U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands www.smdc.army.mil/kwaj/hourglass/hourglass.html USAKA/KMR to test force protection plan By Peter Rejcek Associate Editor (Photo by Peter Rejcek) Dr. Ed Paget and nurse Ivy Springer stabilize Sarah Cornell at Kwajalein Hospital Saturday as part of a mass casualty exercise, which is being incorporated into this week s antiterrorism/force protection drill. (See DRILL, page 6) Installation manager juggles multiple projects By Jim Bennett Editor Principally speaking (See SCOTT, page 4)
The Commanding Officer...Col. Curtis L. Wrenn Jr. Public Affairs Officer...Preston Lockridge Editor...Jim Bennett Associate Editor...Peter Rejcek Feature Writers...Barbara Johnson KWHillis Graphics Designer...Dan Adler Circulation Manager...Bobby Lamug Sr. The Hourglass is named for the insignia of the U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division, which liberated the island from the forces of Imperial Japan on Feb 4, 1944. The is an authorized publication for military personnel, federal employees, contractor workers and their families assigned to USAKA/KMR. Contents of the Hourglass are not necessarily official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, Department of Defense, Department of the Army or USAKA/KMR. It is published Tuesdays and Fridays using a network printer by Raytheon Range Systems Engineering editorial staff, P.O. Box 23, APO AP 96555. Phone: Autovon 254-3539; local 53539. Printed circulation: 2,300 Editorial Buckminster and Friends Of geckos and men and the supermodels who love them By Sabrina Mumma
Pull out the calculator it s tax time, again By Kent Duncan USAKA/KMR Legal Office Child tax credit Interest on student loans Foreign earned income exclusion Obituary Earned income credit Exemption amount Innocent spouse relief Help? THAAD radar requires hazard area until Oct. 31 From Command Safety Office
Scott outlines installation vision... (From page 1) (File Photo) Fifteen dome houses sprung up on Ocean Road last summer. More could follow if Uncle Sam approves a proposal to replace trailers with three-bedroom, three-bath dome houses that could be used for families of four, or up to three bachelors. Cha-ching The road ahead
(File photo) A paving crew sprayed asphalt along Heliotrope Street as part of a 30,000 ton repaving project to resurface the island s roads last year. Scott s vision
Drill to include entire community, test awareness... (From page 1) (Photo by Peter Rejcek) Firefighters Johnny Johnson, Jessie Marshall and Phillip Hesser, left to right, discuss placing a victim of a mock casualty at the Kwajalein Power Plant onto a stretcher. The scenario involved the explosion of a transformer and used high school student volunteers as victims. The exercise is a precursor to this week s antiterrorism/force protection drill Friday and Saturday. You may be inconvenienced. Col. Curtis L. Wrenn USAKA/KMR commander
Contract awarded to build new test facility for space-based laser weapons Saturday plane service returns for 30-day trial Bureaucracy stalls test of new Navy technology The Grace Sherwood Library staff wish to thank the community for all its support, providing donations of books, magazines and other media and giving us valuable recommendations, allowing us to augment and improve our collection. We receive new material continuously, and McNaughton books (the latest) are often processed into the regular collection eventually, so please check both collections for a title or author. We will reserve material on request. Our borrowers recognize that they are responsible for returning the material on time so that others may use it. As a courtesy, we sometimes send out reminders, but it is the patrons responsibility to note the due date and return material to the desk or drop box regardless of whether they receive a reminder. Please keep material in a special place where it can be easily accounted for and retrieved and separate community library material from school library material. Book clubs may borrow additional book copies. We keep a cache of multiple titles of certain books to support book groups. New Material at Grace Sherwood Library New subscriptions at the library: Back issues of magazines may be borrowed for three weeks. Young People s Collection Adult Collection
What s playing? Call the Movie Hotline at 52700. WEATHER Courtesy of Aeromet By KW Hillis Feature Writer Sun Moon Tides Tyler Stepchew, 7, looks at a test tube showing eight grams of fat for two chocolate chip cookies at the Kwajalein Hospital Health Awareness Healthy Heart Month booth at the mini-mall Monday. Stepchew and his mother, Sarah, were surprised by the amount of fat in a cup of macaroni and cheese 18 grams. (Photo by KW Hillis) Fat-filled tubes shock residents Sunrise/set Moonrise/set High Tide Low Tide Tuesday 0710/1852 0553/1747 0352, 4.1' 0938, 1.1' January 23 1602, 5.4' 2229, 0.8' Wednesday 0710/1853 0642/1836 0423, 4.3' 1011, 0.9' January 24 1633, 5.6' 2258, 0.6' Thursday 0710/1853 0729/1925 0453, 4.5' 1042, 0.8' January 25 New Moon 1702, 5.7' 2326, 0.5' Friday 0710/1853 0813/2013 0522, 4.6' 1113, 0.7' January 26 1731, 5.7' 2354, 0.5'
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