mass formation stretching around a more than four-mile loop laid out for the event.

Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, division commander, and Command Sgt. Maj. Vince Camacho, division command sergeant major, led the run from the division headquarters. This marks Campbell’s first division run since taking command on July 31. [Read more]

The 101st Airborne Division changes command

FORT CAMPBELL – The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) has a new commanding general. Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser relinquished command to Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell at a ceremony today. Campbell came to the 101st from the Pentagon, where he served as the deputy director for regional operations, J-3, The Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. He has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Campbell’s former command assignments include 1st Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, and the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

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Fort Campbell School Information

FORT CAMPBELL – Fort Campbell school offices are open every weekday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. this summer parents to enroll their children before school starts Aug. 6. Parents and guardians may pick up registration packets at their child’s assigned school, the Fort Campbell Housing office or at Fort Campbell Schools Central Office located at 77 Texas Avenue. Students are assigned to schools based on their sponsor’s housing assignment. Additionally, applications for free or reduced lunch will be available beginning Monday at the Fort Campbell Schools Central Office. Returning students should receive a new application by mail.

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“Band of Brothers” Regiment to honor fallen warriors

Fort Campbell, KY – The U.S. Army unit that includes the famous “Band of Brothers,” the 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment, has announced a new monument to honor soldiers of the unit killed in service to their country. The 506th Airborne Infantry Regiment Association, a nonprofit veterans’ organization dedicated to the active duty soldiers and veterans of the 506th Infantry, is acting on behalf of the regiment to collect contributions in support of the memorial.

The granite monument will be funded totally by private contributions, according to COL John P. “Pete” Johnson, commanding officer of the 101st Airborne Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team at Fort Campbell,. A Nashville cement contractor, Glenn Goodwin of Roy Goodwin Contractors, is contributing all the materials and labor needed for the foundation of the monument. COL Johnson made the announcement as part of a ceremony welcoming the regiment home from a combat tour of duty in Afghanistan. [Read more]

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