Vol. 70 No. 24 June 15, 2012 Word of the month: Excellence Pulling together Photo by Staff Sgt. Craig Cantrell Soldiers of 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th of war tournament held at Iron Horse Park, June 7. The five-day celebration of the 4th Infantry Division, pull against Soldiers of Headquarters Support Company, Headquarters Inf. Div.’s 95-year history featured 16 competitions and concluded with a concert in and Headquarters Battalion, 4th Inf. Div., in the final match of the Iron Horse Week tug Iron Horse Park. For more on Iron Horse Week see pages, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15 , 24 and 25. Message board INSIDEINSIDE An emergency management training exercise will be held June 20 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be emergency vehicles and simulated smoke in the vicinity of Gate 4. Drivers may experience delays in this area during Page 5 this time period. Page 9 Pages 36-37 2 MOUNTAINEER — June 15, 2012 MOUNTAINEER National Safety Month Commanding General: Maj. Gen. Joseph Anderson Garrison Commander: Keeping Soldiers safe Col. David L. Grosso Fort Carson Public Affairs Officer: Dee McNutt everyone’s responsibility Chief, Print and Web Communications: Rick Emert Editor’s note: Army leaders released the following you keep your Soldiers and civilian employees safe. Editor: Devin Fisher letter in observance of National Safety Month. Looking past June, the fourth quarter (July-September) Staff writer: Andrea Sutherland During the past several years, our Army has reduced is historically the deadliest time of the year for our preventable accidents to near peacetime levels. This Soldiers off duty. Privately-owned vehicle and motorcycle Happenings: Nel Lampe remarkable success has been achieved despite the high accidents dominate fatality reports, but drowning and other Sports writer: Walt Johnson operations tempo of our continuing missions overseas, water-related deaths have also been on the rise in recent Layout/graphics: Jeanne Mazerall proving once again the diligence and dedication of years. Compounding the tragedy, indiscipline is cited as a our Soldiers. We commend each and every one root cause in most of these losses. Discipline and standards of you for your hard work in making safety a top are at the core of our profession, and preventable deaths This commercial enterprise newspaper is an authorized publication for members of the priority, both on and off duty. due to reckless behavior hit our units, Families and our Department of Defense. Contents of the While risk management deserves our attention and surviving Soldiers especially hard. 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Making Mountaineer staff they conducted hundreds of combat missions in sure everything is working properly.” support of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Headquartered in Regional Command-South, The 42 Soldiers from the 749th Ordnance Division, as well as the Afghan National Army and EOD teams responded to hundreds of threats and Company, 242nd Explosive Ordnance Disposal Afghan Uniformed Police. conducted 130 post-blast analyses in 2nd BCT’s area Battalion, 71st Ordnance Group (EOD), are happy The Soldiers destroyed more than 415 improvised of responsibility in Kandahar Province, covering to be home. explosive devices and disposed of more than 97,000 more than 50,000 square miles. “It feels good,” said Sgt. Tyler Sumlin. “I pounds of unexploded ordnance and homemade “The guys did an outstanding job over there,” missed having a comfortable bed and having the explosives. said Capt. Corbin Copeland, commander. freedom to drive.” “After a couple of missions, (preparing for a See EOD on Page 4 Sumlin and his comrades returned home June 6 mission) becomes routine,” Sumlin said.