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NICEVILLE — A large military contingent may give local uniformed service members a run

for the sharpest-dressed troops.More than 500 colorful nut-

cracker soldiers stand guard at “Animation in Motion,” the free Christmas display at the for-mer Food World on John Sims Parkway.

“It’s just gorgeous. It’s amaz-ing,” Norma Reinier of Niceville said as she and her husband escorted their granddaughter through the display.

“Go see trains,” the toddler said as she pointed.

“We have steam engines, multi-unit diesels and long trains com-prised of 18 to 20 cars each in the large G-scale size,” said Ed Dice from Pensacola, whose collection is on display with others from the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club.

Besides nutcrackers and trains, there are more than 650 animated dolls, Christmas trees, a manger scene, a 1,000-piece themed village in scenes, blow-up holiday lawn characters, music and complimentary hot chocolate and popcorn.

Former Indiana resident Con-nie Fudge, who was there with her 85-year-old mother Barbara Fudge, was a bit leery of the holi-day spirit.

“I can’t see how people can get as much of the enjoyment” with-out the “snow flurries and chill in the air,” Connie said.

But after living in area since 1976, the women agreed they “don’t want to go back to skidding the car on ice patches,” and joined in with others strolling the 35,000-square-foot display.

The exhibit, in its 18th year, is the vision of Niceville’s Debbie Lewis — known as “The Christ-mas Lady” — and her husband Charles Kevin Payne, who handles

electrical and construction details. Donations pay the energy bills. Lewis said they expect to peak

at more than 1,000 visitors on Christmas Eve.

They already are being courted by various organizations to host next year’s exhibit, she said.

“We love doing it. I have truly figured out what a labor of love is.”

Christmas spirit alive in Niceville‘animation in Motion’ continues to attract crowds

Above, children and adults have been flocking to “Animation in Mo-tion’ since it opened Nov. 29 in the old Food World Store in Niceville.

At left, Debbie Lewis (right) talks with volunteer Tina Adams at “Animation in Motion” in Niceville. Lewis has been showcasing her Christmas decorations and dis-plays for 18 years.

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The winter holiday sea-son can be fun and festive. It can also be stressful and tiring. At this time of year people often find them-selves trying to keep up with shopping, decorat-ing, cooking, entertaining, kids’ school events and family gatherings. With so much going on, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

As a result, it may help to take a fresh look at specific aspects of the holidays that have caused you stress in the past. Can you think of some changes you can make to give you a bit more comfort and joy this year?

However you celebrate, it’s important to take care of your physical and men-tal health throughout the holidays. It’s also good to practice moderation in your celebrating. This helps you maintain your overall balance despite the sometimes odd hours

you may keep over the holidays.

Having a new plan for this year’s holidays can make a difference!

Limit your holiday stress

Stress can often accom-pany the holiday hustle. Here are some tips for staying in balance during this busy time of year. Set limits and keep it

simple. Be realistic about what you can do prior to and during the holidays. Don’t take on too much, and be sure to ask for help with getting things done. Don’t feel obligated to ac-cept every invitation or request. Shop for gifts online.

This can greatly reduce time spent hunting for bargains in stores, while minimizing the stress of parking lots and crowds. Avoid procrastinating.

Develop an extended to-do schedule so you won’t have to rush so much. Start scratching items off the list as early as possible.

Putting off holiday tasks until the last minute just causes more stress. don’t forget to exer-

cise. If you have a workout plan (and you should!), stay with it faithfully over the holidays. This will help keep stress in check and burn some of those extra calories. Make some time for

yourself. Unplugging by yourself for short periods of relaxation between tasks or events can help you keep balanced.

Creating new holiday traditions We all know that fami-

lies change over time. In the cycle of life, some people will leave the fam-ily, while new individuals will join. Sometimes it helps to reassess your old holiday traditions to see if they still work for your family in its current form. It may be best to strike a balance between continu-ing with certain past tra-ditions and starting some new ones.

Focus on the “now”. If the activities you’ve al-ways done seem to be cre-ating stress or conflict in your family now, consider changing them. When planning rituals or cel-ebrations, think of ways to make them meaningful for the family mix you have today. Let go of activities that you no longer enjoy. Gather new ideas for

holiday celebrations. Ask the whole family about their favorite holiday tra-ditions, and also for new ideas. You can include kids, parents, extended family members and friends. It can also be good to look to the past for a few good ideas. Try to recall your warm child-hood holiday memories and what made them special. Consider such holiday traditions that you could realistically refresh and pass along to your children. Be creative. Always

be on the lookout for new things you can do with your family during the holidays. This could

include low- or no-cost ac-tivities such as going ice skating together, visiting a big downtown holiday display, or attending a community interfaith or cultural celebration. Also consider taking advantage of today’s technologies (e.g., video chat), to bring together family members who may be far away at this time. When to let go. If

everyone can’t agree on whether to do a certain activity or event, then it’s probably best to leave it off the list this year. Mak-ing sure everyone’s input is considered can help the family better enjoy this holiday season.

Holidays on a budget

Plan to limit your spending. Estimate the total amount that you can afford this year, without buying items on credit that you don’t start paying

for until next year. Don’t exceed that limit! Consider gift alter-

natives. Decide how the spending for each person on your list will fit into your budgeted total. Then look for ways to trim the amounts for each person through less expensive gifts. Focus on the thought-

fulness, not the quantity. Consider giving home-made gifts such as baked items and handmade crafts. These are often less expensive than store-bought gifts, and are al-ways more appreciated. Shop early. Last-

minute gift buying usually results in spending more than you planned. Shop alone. You’ll be

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WASHINGTON (Army News Ser-vice) — “I want this headquarters to lead the way in Army wellness by getting the right amount of sleep, being more active and getting better nutrition,” the Army surgeon general told her staff.

Determined that U.S. Army Medi-cal Command, known as MEDCOM, not only talks the talk, but also walks the walk, Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, who is also MEDCOM commander, dedicated Dec. 13, to be “Holiday Jin-gle Walk” at their Falls Church, Va., headquarters, said Barbara Ryan, a registered nurse with the Army Sur-geon General’s Office and the lead for Performance Triad’s outreach programs.

Furthermore, she directed each

MEDCOM directorate to plan a monthly walking event, encouraging them to make it fun and designed to promote unit camaraderie, Ryan said, adding that during their Jingle Walk, some participants dressed up in holiday costumes.

Horoho got the idea for the walk during a visit to Fort Bragg, N.C., Nov. 16, where the post held an in-stallation-wide 5-K run/walk, Ryan said. No registration was required for their 5-K and “people showed up with their dogs, cats, kids and strollers and they could choose to run it, walk it or both.”

She was there to help kick off the Fort Bragg’s Healthy Base Initiative and the Performance Triad’s third pilot course, involving Soldiers of the

189th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion.

As for the Performance Triad pi-lots, Ryan said they’re all on track and the program evaluation will con-clude in April. And later next year, Army senior leaders will discuss plans to launch Performance Triad service-wide.

As it now works, squad leaders in the pilots get eight hours of profes-sional classroom training on sleep, activity and nutrition, and all partici-pating Soldiers receive two hours of Triad training. All Soldiers were also tested with the Military Power, Per-formance and Prevention Platform,

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By T. ANTHONy BELL

U.S. Army

FORT LEE, Va. — The Ord-nance School is continuing to fulfill the training require-ments of Soldiers deployed in combat environments.

Providing training on the Army’s newest recovery ve-hicle — the Modular Cata-strophic Recovery System — is its latest effort to pre-pare Soldiers for tasks and missions they are likely to encounter in the field.

The Modular Catastrophic Recovery System, or MCRS, which is currently fielded on-ly in Afghanistan, is a multi-component recovery system that has been used in South-west Asia for several years. The Ordnance School imple-mented the MCRS module in-to the H8 Recovery Specialist Course, a three-week Addi-tional Skill Identifier course, in October of 2012.

Gary Winter, chief of the Recovery Division in the school’s Track, Metalworking and Recovery Department, said the course has trained roughly 400 students on the MCRS thus far, and he is en-thusiastic about its training value.

“I feel the Soldiers who have trained on it can be com-bat multipliers for the combat-ant commander out there,” said the former Soldier. “It’s basically three systems com-bined into one. In my opin-ion, it (the MCRS) makes the job easier for Soldiers who are recovering damaged or catastrophically damaged vehicles when compared to traditional wreckers.”

MCRS is comprised of a M983A4 Light Equipment Transporter, Fifth Wheel Tow-ing and Recovery Device and Tilt Deck Recovery Trailer. It can recover and tow a variety

of wheeled vehicles in a vari-ety of situations, said Adam Jenkins, senior instructor.

“The strength of the sys-tem is its versatility,” he said. “The fact is that it can tow many vehicles that others can’t. It’s not going to replace a wrecker, but it is an awe-some recovery trailer that we can use as an asset to comple-ment our existing wreckers (the M984 and M1089).”

MCRS was originally de-veloped as a Stryker recovery vehicle. Its trailer can hold 35 tons, giving it the capability to handle many of the mine-resistant armor-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, that are relatively new to the Army’s vehicle inventory.

Because the armored wheeled vehicles play im-portant roles in Afghanistan from a strategic standpoint, hands-on training with them is imperative during the course of study, which is weighted heavily around several scenarios, said Sgt. 1st Class Nelson Walker, an

instructor/writer. “The scenarios we use for

the MCRS provide a full range of recovery capabilities for all wheeled vehicles to include both MRAP and Stryker,” he said. “They include operating the Tilt Deck Recovery Trail-er, sledding a catastrophically damaged vehicle onto the Tilt Deck Recovery Trailer and performing a 90-degree pull with the Fifth Wheel Towing and Recovery Device.”

During a training day last week, teams of Soldiers en-dured cold, wet weather to arduously perform a myriad of tasks to secure a “cata-strophic” MRAP (RG33) ve-hicle. Winter said students are generally enthusiastic about the training.

“When they come to MCRS training, they are very highly motivated,” he said. “They want to be out in the field hands-on and don’t want to be in the classroom. On the end of course surveys, they always ask for more time in the field and on that vehicle

because they feel like they don’t get enough time.”

Those who have previous-ly operated the vehicle and later receive training at the school are grateful, said Sgt. 1st Class John Durousseau, chief instructor.

“Those who are coming back from the theater ap-preciate the training they are getting here because there are a few things they didn’t grasp until they got here,” he said. “At the schoolhouse, all the processes are worked out by the book. We are hon-ing their skills here and they are returning to theater us-ing the equipment to its full capacity.”

MCRS is currently being added to the unit equipment rolls, but has not been fielded Army-wide, said Winter. He added no dates have been announced for when a ser-vice-wide rollout is likely to occur. In the meantime, the course is set to graduate 300-500 students during the next fiscal year.


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Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho (front center), Army surgeon general, and Command Sgt. Maj. Donna Brock (far left) lead their team on the inaugural Jingle Walk, Dec. 13, hosted at Office of the Surgeon General and U.S. Army Medical Command headquarters in Falls Church, Va.

or MP3, which assesses injury risk and provides in-dividual physical training plans.

The squad leaders continue to be the key to the program and instill in their Soldiers what they’ve learned from the class-room and from the Lead-er’s Guide. “It’s basically a leadership by example type approach that fits in with the Army’s philosophy that the [non-commissioned of-ficer] has the most influ-ence over a Soldier’s life,” Ryan said.

Horoho is promoting Performance Triad ahead of the rollout, Ryan said.

Next year, for example, she’ll be on a whirlwind tour of Army installations, that may include Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Bliss, Texas; Fort Stewart, Ga.; and Fort Benning, Ga., talking to Performance Triad teams at each military treatment facility as well as post com-manders and senior enlist-ed Soldiers.

“People she visited at Fort Bragg were really jazzed,” Ryan said, mean-ing that the surgeon gen-eral inspired them. “One sergeant major said ‘I can see why this is so impor-tant now.’ That’s the kind of thing people can expect when she visits.”

As it stands now, instal-lations don’t have to wait

for the Performance Triad roll-out to reap the bene-fits. Under the guidance of Army Public Health Com-mand, each post has a com-munity health promotion council, led by senior com-manders, Ryan explained. This is a resource that integrates garrison, medi-cal and mission efforts in support of the synchroni-zation of health promotion, risk reduction, and suicide prevention programs for example.

Representatives from the community, including retirees, officer and en-listed spouses, along with garrison, medical and se-nior commanders, meet to discuss programs and ini-tiatives to promote health, wellness, readiness and re-silience of the force. “These councils are the means to allow commanders to moni-tor health promotion pro-gram goals and objectives for their community and people can plug in now to information on sleep, activ-ity and nutrition at www.ar-mymedicine.mil,” she said.

“There’s a demand for more information and a groundswell of interest has begun,” Ryan said, “People throughout the Army are asking for more information about the program and we are hearing how people’s lives are being changed for the better.”

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Sgt. Jeffrey Palmer, an instructor, keeps a careful watch as a disabled mine-resistant am-bush-protected vehicle is pulled onto the Tilt Deck Recovery Trailer of the Modular Cata-strophic Recovery System during training at the Downer Range, on Fort Lee, Va., Dec. 10.

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Northwest Florida Daily News

FORT WALTON BEACH — By 1944, the Uncle Sam “I Want You” posters seemed to point directly at Alvira

Goubeaux.The 21-year-old already had

seen two of her brothers sent off to fight in World War II with the Navy in the Pacific.

She wanted to do her part. She decided to join the Army.

The first battle of her military career, however, would be with her parents at home in Dayton, Ohio. They didn’t want her to join.

Girls weren’t supposed to go off to war. There were more ap-propriate jobs at home, out of danger, where she wouldn’t see things she might not be able to handle.

Pleading, she evoked the im-age of her brothers.

“I asked my mother and dad, ‘If something happens to their ship and they are injured, who do you think will take care of them?’ ” the 91-year-old Goubeaux — now Schultheis — said while wearing her old uniform at her home in Fort Walton Beach.

Her parents were swayed.The young woman then

headed off to what would be one of the greatest adventures and struggles of her life.

While women weren’t trained to go into the infantry, they went through the same initial physical tests as men.

In fatigues and high-top boots, they ran for miles, crawled through mud, strapped on gas masks and carried packs on their backs.

She passed the tests, and soon 2nd Lt. Goubeaux was on a troop ship sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.

At night, it pained her to see the men lying body to body along the hard wooden deck where

they would stay until morning. She and the small number of women on the ship eyed them as they climbed the stairs to the of-ficers’ quarters to sleep.

At night the men danced with the women under the stars.

“It was an exciting time,” she said. “They didn’t know any more than I did where they were going, what it was going to be like,” she said.

Shortly after her arrival in England, she was sent to the 162nd General Hospital near Lincoln.

About 59,000 women served in the Army Nurse Corps dur-ing World War II. Generally, they were kept from direct combat, but some served under fire in field hospitals or while evacuat-ing patients.

Although Goubeaux worked in

a hospital far from the front lines, the tolls of war came to her.

The men came to the hospital filthy after weeks in the trenches. Seventeen-year-old boys ar-rived full of shrapnel. Goubeaux cleaned maggots from their wounds.

The nurses treated the men using penicillin and sulfa, an antiseptic, and ropes to levitate injured limbs.

The men were frightened, often in shock. It would take time before the nurses could begin conversations about their home lives. The first days could be spent blindly assuring them that their beloved pet was safely har-bored in the next room, despite knowing nothing of the sort.

One young man could hear

Seeing the toll of combatalvira goubeaux treated wounded soldiers during World War II

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Alvira Goubeaux goes through a scrapbook from her time in the Army Nurse Corps during World War II.


Fort Walton Beach resident Alvira Goubeaux is pictured in Eng-land during World War II with some of her fellow nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. Bicycles were the primary form of transpor-tation for nurses like Goubeaux who were stationed at the 162nd General Hospital near Lincolnshire, England.

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Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) paid to service members living off base in the United States will rise an average of 5 percent in January to keep pace with local rental costs over the past year.

But senior defense offi-cials are weighing whether this should be the last significant hike in hous-ing allowances for a while, as they struggle to keep personnel costs “in bal-ance” with other needs as defense budgets fall.

The size of the BAH increase for individuals, as always, will vary by pay grade, dependency status and assignment area. For example, rates will climb an average of 14.9 percent in Mobile, Ala., highest among military housing areas, and drop an average

of 7.7 per-cent in Sac-ramento, Calif.

Wide shifts will be over short dis-tances, too. Average BAH will leap 7.7

percent next month in Ev-erett, Wash., while 90 miles away, in Bremerton, rates will fall an average of 5.6 percent.

Average BAH will be cut in 60 of 360 military housing areas. Thanks to a rate protection feature, however, members already living amid falling rents will see no drop in their own monthly allowance. Rate declines only will ap-ply to members moving

into affected areas. The rate protection rule will help an estimated 250,000 BAH recipients in 2014.

The heft of the overall BAH increase could make some members more com-fortable with the Obama’s administration’s decision to cap the Jan. 1 basic pay raise at 1 percent, versus 1.8 to match private sector wage growth. Rates will climb enough to cover not only average hikes in rent but in utilities and rent-ers’ insurance for housing types tied to rank and fam-ily status, said Cheryl Anne Woehr, BAH program man-

ager for the Department of Defense.

The BAH budget for 2014 is almost $20 billion. The average 5 percent pop means $75 to $80 more per month across the force, Woehr said.

Military leaders have been urging Congress for several years to slow compensation growth. For more than a decade, they have pushed to make work-ing-age retirees pay more of their own health costs. This month, Congress ac-cepted the modest pay cap but rejected again plans to raise TRICARE fees, co-

pays and deductibles for retirees and their families.

The president’s 2015 budget request, to be unveiled in February, is expected to call for another pay cap as well as higher TRICARE fees. It also might include an initia-tive to dampen housing allowances.

The Joint Chiefs and senior defense civilian signaled as much last summer in releasing a Strategic Choices and Management Review with options for absorbing up to $500 billion in across-the-board defense cuts over a decade, required under the sequestration mechanism Congress approved in 2011 to address the debt crisis. Those cuts began last April.

The review identified

$97 billion in compensa-tion curbs to help preserve combat readiness if Con-gress provides no seques-tration relief. Options include more pay caps, forcing military retirees working second careers to use civilian employer health insurance, ending the $1.4 billion commissary subsidy and dampening housing allowances.

If meant to frighten Congress, it had mixed results. Before adjourn-ing this month, lawmakers passed a bipartisan budget deal that softened the ef-fect of sequestration on defense by a total of $33 bil-lion across 2014 and 2015. But they pay for this relief, in part, by capping annual cost of living adjusting (CO-

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the planes flying over the hospital and identified them as bombers. He was petrified they would strike.

Goubeaux reassured him it was safe, even though she was scared, too. She recalls wanting to pull the man under the bed with her to hide.

A lot of the job was mo-rale boosting.

One winter, one of the bedridden men said all he wanted for Christmas was a shot of gin. Goubeaux and another nurse saved their drink tickets for weeks to steal away with a glass of booze for him.

He cried when they gave it to him.

The women were charged with nursing the men back to health so they could return to the fight or until they were well enough to be sent home.

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LAs) for military retirees under age 62 at 1 percent below inflation, a move to save $6.3 billion over the first 10 years.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has promised to review the COLA cap law in 2014, long before it is to take effect in January 2016. Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Jeanne Sha-heen, D-NH, already have drafted a bill that would replace the COLA caps with higher tax revenues by cracking down on American companies that use foreign tax havens to dodge higher U.S. taxes.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, has been working with senior enlisted advisers on com-pensation initiatives to cut almost $50 billion from military personnel ac-counts over the decade.

BAH director Woehr confirmed that BAH changes are being studied.

“Certainly, because BAH is such a large por-tion of our personnel costs, it is something that we’re looking at,” she said. “We do want to make sure that any changes that would be made to find cost savings don’t adversely impact the quality of life of our service members.”

BAH rates for 2014 would not be impacted by ongoing “discussions” of possible changes, said Na-vy Lt. Cmdr. Nate Chris-tensen, a Department of Defense spokesman.

Fiscal 2015, added Woehr, “would be the earliest that any of these changes could happen.”

Congress would have to approve changes to how housing allowances are set. More than a decade ago, when it replaced a less efficient housing pay

formula with BAH, initial rates covered only about 80 percent of members’ actual rental costs. With defense budgets made flush for war, Congress committed to closing the BAH gap, and did so by 2005.

With the Iraq war ended, combat troops to leave Afghanistan by next December and defense budgets getting squeezed, BAH rates conceivably could begin to lose ground against local rents, offi-cials conceded.

A third of BAH re-cipients today live in privatized housing built on or near military bases. Building owners and com-mercial landlords now count on annual BAH rate

increases, just as service members do who draw their allowances in cash and rent or buy housing on the local economy. That could complicate any BAH rollback.

Service members living off base overseas get an Overseas Housing Allow-ance instead of BAH. OHA is based on what members actually pay in rent and is adjusted periodically as the dollar’s value shifts against local foreign cur-rency. Overseas allow-ances are not adjusted in tandem with BAH.

Write Military Update, P.O. Box 231111, Centreville, VA, or email [email protected] or twitter: Tom Philpott @Military_Update

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resolution 3-Mile run

The Eglin Fitness Center invites everyone to celebrate the New Year and hit the ground running with Eglin’s annual Resolution 3-Mile Run/Walk on Friday, Jan. 17. Showtime is 1:40 p.m. at the CE pavilion on Cypress Road; with the race’s start at 2 p.m. Participation is free

for all personnel.For information, contact

the Eglin Fitness Center at 850-883-1682 (Main Center) or 850-883-9127 (Annex).

antique Show tickets for Fisher house Tickets are currently

available for the 52nd annual Antique Show and Sale to be held at the NW Florida Fairgrounds on Jan. 24-26, 2014. Purchase your tickets

for $4 each through Fisher House of the Emerald Coast and save a $1 off the regu-lar admission. A great gift for those who love antiques. In addition, money from presold tickets benefits the Fisher House and supports military families undergo-ing a medical crisis. For information, including pur-chasing tickets, contact Kim Henderson at [email protected] or call (850) 259-4956.

Shelter blanket driveIt is that time of year

again. Our shelter animals are in need of blankets to keep them war m and comfy through the winter season. Drop off your blanket donations at Panhandle Animal Wel-fare Society, 752 Lovejoy Road, Fort Walton Beach, Fla. 32548. Thank you in advance for your thought-ful contribution.

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