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WASHINGTON. (Army News Service) — If Sol-diers were still unsure of what bad behavior looks like online, the Army clarified it for them in an “All Army Activities” message — com-monly called an ALARACT — that went out force-wide last week.

Online misconduct, it says, is “the use of elec-tronic communication to inflict harm. Examples in-clude, but are not limited to: harassment, bullying, hazing, stalking, discrimi-nation, retaliation, or any other types of misconduct that undermine dignity and respect.”

The ALARACT 122/2015, which comes as part of an effort to address Soldier use of social media and other online forms of communi-cation, also defines good behavior online, “electronic communication,” and “on-line-related incident.”

“The Army Values re-quire that everyone be treated with dignity and re-spect,” the message reads. “Harassment, bullying, hazing, stalking, discrimi-nation, retaliation, and any other type of misconduct that undermines dignity and respect are not consis-tent with Army Values and negatively impact command climate and readiness.”

The ALARACT em-phasizes commanders’ re-sponsibility to “reinforce a

climate where current and future members of the Army team, including Soldiers, Army civilians, contractors, and Family members, un-

derstand that online mis-conduct is inconsistent with Army values.”

The document also said such a climate included an

avenue through which “on-line-related incidents are prevented, reported, and addressed at the lowest pos-sible level.”

In March, the Army’s chief of staff directed the creation of a “tiger team” to address the issue of online misbehavior, including ret-ribution, and to find ways to prevent and respond to harm inflicted through the use of electronic communication.

One goal of the tiger team was to create a reporting sys-tem for “online-related inci-dents” and report those up to senior Army leadership.

Tiger team member Lt. Col. Kay Emerson, who also serves as director of the Army’s Equal Opportunity policy office, said members of the Army staff and com-mand representatives are working now to identify the

data fields and reporting re-quirements for such an on-line reporting system.

“Once collated, senior Army leadership will have a sight picture of reported online-related incidents and actions taken by command-ers in the field,” Emerson said.

The Army is expected to update AR 600-20 in the next published version to address online and social media vio-lations. Emerson said she is currently re-rewriting para-graph 4-19 within AR 600-20 to incorporate the Depart-ment of Defense’s drafted

policy with the Army’s on-line conduct efforts.

Section 4-19 of AR 600-20, called “Treatment of persons,” addresses hazing and bullying, as well as com-mand and individual respon-sibilities in regards to them. Both the regulation and the ALARACT direct Soldiers and Army civilians who ex-perience or witness online misconduct to report it to their chain of command.

Additionally, section 4-19 of AR 600-20 is “punitive” in nature. It authorizes com-

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EGLIN.AFB.- It isn’t easy to cross a river with an 80-pound ruck sack on your back. It might be even harder when you’re carrying lots of other people’s expectations.

After passing the first two phas-es of the notoriously demanding Ar-my Ranger School, two women are now participating in the program’s final challenge: the swamp phase at Camp James E. Rudder.

The women, both officers, are the only ones remaining from a group of 19 female soldiers who be-gan the school on April 20.

At Camp Rudder the women will have to lead patrols through swamps, navigate rivers on Zodiac boats, jump out of aircraft, and demonstrate, once and for all, if any woman has what it takes to be an elite Army Ranger.

That question is on the minds of many leaders in the Department of Defense. In 2013, the Pentagon issued a directive requiring each branch of service to review the pos-sibility of opening combat-related career fields that are currently closed to women.

With so much riding on the re-sult, many have questioned wheth-er the women in this class are being given special treatment, or if they are being singled out unfairly for criticism. The Army disputes both charges.

“The standards for the women are identical to the men,” said Col. David Fivecoat, the commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia. “The Army Chief of Staff has in-sisted that the standards will not change, but it’s been a challenge to get that message out to the public.”

During their first few days at Camp Rudder, the students will be instructed in the skills they will need during the 10-day field exer-cises that begin on Thursday.

On Tuesday, they blended into a sea of camouflage as they stood on the bank of the Yellow River, deep inside the woods of the Eglin reservation.

“I would challenge you to distin-guish the women from the men,”

Fivecoat said.Already worn out from weeks

of sleep deprivation and minimal

nourishment during the earlier stages of training, the Ranger stu-dents listened quietly as a Ranger

Instructor (R.I.) presented detailed instructions on how to construct a rope bridge across the river.

“By this stage in the process, the R.I. becomes the enemy,” said SSgt. Coty Burns, himself an in-structor at the school. “You don’t want to do or say anything to draw attention to yourself.”

That’s not so easy for the wom-en. National media outlets have been documenting each phase of the process, and their success or failure will validate one side or the other of the fierce debate over women in combat positions.

It’s a debate that Burns and the other RIs aren’t eager to enter.

“When it comes down to it, this course is about finding out how you are going to react in a dangerous situation, no matter if you’re a man or a woman,” he said. “We push an individual to his or her limit to see if they can lead people. That’s what this place is all about.”

NICK.TOMECEK.| Daily News

Army Ranger students carry a zodiac boat into the Yellow River on Tuesday Aug. 4 at Camp James E. Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base. A female Ranger student is pictured (middle left). This is the first time female Ranger students have gone through the training at Camp Rudder.

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A female Ranger students holds a position with her team during an ex-ercise at Camp Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base.

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If Soldiers were still unsure of what bad behavior looks like online, the Army clarified it for them in an “All Army Activities” message — commonly called an ALARACT — that went out force-wide last week. Online misconduct, it says, is “the use of electronic communication to inflict harm. Examples include, but are not limited to: harass-ment, bullying, hazing, stalking, discrimination, retaliation, or any other types of misconduct that undermine dignity and respect.”

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PENSACOLA — Sgt. 1st Class Tim Brumit doesn’t want people to call him a hero.

The 32-year-old member of the Army Special Forces Group (Air-borne) suffered a life-threatening spinal cord injury on Saturday when he attempted to save a 13-year-old girl who was in danger of drowning at Crab Island. When he heard the girl’s family’s cries of distress, he acted on instinct and dove in to help. Unfortunately, the water near his boat was deceptive-ly shallow, causing him to break his neck on impact.

Unable to move his arms or legs, Brumit floated face down un-til one of his friends dragged him back to their boat. The young girl was ultimately rescued by other boaters.

“I misjudged it,” Brumit said from his hospital bed on Friday. “I wasn’t a hero, because I wasn’t able to save her.”

Hundreds of friends and strangers would disagree.

Since word of Brumit’s acci-dent began to spread, he has been overwhelmed with support from friends, relatives and even strang-ers. Especially meaningful has been the concern of his comrades in arms.

“My brothers in 7th Group have been great – I appreciate those guys,” he said. “I can see the sin-cerity in their eyes.”

The outpouring of love and con-cern has amazed Brumit’s mother, Terri.

As she sat in the waiting room outside the special unit where Tim is being treated, three young men in uniform walked in, their hats in their hands.

“You must be here to see Tim,” Terri said, rising to embrace them. “I’m his mom.”

Just then, Tim’s father, Randy, entered the room. A retired mem-ber of the 7th Group himself, he greeted the soldiers and shepherd-ed them back to see his son.

“The 7th Group has just been wonderful,” Terri said. “He’s had 15 to 20 people come visit him ev-ery day.”

Terri and Randy, who live in Georgia, had been visiting rela-tives in Virginia when they heard about Tim’s accident.

“When we got the call, my hus-band just fell on the floor,” Terri said. “It was so heartbreaking to see this big, strong Special Forces guy sobbing like that. He took it so hard, because Tim is his baby boy.”

Growing up in an Army fam-ily, Tim lived all around the word. Tall, athletic and handsome, he

played high school football and other sports, and even dabbled in modeling.

“He met his wife, Cara Leigh, at a modeling conference in Atlanta,” Terri recalled. “She’s just a gor-geous girl.”

The couple have a 5-year-old daughter, Hallie Kate, and a 3-year-old son, Connor.

“He just loves those babies so much,” Terri said. “He’s really just a big kid himself.”

When he arrived at Baptist Hospital on Saturday, Tim’s prog-nosis was grim. He had broken the C-6 vertebra in his neck, and se-

verely injured the C-4 and C-5. His doctors warned him he might be a quadriplegic and on a respirator for the rest of his life.

Tim had other plans. After en-during two six-hour surgeries, the 6-foot, 4-inch tall Green Beret and Army Ranger was sitting up, off the ventilator and using his arms and hands within a few days.

A committed Christian, he be-lieves in miracles.

“You could say it’s a miracle that I’ve come this far already,” he said. “And in a way, it’s a miracle that if something like this had to happen, it should happen to some-one who can handle it. I’ve been through tougher things than this, believe me.”

In fact, Tim has deployed 11 times during his Army career, and has never been seriously injured.

“He’s seen death – he’s had men die in his arms,” Terri said. “But by the grace of God he was never seriously hurt.”

Tim has remained upbeat and optimistic throughout his ordeal.

“I would do it all over again in a heartbeat,” he said. “I have two kids, and I hope someone would be there for them if they needed help”

But even the toughest man has moments of despair.

“When we arrived at the hos-pital, he was wearing the large brace on his neck, and I could see just one tiny tear sliding down his cheek,” Terri recalled. “He had just been through surgery, and he was in pain. I think he knew that his life had changed. It’s so hard as a mother to see your child go-ing through something like that.”

Both Randy and Terri are people of strong faith. Terri, an ac-complished singer, has recorded an album of songs she has written called “Warrior in the Night,” with the proceeds supporting chari-ties for wounded warriors. They share their son’s optimism, and are grateful that Tim survived his accident.

“You walk around this hospital, and you see so many people who are so sick,” Terri said softly. “It makes me so grateful that my son is doing as well as he is.”

Tim is expect to transfer to a rehabilitation center soon. He is convinced that he will be walking again in three to four months.

“My faith is in the Lord,” Terri said. “If Tim says he can do it, I believe it. I believe in miracles.”

7th Group Soldier recovering from injury

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Tim Brumit’s children, Connor, 3, and Hallie Kate, 5, visit their father in the hospital after he was paralyzed in an accident on Saturday.

Tim Brumit is pictured with his wife, Cara Leigh, his son, Connor, and daugh-ter, Hallie Kate, in this undated photo. Brumit suffered a severe spinal cord injury on Saturday while trying to rescue a young swimmer in distress.

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Dodgy companies ped-dling pricey compound phar-maceuticals have fleeced the TRICARE program so severely this year, before tougher screening proce-dures took effect May 1, that they are largely to blame for a $2 billion defense health budget hole Congress is scrambling to fill.

In fiscal 2010, military outpatient pharmacy costs totaled $6.6 billion, with only $23 million spent on compound drugs. By fiscal 2014, outpatient pharmacy costs had risen to $7.7 billion but compound drugs costs soared to $515 million. In the first nine months of fiscal 2015, compound drug costs tripled again for TRICARE, to $1.7 billion, or more than 20 percent of the $8.2 billion TRICARE expects to spend on outpatient drugs the en-tire year.

“It’s re-ally unheard of to see this kind of a spike, and it threatens our pro-gram,” said Jon Rychal-ski, deputy assistant secretary of

defense for health resources management and policy, in a phone interview Wednesday.

In April alone the com-pound pharmacy bill was about $500 million,” he added. “So we are very con-cerned with this year. And as we broke it down for the Congress, they have under-stood and they’re appalled.”

Compound pharmacies combine more than one medication or ingredient to create drugs not available commercially. Doctors elect

to prescribe them when their patients might benefit from a different kind or strength of drug, whether creams, oint-ments, capsules or pills.

But compound drugs have been at the center of abusive marketing and pricing schemes. After the private sector health indus-try clamped down on these operations a few years back, they refocused on the mili-tary and TRICARE benefi-ciaries, officials said.

Many retirees, it seems, got unsolicited calls asking if they had aches or pains and informing them of special drugs that would bring relief and that the TRICARE retail pharmacy benefit would cover. In just two years TRICARE’s average cost for a compound drug jumped from $192 to $2,595.

“There were unscrupu-lous people out there taking

advantage of this, heavily marketing in many different ways,” Rychalski said.

Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, joined with the military surgeons general and direc-tor of the Defense Health Agency this month to send an extraordinary letter to the armed services and ap-propriations committees. It seeks swift approval of two earlier reprogramming re-quests and a new one to shift defense dollars between accounts and close a more than $2 billion funding gap “largely driven by the com-pound pharmaceutical costs and utilization.”

While new screening rules for compound drugs “have successfully curbed the inappropriate and po-tentially fraudulent activity in this area,” the letter says,

two other factors add to the budget shortfall: medical inflation and more ben-eficiaries using TRICARE than forecast. It warns of a “real risk of exhausting funds needed to pay private sector care costs in late July 2015” if reprogramming isn’t approved.

Rychalski, however, gave assurances Wednesday that beneficiaries will see no “disruption to care through the TRICARE network or in the direct health care system.” A worst-case sce-nario, if Congress delays action on reprogramming until it returns from summer recess in September, is that TRICARE could be forced by mid-August to delay doctor reimbursements.

“The situation we don’t want to find ourselves in is where a beneficiary receives care and a bill is presented [but] we’re short of funding to pay for it,” Rychalski said.

With its first two repro-gramming requests, the de-partment seeks to use more than $500 million in unspent health care dollars. That could be money available due to delays in staff hiring or unspent contract dollars. For the third reprogramming, al-most $900 million, the target is budget savings from lower fuel costs, also to be diverted to TRICARE to offset the cost of compound drugs as well as new, costly Hepatitis C treatments.

Rychalski said if he sounds less alarmed than did the letter, give some credit to a hitch in TRICARE claim processing software last week. It forced the contrac-tor rewrite code and delay paying about 50,000 claims, which bought more time for a health program running out of cash.

He also noted that TRICARE is a $16 billion program with a host of large contracts — for U.S. regions, overseas, Alaska, dental care and more. During the recent

federal budget shutdown, budget officials saw how they could shift funds be-tween accounts and dampen the impact on beneficiaries.

“We put money on each contract and monitor it. How fast that goes down can be a function of demand, cost, usage and when the invoices are submitted for payment. It’s an inexact science although we knew that in the late-July-to mid-August timeframe we would probably run into a serious issue,” Rychalski said. That led to the reprogramming requests.

All four defense commit-tees, House and Senate au-thorizers and appropriators, “seem supportive,” he said. The House Appropriations Committee was first this week in clearing the largest reprogramming request.

“My sense is Congress is going to come through with the reprogramming approvals and we’ll be okay…But there is the very real possibility, if something got held up and nothing was approved, that eventually we would run out of money to pay claims.”

Congress should also know that $400 million of the shortfall reflects rising health costs unrelated to drugs, a harbinger perhaps that a long period of modest medical inflation is ending. If so, Rychalski warned, the House and Senate appro-priations committees have added more risk to military health programs by voting to whack the health budget for fiscal 2016 by $1.4 billion and $786 million respectively, off the department’s budget request.

“We are seeing what we believe are generally increasing health care costs, and we think that’s going to endure,” he said. So the deep cuts by appropriators “are really too great for us to be

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able to fully fund the defense health program…Based upon our current-year ex-perience and trends we’re seeing, these reductions are really not sustainable.”

VA.BUDGET.RELIEF.– The House has voted to shift more than $3 billion from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Choice Card fund to pay other com-munity-based health care costs for veterans who can’t get timely care in VA facili-ties, a move sought by VA

Secretary Bob McDonald. But Rep. Jeff Miller

(R-Fla.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, made clear his committee’s support of the move was to protect veter-ans, not please VA leaders who he said mismanaged their budget.

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manders to potentially pun-ish those who are in violation of its direction, making fail-ure to adhere to the Army’s rules for online behavior a punishable offense.

“Soldiers who violate this policy may be sub-ject to punishment under the UCMJ [Uniform Code of Military Justice],” the regulation reads. “Whether or not certain acts specifi-cally violate the provisions of this paragraph, they may be inappropriate or violate relevant civilian personnel guidance.”

Despite new rules and direction in regard to use of social media and other

forms of electronic com-munication, the Army says it doesn’t want to stop Sol-ders from communicating online. Instead, said an Army official, when us-ing electronic communi-cation devices, Soldiers should apply “Think, Type, Post.”

That maxim is sum-marized as “think about the message being com-municated and who could potentially view it; type a communication that is con-sistent with Army values; and post only those mes-sages that demonstrate dignity and respect for self and others.”

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30-SEAT CLASS LIMITCourses offered at Tyndall, Eglin and Hurlburt Bases

Contact your Family Readiness Center for more information

Are you active duty or recently retired?

Are you a transitioning service member thinkingabout business ownership as a post-service vocation?

Parents Night OutThe Eglin Child Develop-

ment Center and School Age Program will offer the next “Parents Night Out” Aug. 8, from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Chil-dren are safely supervised in a fun and exciting envi-ronment, and the event is available for children ages 6 weeks to 12 years for $25 per child. Space is limited, so sign up early to secure your slot. To make reservations, call CDC lll at 882-5519.

Family Movie Saturdays

The Integrated Learn-ing Center (ILC) is hosting a free family fun day Aug. 8 at 12:30 p.m. with games and crafts, the movie “Lilo & Stitch”, free popcorn and prizes. Parents are welcome to watch the movie or use the computers, WiFi, game

room, or quiet room dur-ing the movie, but must re-main in the facility. Hangar 3 is located next to Legends Sports Grill, Bldg. 825, by the Fitness Center. For informa-tion, call, 882-9308.

ITea emerald coast chapter

The International Test and Evaluation Associa-tion (ITEA) Emerald Coast Chapter is hosting a short course on the “Fundamen-tals of the T&E Process” in the Shalimar GTRI office Sept. 22 – 24. The course addresses the role of T&E in systems development, the determination of effec-tive test requirements, inte-grating developmental and operational T&E, preparing a T&E master plan, cover-age of T&E requirements in government contracts, and the role of modeling

and simulation in T&E. For details and registration, go to http://www.itea.org/

Kayak Introductory classes

Eglin Outdoor Recreation will offer two introductory kayak classes at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Aug. 8 at Postl Point Stu-dents learn the fundamen-tals of boat control, proper paddling apparel, potential hazards and simple rescues. Entry level paddling skills are presented and practiced, allowing students to safely and effectively maneuver on flat-water. Cost is $20 per per-son per session and includes instruction and kayak use. Class size is limited, so con-tact Outdoor Rec to sign up early, 882-5058.

Fishing clinic 101A professional instructor

will teach basic techniques of fishing at 9 a.m. Aug. 8 to include baiting, casting, reeling, and fish identifica-tion. Basic shore fishing of the bay will be taught all in a fishing environment. Cost is $25 for ages 11 and up and a free shoreline fishing license is required to participate. Younger children ages 6-10 with parental supervision may also participate. Price includes us of all equipment and bait needed to complete the class. For reservations, call Outdoor Rec 882-5058.

2015 Pensacola comic convention

2015 Pensacola Comic Convention™ is from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Aug. 8 and 9 at the Pensacola Fair Grounds Expo Hall, 6655 Mobile Hwy Pensacola, FL 32526. Tickets start at $10. Children 7 and under are free.

We will offer celebrity meet and greets, discussion panels, workshops, screen-ings, demonstrations, events, gaming, costume contests, tournaments, and competi-tions. Combat Sport Pro will also have live matches at 1 and 4 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Arc Gateway, EscaRosa Coali-tion On the Homeless, Inc., Making Stride with Breast Cancer, The Ronald McDon-ald House, and various local charities. Discount for Law Enforcement, EMS, Fire-fighters, and Military. For in-formation and a list of guests and vendor visit, http://www.pensacolacomiccon.com/. Phone: (850) 941- 4321

Photo club seeks new members

The Crestview Photo Club is seeking new members, es-pecially military members

and dependents, to join them during monthly meeting held the third Thursday of each month at 6 pm at the Knights of Columbus meeting hall, 701 E James Lee Blvd, Crestview. Club membership is free and members range from the very amateur photographer to the most advanced pro-fessional photographers in NWFL. During the monthly meeting, members learn how to use their camera’s prop-erly, how to take better pic-tures and how to print quality images as well as how to use the latest photo software. There are also outings that give the members opportuni-ties to showcase their skills and monthly challenges to enhance the photographers’ skill behind the lens. To sign up or to get more information on the Crestview Photo Club, contact MSgt Jayly Jackson, jayly.jackson@us.af.mil. 85 TES/SUPT, MSgt Jackson, 882-8692

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