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FoRt. BennIng,. ga.. (U.S. Ar-my) — In October, the Army will mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Mogadishu, a 1993 conflict in Somalia that inspired the book “Black Hawk Down” and the main-stream movie of the same name.

As part of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary, the Air-borne and Special Operations Mu-seum at Fayetteville, N.C., is in the process of developing an in-depth temporary exhibit dedicated to tell-ing the story of the battle.

The exhibit will incorporate vid-eo interviews with veterans of the battle, as well as testimonies from family members and artifacts from the battle.

Fort Benning will also play a role in the exhibit, as Fort Benning TV is helping conduct interviews with people who live nearby.

One veteran, former Ranger Sgt. John Belman, visited Fort Ben-ning to share the story of his role in the battle.

Belman was a member of a combat search-and-rescue, or CSAR, team sent into the streets of Mogadishu after a Black Hawk he-licopter was shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade, Oct. 3, 1993.

As part of the CSAR team, Bel-man and his fellow teammates had been training specifically for the possibility of a helicopter crash.

“We knew that if we were going to be on the ground at all, it was going to be a bad situation, and we knew that the mission automati-cally would change if a helicopter got shot down,” he said. “I went in knowing things were going to be ugly and things were going to be bad.”

Once the CSAR team arrived at the crash site, Belman said it began to take heavy fire from the Somali militia.

As casualties mounted and more and more Soldiers were wounded, Belman said he found himself thinking he probably would not survive the battle.

“Very early on, I assumed I was

going to die,” he said. “The thought just occurred to me that the odds of us making it out alive were very slim given the amount of fire we were taking, the number of wound-ed and what we had left to help get us out.”

Despite the bleak situation, Belman said one of his most vivid memories is of he and a fellow Sol-dier laughing at one point.

“Sometimes things that would seem completely terrifying or ri-diculous just end up being funny,” he said. “I can remember our com-bat controller on our helicopter was right next to me at one point and lots of people were getting shot. He got kind of winged in the arm and he and I just looked at each other and started laughing about it.”

The CSAR team held its position for 15 hours into the early morning of Oct. 4, when an armored United

Nations convoy and elements of the 10th Mountain Division were able to extract it and the survivors of the Black Hawk crash.

“I was out 15 hours, but it cer-tainly didn’t feel like 15 hours,” Bel-man said. “When you’re not sure about how it’s going to end or when it’s going to end and there’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s going to happen in the next five minutes, let alone two hours, that tends to magnify every moment in terms of how long it feels.”

Belman left the Army in 1995, and since then, the Battle of Moga-dishu served as the basis of the book and film “Black Hawk Down.”

Belman said while there are inaccuracies in the movie’s por-trayal of the battle’s events, he felt it served an important purpose.

“If you take it from the perspec-tive that it’s Hollywood and they

have to certain things to dramatize the event, I think it was a decent portrayal of what happened,” he said. “The purpose that it served was a good one in the sense that the American people didn’t really have any idea of what combat was like. Even though we’ve been at war for 12 years now, most people outside of Fort Benning or outside the communities of friends that I’ve got don’t really know what it’s all about.

“They might know a few people in the military, but we kind of have a society on autopilot when it comes to combat, and I think movies like that at least show something that is similar to what we experience and go through,” he added.

Jim Bartlinski, the director of the Airborne and Special Opera-tions Museum, said he is pleased to have veterans like Belman sharing their stories for the exhibit, many for the first time.

“I feel very honored that they are trusting us to tell their story,” Bartlinski said. “A lot of these guys have not spoken publicly about this story. We feel a great responsibility to ensure that their story is told accurately and respectfully. We’ve been very happy with the support we’ve been getting from the vari-ous commands involved with the operation and from the veterans themselves.

“It’s kind of taken on a life of its own,” he said. “As people find out about it, they want to be a part of it and have their voices heard, and we couldn’t be happier about this.”

The video interviews being con-ducted will be edited into a 15-to-20 minute introductory video, with other excerpts used as videos that will accompany certain displays or artifacts within the exhibit.

In addition to telling the story from the perspective of the Soldiers who lived through it, the exhibit will also present the viewpoint of the Family members of those Soldiers

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Former Ranger Sgt. John Belman visited Fort Benning, Ga., July 29, 2013, to talk about his experiences during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993. The battle’s 20th anniversary is being commemorated by a temporary exhibit at the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, N.C. Fort Benning TV is coordinating with the museum to interview veterans of the battle who live nearby.

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FoRt. BRAgg,. n.c.. — Soldiers from the U.S. Army Special Opera-tions Aviation Command (USASOAC) G-4 section recently worked logisti-cal issues to help bring three aircraft damaged in the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, to their permanent resting place. They facilitated the disposition of these aircraft in time for Oct. 3, the twentieth anniversary of the battle, co-inciding with a special exhibit opening at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) in Fayetteville, N.C.

Artifacts from Super 61, the UH-60L made famous in the movie Blackhawk Down, were recovered by a civilian company in Somalia earlier this year. When they ran into issues with trans-portation and customs while trying to return these items to the United

States military, the command asked the USAOAC G4 to assist.

Sgt. Maj. Mike McClenahan said that although “this was an out of the ordinary, high visibility request; we supported it with the same efforts and professionalism that we do with any task.”

They started working with civilian attorneys, shipping companies and customs officials in Mombasa, Kenya, where the equipment was held in tran-sient. According to McClenahan, “it is very unusual to transfer ownership of something like this from civilians to the military. We had to make every-thing very transparent and prove to Kenyan customs officials that we were not doing anything nefarious.”

Within a month, the artifacts of Su-per 61 were delivered to the ASOM for display in their exhibit honoring Task Force Ranger and the Battle of Mogadishu.

Concurrently, another civilian or-ganization in Somalia recovered the mini-gun from Super 64, another UH-60L lost in the battle. When it was returned to the U.S. military, Staff Sgt. Dustin Smith added the weapon to the property book and brought it to the museum for the exhibit. First, he had to work with the Army Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM) to de-mil the weapon, which was still operable after sitting in the desert for 20 years.

Smith said he is looking forward to seeing the weapon on display at the exhibit. “I physically helped with it. I feel very fortunate to be involved with this significant event.”

A third aircraft from the battle found a home at the Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Ala. Accord-ing to Roger Nickel, part of the Avia-

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edItoR’S.note:.This arti-cle is the first in a biweekly series on destinations near Hurlburt Field. These articles are geared to introduce service members to potential attractions they can visit near the base. This week’s destination is the Heritage Park & Cultural Center.

The Heritage Park & Cultural Center allows visitors to experience the rich heritage and culture of Fort Walton Beach.

Located at 139 Miracle Strip Parkway SE, the Heritage Park & Cultural Center includes the Indian Temple Mound Museum, a Civil War exhibit, the Gar-nier Post Office Museum and the Schoolhouse Museum.

The first Indian Temple Mound Museum opened in 1962 after an archeologist and the local community verified the authenticity of the Indian Temple Mound. The current museum was built in 1971 and tells the story of the Creek Indians ancestors from prehistoric times to today.

Ancient artifacts from

the areas prehistoric Na-tive American cultures, European explorers, local pirates, Civil War soldiers and the local community are housed within the various park buildings.

The Fort Walton Tem-ple Mound is a National Historic landmark located outside the museum. The mound was built between 800 and 1400 A.D. The building on the mound served as a residence for the tribe leader, temple for religious ceremonies, place to direct games and public activities, and area for burials.

The Civil War exhibit, which opened in June 2011, tells the story of lo-cal and regional Civil War history. The exhibit is a restoration of a Civil War camp, with pictures and facts about local battles, secession, slavery, prison-ers of war, Western the-ater, and the First Florida Brigade.

The Garnier Post Of-fice Museum has been a part of Fort Walton Beach

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The Schoolhouse Mu-seum is a restored Fort Walton Beach school, which was operated from 1912 through 1936. It hous-es original tools used dur-ing that period of time.

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A new series of lectures is scheduled to begin in 2014 on the anniversary of World War I.

A Haunted History Tour of downtown Fort Walton Beach is slated for October.

The Indian Temple Mound Museum will waive admission fees Nov. 16

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Native American-made and -inspired products from local artist, like jew-elry and pottery, can be purchased in the gift shop.

Hurlburt Airmen don’t have to travel far to en-tertain themselves since the local community offers plenty of attractions, said Gail Lynn Meyer, museum manager.

“You live in a town and then you go away and you realize you never visited the things that were in that town because you’re always going elsewhere,” she said.

The park is currently open noon to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturdays.

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as they followed the events through news reports.

Most importantly, howev-er, Bartlinski said the exhibit will be a chance to show an example of the Army values in action.

“The Army values are go-ing to be highlighted during this exhibit, and we’ll show how they were exemplified during the battle,” he said.

The exhibit will open Oct. 3, the 20th anniversary of the battle, and will be open

for two years.While the exhibit is meant

to serve as a reminder of the sacrifices made during the battle, Belman, who doesn’t often speak about his com-bat experience, said he thinks the sacrifices made in Mogadishu are no greater than those that have been made during the War on Terror.

“I try to keep in mind that what we went through wasn’t anything special compared

to what people have been doing over the last 12 years,” he said. “You’ve got men and women who have been deployed numerous times, some of whom have seen or experienced things that ap-proached or surpassed what we went through. I was in combat once for 15 hours and a movie was made about it, but that’s nothing com-pared to what people are do-ing today and the sacrifices that have been made.”

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tion Maintenance Support Branch, “Super 68 sustained significant damage in Moga-dishu from small arms fire and a hit from a rocket pro-pelled grenade, but with a limited maintenance crew, they got it back into the bat-tle and continued to fight.”

The 160th Special Op-erations Aviation Regiment

(SOAR) (Airborne) contin-ued to fly Super 68 over the past 20 years, but it reached the end of its life cycle as they transition the UH-60 K and L models to M models. Nickel said the history of this particular aircraft played a factor in why it went to the museum.

McClenahan explained

the operations as a team effort, and that “this is an emotional event for a lot of people, knowing that Soldiers gave their lives in these, it means a lot to the families and the com-munity. Our goal was to ac-complish the logistical piece in a respectful, professional manner.”

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The “All-Army” competi-tion is open to all Soldiers — active and Reserve com-ponent — of all ranks includ-ing, West Point and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets.

The U.S. Army Marks-manship Unit, or USAMU, hosts the “All-Army” in or-der to raise the standard of marksmanship across the force and increase overall Army combat readiness.

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ammunition is provided to all competitors. USAMU Sol-diers will conduct small arms firing schools and hands-on training prior to each match. Instructors include Olympi-ans as well as world, national and interservice champions. As the Army’s critical intent is to develop combat firing skills at the entry and in-termediate level (as well as recognizing superior skill at the highest levels), Soldiers will compete in separate Ca-det, Novice, Open and Pro classes based on their com-petition experience. Soldiers will fire M-16 or M-4 service rifles at distances between 25-500 yards, and M-9 pistols between 7-35 yards in a vari-ety of courses of fire.

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A new Defense Health Agency (DHA) will come to life Oct. 1, armed with new authorities to control health costs by cutting waste and duplication across the sepa-rate medical departments of Army, Navy and Air Force.

DHA is tasked to stream-line delivery of care, recap-ture thousands of patients for the direct care system from purchased care con-tractors, combine common support functions and stan-dardize health care business practices.

Its power and effective-ness will evolve over time, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, as-sistant secretary of defense for health affairs, said in a phone interview to explain how this first major restruc-turing of the military health care system in decades will impact its 9.7 million beneficiaries.

One impact will be greater access to military fa-cilities, particularly in areas where beneficiaries are most concentrated. Usage of base hospitals has dropped to about 33 percent of capacity, a trend aggravated by years of war when medical staffs routinely deployed to care for wounded in theater.

Meanwhile, many more beneficiaries came to rely on TRICARE networks of civil-ian providers or on private sector doctors who would accept patients using TRI-CARE Standard, the fee-for-service option.

Under DHA, the goal is to increase base hospital usage to reach at least 70 percent of capacity, Woodson said, because care in the military system costs about one-third less than TRICARE pur-chased care.

Woodson stressed that the goal is to “optimize dollars invested into the

direct care system.” It is not to deny benefi-ciaries ac-cess to care “when they need it from the pur-chased care market.”

Perhaps the greater potential for cost-savings under DHA will be its control of 10 “shared services” of military health care. It will start with five. TRICARE support con-tracts and pharmacy opera-tions already are centrally managed. DHA will assume those responsibilities. It also will control medical facilities planning, medical logistics and health information technology.

Sometime in 2014 or early 2015, it also will assume responsibility from the ser-vices for: medical education and training; research and development; acquisition and contracting; budgeting and resourcing; and public health. Plans are to reach full operational capability of all shared services by fall 2015.

“In the future, we will build our hospitals and clinics using the same analytics,” said DHA’s first director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Dr. Douglas J. Robb. “We’ll buy supplies, equipment and services from common contracts. We’ll train in even more common ways. Army, Navy and Air Force person-nel will be able to work in any medical facility in the world without needing to learn a whole new way of do-ing business.”

Robb was chief medical adviser to the Joint Chiefs before taking charge of TRICARE Management

Activity (TMA) July 1, where he has supervised transition to DHA. TMA will cease to exist Oct. 1.

Woodson said a “con-servative” estimate of cost savings from DHA control of shared services is $3.4 billion over the agency’s first five years.

Seventeen studies of the military health care system dating back to the Truman era urged greater integration of services, Woodson said. Two years ago, the deputy secretary of defense ordered a task force of department civilian and military leaders — both line officers and medical officials — to develop a framework for reform. After four months of intense study and debate, it agreed on the DHA model.

Participants rejected other alternatives, including creation of a Unified Medi-cal Command to replace the three service medical de-partments, as many outside studies had recommended.

“That would have been a much more complex un-dertaking than many people recognize, and it was pro-jected to be more expensive than the status quo,” Wood-son said.

In settling on the DHA concept, the task force also identified those shared ser-vices with the best opportu-nities to realize significant cost savings.

“Then, as we tried to begin to eat this elephant,” Woodson said, “it was clear we had to have a schedule to bring them onboard … We can’t just flip the switch on all these shared services at the same time without run-ning the chance of breaking something.”

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Another critical part of re-structuring a more efficient health system is jointly man-aging staffs and resources in areas where two or more services operate major medical facilities and serve large beneficiary popula-tions. So with the launch of DHA, six “enhanced multi-service markets” also are being created. Each will have a flag or general officer in charge locally to integrate resources and adhere to five-year marketing plans developed jointly.

These enhance markets are the Washington, D.C., area; San Antonio, Texas; Colorado Springs, Colo.; the Puget Sound region of Wash-ington; the Tidewater area of Virginia; and Oahu Island in Hawaii.

Controlling costs in these locales is critical. They provide more than half of all inpatient care delivered through military hospitals, and manage 40 percent of all TRICARE Prime beneficia-ries enrolled for care at base facilities.

As more military special-ists are reassigned to these population centers, where they can treat more patients and keep skills sharp, benefi-ciaries at smaller base hos-pitals may be referred more often to civilian providers for their specialty care.

To understand how this saves money, consider a mil-itary surgeon who performs an average of 10 operations a month at a small base

hospital. That same surgeon might perform two or three times as many procedures at a larger market like San Di-ego, thus expanding overall patient access to in-service care.

Before specialists are shifted in this way, DHA and the services would ensure that local TRICARE net-works can provide quality surgical services or whatev-er type of care beneficiaries at smaller bases need.

Woodson and Robb said all the services understand and fully support DHA, en-hanced markets and the goal of controlling health costs.

“Internal team mem-bers, from surgeons gen-eral down, are pursuing the same objectives. Turf fights are from another era,” Woodson said.

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FAllS. chuRch,. va..(AFNS) — Officials with the Defense Health Agency issued the following state-ment Oct. 1:

“We know that those who rely on the Military Health System are concerned about how the government shutdown might impact their health care.

While we can’t predict

the exact consequences of a shutdown on every part of our MHS, we will likely see some impact on the delivery of health care services within our mili-tary hospitals and clinics. Inpatient, acute and emer-gency outpatient care in our medical and dental fa-cilities will continue, as will private sector care under

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tients needing to schedule new routine appointments might experience delays.

For TRICARE benefi-ciaries using providers in the private sector, little or no effect is anticipated at this time.

The MHS leadership — composed of the assistant secretary of defense for Health Affairs, the direc-

tor of the Defense Health Agency and the surgeons general of the military de-partments — are closely monitoring the situation regarding a possible gov-ernment shutdown on the health services pro-vided to our 9.6 million beneficiaries.”

Please also be aware that during the govern-

ment shutdown, TRICARE will not be able to process or pay TRICARE travel claims for the TRICARE Prime or the Combat-Re-lated Specialty Care travel benefits. You may still file your travel claim. TRI-CARE will review claims for eligibility and process them once the government shutdown ends.”

TRICaRE officials issue statement about government shutdown

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Blessing of the animals

The Eglin Chapel St. Mi-chael’s Community Church will host a Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, Oct. 6 at 9:40 a.m. at the Building 604 courtyard. You are welcome to bring your pets for a bless-ing. Children without pets may want to bring a favorite stuffed animal. For more in-formation, please call Valerie at 882-7322. (96TW/HC Ms. Schneider 2-7302)

eglin Zombie run Oct. 26

Run for your life at Eg-lin’s 2nd Annual Zombie Run, starting at 5 p.m. on Satur-day, Oct. 26 at the Eglin Golf Course. Event is open to the public and promises to be big-ger, faster, and better than the first! Opening festivities begin at 4:30 p.m., followed by a safety briefing for all run-ners. At the end of the 4.4-mile race, participants will celebrate their survival-or their zombie transformation- with music, food, and bever-ages. Registration is open to ages 14 -adult at www.active.com.until 1500 are registered. Entry fee is $40 per person. First race package pickup is Oct. 18 at the Golf Course. Watch for additional race de-tails and link to registration on www.eglinforcesupport.com. 850-883-1682

Bob hope Village rummage sale

You never know what kind of treasures will be found at the Annual Bob Hope Village Indoor Rummage Sale. The sale is open to the public and will be held from 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Oct. 12 at the Bob Hope Village Commons Build-ing, 30 Holly Ave, Shalimar. The Bob Hope Village Gift Shop will also be open and is

filled with unique, handmade items perfect for holiday gifts. Refreshments will be avail-able for purchase.

Public vendors’ applica-tions will be accepted for a $20 table rental fee. There are a limited amount of spaces available. A pre-show will be held from noon-2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11 for Air Force Enlisted Village residents and staff only. For information, contact Bobbi Jo at (850)651-2635.

Financial Planning Seminar

The Air Force Enlisted Village will host a Financial Planning Seminar to help educate residents and raise their awareness of the finan-cial realities of today’s world. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Eglin AFB Legal Office will be among the presenters. Other local organizations and finan-cial institutions have been in-vited. The Financial Planning Seminar will take place from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18 at the Bob Hope Village Commons ballroom located at 30 Holly Ave., Shalimar. The seminar is free and the public is invited to attend.

Boxes of Love from the home FrontSemper Fi Sisters Corp

will hold the annual Beach Blast which includes our Box-es of Love from the Home Front packing event for de-ployed service members on Oct. 20. The Sheriff ’s Office is partnering with the orga-nization as a drop off loca-tion. Items can be dropped off from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. at North Administration, 752 Triple G Road, DeFuniak Springs or South Administration, 133 Sheriff Drive, Santa Rosa Beach. There is a box in the north and south end waiting area near the front door. The boxes will be picked up on Oct. 15. A list of items needed can be found at www.Sem-

perFiSisters.com then click on Beach Blast.

For information about Semper Fi Sisters, visit the website at www.SemperFiSis-ters.com. or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/SemperFiSisters, or contact us at SFS@SemperFiSisters.com.

For questions, contact Laura Williams at (850)748-9022 or newbeginnins61505@yahoo.com.

Thunderbird Powwow Nov. 1, 2, 3

The 26th Annual Thun-derbird Intertribal Powwow will be held Nov. 1, 2 and 3 at the Niceville Mullet Festival Grounds.

Spend the day with craft makers, singers, dancers, flute players, storytellers and exhibits. A Children’s Day will be held from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Nov. 2

Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for 12 and younger. Children’s Day is $3.

For information, call Kir-by Locklear 850-863-5311 or Glenn Farmer 850-678-7714.

Crossfit Challenge to benefit shelterA Crossfit Challenge will

be held on Saturday Nov. 2 at 10 a.m. at Fort Walton Beach Crossfit. The event will ben-efit Opportunity Place, a shel-ter that provides temporary housing for homeless women, children and families in Oka-loosa and Walton counties.

All levels of athletes are welcome to participate as an individual or 4-person relay team. Special fun Hal-loween activities will be held for the kids. Registration is $25 for individuals and all money raised stays in Oka-loosa county to support the programs and services of Opportunity Place. To regis-ter: http://www.active.com/fitness/fort-walton-beach-fl/opportunity-to-help-crossfit-Wod-2013.

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