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All Things Maryland................................................................A4By The Numbers........................................................................A4Mark Your Calendar..................................................................A6Did You Know?.........................................................................B3The APG Crossword...................................................................B4This Week in APG History..........................................................B5COVID-19 Operating Schedule...............................................B6

BY BRIAN FEENEYCCDC Chemical Biological Center

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- The U.S. Army and the University of Pennsylvania have entered into a coopera-tive research and development agreement to explore the ability of dogs to safely detect biomarkers produced by the COVID-19 virus in humans.

Medical researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medi-cine Working Dog Center have trained dogs

to detect ovarian cancer and diabetes. Could using dogs to detect COVID-19 in humans be far behind?

That was the question that motivated researchers from the Combat Capabilities Development Command Chemical Biolog-ical Center.

“We had just begun teleworking at the

COVID-19 detection canine Poncho indicates a positive sample from multiple items presented on a canine training wheel. The Training Aid Delivery Devices attached to each arm of the wheel allow the dog to detect the substance inside, some of which are the proteins that a person produces in response to the coronavirus.

Photo by Jack Bunja, CCDC CBC

Training Virus-detecting Dogs

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By RACHEL PONDER, APG News

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- The Auto Crafts Center recently reopened with several new COVID-19 safety measures and restrictions in place.

The Auto Crafts Center is a Morale, Wel-fare and Recreation self-help facility that provides patrons with a clean and safe envi-ronment to repair and perform maintenance on their privately-owned vehicles and equip-ment. In addition to providing service bay rentals, the center also has tools available for patrons to use while they are in the facility.

New Safety Measures MWR Shop Manager Carlton Deveaux, a

retired Army light-wheeled vehicle mechan-ic, said operations are limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Reservations are now

required to use the facility and patrons are encouraged to not bring guests.

Other precautions include mandato-ry hand-washing before entering the Auto Crafts Center and requiring that tools be san-itized after each use. Currently, the center is only utilizing every other bay so patrons can work on their vehicles while social dis-tancing. Until further notice, the Auto Crafts Center is only open on the weekends.

Knowledgeable Staff According to Deveaux, there are many

resources available to people who wish to learn more about car repairs and main-tenance. Anyone with a Common Access Card has access to the Chilton Automotive Maintenance Library through www.military-

Linwood Halsey, with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Chemical Biological Center, changes a brake pad at the Auto Crafts Center Aug. 1. The center recently reopened with new COVID-19 safety measures.

Photo by Rachel Ponder, APG News

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All Things Maryland................................................................A4By The Numbers........................................................................A4Mark Your Calendar..................................................................A6Did You Know?.........................................................................B3The APG Crossword...................................................................B4This Week in APG History..........................................................B5COVID-19 Operating Schedule...............................................B6

By RACHEL PONDER, APG News

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. –– To kick-off the first phase of a major renovation project, Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic hosted a wall-breaking ceremony July 17.

KUSAHC Deputy Commander for Administration Maj. Kimi Damassia-Rhoades said the project will update the 83,700-square-foot building that was built in 1963. The approximate cost of the project is $7 million.

According to Damassia-Rhoades, Phase 1 will be completed by July 2021. This phase involves renovating the Optometry Clinic, Allergy and Immunization Clinic, Physical Therapy Clinic, Radiology, Medical Records and the new patient waiting and reception area.

Phase 2, which is set to be completed by July 2022, involves renovating the Ortiz Training Center, Laboratories, Logistics and Housekeeping and Maintenance. Also in Phase 2, she said, the Occupational Health Clinic, which is currently on the third floor, will be relocated onto the first floor.

Approximately 19,000 square feet of the building is slated to be renovated. When the project is completed, all clinical services, except for Behavioral Health, will be located on the first floor, toward the front of the building. The new floor plan will include one large common waiting area for these services. The clinic’s area for administrative services also will be consolidated.

The project is being funded through

KUSAHC Holds Wall-Breaking Ceremony

Col. Tracy Michael, commander of Fort Meade’s U.S. Army Medical Department Activity and Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center, uses a sledgehammer to ceremonially break a wall to kick off the first phase of a major renovation project at Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic July 17.

Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Kelvin Andrews, Kirk U.S. Army Health Clinic

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By RACHEL PONDER, APG News

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- An APG Directorate of Public Works employee has been working behind the scenes to keep the community safe by making signs.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, DPW Sign Shop fabricator David Spinazzola has been tasked with making initial screening and physical distancing signs for high-traffic areas like the athletic center, swimming pools, commissary and the bowling center.

“I made a few hundred of them,” he said. “I am all caught up.”

Additionally, Spinazzola made about 4,500 labels for hand sanitizers and disinfectant for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Com-mand’s Aberdeen Test Center. To prevent the ink from rubbing off, he used a special ultravi-olet protective covering.

Spinazzola said he anticipates more signs will be needed when the installation enters

Phase 2 of its COVID-19 recovery plan.

Variety of Tasks Spinazzola said he has worked as a sign

maker for almost 20 years, and with DPW for 35 years. He works by himself in the shop and is involved in all phases of making the signs, from cutting the sign blanks out of aluminum sheet metal to designing the lettering on the computer.

Throughout his career, he has completed several big projects. In 2016, he said, he fabri-cated 1,500 new street signs when the installa-tion had to change some street names to meet both mailing and emergency services man-dates. Last year, he created about 200 new reflective aluminum signs for the APG hunt-ing areas.

“I designed these signs to last for a long time,” he said.

APG Directorate of Public Works Sign Shop fabricator David Spinazzola puts the finishing touches on a COVID-19 initial screening sign July 17. These signs are displayed in front of high-traffic areas, like the installation’s athletic center.

Photo by Rachel Ponder, APG News

BY LINDSEY MONGERATEC Public Affairs Office

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. –– Maj. Gen. Joel Tyler relinquished his duties as the commander of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) to Brig. Gen. James Gallivan during a change of command ceremony July 15 at APG.

A change of command is a military tradition that represents a transfer of authority and responsibility for a unit or command. The history, tradition, and accomplishments of the command are embodied in the colors. The passing of colors from an outgoing commander to an incoming commander ensures that the unit and its Soldiers are never without official leadership, represents a continuation of trust, and signifies an allegiance of Soldiers to their unit’s commander.

Gen. Joseph Martin, the 37th vice chief of staff of the Army, presided over the ceremony. He credited Tyler for his incredible leadership to a dynamic organization, and reflected on his accomplishments and responsibilities during his time at ATEC.

“Your optimistic can-do style of leadership has paid dividends here especially through the trying times we have all recently experienced,” said Martin. “Your leadership to the modernization effort has been nothing short of transformative. You have provided understanding to Army senior leaders, which is not easy to do when you are speaking a different language with multiple dialects and being able to communicate that to a universal audience.”

Martin listed many of Tyler’s accomplishments, including: restructuring ATEC to align with U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) Cross Functional Teams; planning and executing tests for signature programs; testing and evaluating more than

Army Test & Evaluation Command Welcomes New Commander

Maj. Gen. Joel Tyler relinquishes command of the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command to Brig. Gen. James Gallivan during a change of command ceremony July 15 at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Photo by Lindsey Monger, ATEC Public Affairs Office

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22 Gate Reopens With Limited HoursBy JON BLEIWEIS, APG News

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. --The Route 22 gate at APG North (Aber-deen) is now open on weekday afternoons from 3-5 p.m., in order to support workforce departures and relieve pressure at the Route 715 Gate.

APG Senior Commander Maj. Gen. Mitch-ell Kilgo made the announcement during his update to the workforce Friday, July 31.

The Route 22 gate is expected to be more operational when 80% of normal traffic is entering the installation. This would like-ly occur during the installation’s Phase 3 of the workforce’s return, once the installation’s Health Protection Condition reaches Alpha. More lanes at the APG gates would be made available for use when the percentage of the workforce returning increases.

As of press time, APG North remains in Phase 1 of the workforce’s return and HPCON Charlie Minus, in which up to 40% of the workforce is permitted on the installation.

To read Kilgo’s triweekly updates to the workforce, visit apgnews.com/covid-19.

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Auto Crafts Center Reopens

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BY TERRANCE BELLArmy News Service

FORT LEE, Va. -- Command Sgt. Maj. Roslyn Floyd wholeheartedly believes in the institution she has served for just over three decades. She is living testament to the Army’s abundance of opportunity and chances for personal development and career growth. It is common for her to promote mil-itary service with the line, “It’s a good start on life.”

“I used to tell everybody that,” said the Army Logistics University Support Battal-ion Soldier who is processing for retirement. “When I’d see people in the store, I’d start talking about the military, telling them, ‘If you don’t have anything else to do, and you don’t have any options to take, the military is one. It’s a good start, and you don’t have to make it a career.’”

Sharee Floyd, the CSM’s daughter, was apparently listening. Perhaps it was sub-consciously throughout her young life, but at some point, the message resonated and became applicable to her own interests.

Thus, the 19-year old -- who heard her mom spit that ‘good start’ line a hundred times -- moved to create a new beginning for herself, enlisting in the Army on Feb. 24 and receiving training as a 92Y unit supply specialist.

The former fast food employee earned her completion certificate from the eight-week Quartermaster School course on July 17. Sharee’s graduation venue is located less than a mile from where her mom served her last assignment. One could say the end of one Army career gave rise to another, at least from the younger Floyd’s perspective.

“I wanted to get a good start on my career, I guess, to follow in my mom’s footsteps,” said the private.

“Really, Sharee?” said a pleasantly sur-prised and flattered command sergeant-mom, maybe hearing Pvt. Floyd express certain aspirations for the first time.

Pvt. Floyd has three siblings -- 12- and 16-year-old brothers and a 28-year-old sister. Her mother, an 88M motor transport operator by training, has endured the usual challenges of a career in uniform -- long hours, deploy-ments and multiple moves -- mostly as a sin-gle mom. Early in her childhood, Pvt. Floyd said she was somewhat introduced to the rig-ors of military life when her mom returned from Iraq in 2009.

“I didn’t remember her when she came back,” said Sharee, her voice trembling with emotion of how difficult it was. “I guess because I hadn’t seen her in so long, and I wasn’t used to her being around.”

Considering a challenging childhood marked by her mom’s deployments, why would Pvt. Floyd be interested in the Army?

Travel, educational opportunities and gen-eral self-development are among the reasons she cited, but Pvt. Floyd said she was ready to take the next step. She -- like her mom -- had worked at a McDonald’s restaurant since her sophomore year in high school and was ready to move beyond “having a job” toward attaining a career. The enlistment contract Pvt. Floyd signed marked the end of a diffi-cult process and a jump-start to a life of inde-

pendence, said her mother.“Oh my, it really did hit home then,” she

said of her daughter’s decision. “I was get-ting nervous because I had been pushing her to do something with her life.”

Furthermore, CSM Floyd said the enlist-ment brought her to the realization Sharee was an adult ready to fly off into the yonder without her.

“I had anxiety because I knew I could no longer be there for my child,” she said. “At the same time, I had to have faith that she lis-tened to me throughout the years I raised her -- that she’d take the guidance I’ve always given her, and what I always instilled, and use that to survive, learning what she needs to become a Soldier.”

There is a strong basis behind CSM

Floyd’s faith in her daughter to succeed.“She’s a very loving, helpful and sup-

portive child,” she said. “Me being a sin-gle parent with two other children at home, I’ve leaned heavily upon her because of my work schedule. She took care of the house -- washing, ironing and folding clothes -- all of that while working and going to school. You name it, she did it.”

A proud mom-wearing-CSM-stripes smile spread across her face as she continued the thought. “I know she’s going to go after her job as a 92Y the same way.”

Pvt. Floyd said she’s looking to attain more job skills and earn a degree in nurs-ing. She has not determined how long she’ll remain in uniform beyond her four-year contract.

Family’s One ‘Good Start’ Gives Rise to Another

Pvt. Sharee Floyd and her mother, Command Sgt. Maj. Roslyn Floyd, pose for a recent picture. Sharee graduated from advanced individual training on July 17 as a logistician and is currently stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia. Her mother recently concluded a 31-year career as a logistician.

Photo by Terrance Bell

ABERDEEN, Md. -- On July 23, over 80 government and industry members participated in a golf tournament held by the Aberdeen chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association at Wetlands Golf Course in Aberdeen.

The tournament, which is AFCEA Aberdeen’s only annual fundraiser, raised nearly $14,000 for the group’s program that supports local teachers and students from elementary school through college. The event incorporated social distancing safety measures, a mask sponsorship, hand sanitizer and other safety precautions in order to give the golfers, who were eager to network again, a safe, socially-distanced tee time.

Photo courtesy of AFCEA Aberdeen

Golfers Tee Off for Fundraiser

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BY KIRSTIN GRACE-SIMONSMEDCOM MAMC

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CEN-TER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. -- The world is searching for a treatment, a cure and a prevention for COVID-19. One piece of that puzzle may be tapped via the sap of human life -- blood. At Madigan Army Medical Center, and 14 other Department of Defense facilities, those who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate the liquid part of their blood -- the plasma -- in an effort to apply it to use as a treatment for those bat-tling the disease now.

On a recent visit to Joint Base Lew-is-McChord, Wash., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaf-fery made a special stop at the Armed Ser-vices Blood Bank Center - Pacific Northwest to talk to the staff about convalescent plasma and the DoD’s effort to collect 10,000 units by Sept. 30.

“We are doing this across the DoD, across the Military Health System,” said McCaf-fery. “This is an all-in effort; we are counting down to the end of September to get those ten thousand units.”

During his tour of the facility, McCaf-fery was escorted by Maj. Juan Guzman, the chief of the ASBBC-PNW, and informed on the center’s operations by a number of staff members.

Capt. Zachary Albright, the center’s offi-cer-in-charge, met McCaffery at the door and walked him right to the temperature scan-ner that Navy Hospitalman Edward Yelland, a lab technician, had ready for McCaffery’s forehead.

This measure was just one of the non-pharmaceutical interventions the center has in place to combat the spread of COVID-19. With the exception of the short amount of time McCaffery and Guzman filmed a public service announcement for the plasma collec-tion effort, everyone on the premises wore a face covering; while filming, social distanc-ing was observed.

Albright had the center’s impressive blood product collection numbers at the ready and offered an overview of operations before Maj. (Dr.) Benjamin Cook, the med-ical director for Transfusion Services, gave McCaffery a blast of chilly air from the cen-ter’s deep freezers.

According to the National Institutes of Health, in order to retain viability, plasma must be frozen at subzero temperatures.

After a look at the processing area and an introduction to the tri-service staff, McCaf-fery was shown the apheresis room where he was able to see Steve Christodoulou, an apheresis nurse, and Frank Wake, a phlebot-omist, busily attending to a COVID-19 con-valescent plasma donor.

As the assistant secretary observed the

process, the reason behind the push for plasma became clear through viewing the donor’s blood being drawn from them and through tubing into an apheresis machine that separated the plasma and sent the rest back into the donor.

Within that plasma reside antibodies -- proteins that the immune system produces in response to infection.

Some information of both the history and effectiveness of convalescent plasma can be found on the American Society of Hematol-ogy’s website.

Convalescent plasma has been used for nearly a century to transfer antibodies from a recovered person to help protect anoth-er from an infection. In that time, there has been some evidence that there has been bene-

fit against rabies, hepatitis B, polio, measles, influenza, Ebola and other pathogens. Small case studies have also shown that during previous coronavirus outbreaks of Middle East respiratory syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as MERS and SARS, respectively, the use of convalescent plasma was both safe and helpful in clearing the virus faster.

COVID-19 is the disease caused by the virus known as SARS-CoV2, which is a coronavirus.

“It is important for people to donate,” said Guzman. “It’s helping lives.”

Beyond speeding the clearance of the virus, McCaffery also sees expanded possi-bilities in the plasma’s use.

“We believe there is potential for this plasma to ultimately be converted into anoth-er treatment that can be used as a preventive measure, or be used for somebody who has been exposed to COVID and can get this as treatment to prevent the further development of the virus,” McCaffery said.

During non-COVID times, the ASBBC-PNW has a full schedule of mobile blood drives to collect blood. But, even then, apheresis is a process that does not trav-el well; donors must come into the center to donate.

Many people may be familiar with typ-ical blood donation. The apheresis process takes longer, roughly 45 minutes, but is no more complicated for the donor. The center has lounge chairs, reading material, televi-sions and movies and no shortage of snacks. The staff ensures that it has all the favorites of regular donors on hand to make them as comfortable as possible.

“People can donate several ways -- through apheresis or through whole blood,” said Guzman. “People can offer their blood, their life-saving product and help out peo-ple in need.”

To learn more about the Military Health System’s Convalescent Plasma Collection Program, visit https://go.usa.gov/xf8h5.

Convalescent Plasma Sought to Fight COVID-19

Frank Wake, left, works with COVID-19 survivor Karen Conley to draw conva-lescent plasma through a process called plasmapheresis. Apheresis nurse Steve Christodoulou, right, explains the process to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Tom McCaffery as he visits the Armed Services Blood Bank Center - Pacific Northwest at Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington, July 15.

Photo by John Wayne Liston

BY MASTER SGT. BECKY VANSHURIdaho Army National Guard

BOISE, Idaho – Spend a day with Idaho farmer and Guardsman Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chad Queen, one of the Idaho Army National Guard’s rescue helicopter pilots, and feel firsthand what it is like to fly the UH-72 Lakota helicopter and help save lives

The clunking and sputtering sounds of the tractor are too loud and the vibration from the engine on his leg masked the familiar feeling of the phone ringing in his pocket, so he missed the call. Not 30 seconds later, his wife runs toward him from the ranch house with a phone in her hand and her arms waving above her, motioning for him to stop, as he is barreling down a row of overgrown hay.

An Idaho National Guard flight operations officer is on the line. “We have a possible rescue, can you assemble a crew?” A crew consists of the pilot, a crew chief and a paramedic. Today, there are two individuals lost on the south fork of the Boise River near Elmore County, north of Mountain Home, Idaho.

It is a warm summer day, just after 10 a.m. on a Saturday. Queen leaves his tractor in the field and rushes to change out of his dusty farm clothes and into his flight suit. He calls his crew to help, kisses his wife and gets into his car, all within a few minutes. Queen calls the flight operations officer. “We are 30 minutes out.”

“I am always pleased when I can assist with a rescue mission; it is a great way to serve my local community,” said Queen. “With over thirty years in the Army, I have had many assignments, but none so rewarding as this.”

The previous evening, three individuals flipped in their raft on the river. One individual was able to safely pull himself out of the water, walking several hours to find a phone around midnight and call for help. He did not see his two friends get out of the river. Air St. Luke’s flew up and down the river throughout the night, unable to find either of them. Elmore County Search and Rescue set up a command center nearby and started the ground search.

As soon as Air St. Luke’s and the Elmore County Search and Rescue realized the lost individuals could be down in a river canyon and unreachable, they requested the Idaho Army National Guard’s UH-72 Lakota helicopter. They called the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center dispatch, located in Florida, for assistance. The AFRCC approved the mission and called the Idaho National Guard flight operations officer.

Idaho’s two UH-72 helicopters belong to the IDARNG Detachment 1, Delta Company, 112th Service and Support Battalion. They have a unique hoist and lift rescue attachment and are strictly used for domestic operations and rescues.

Queen and his crew arrive at Gowen Field, Boise’s Air Terminal and National Guard base, around 10:30 a.m., and begin preparing the helicopter for its flight. Using

a preflight checklist, Queen ensures the fuel amount is accurate for the mission with the weight of the crewmembers and the additional approximate weight of the rescued individuals.

The crew chief ensures the aircraft is ready for the mission and Queen gathers the map, the route and coordinates, weather data and any other information needed from a preflight brief with the flight operations officer.

The helicopter and crew are ready. They grab their survival bags, helmets and harnesses. Queen is sitting in the cockpit and taxis the helicopter onto the open space of the flight line. He lifts up on the collective and brings the helicopter a few

feet above the ground for several seconds. He performs a hover check to calculate power requirements with the combined calculations of weight adjustments, weather, altitude and fuel amount.

Queen performs final radio checks and they take off high into the air, heading east away from Gowen Field toward Mountain Home.

Speaking through his headset, Queen says, “Five minutes out from the location site.” The crew chief attaches his tether to the tether of the hoist. He tugs on it firmly, going through the motions of several series of operational checks on the equipment. The hoist equipment is ready.

The crew chief and the paramedic hang out of the helicopter on the ledge of each side, searching the ground below them, their feet resting on the helicopter’s skid platform. The helicopter blades are rotating loudly above them.

They search deep into the gulches near the river. They fly up and down the river, searching in the water and the riverbanks at low altitudes and low airspeed.

Two individuals are spotted walking on a dirt road in a narrow canyon area. Queen lands in a nearby opening. The paramedic jumps out of the helicopter and runs to the two individuals. Fortunately, they are the lost individuals and are only suffering from minor injuries and dehydration.

The individuals are rescued without the need for the hoisting equipment. First aid is performed on them as they fly back to the

command center, where ground ambulances and an excited group of family members and friends are waiting, cheering as the helicopter lands.

It is nearing 1 p.m. and Queen flies the helicopter back to Gowen Field. He and his crew feel a release of tension to know they successfully helped rescue the two individuals.

Queen and his crew train for daytime and nighttime scenarios and with different rescue agencies such as fire departments, sheriff’s offices, forest rangers, wildland firefighters and other first responders.

“The crew can respond to assist with several emergencies like floods, fires and mountain rescues,” said Queen. “We train with local first responders to assure proficiency for when it counts.”

Queen taxis the helicopter toward the hangar at Gowen Field. He and his crew perform the post-flight checklist and debrief, positioning the helicopter in the hangar, preparing it for the next rescue.

Queen drives up his gravel driveway hearing the familiar crisp sound of the rock under his tires. It is late in the afternoon now. He quickly eats a sandwich, changes back into his farm clothes and walks up the already swathed row of hay toward his tractor. He climbs into his tractor and begins barreling down the row that he had abandoned earlier, feeling the warmth of the hot summer sunlight on his face and a sense of relief from the day’s successful rescue mission.

A Day in the Life of a Rescue Helicopter Pilot

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Chad Queen is one of the Idaho Army National Guard’s rescue helicopter pilots who flies a UH-72 Lakota helicopter. Queen and his crew train for daytime and nighttime scenarios and with different rescue agencies such as fire departments, sheriff’s offices, forest rangers, wildland firefighters and other first responders.

Photos by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur

Idaho’s two UH-72 helicopters belong to the IDARNG Detachment 1, Delta Company, 112th Service and Support Battalion. They have a unique hoist and lift rescue attachment and are strictly used for domestic operations and rescues.

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2,000+The number of varieties of peaches in the world.

1982The year that August became National Peach Month in the U.S.

50The percentage of U.S. peaches produced by California, even though Georgia is known as the Peach State.

12 yearsThe average lifespan of a peach tree.

5The number of pink petals on a peach blossom.

By STEVE BELAND, APG News

NATIONAL PEACH MONTH

August is National Peach Month. Peaches are a widely popular delicious, juicy fruit and they are a great source of vitamins A and C. You can buy two

main varieties of peaches: clingstone and freestone. Learn more with these fast facts.

By STACY SMITH, APG News

Havre de Grace residents and visitors can view highlights of the city’s culture, history and architecture while driving, walking or biking the Lafayette Trail, a three-mile self-guided tour through its renowned historic district.

The Lafayette Trail provides visitors with a small sample of the 800 historic structures that make up the rich history of Havre de Grace. In addition to dwellings, the trail includes churches, museums, parks, hotels, theaters and service facilities.

The tour has more than 50 stops, starting at The Susquehanna Museum of Havre de Grace at the Lockhouse and ending at Goll’s Bakery, the city’s oldest family-owned bakery. The trail’s path is marked by blue signs and lines painted along the sidewalk.

The Lafayette Trail crosses Market Street, where visitors can catch a glimpse of the Susquehanna River and the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Bridge, built in 1906 and still in use.

Visitors are encouraged to venture onto side streets and alleys for additional sites and interesting architecture. Many structures include summer kitchens (outbuildings with a chimney), carriage houses, outdoor ovens and barns or livery stables, where horses were once housed.

The trail is named in honor of French Gen. Marquis de Lafayette, who fought for the U.S. during the American Revolutionary War. Lafayette visited the area several times and remarked that it

reminded him of the French seaport city, Le Havre de Grace, or “Harbor of Mercy.” Inspired by Lafayette’s comments, the residents incorporated the town as Havre de Grace in 1785.

According to the trail’s sponsor, the Havre de Grace Historic Preservation Commission, the history of the city begins with the voyage of Capt. John Smith in

1608. Maryland enacted a treaty with the Susquehannock Indians in 1652, which cleared the way for settlements. The first ferry across the Susquehanna was established a little over 40 years later and remained in operation for 170 years.

Havre de Grace was nearly named the U.S. capital; it tied with Washington, D.C., during a vote in the House of Representatives. The Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s changed the face of Havre de Grace when the canneries, lumber yards,

mills, factories and ice houses that cropped up along its waterfront grew the city’s economic potential.

Today, Havre de Grace is recognized for its small-town ambience and picturesque waterfront views. For more information, or a map of the Lafayette Trail, visit www.havredegracemd.com, or contact the Havre de Grace Visitor’s Center at 410-939-2100.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the July 16, 2015, edition of the APG News.

Explore Havre de Grace’s Lafayette Trail

The Spencer-Silver Mansion, constructed in High Victorian style, is one of the largest historic houses in Havre de Grace. Originally built as a private residence around 1896, the bed and breakfast is a popular feature along the Lafayette Trail.

Photos by Stacy Smith, APG News

CECOM Commanding General Maj. Gen. Mitchell Kilgo delivers remarks during the AFCEA’s Army 2020 Signal Conference.

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By JON BLEIWEIS, APG News

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A pilot program is in place for Sol-diers in the field to receive more timely software updates.

The work behind the pilot was done by the U.S. Army Communications-Electron-ics Command’s Software Engineering Cen-ter, at APG, that will allow deployed units to access their home bases so they can bet-ter maintain their systems.

Speaking at the AFCEA’s Army 2020 Signal Conference last month, CECOM commanding general Maj. Gen. Mitch-ell Kilgo spoke about how the command is working to support the Army through soft-ware readiness initiatives.

There is increased operational risk due to Army units fighting with outdated and vulnerable software, Kilgo said, adding that Soldiers are used to getting software updates via a disc every quarter.

The answer to the outdated software may come in the form of a common software repository, a centralized server that hosts and houses the software CECOM sustains. Through this platform, Soldiers could pull software updates from it, or the enterprise can push updates to Soldiers in the field.

“Having that available with the lat-est and greatest software for all your sys-tems allows units to pull that software at any time,” Kilgo said. “So when they have the opportunity to upgrade their systems, that software is available for them, they

know it’s the latest, they know it’s secure-ly patched, and all vulnerabilities have been mitigated with it.”

The pilot is being tested by the 101st Airborne Division. Kilgo said he hopes an additional OCONUS unit will test it pri-or to December and that the system will be at full operational capacity in the middle of fiscal 2021.

CECOM is also working with U.S. Army Forces Command, Army G6 and Army G 3/5/7 in software preventative maintenance and readiness reporting. Kilgo said the Army has long focused on hardware, but not as much on software.

In part, this includes the development of a scorecard that Soldiers will use to report the status of their software, which will pro-vide preventative maintenance and readi-ness reporting.

CECOM is now working on automated software that detects software builds and patching that can be sent to a Soldier’s system out in the field. He said fiscal 2021 will be spent on refining the tool, with the goal of having a pilot ready to go in fiscal 2022.

Kilgo said the efforts to modernize soft-ware at CECOM will bring confidence that Soldiers have the right software in their sys-tems to be effective, and that they’re secure.

“This gets at tying the hardware and software of our systems together to give us a better picture of how ready our forces are to fight,” he said.

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center,” said Michele Maughan, Ph.D., a cen-ter researcher. “And I called up the research partner in my branch who I work most close-ly with on dogs, Jenna Gadberry, and said to her, ‘We keep saying we need to find a way for dogs to detect COVID-19, let’s do this! Do you have the will to try?’” With a col-laborative yes, they approached their branch chief.

The Biochemistry Branch chief, Patricia Buckley, Ph.D., gave them the green light to get started. “I liked the idea immediate-ly,” said Buckley. “And since my branch had already developed the Training Aid Delivery Device we call TADD, I knew the training could be done in a way that would be safe for the dogs and handlers.”

The TADD was first developed by a cen-ter research team in 2013 as a laboratory device for containing hazardous substanc-es needed for testing and evaluation of new detection equipment. In 2018 it was rugge-dized so that it could be used in field set-tings without fear of breaking it if it was dropped or roughly handled. It is a con-tainer that comes in sizes ranging from one ounce to eight ounces. A membrane cover-ing the mouth of the container lets the vol-atile organic compounds that a hazardous substance emits flow out of the TADD. The hazardous substance itself remains inside. A grid placed over the membrane prevents punctures.

“The TADD made it safe for dogs to be trained using live substances because explo-sive powders and narcotics stay under the membrane and do not go up into a dog’s nose,” said Maughan.

“In the case of detecting COVID-19, the dogs never actually have any exposure to the live virus. Rather, they are trained to detect the biomarkers associated with COVID-19 disease in humans. These biomarkers are the proteins that the human immune system pro-duces in response to the presence of the virus and not the actual virus. The goal is to train dogs to detect the disease state before a per-son starts showing signs of disease such as fever, coughing, and shortness of breath,” Maughan added.

Another feature of the TADD is that all of its components, from the tight-sealing lid to the protective grid, emit very little odor. “Plastic and rubber materials can be very stinky to dogs and interfere with their detec-tion of the substances we’re looking for,” said Maughan. “We knew the TADD would be perfect for containing COVID-19 patient samples of saliva or urine because we knew this odor profile would be quite nuanced and require the dogs to key in on some really low VOC molecules. It’s important that the con-tainment system, the TADD, doesn’t com-pete with the target odor.”

The TADD development project was a part of the support center researchers had been providing the military explosives com-munity’s canine detection programs since 2012. Over the course of that work, Maughan and Gadberry had developed strong connec-tions with the military working dog com-munity, both within government agencies and with some of the nation’s most gift-ed dog trainers who work as independent contractors.

Maughan had another important connec-tion, too. As an undergraduate pre-veterinary student at the University of Delaware, she had gotten to know the director of Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center, Cynthia Otto, DVM, Ph.D. “The working dog community is small and I had stayed in touch with Cindy over the years because we are both very interested in how to use dogs to improve people’s lives,” said Maughan. “So when the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the idea of approach-ing her on training dogs to detect the virus in humans was a natural.”

Just like Buckley, Otto liked the idea immediately. In fact, the Penn Vet Working Dog Center had a one- to two-year canine COVID-19 project in mind already. What Maughan and Gadberry brought to this effort is what the Army does best -- up the tempo

and get a hard job done fast. Maughan and Gadberry were perfect for this. In addition to their relationship with Otto and the Work-ing Dog Center, through the center they had developed relationships with military users, the virus research community, and a host of other government agencies.

Given the green light, Buckley, Maughan, and Gadberry put the project on a fast track. Maughan called Otto on March 27. With-in ten days the center team and the Penn Vet team were holding project planning dis-cussions. On April 28, the teams were noti-fied that the University of Pennsylvania had found a philanthropic gift to fund the project. On May 14, the center established a cooper-ative research and development agreement with the University of Pennsylvania to per-form cooperative research. By May 21, all of the COVID-19 human samples had been collected, and the dogs began training on May 26.

To perform this highly specialized train-ing, Maughan and Gadberry reached out to another dog trainer they had stayed in con-tact with over the years, Patrick Nolan, own-er of a working dog business in Hagerstown,

Maryland. He started his business after 12 years of working with U.S. Army Special Forces training military working dogs and 30 years of training retrievers to hunt.

“Pat provided 10 working dogs and, using human saliva and urine samples provided by the University of Pennsylvania, got the dogs working with the TADDs right away,” said Maughan. “Training dogs to do this kind of work, detecting a substance down to the parts per trillion level is an art, and I could think of no one better than him to do it.”

What the dogs are actually identifying is not the virus itself, but the proteins that the human immune system generates to fight the virus. The art that a trainer like Nolan applies is to get the dog to pay attention only to that smell, and to stay engaged in the hunt for it for hours at a time.

The training wheel is central to that train-ing process. It has multiple arms, each one has a TADD attached at the end of it. Some contain saliva or urine from a symptomatic COVID-19 patient, some contain an asymp-tomatic person’s sample, and some are from a person who does not have the virus. But the choices do not end there. Some contain an

inert substance as a control, some have a dis-traction element inside such as an open mag-ic marker or food item or a tennis ball, and some are empty.

The dog is, in effect, paid to become increasingly selective, honing its atten-tion down to just the COVID-19 immune response odor. For these Labrador retriev-ers, payment is a food treat or a favorite toy. As the training progresses, Nolan stacks the wheels, making for even more sources of stimulation for the dogs and demanding that they become more and more selective.

This is a six- to nine-week process and not every dog makes it through. “Not every dog can stick with the length and degree of intensity of the training to get all the way to being able to detect in the part per trillion range,” said Gadberry. “And not every dog has the drive to stay with the game for hours at a time, which is essential if the dogs are to provide COVID-19 screening at the entranc-es to crowded public places such as at air-ports, sports stadiums, or at border control checkpoints.”

Those dogs that make it all the way through the training to eventually be oper-ationalized are far better at getting the job done than swabs used for later analysis, or thermal cameras currently being used to detect a fever. Their method of detection is immediate and can detect COVID-19 in peo-ple who have not become feverish yet.

However, getting to that next step, cre-ating a cadre of trained dogs ready to be deployed, is not part of the scope of this study. “We only received enough funding, through the University of Pennsylvania, to establish the proof of concept,” said Buck-ley. “When the money runs out in the sum-mer of 2020, we will write a report on our findings with Pat Nolan and Cindy Otto, and then have to seek out further funding.”

Everyone involved in the project fervent-ly hopes for further funding. They see the potential benefits of virus-detecting dogs as a routine presence at public gatherings as simply too promising to not pursue further. “This is even bigger than the pandemic we are dealing with now,” said Buckley. “We will face future pandemics from other virus-es and having a capability like this will keep the nation ready for whatever happens next.”

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The Training Aid Delivery Device is a canine training device developed by CCDC Chemical Biological Center researchers; it can safely contain a substance hazard-ous to dogs by only letting out the volatile organic compounds emitted.

Photo by Jack Bunja, CCDC CBC

onesource.mil, he said. This library covers thousands of year, make and model combina-tions. The facility also has access to ALLDA-TA Repair, an internet maintenance manual library.

Additionally, Deveaux said, there are many helpful videos on YouTube. He recom-mends that patrons do a little research before coming into the center.

“That will at least give you a head start when you come in,” he said.

Deveaux called the facility a “great mon-ey saver.” He has been working at the cen-ter for more than 10 years and enjoys getting to know the patrons. The staff are friend-ly, knowledgeable and are available to help patrons who need assistance, he said.

“I enjoy working with the military folks and the civilians,” he said. “We have esprit de corps, we have discipline and we know how to work together, regardless of what branch of service we are from. We can accomplish many things. People shouldn’t feel intimidated to work on their cars here. We are here to assist you.”

Learning New Skills

Spc. Chris Trivett, of the 1st Area Medical Laboratory, said he plans on using the facili-ty to learn more about car maintenance. This past weekend he used the facility to change the motor oil and oil filter in his car.

“I like that I can work with my hands and learn something,” he said. “This is a really good resource in general.”

Linwood Halsey, with the U.S. Army Com-bat Capabilities Development Command’s Chemical Biological Center, has been using the Auto Crafts Center for 15 years. He learned how to work on cars from his father, he said.

“Working on my car is a hobby of mine,” he said. “I am a do-it-yourselfer, I feel more comfortable doing maintenance myself. I am glad the shop reopened and I can do what I enjoy doing on the weekends. And I have made great friends here, we all help each other.”

Jim Clarke, an Air Force disabled veteran, used the facility this past weekend to replace the air conditioning compressor in his daugh-ter’s car.

“We use this center a lot and we are so glad that it reopened,” said Shannon Clarke, Jim Clarke’s daughter. “I would be without a car completely if the center did not reopen.”

Make an AppointmentThe Auto Crafts Center is located in Build-

ing 2379 on Harford Boulevard. To make a res-

ervation during the week, call 410-278-2134, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On the weekends, call the Auto Crafts Center, 410-278-5178. For

more information, including rental fees, vis-it https://aberdeen.armymwr.com/programs/auto-crafts-center.

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Jim Clarke, an Air Force veteran, repairs the air conditioning compressor on his daughter’s car at the Auto Crafts Center Aug. 1.

Photo by Rachel Ponder, APG News

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Mark Your Calendar

Harford County Public Library has begun welcoming back its customers with a modified reopening. As of June 8, library customers are now able to request materials online or by phone and pick them up -- by appointment -- at the drive-through (or front door, if there is not a drive-through) at the library of their choice. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Mon-day through Friday. To make a request or schedule a pickup appointment, visit HCPLonline.org, or call your local library during business hours.

The due date for materials picked up starting June 8 is three weeks. All other items checked out before then are due Sept. 1. The library is waiving all fines and fees during this period.

Updates will be shared through social media, the library website and eNews as the situation changes.

The Aberdeen Farmers Market offers fresh produce, hand-crafted products and fun theme days in a family-friendly atmosphere. It is open every Thurs-day from 4 to 7 p.m. at Festival Park, 60 N. Parke St., Aberdeen. The Farmer’s Market season lasts thru Oct. 29. For more information, visit the Aberdeen Farmers Market Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AberdeenMD-FarmersMarket/.

Aberdeen Farmers Market: Every Thursday through Oct. 29

Harford County Public Library Welcomes Back Customers

The City of Aberdeen’s annual hydrant flushing runs from June 8 to Sept. 9. Flushing will be conducted from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday of each week. The following schedule is tentative and sub-ject to change in the event of unforeseen problems. For more informa-tion, contact Dennis Overbay, Directorate of Public Works, at 443-206-8910 or City of Aberdeen representative Roger Hall, at 410-272-1449.

July 24–Aug. 10: Plumb Point & restricted areas

Aug. 12–Aug. 25: ARL & restricted areas

Aug. 26–Sept. 9: ARL & restricted areas

City of Aberdeen’s Annual Hydrant Flushing Through Sept. 9

Bennett, Sarah E.; Bush, Galen; Christley, Tanya; D’Agostino, Cassandra; Dalmas, Jean C.; Damiano, Janeen L.; Dissek, Michael L.; Doolittle, Christopher; Edwards, Barbara M.; Eiseman, Brenda Kay; Evans, Tiffaney D.; Forch, Christina C.;

Frech, Jenny; Friedman, Marian J.; Gaddis, Lonnie; Gattonn, Theresa; Gizinski, Deirdre D.; Grenoble, Natalie; Gresham, James F.; Humphrey, Eric Jamahl; Joseph, Charmaine; Jones, Selina Bessie; Kirksey, Alexson T.; Laryoshyma, Valeria;

Lee, Jennifer; Lemberg, Monica M.; Lewis, Christopher M.; LiCalzi, William E.; Maloney, Jennifer R.; Mason, Frances E.W.; Mcentee, Monica; Mckinnon, Brittany; Mullinax, Christopher A.; Neyens, Ulrike; Norman, Peter W.; Pace, Carol;

Pitts, Sheila; Roberts III, George; Sanders-Nash, Casandra; Schafer, Melissa Darlene; Simmons, Raymond; Tom, Antonia N.; Torralbes, Melissa A.; Tran, Phuong B. (Lisa); Wang, Hui; Westrich, Amanda S.; White, Tracey L.

Employees eligible for donations in the Voluntary Leave Transfer ProgramLeave Donations

The Voluntary Leave Transfer Program (VLTP) allows an employee who has a medical emergency to receive transferred annual leave directly from other employ-ees to avoid being placed in a leave with-out pay situation. This allows an employee to continue to receive pay while recuper-ating from a medical emergency, whether it’s their own or a family member’s. For more information about the Volun-tary Leave Transfer Program, contact act-ing VLTP coordinator Marybeth Maahs and copy Sandra Calloway. They can be reached at marybeth.maahs.civ@mail.mil, and sandra.l.calloway.civ@mail.mil, respectively.

Please be advised that the Directorate of Public Works is currently in the

process of assessing and removing hazardous

trees across the installation. Trees serve an important role in the forests and cantonment

areas of APG, but during storm events and natural life cycles they

can also become hazardous to humans and property. Should a tree appear to pose a risk to health and/or

safety in your area, please contact APG DPW at 410-306-1400 to submit a service request.

Kirk USAHC Readiness Rodeo Aug. 6

Kirk USAHC will be closed on Aug. 6 as part of its regularly scheduled clo-sure on the first Thursday of the quarter. However, this quarter, to improve medical readiness across the installation, Kirk is hosting a Readiness Rodeo. On that day, active-duty Soldiers on APG/Edgewood are encouraged to report to Kirk USAHC or Edgewood Occupational Health Clinic to complete Medical Readiness requirements (PHA, hearing, vision, HIV, immunizations). All of these can be done on Aug. 6 on a walk-in basis, except for hearing exams, due to limited space availability in the hearing booth. For a hearing exam, please call 410-278-1913 (Aberdeen) or 410-436-3001 (Edgewood). Any Soldier coming in for a PHA must complete Part 1 prior to arrival. Part 1 can be completed at https://medpros.mods.army.mil/portal/

Running Track ClosureConstruction of a new artificial turf field to be located within the running

track across the street from the Aberdeen Area Gym will begin Aug. 10. As part of the construction process and for patrons’ safety, the running track will be closed for the duration of the construction, which is expected to be com-pleted by Nov. 30.

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BY DAN LAFONTAINECCDC C5ISR Center Public Affairs

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army Futures Command is using rapid prototyping to integrate tactical network sys-tems, which will enhance functionality of the Soldier-worn Integrated Visual Augmenta-tion System onto combat vehicles.

IVAS provides Soldiers with improved situational awareness capabilities as they fight, train and rehearse missions. IVAS capabilities include a digital display to access information without taking eyes off the bat-tlefield, thermal and low-light sensors, rapid target acquisition, aided target identification and augmented reality.

The Command, Control, Communica-tions, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Sur-veillance and Reconnaissance Center -- a component of AFC’s Combat Capabilities Development Command -- is leading the prototyping efforts, in coordination with IVAS developers and network project man-agement offices. The center uses its in-house expertise to inform and refine the design, fit and function needed to house and integrate network components, including radios, serv-ers and cables.

The C5ISR Center started design work this spring to integrate IVAS devices with Stryker armored vehicles, leading to Vehicle Excursion 2 in January 2021 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The Soldier

Refining Networks for Combat Vehicles

The Project Bloodhound MRZR all-terrain vehicle sits at Aberdeen Proving Ground in 2019.

U.S. Army photo

See TACTICAL, page B3

U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army scientists have designed and developed a realistic canine bite sleeve trainer to improve the performance of military and civilian K9s. Military working dogs often serve an essential role in military operations.

Dogs operate in a wide range of capacities within the military, including security, patrol, explosives detection, tracking, search and res-cue, guard, sentry and tactical duties. Trainers

use bite training on military working dogs to assist in restraining a perpetrator. It also may eliminate the need to use a weapon.

Dr. Stephen Lee, a senior scientist at the Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Com-mand’s Army Research Laboratory, led the bite sleeve research, and holds a patent for his work. He developed the product with stu-

Realistic Bite Sleeve Improves Canine Training

Army scientists have developed a realistic canine bite sleeve trainer to improve the performance of military working dogs.

U.S. Army photo

See CANINE, page B3

U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory

ADELPHI, Md. -- Cyberattacks and the extent of their damage have increased in recent years. In response, Army research-ers have discovered a method to enhance the effectiveness of cyber defenders and resil-ient systems in support of military operations by developing an adversarial framework for evaluating a cyberalert inspection system.

This method produces sub-optimal, but usable, defender policies that are utilized in training the cyberalert investigation system until it learns becoming robust to the discov-ered attacker policy.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Com-bat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, the University of South Florida, Singapore Management Uni-

versity and George Mason University made an adversarial evaluation of the defend-er’s approach. The peer-reviewed journal, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, published the team’s find-ings in April.

Dr. Hasan Cam, a researcher at the labo-ratory, said large organizations operate a first line of cyber defense, known as cyber secu-rity operation centers.

These centers consist of a team of special-ized analysts, engineers and responders who maintain and improve cybersecurity, Cam said. The inspection of cyberalerts is a criti-cal part of their operations.

“Given the high false positive rates of

U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory

ADELPHI, Md. -- Dialogue is one of the most basic ways humans use language, and it is a desirable capability for autonomous systems. Army researchers have developed a novel dia-logue capability to transform Soldier-robot interaction and perform joint tasks at opera-tional speeds.

The fluid communication achieved by dia-logue will reduce training overhead in con-trolling autonomous systems and improve Soldier-agent teaming.

Researchers from the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the

University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, developed the Joint Understanding and Dialogue Interface capabil-ity, which enables bi-directional conversational interactions between Soldiers and autonomous systems.

The Institute for Creative Technologies, is a Department of Defense-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center working in collab-oration with DOD services and organizations. UARCs are aligned with prestigious institu-tions conducting research at the forefront of science and innovation. The ICT brings film

Army researchers are enhancing the effectiveness of cyber defenders and resil-ient systems in support of military operations with adversarial evaluation of a cyberalert inspection system.

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New Discovery Robustly Screens Cyberattacks

See CYBER, page B3

Research Enables Conversational AI Between Soldiers, Robots

A U.S. Army cadet and ARL West intern assists with research on the CCDC Army Research Laboratory Joint Understanding and Dialogue Interface capability, which enables bi-directional conversational interactions between Soldiers and autonomous systems.

U.S. Army photo

See JUDI, page B4

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BY JACQUELINE BOUCHERCECOM

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- The far-reaching power of the Army’s organ-ic industrial base sustains Soldier readiness on a global scale.

Experts at Tobyhanna Army Depot kept work orders for nine Command, Control, Computer, Communication, Cyber, Intelli-gence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance sys-tems on schedule after thousands of South Korean nationals were furloughed when the Special Measurement Agreement between the United States and South Korea expired in April. The furlough resulted in a reduction of the South Korea Depot Maintenance For-ward production capacity at the Maintenance Support Command-Korea location. MSC-K is the depot’s strategic partner that provides industrial support in the country.

“Everything came together across time zones,” said Valerie Hurd, Tobyhanna’s Korea Division chief. “Everyone from the production management team at Tobyhanna to the employees on the shop floor gave 110 percent to meet the additional requirements even with reduced manning due to COV-ID-19.” The Korea Division falls within the scope of the depot’s Field Logistics Support Directorate.

Tobyhanna provided six partial trailer systems, a blank shelter supporting tropo-sphere communication and a full command post system. For the ninth system, leadership approved conversion of a test station for pro-duction. This prevented the need to ship an additional shelter.

“Amid all the events and challenges that have occurred in 2020, members of Team Tobyhanna are true professionals who effec-tively provide solutions in a time of uncer-tainty,” said Capt. James Cho, 8th Army, G4 materiel readiness maintenance officer. “The collaboration postures 8th Army units at a

fight-tonight state of readiness.”Korea Division personnel will install

electronics equipment and populate the sys-tems as they arrive in the country. Once test-ing is complete, mission-capable systems will be turned over to the warfighter.

Army senior leaders were thankful Toby-

hanna was able to help meet this year’s requirements, according to Jeff Rober-son, regional maintenance manager for the division.

“The mitigation strategy let us finish the schedule, reconstitute our repair cycle float fleet and preposition ourselves to get ready for fiscal year 2021,” Roberson said.

News of the potential furlough surfaced early in the year, giving decision makers an opportunity to find a way to meet fiscal year 2020 scheduled requirements. CECOM worked with the 8th Army and 19th Expedi-tionary Sustainment Command to determine priorities and methods to complete the sched-uled assets.

Joe Costanzo explained that several orga-nizations were involved in coming up with a workable solution to support the mission. Costanzo heads the Production Manage-ment Directorate’s Forward Support Pro-gram Management Division.

“Unplanned requirements are not uncom-mon,” he said, adding that processes are in place to determine capability and how addi-tional work affects the production line. “We needed to provide a seamless transition from the depot to the overseas site.”

The division chief praised depot person-nel for using all the tools in the communica-tion toolbox to share information.

“The ultimate goal was to ensure that assets were returned to the Soldiers as quick-ly as possible,” said Rob Lantka, FLS Direc-torate director. “It was a team effort to replace 8th Army industrial capacity with assets serviced by the depot.”

TYAD Mitigation Strategy Sustains Soldier Readiness Overseas

Electronics equipment specialist Samuel Murdock installs an antenna feed on a Satellite Transportable Terminal to begin final testing. The system will be returned to the warfighter once testing is complete. Murdock is assigned to Tobyhanna Army Depot’s Field Logistics Support Directorate’s Korea Division.

U.S. Army photo

BY JACQUELINE BOUCHERCECOM

TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT, Pa. -- A job well done by employees makes it easi-er for Tobyhanna Army Depot to manage its business.

Jill Drake, a quality assurance assistant, and Gavin Walker, an information technolo-gy specialist/network, were named the Toby-hanna Army Depot Employee of the Quarter for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, junior and senior categories, respectively.

Drake manages Tobyhanna’s warranty program and inventories material identified to be defective or damaged. She says the job she does helps the warfighter.

“I do not have the mechanical or electrical abilities that many have here, but I am proud that I can use the skill set I possess to support the mission.” Drake said. “While working here I’ve learned a lot about navigating con-flicts and challenging conversations.”

Drake works in the Quality Management Directorate’s Quality Assurance Division. Her depot career began 10 years ago.

Co-workers applaud Jill for her willing-ness to volunteer to help around the division. It’s not unusual for her to assist the adminis-trative staff with timekeeping duties, among

other tasks. She’s also known for cultivating an environment of peer recognition.

“Jill consistently speaks up for other members of the team to assure their efforts do not go unnoticed by senior leaders,” said John Dabbieri, former acting division chief. “She is extremely dependable and provides a constant example for others to strive for by performing her duties with passion and dedication.”

Drake attributes her success to the peo-ple she works with and a challenging job that keeps her motivated.

“I am fortunate to have co-workers I like and respect,” Drake said. “The work we do is essential to Soldier readiness. It is humbling to know the workforce here helps our mili-tary accomplish their mission and stay safe.”

IT ExpertWalker plays a critical role in ensur-

ing depot and tenant organizations are able to conduct business using the network. His responsibilities include maintaining network connectivity, ensuring new network devic-es are properly configured and operational. The IT expert also manages circuit actions required for tenant agencies in addition to troubleshooting point-to-point connections running from infrastructure edge switches to

end-user devices.“Gavin’s depth of knowledge and his

innovative problem-solving skills and doc-trinally sound solutions have been his major contribution to the success of the branch,” said William Moody, Installation Services Directorate’s Network Operations Branch chief. “He seeks and maintains a person-al relationship with the user community by anticipating and responding to requests in a timely and courteous manner.” Moody also applauded the amount of time and money Walker has saved the government through his stewardship of material and equipment.

“Anyone can be an asset to the organiza-tion with a little bit of hard work and hustle,” said Walker, who works in the Installation Services Directorate’s Information Manage-ment Division. “Nothing can stop you from reaching your goals if you are willing to make sacrifices to accomplish them.”

Great leaders know how to communi-cate with team members to get the job done, according to Walker, who explained it’s important to learn and apply different types of leadership styles. Being a mentor is some-thing he takes seriously.

“Gavin takes the time to explain require-ments and resolutions to new technicians,”

Moody said. “His interpersonal skills have resulted in by-name requests for assistance.”

Recognizing employees for a job well done is directly linked to one of the Toby 2028 objectives -- Invest in our People. The objective centers on developing an agile and innovative workforce dedicated to providing the best value to the warfighter. The quar-terly awards program identifies and rewards junior-, senior- and supervisor-level employ-ees who, in the performance of their assigned duties, have established a pattern of excel-lence. Nominations may be submitted by co-workers, who work with the nominee, directly or indirectly, with a minimum of at least four nominators or by an employee’s supervisor.

Winners will receive a special parking space for the quarter, a $500 On-The-Spot Award and a plaque. Winning packages are automatically forwarded to the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to compete in their respective categories. The C4ISR quarterly award winners receive the Department of the Army Achievement Med-al for Civilian Service and CECOM quarter-ly award winners receive a DA Certificate of Achievement as well as their name on a Per-petual Plaque.

Gavin Walker, an information technology specialist/network, was named the Tobyhanna Army Depot Employee of the Quarter for the second quarter of fis-cal year 2020, senior category.

Photos by Thomas Robbins

Jill Drake, a quality assurance assistant, was named the Tobyhanna Army Depot Employee of the Quarter for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, junior category.

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DiD You Know?On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States became the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

About 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 were injured. At least another 60,000 died by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.

Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.

Since 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. By the time the United States conducted the first successful test (an atomic bomb was exploded in the desert in New Mexico in July 1945), Germany had already been defeated. The war against Japan in the Pacific, however, continued to rage. President Harry Truman, warned by some of his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in horrific American casualties, ordered that the new weapon be used to bring the war to a speedy end.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A blast equivalent to the power of 15,000 tons of TNT reduced four square miles of the city to ruins and immediately killed 80,000 people. Tens of thousands more died in the following weeks from wounds and

radiation poisoning. Three days later, another bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, killing nearly 40,000 more people. A few days later, Japan announced its surrender.

In the years since the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, a number of historians have suggested that the weapons had a two-pronged objective. First, of course, was to bring the war with Japan to a speedy end and spare American lives. It has been suggested that the second objective was to demonstrate the new weapon of mass destruction to the Soviet Union.

By August 1945, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had deteriorated badly. The Potsdam Conference between Truman, Russian leader Joseph Stalin, and Winston Churchill (before being replaced by Clement Attlee) ended just four days before the bombing of Hiroshima. The meeting was marked by recriminations and suspicion between the Americans and Soviets. Russian armies were occupying most of Eastern Europe. Truman and many of his advisers hoped that the U.S. atomic monopoly might offer diplomatic leverage with the Soviets. In this fashion, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan can be seen as the first

shot of the Cold War. If U.S. officials truly believed that they could use their atomic monopoly for

diplomatic advantage, they had little time to put their plan into action. By 1949, the Soviets had developed their own atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race began.

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Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, walk among the city’s ruins.

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Lethality Cross-Functional Team will host VE 2 with about a dozen participating orga-nizations from Army research and devel-opment, acquisition and operational forces. It will be a static vehicle user study focused on assessing the utility and proof of concept of new capabilities on Strykers and Brad-ley Fighting Vehicles to gain early Soldier feedback.

To enhance IVAS network connectivity and capabilities, C5ISR Center engineers and network system developers engineered a net-work communications gateway and data man-agement kit known as Project Bloodhound in 2019. The C5ISR Center delivered the inte-grated network kit mounted on an MRZR all-terrain vehicle, which allowed dismount-ed Soldiers using IVAS to connect into the broader Army tactical network to share and receive data.

This prototype and others will enhance modernization efforts led by the C5ISR Cen-ter, SL CFT, the Network CFT, Program Man-ager IVAS, and PM Tactical Radios.

Bloodhound allows greater connectivity throughout the company echelon, through a tactical radio integration kit that includes radio gateways that enable voice and data informa-

tion to be pushed and pulled from multiple sources. This concept is being applied to the Stryker prototype effort.

“We designed Project Bloodhound as a modular vehicle-mounted system that can be integrated into any vehicle,” said C5ISR Cen-ter mechanical engineer Ryan Stuk. “Certain features could be employed in a command post or dismounted capacity. We’re now tak-

ing the knowledge and expertise gained from the MRZR integration and applying those to Strykers.”

The Stryker effort will provide addition-al capabilities for Soldiers, whether they are mounted, dismounted or in transition, Stuk said. The Army’s three objectives are to lever-age the Strykers as an IVAS power source to maintain mission capability, integrate with

existing and future vehicle-based onboard camera systems, and enhance Soldiers’ situa-tional awareness while mounted or transition-ing to dismounted.

The center’s organic, internal prototype integration facility has enabled the Army to meet its objectives for multiple design itera-tions, changing requirements and quick dead-lines, said Tom Brutofsky, chief of the C5ISR PIF. A key aspect to Project Bloodhound has been additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing.

“The C5ISR PIF has invested heavily in additive manufacturing to develop a rapid prototyping capability to deliver functional designs with significant cost and time sav-ings,” Brutofsky said. “The PIF manufactured the MRZR Bloodhound prototype approxi-mately 80 percent through additive processes and went from concept to functional prototype in less than three months.

“Additive manufacturing also enables eas-ier modifications as engineers gather Soldier feedback during exercises and as the Army identifies additional vehicles for network kit integration.”

Soldier touch points such as VE2 enable the Army to transition from R&D to proto-types and then mature capabilities for fielding.

“For the C5ISR Center, incorporating Sol-dier feedback is essential,” Brutofsky said. “Understanding the needs of Soldiers on the battlefield early on helps us make better use of time and resources.”

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A Soldier demonstrates the Integrated Visual Augmentation System.

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cyberalerts, it is important to screen the alerts effectively to identify any real attack signal from these alerts,” Cam said. “It is also required to maintain the queue length of alerts within acceptable limits.”

As a computational approach to under-standing and automating learning and deci-sion-making, reinforcement learning places more emphasis on learning through the inter-action between a learning agent and its envi-ronment, he said.

“The premise of this research is to cre-ate a reinforcement learning framework for an adversary that learns the patterns of secu-rity decisions made by an organization to safeguard their critical assets,” Cam said. “By continuously interacting with the secu-rity environment, the adversary learns opti-

mal timing and the amount of actions that are needed to overload the cyberalert inspection system of the organization and gain critical time needed to execute malicious activities in their network.”

This work first exploits the fundamen-tal learning-based model to develop a suc-cessful adversarial attack policy and then finds a new relearned defender policy robust to the discovered attacker policy, Cam said. The proposed reinforcement learning-based approach reveals that there exists a defend-er’s policy that is robust against any attack-er policy.

“With reinforcement learning, the defend-er/agent interacts with its environment to obtain information and choose an action from a set of available actions in each time step,” Cam said. “Then, the agent receives a reward of the current time step and the envi-ronment moves to a new state.”

To test the limits of the defender’s rein-forcement learning approach, the researchers present several cybersecurity alert generation

policies launched by adversaries and the best response against them for various defenders’ inspection policies.

This research extends the defender’s rein-forcement learning model to a game model with adversarial reinforcement learning. The proposed model has an adversarial interac-tion of two players on top of the queuing pro-cess, which, as far as the researchers know, has not been addressed in the queuing theo-ry literature.

“Inspired by game theory, this research’s approach keeps retraining the cyber defend-er using episodes from the discovered attack-er policy, so that the defender’s policy learns becoming robust to the attacker policy,” Cam said.

The relearned defender policy now exhib-its more systematic and tactical behavior in allocating resources, Cam said, and allows the backlog of more cyberalerts to be inspect-ed, compared to the previously known policy by the defender.

Overall, this work, which supports the

Network Army Modernization Priority, pro-poses an adversary who can fully observe and interact with the defender reinforce-ment learning approach, called the CSOC-RL model, and uses a reinforcement learning framework to learn the best policy of actions to test the robustness of the CSOC-RL model.

“I am very optimistic that this research work will help establish the basic frame-work, particularly theoretical foundations, of cyber resilient systems over tactical net-works,” Cam said. “This research has pro-vided a game theoretic formulation of the problem, enabling us to understand the defender-adversary interaction. The theo-ry has yielded simple and sub-optimal, but usable defender policies.”

Cam said this work will help any science and technology effort that aims at enhanc-ing the effectiveness of cyber defenders and resilient systems using reinforcement learn-ing and learning-based decision-making sys-tems over enterprise and tactical networks.

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dents from the Wilson College of Textiles and the Materials Science and Engineering Senior Design courses at North Carolina State Uni-versity in support of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

“Military working dogs are a very impor-tant team member and their training is equally important,” Lee said. “These invaluable dogs have provided incomparable support helping Soldiers accomplish their mission and saving Soldiers’ lives. This new bite sleeve training tool has greatly helped in the development of effective combat canines.”

Most current bite training sleeves are too bulky for concealment, making it harder to train the dogs for real-world scenarios. Other sleeves are made of materials such as jute that do not provide a truly realistic training sce-nario and can reduce canine effectiveness on

target due to hesitation. Silicone bite products require the trainer to attach additional append-ages to a sleeve, which limits training scenar-ios, eliminating realistic concealment, and possibly confusing the canine.

The new bite sleeve provides military working dogs with an authentic human skin texture when biting the forearm region and reducing the circumference of the target. This allows for a full-mouth bite and a more realis-tic training scenario for the canines.

“Working with ARO on this project was a terrific experience for the students involved,” said Dr. Jesse Jur, associate professor of textile engineering, chemistry and science at N.C. State’s Wilson College of Textiles. “Everyone was inspired to improve the abili-ties of the military working dog. The goals for the project were challenging and required a multidisciplinary team effort from both a tex-tile and materials engineering perspective.”

When designing the product, a key aspect was ensuring the safety of both the dogs and their handlers. The research team ensured that the materials selected were nontoxic to dogs and that the selected materials would be punc-ture resistant for the handler.

The bite sleeve consists of an outer silicone skin paired with an inner leather-based sleeve. The skin is a proprietary prosthetic-grade sil-icone product that looks and feels like human

flesh and has an internal mesh support system for resilience. The inner sleeve is a low-pro-file bite platform constructed from a pressure-dissipating foam and several layers of Kevlar fabric to allow for a full-mouth bite, and two adjustable straps allow a custom fit for any trainer.

The U.S. Army Special Operations Com-mand currently uses the bite sleeve for training.

Other inventors listed on the patent include Paul Reid, an ARO systems engineering and technical assistance support contractor, Dr. Albena Ivanisevic, ARO program manag-er who worked on the technology while on the faculty at N.C. State, U.S. Army Special Operations Command Soldiers, N.C. State Textiles Engineering undergraduate students and professors Dr. Jess Jur and Dr. Russell Gorga, who were advisers to the design teams.

With Army funding, researchers at Camp-bell University are further advancing the con-cept design, making an even more realistic skin that bleeds artificial blood upon bite. The Kinston Police Department successfully test-ed a prototype earlier this year.

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The new bite sleeve provides mili-tary working dogs with an authentic human skin texture when biting the forearm region, providing a more real-istic training scenario for the canines.

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9. August has two birthstones: _______ and sardonyx.

10. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at a civil rights rally during the March on __________.

11. On Aug. 24 in 79 A.D., the volcano Mount ________ erupted, destroying the city of Pompeii and others.

12. On Aug. 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the ______ Gallery and not recovered for two years.

14. Conductor and composer Leonard _________ was born on Aug. 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. His works include “West Side Story,” “On the Town,” and the opera “Candide.”

16. August ends on the same day of the week as ________ every year.

18. President ________ Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935, establishing the system which guarantees pensions to those who retire at age 65.

19. On Aug. 5, 1962, film star Marilyn ______ died at age 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills. She made 29 films during her career and came to symbolize Hollywood glamour.

20. Effective at noon on Aug. 9, 1974, Richard _____ resigned the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal. He is the only U.S. president ever to resign.

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August is the _________. These vertical-growing flowers were named from the Latin

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author of “The Star-Spangled ______,” was born on Aug. 1, 1779, in Frederick County, Maryland.

5. Barack Obama, the 44th president, was born in ________, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961.

7. People born in August fall under the sun zodiac signs of Leo and _____.

8. On Aug. 18, 1920, the __________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

13. August in the Northern Hemisphere is similar to ________ in the Southern Hemisphere.

15. The ________, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and Aug. 24, with the days of the peak varying yearly.

17. Fans of _____ Presley mourn each August 16, the day the famed singer died in 1977.

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6 The _________ music festival began in a field near Yasgur's Farm at Bethel, New York, on Aug. 15, 1969. The three-day concert featured 24 rock bands and drew a crowd of more than 300,000 young people.

9 August has two birthstones: _______ and sardonyx.

10 The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his now-famous “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at a civil rights rally during the March on __________.

11 On Aug. 24 in 79 A.D., the volcano Mount ________ erupted, destroying the city of Pompeii and others.

12 On Aug. 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen from the ______ Gallery and not recovered for two years.

14 Conductor and composer Leonard _________ was born on Aug. 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. His works include "West Side Story," "On the Town," and the opera "Candide."

16 August ends on the same day of the week as ________ every year.

18 President ________ Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935, establishing the system which guarantees pensions to those who retire at age 65.

19 On Aug. 5, 1962, film star Marilyn ______ died at age 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills. She made 29 films during her career and came to symbolize Hollywood glamour.

20 Effective at noon on Aug. 9, 1974, Richard _____ resigned the presidency as a result of the Watergate scandal. He is the only U.S. president ever to resign.

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vertical-growing flowers were named from the Latin "gladius," meaning a sword.

3 Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled ______," was born on Aug. 1, 1779, in Frederick County, Maryland.

5 Barack Obama, the 44th president, was born in ________, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961.

7 People born in August fall under the sun zodiac signs of Leo and _____.

8 On Aug. 18, 1920, the __________ Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.

13 August in the Northern Hemisphere is similar to ________ in the Southern Hemisphere.

15 The ________, a major meteor shower, typically takes place between July 17 and Aug. 24, with the days of the peak varying yearly.

17 Fans of _____ Presley mourn each Aug. 16, the day the famed singer died in 1977.

Famous SistersBy Rachel Ponder, APG News

National Sisters Day is Aug. 2. Celebrate with this crossword puzzle about famous sisters.

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6 Sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning both were in the 2001 movie “I Am _______.”

7 R&B singing group The Pointer Sisters were originally a trio of sisters, Anita, Bonnie and ________.

9 All-female country group, The __________, include sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer. The band’s hits include “Gaslighter,” “Wide Open Spaces” and “Ready to Run. “

11 The reality television show “Keeping up with the Kardashians” features sisters Khloé, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian and Kendall and ________Jenner.

12 Musical group Sister Sledge originally consisted of sisters Debbie, Joni, Kim and Kathy Sledge. Their hit songs include “We Are Family“ and “He's the Greatest __________”

13 The Gabor sisters, Magda, Zsa Zsa and ______ were three famous Hungarian-American actresses and socialites.

15 Sisters Pauline and Esther Friedman were both successful ________ columnists.

18 _______ Olsen is the younger sister of identical twin sisters Mary- Kate and Ashley Olsen. Her breakthrough movie was the 2011 independent thriller drama “Martha Marcy May Marlene.”

19 Pippa Middleton is the younger sister of Catherine, Duchess of ________________.

20 Pop star Britney Spears has a younger sister, Jamie Lynn, who is an actress. She appeared in the 2020 romantic dramatic series “Sweet _____________.”

21 “House of ________” star Kate Mara is the older sister of actress Rooney Mara.

22 Sisters Anne and Nancy Wilson are singers in this American rock band.

23 The pop-rock band The _________ include sisters Debbi and Vicki Peterson. The band’s popular songs include “Manic Monday” and “Walk Like an Egyptian.”

24 Country music Wynonna Judd’s half-sister is actress Ashley Judd. She has starred in several movies including Kiss the ________,” “Double Jeopardy” and “Where the Heart Is.”

25 First name of actress Joan Collins’ younger sister, who was a romance novelist. She wrote 32 novels, all of which appeared on The New York Times best sellers list.

28 Singers Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Solange Knowles were born in this Texas city.

29 The Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily and ___________ are well known as poets and novelists.

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American _______ players. 2 Wilson Phillips includes sisters Carnie and Wendy Wilson.

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on the television show “Sister, Sister,” from 1994 to 1999. 4 Janet and La Toya Jackson’s sister _________ is the eldest

child of the famous Jackson musical family and has had a long career as an R&B solo artist.

5 The Andrews Sisters were a close harmony singing group consisting of three sisters, LaVerne, Maxene and Patty. The song “Boogie Woogie __________ Boy,” released in 1941, was a major hit for this group.

8 Famed supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid’s mother, _________ Hadid, was a main cast member on the reality television show “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

9 Identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin formed the indie pop band Tegan and Sara in 1998. They are from this country.

10 The Lennon Sisters are a vocal group initially made up of four sisters. For thirteen years, from 1955 to 1968, the group appeared regularly on “The ___________ Welk Show.”

12 Singer and actress Demi Lovato has a younger half-sister, Madison De La Garza, who is best known for playing Juanita Solis on the television show “____________ Housewives.”

14 President Donald Trump has two daughters, Ivanka and _______ Trump.

16 ____________ Blackwell was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. in 1849. Her sister Emily was the third woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. in 1854.

17 Barbara Bush and her fraternal twin sister Jenna are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. They authored the joint memoir “Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and _________Life,” released in 2017.

20 Television personalities Kim and Kyle Richards were both child actresses. They both appeared in the movie “Escape to Witch ___________.”

26 Sisters Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine were born 15 months apart and were successful actresses in Hollywood’s __________ Age. Stories of a professional rivalry followed them throughout their lives.

27 _________ Simpson began her career as a back-up dancer to her older sister singer Jessica.

Solution to the July 30 puzzle

By STEVE BELAND, APG News

August, the last full month of summer, was named to honor the first Roman emperor (and grandnephew of Julius Caesar), Augustus Caesar. In the early Roman calendar, August was actually the sixth month of the year. It was originally 30 days in length, but an extra day was added so that it would equal the number of days in July, which was named after Julius Caesar. Test your knowledge of the year’s eighth month by solving this puzzle.

Word of the Week

EvanescentPronounced: ev-uh-NES-uhnt

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition:1. Vanishing; fading away; fleeting.

2. Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.

Use: � So the story of 2019, in particular, was a tale of hot takes and takedowns buttressed by evanes-

cent evidence. � It was evanescent, fading just as quickly as it had appeared, and translucent to begin with. � This parallel love story clearly relays the obvious frustration that Noah felt due to his wife’s eva-

nescent memory and his tender love for her.

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Abbrev. of the Week

CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Preven-tion, CDC, is a national public health institute. It is a federal agency, under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the U.S. and abroad. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It espe-cially focuses its attention on infectious disease, foodborne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and educa-tional activities designed to improve the health of U.S. citizens. The CDC also con-ducts research and provides information on non-infectious diseases, such as obesity and diabetes, and is a founding member of the International Association of National Pub-lic Health Institutes.

By STEVE BELAND, APG NewsSource(s): https://www.cdc.gov/about/organization/mission.htm

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Communists staged a coup on Aug. 19, 1991, temporarily removing Mikhail _________ from power. The coup failed within 72 hours as democratic reformer Boris Yeltsin rallied the Russian people.

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signed a proclamation admitting ______ to the Union as the 50th state.

6. The _________ music festival began in a field near Yasgur’s Farm at Bethel, New York, on Aug. 15, 1969. The three-day concert featured 24 rock bands and drew a crowd of more than 300,000 young people.

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and game industry artists together with com-puter and social scientists to study and develop immersive media for military training, health therapies, education and more.

This effort supports the Next Generation Combat Vehicle Army Modernization Prior-ity and the Army Priority Research Area for Autonomy through reduction of Soldier bur-den when teaming with autonomous systems and by allowing verbal command and control of systems.

“Dialogue will be a critical capability for autonomous systems operating across multi-ple echelons of Multi-Domain Operations so that Soldiers across land, air, sea and informa-tion spaces can maintain situational awareness on the battlefield,” said Dr. Matthew Marge, a research scientist at the laboratory. “This tech-nology enables a Soldier to interact with auton-omous systems through bidirectional speech and dialogue in tactical operations where ver-bal task instructions can be used for command and control of a mobile robot. In turn, the tech-nology gives the robot the ability to ask for clarification or provide status updates as tasks are completed. Instead of relying on pre-speci-fied, and possibly outdated, information about a mission, dialogue enables these systems to supplement their understanding of the world by conversing with human teammates.”

In this innovative approach, he said, dia-logue processing is based on a statistical clas-sification method that interprets a Soldier’s intent from their spoken language. The classi-fier was trained on a small dataset of human-robot dialogue in which human experimenters stood in for the robot’s autonomy during initial phases of the research.

The software developed as part of the col-laboration with ICT leverages technologies developed in the institute’s Virtual Human Toolkit.

“JUDI’s ability to leverage natural lan-guage will reduce the learning curve for Sol-diers who will need to control or team with robots, some of which may contribute different capabilities to a mission, like scouting or deliv-ery of supplies,” Marge said.

The goal, he said, is to shift the paradigm of Soldier-robot interaction from today’s heads-down, hands-full joystick operation of robots to a heads-up, hands-free mode of interaction in which a Soldier can team with one or more robots while maintaining situational awareness of their surroundings.

According to the researchers, JUDI is dis-tinct from current similar research conducted in the commercial realm.

“Commercial industry has largely focused

on intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Alexa -- systems that can retrieve factual knowledge and perform specialized tasks like setting reminders, but do not reason over the immediate physical surroundings,” Marge said. “These systems also rely on cloud con-nectivity and large, labeled datasets to learn how to perform tasks.”

In contrast, Marge said, JUDI is designed for tasks that require reasoning in the physical world, where data is sparse because it requires previous human-robot interaction and there is little to no reliable cloud-connectivity. Cur-rent intelligent personal assistants may rely on thousands of training examples, while JUDI can be tailored to a task with only hundreds, an order of magnitude smaller.

Moreover, he said, JUDI is a dialogue sys-tem adapted to autonomous systems such as robots, allowing it to access multiple sourc-es of context, such as Soldier speech and the robot’s perception system, to help in collabor-ative decision-making.

This research represents a synergy of approaches created by ARL researchers from both the lab’s Maryland locations and ARL West in Playa Vista, California, who are part the lab’s Human Autonomy Teaming and Arti-ficial Intelligence for Maneuver and Mobil-ity Essential Research Program, and experts in dialogue from the ICT. The group’s speech recognizer also leveraged a speech model developed as part of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity’s Babel program, designed for reverberant and noisy acoustic environments.

JUDI will be integrated into the CCDC ARL Autonomy Stack, a suite of software algorithms, libraries and software components that perform specific functions that are required by intelligent systems such as navigation, plan-ning, perception, control and reasoning, which was developed under the decade-long Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance.

Successful innovations in the stack are also rolled into the CCDC Ground Vehicle System Center’s Robotics Technology Kernel.

“Once ARL develops a new capability that is built into the autonomy software stack, it is spiraled into GVSC’s Robotics Technology Kernel, where it goes through extensive test-ing and hardening and is used in programs such as the Combat Vehicle Robotics pro-gram,” said Dr. John Fossaceca, AIMM ERP program manager. “Ultimately, this will end up as Army-owned intellectual property that will be shared with industry partners as a common architecture to ensure that Next Generation Combat Vehicles are based on best of breed technologies with modular interfaces.”

Moving forward, the researchers will eval-uate the robustness of JUDI with physical mobile robot platforms at an upcoming AIMM ERP-wide field test currently planned for September.

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(Above) The 389th Army Band (AMC’s Own), under the direction of Chief Warrant Officer 4 Robert Larsen, performs during a Memorial Day ceremony at the Edgewood Cemetery. The band was awarded the Army Superior Unit Award in July 2005 for deploying overseas

to entertain troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan over the Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year holiday seasons in 2003 and

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(Above) Intern Elizabeth Papapietro, a former Soldier, takes ultrasonic measurements on silicon carbide ceramic tiles in the U.S. Army Research Laboratory Electro-Mechanical Materials Testing lab. The data was used to calculate mechanical properties of a material.

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(Right) Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics and

Technology), Lt. Gen. Michael Williamson, left, poses with Capt. Clayton Cannon after presenting Cannon

with the Purple Heart during a ceremony at the Pentagon. Cannon was awarded the Purple Heart

for wounds received in action on Aug. 28, 2013, in Afghanistan.

(Left) APG BOSS Soldiers, led by Garrison Commander Col. James Davis, left, and Garrison Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Adams, right, shower League of Dreams player Elliott Brown with applause, cheers and low-fives as he takes to the field during the league’s practice and game held at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen.

(Left) Col. Peter Schultheiss, left, incoming commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, accepts the unit flag from Maj. Gen. James Gilman, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, during a change of command ceremony.

(Left) From left, Katie Cole, Jackie Le, Sarah North, Linda Buddemeier, Shawn Kluchinsky and Faith Edmonson perform “Rhythm in Your Hands,” a synchronized song using tables and cups to open the Edgewood Youth Center Summer Program Talent Show at Stark Recreation Center.

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B6 APG News • August 6, 2020

ACTIVITY APG Installation Operating Hours / Scheduled Work Days OPEN REMARKS CLOSED REMARKS LIMITED SERVICES

APG-North Route 22 3 pm – 5 pm Monday thru Friday ( Outbound Traffic Only) ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-North Route 715 24/7 Open ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Route 715 Visitor Center 6 am – 6 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-South Wise Road CLOSED Gate closed at HPCON C Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-South Route 24 24/7 Open ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Route 24 Visitor Center 6 am – 4 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-North Athletic Center 5 am-9 am / 1 pm-4pm Monday thru Friday (Active Duty Only) Weekends / Holidays NO 24/7 unmanned Access Open Active Duty Only APG-North Health & Fitness

Center (B320) CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-South Hoyle Gym/ Fitness Center CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Shore Pool 2 pm – 5 pm Monday thru Friday, Lap Swim, (All eligible patrons) Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All eligible patrons Bayside pool CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -----------------------------------------------------

Religious Support Office 9 am – 5 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Sat Facebook Live Steam (Catholic Mass): 1700-1830 Sunday Facebook Live Streams (Protestant and Gospel SVCs): 0900-1500

Army Community Services* CLOSED Email and phone appointments only Monday thru Sunday Newcomers in-processing and all classes are cancelled until further notice. Child & Youth Services 6 am – 6 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Aberdeen CDC and Aberdeen Youth Center only open for care to children of essential personnel Child & Youth Services

Administrative Offices & Parent Central Registration

8 am – 3 pm Monday & Friday Only

Tuesday – Thursday; Saturday & Sunday

Central registration is not accepting new registration at this time. Patrons should call for information on re-registrations and program registration.

CORVIAS Housing Office Closed to public Mon-Fri in response to COVID-19, Call for all appointments Saturday & Sunday Routine Work Orders suspended due to COVID-19. Emergency/ Urgent Work Orders are being executed. Corvias to move to 50% maintenance staff at HPCON CHARLIE

IHG Hotel 24/7 Monday thru Sunday ---------------------------- Hotel Front Desk (410) 278-5148. Hotel Website www.ihgarmyhotels.com

Limited grab & go breakfast & once a week housekeeping for mitigation purposes.

APG-North Recreation Center CLOSED Until Further notice Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-South Recreation Center CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-North Brewer Lanes (Bowling Center) CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Auto Crafts Center 8 am – 4 pm Saturday & Sunday (Reservation Only) Monday thru Friday To make a reservation during the work week call 410-278-2134 from 10 am to 4 pm. To make a reservation on Saturday or Sunday call 410-278-5178.

Outdoor Rec Services and Equipment Center 10 am – 4 pm Mon thru Fri (No walk-ins, phone & email reservation only) Monday thru Sunday Over the phone and email reservations for Boat/ RV Storage, Fishing Passes, equipment rental,

Campground services. Open to all Eligible Patrons. Call (410) 278-4124 for more info. Library CLOSED Until Further notice Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

MWR Leisure Ticket Office CLOSED Until Further notice Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Ruggles Golf Course 8 am – 8:30 pm Open Monday thru Sunday to all eligible patrons ---------------------------- Make reservations by Credit Card Payment over the phone only / Call (410) 278-4794

Exton Golf Course 8 am – 6 pm Open Monday thru Sunday to all eligible patrons ---------------------------- Make reservations by Credit Card Payment over the phone only / Call (410) 436-2213

Skeet Range 3 pm – 6 pm 12 pm – 6 pm

Tuesday & Thursday Saturday Mon, Wed, Fri, Sun -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Commissary Tuesday 9 am – 7 pm Wed thru Fri 10am-7pm / Sat 9am-6pm / Sun 10am-5pm Mondays -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No “Early Bird” hours

Kirk U.S.Army Health Clinic 7:30 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Closed the AM of the 3rd Thursday of every month for training and the 1st Thursday of the 2nd month of each quarter for CDR's Call & training.

APG=North Dental Clinic 7 am – 3:30 pm Monday thru Friday (Emergency Care Only) Saturday & Sunday DRC3, DRC4, and Dental Emergencies Routine work is rescheduled (TBD)

APG-South Dental Clinic 7 am – 3:30 pm Monday thru Friday (Emergency Care Only) Saturday & Sunday DRC3, DRC4, and Dental Emergencies Routine work is rescheduled (TBD)

Legal Client Services CLOSED Active Duty Military only contact MAJ Masick 443 861-5146 Monday thru Friday 100% Office Telework - All other Clients - Services / issues will be addressed upon return.

Veterinary Clinic 9 am – 4 pm Monday thru Wednesday Thursday thru Sunday Currently scheduling appointments based on the need for Rabies, LEPTO, Heart Worm test, sick calls and annual wellness exams. Please call so we can take care of your pet needs. 410-278-4604

MILPO / ID Card / Retirement 8 am – 4 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Appointment required for services; CAC/ID Cards 410-306-2404; Retirements (Virtual) 410-776-4856; Personnel Services (Virtual) 843-834-2638; SFL-TAP (Virtual) 443-327-9681

CAC/ID Cards will remain open for business by appointment; all other services handled virtually

Army Education Center 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Tuesday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Virtual 443-327-9715, Amanda.s.roetto.civ@mail.mil; Brittany.levy.ctr@mail.mil Official Mail & Distribution

Center 6:30 am – 4 pm Monday thru Friday - All outgoing mail must be received NLT 1400 Saturday & Sunday Contact 410-278-6430/278-2252/278-3550 Office closes one hour early on Fridays

Army Substance Abuse Program 7:30 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Contact 410-278-3810; Virtual EAP 410-278-5319; DTC 410-

278-DRUG (3784) Military units may schedule specimen drop-offs with DTC

Main Exchange (PX) 10 am – 6 pm 10 am – 4 pm

Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

GNC 10 am – 6 pm 10 am – 4 pm

Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Barber Shop 10 am – 3 pm Monday thru Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- Edgewood Barber Shop CLOSED Until Further notice ---------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Laundry / Dry Cleaners 10 am – 3 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Coffee and Grains CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Eat Like A Greek 10 am – 1:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Melvin's Auto 7:30 am – 5 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-North Express (Shoppette)

7 am – 7 pm 9 am – 5 pm

Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday ---------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

APG-North Shoppette Subway 9:30 am – 2:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Tim Hortons Bldg. 6002 CLOSED Until Further notice Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Tim Hortons Bldg. 6008 CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Subway Bldg. 6007 (C5ISR) CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Burger King Bldg. 2330 10 am – 5 pm Monday thru Friday (Drive Thru Service Only) Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

McShane's Bldg. 6010 7 am – 2 pm Monday thru Friday (Carry Out Only) Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

McShane’s Bldg. 6008 7 am – 2 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday MENU at MCSHANESGOURMET.NET Order online and pick up in 6008 Edgewood Express

(Shoppette) 7 am – 5 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gas Pumps remain open 24/7

APG-South Subway 9 am – 2 :30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------- 1SG BBQ 11 am – 2 pm Monday thru Friday (Recreation Center Parking Lot) Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Strike Force Café (Bowling Center) 11 am – 2 pm Monday thru Friday; Curbside Pickup Only Saturday & Sunday Credit Card Payments over the phone only / Call in your order at (410) 278-4041

Top of the Bay CLOSED Until Further notice Monday thru Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Top of the Bay Food Delivery CLOSED Until Further notice Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Sutherland Grille (Ruggles) Seasonal Hours 11 am – 5 pm Tuesday thru Saturday (Outdoor Patio Dining Only) Monday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

Property Book Office 7 am - 4:00 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office closes one hour early on Fridays

Property Book Warehouse CLOSED Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office closes one hour early on Fridays CIF On-Call Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday On call only – Call 306-1416 -----------------------------------------------------

Installation ASP 7:30 am – 4 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------------

SSA / CRP 7 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Closes one hour early on Fridays/ RDO

LRC Fuel Station 7 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Office closes one hour early on Fridays

TMP 7 am – 3 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday 100% teleworking; POC Carl Merchant: carl.a.merchant.civ@mail

On site dispatching located in Bldg. 3660

Personal Property Processing 7 am – 3:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday No face to face counseling: M-T 410-306-2057; W-Th 410-306-2056; Friday via email: kimberly.a.skrutski.civ@mail.mil

Carson Wagonlit Travel (CTO) 8 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday After hours emergency call in available – 1-800-296-3074 N0 onsite; 100% telework

Passenger Travel 7 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Conducted over the phone or via email ----------------------------------------------------- Freight Office 7 am – 4:30 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday Shipping/deliveries only completed M-Th - NLT 1430 Closes one hour early on Fridays/ RDO Maintenance 7:30 am – 4:00 pm Monday thru Friday Saturday & Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------

ACTIVITY OPEN REMARKS CLOSED REMARKS LIMITED SERVICES * For Army Emergency Relief, call Red Cross at 1-877-272-7337.

As of 1200hrs 5 Aug 20

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