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One MAN's Story LEADING OFF:(Click text to read story) T OF EN TH M E T R A A R P M E Y D Davis says S E E C N I I O V R R E EX S ECUTIVE FAREWELL one MAN’s story CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK: This page is INTERACTIVE. Click any page title to read that story. COVER STORY: (Click text to read story) PAGE 4 Ayden Frail, 5, visits with U.S. Army Reserve pilots and crew chiefs at Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment at Simmons Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 18, 2013. Ayden was diagnosed with neuroblastoma last year on Thanksgiving Day. He visited the unit because he “really likes helicopters.” (Photo by Timothy L. Hale/U.S. Army Reserve Command) DEPARTMENTS: FAREWELL PAGE 3 PAGE 6 Employer Partnership .............. The Way I See It ...................... PAGE 15 This Month in Army History ..... PAGE 16 Legal Review ........................... PAGE 18 POW Chaplain’s Corner .................. PAGE 19 PAGE 8 Around the Headquarters ...... PAGE 20 Across the Army ..................... PAGE 22 Depth of Field .......................... PAGE 23 The OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF U.S. ARMY RESERVE COMMAND DOUBLE“Twice the Citizen! Army Strong!” EAGLE PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE, FORT BRAGG, N.C. The Double Eagle is an authorized publication for ARMY RESERVE COMMAND TEAM DOUBLE EAGLE STAFF SUBMISSIONS: Double Eagle invites your members of the U.S. Army Reserve Command Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley Col. Beth Britt story ideas, photographs, and other material headquarters, Fort Bragg, N.C. Contents of the Chief, U.S. Army Reserve Chief, Public Affairs Division of interest to members of the USARC Double Eagle are not necessarily the official Chief Warrant Officer 5 Phyllis J. Wilson Sgt. Maj. Anthony Martinez headquarters. Correspondence can be views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, Command Chief Warrant Officer Army Reserve Communications Sergeant Major sent via email to: [email protected]. Department of the Army, or U.S. Army Reserve of the Army Reserve Mr. Marty Martin Please include Double Eagle Story Submission Command. The editorial content of this Command Sgt. Maj. Luther Thomas Jr. Chief, Internal Information and your office in the subject line of your publication is the responsibility of the USARC Command Sergeant Major Mr. Timothy L. Hale email along with a daytime telephone, your Public Affairs Office, Fort Bragg, N.C. of the Army Reserve Editor, Double Eagle email, and contact name. 2 DOUBLE EAGLE - OCTOBER 2013 Addressing global issues through EPO, P3i By Erin Thede Talley identified the promotion of water security as a way U.S. Army Reserve Employer Partnership Office to prevent conflict and introduced the U.S. Army Reserve's unique approach, applying its expertise and capacity, while On Sept. 10, 2013, the U.S. Army Reserve Employer simultaneously training U.S. Soldiers to solve water security Partnership Office participated in the first Summit on Water challenges. Security and Conflict Prevention. The Army Reserve participation in the summit marks the The Summit was co-hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace, beginning of the developing P3i program that will enhance the Association of the United States Army, and the U.S. Water unit, leader, and individual readiness for our Soldiers. Partnership. During the recent Army Reserve Senior Leader Forum in Along with Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley, U.S. Army Reserve Colorado, Talley outlined how the Employer Partnership Office Command commanding and P3i will work together general, invited leaders to solve global issues such as included Dr. Andrew Steer, water security. World Resources Institute “They have to be solved president and Jeff Seabright, by the private-public sector Coca-Cola’s vice president and we're in a unique place to of environment and water bring that partnership together resources. because we're citizen-Soldiers,” The summit served as the Talley said. launch of the “Water Security Talley envisions evolving and Conflict Prevention Trust” the functionality and mission initiative that includes leaders of the current Employer across multiple disciplines to Partnership Office, which has include scientific, military, more than 4,000 agreements and national security. The goal in place, to help Soldiers build of the summit was to bring their civilian-acquired skills attention to the trend in water under a private sector model. scarcity and risk involved to P3i will pursue increase conflict. opportunities discussed at the Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, summit to create networks of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers organizations and mechanisms commanding general, to assist in the continued highlighted the connections cultivation and development between conflict and water Lt. Gen. Jeffrey W. Talley, U.S. Army Reserve Command of civilian-acquired skills scarcity by defining objectives, commanding general moderates a panel discussion at such as training, coaching the Water Security and Conflict Prevention Summit held trends, and opportunities to in Washington, D.C., Sept. 10, 2013. The Army Reserve and mentoring, as well as the meet the challenges. is collaborating to share engineering, transportation enhancement of personal, Bostick and other and medical expertise in the effort to ensure the world’s familial, professional, and population has access to safe and secure water. (Photo by speakers urged governments to Maj. Meritt Phillips/Office of the Chief, U.S. Army Reserve) military resilience skills for increase investments in water Soldiers. management infrastructure. The Army Reserve is presented with a future of constrained "Effective water resource management and resilient resources while needing to sustain its capabilities as an enduring infrastructure encourage security, encourage capital flows into operational force. Soldiers will continue to be presented with a region, and create a platform for growth and development," the challenge of balancing their military, civilian, Family, Bostick said. and personal lives. The P3i provides additional resources and Talley, who recognizes how the Army Reserve can assist training that will enhance not only their military careers but with these challenges, unveiled his U.S. Army Reserve Private- their civilian careers as well. Public Partnership Initiative, or P3i, to summit attendees. "If we look at the global problems that we have, they EDITOR’s NOTE: Additional information pulled from the U.S. cannot be solved by the government alone,” Talley said. “It Institute for Peace and U.S. Water Partnership. is going to take the private and public sectors to solve these problems ... and at the very top of the list is the environment, View videos from the summit at: http://www.usip.org/events/ climate change and water." water-security-and-conflict-prevention-summit OCTOBER 2013 - DOUBLE EAGLE 3 COVER STORY Ayden Frail, 5, of San Antonio, and his grandmother, Terri Pena, visited U.S. Army Reserve pilots and crew chiefs at Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment at Simmons Army Airfield at Fort Bragg, N.C., Sept. 18, 2013. Ayden was diagnosed with neuroblas- toma last year on Thanksgiving Day and Terri also has terminal cancer. “We’re just trying to do things together so they (Family) have a lot of memories,” Pena said. 4 DOUBLE EAGLE - OCTOBER 2013 Faith, Family, and Patriotism Fuels Little Boy’s Fight for Life Story & photos by Timothy L. Hale treatments at Children’s Methodist and U.S. Army Reserve helicopter crew U.S. Army Reserve Command Hospital in San Antonio. members. “This is the most freedom he has had “My most favorite thing about FORT BRAGG, N.C. – If you had to nine months,” said Terri Pena, Ayden’s helicopters is they shoot and they fly,” he live your life over again, what would you grandmother who accompanied him on said. do differently? the trip from San Antonio. B.J. said his son has heard None of us can go back and change Like Ayden, Terri is fighting her discussions about their family’s rich the past, and we often long for the “good own battle with cancer with tumors on military history, especially during World ol’ days” when in reality, those days are her lungs and heart. She also has Stage War II. He said it was only natural for right here in the present. 3 breast cancer. Their conditions have Ayden to sense the pride and honor of For five-year-old Ayden Atticus Frail, formed a strong bond between them as what it means to serve in uniform. there is no going back, only looking they spend their remaining days together. “He has a flight suit and a regular forward with the wide-eyed excitement “I am terminal as he is,” Terri said. U.S. Army uniform he likes to wear,” he that most children his age enjoy. “We’re just trying to do things together said. “Sometimes he goes to the doctor When you look at him, you would so they (Family) have a lot of memories.” with fatigues on. He doesn’t have a fear think he’s just like any other little boy. After more than nine months of of anyone’s thought process.” But while his eyes may be bright and treatments, coming to Fort Bragg was a His uncle, Chief Warrant Officer blue, they hide the scars of a disease that big change for Ayden. 5 Tom Baker, a U.S. Army Reserve is wrecking his young body. But on this day, Sept. 18, 2013, Command Safety officer, is also a Ayden is fighting the battle of his Ayden was living out one of his dreams helicopter pilot. life against a childhood killer – Stage 4 – to be an Army helicopter pilot – as a Although, when asked if he’d like to neuroblastoma – a cancer that develops guest of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, fly with his uncle, Ayden said, “he doesn’t from immature nerve cells found in 169th Aviation Regiment, a U.S.
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