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FORT HOOD, Texas — First Army Division West will hold a wreath laying ceremony here 10 a.m. Wednesday at the 4th Infantry Division Memorial to commemorate Memorial Day.
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey N. Colt, DIVWEST commanding general, will host the event, paying tribute to those brave men and women who have given their lives in defense of our nation.
Maj. Gen. Ryan F. Gonsalves, 4th ID commanding general, will attend from Fort Carson, Colorado, home of the 4th ID.
Several Gold Star Families will attend the ceremony, along with Killeen and Copperas Cove city officials, Fort Hood Good Neighbors, and III Corps and Fort Hood Army leadership.
Division West, a subordinate unit of First Army, headquartered at Rock Island, Illinois, trains and validates Army National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers for deployment to combat and other contingency operations. The division also trains units of the active Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps and United States partner nations, for a total of nearly 40,000 service members every year.
Division West’s seven subordinate training brigades are the 120th Infantry, 479th Field Artillery and 166th Aviation Brigades at Fort Hood, Texas; the 181st Infantry Brigade at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; the 189th Infantry Brigade at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and the 402nd Field Artillery and 5th Armored Brigades at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Media representatives interested in attending the Memorial Day wreath laying ceremony should contact the Division West Public Affairs Office and arrive at the Fort Hood Visitor Center no later than 9:15 a.m. to be escorted to Cameron Field.
For more information about the Memorial Day wreath laying ceremony, contact Michael Novogradac, Division West Public Affairs chief or Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Wheeler at 254-553-5003.
| Date Taken: | 05.19.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 05.19.2015 14:16 |
| Story ID: | 163804 |
| Location: | FORT HOOD, TX, US |
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