Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.11.2014
Students, faculty members, firefighters, and Soldiers gathered for a Patriot Day ceremony held at Eastern Hills Middle School, Sept. 11 in Harker Heights. The ceremony included performances from the school’s cheerleaders, band, orchestra, singers, and several speakers. The ceremony was a reminder to students, who are all to young too remember the attacks of 9/11, of the events that changed......
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 06.06.2014
Dark clouds gathered overhead as the fire trucks came rolling toward the scene of the accident. There was a tense crowd curiously watching in the distance. A head-on collision had occurred and there was a person trapped in a car....
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 1st Cavalry Division (Rear Detachment) | 05.13.2014
The infantry squad slowly and silently made their way through the damp woods. They broke off into two teams before coming to the edge of a clearing that sat right before their objective: an enemy bunker. There was a tense look in their eyes. Alpha team began firing fiercely at the enemy’s position as Bravo team bounded toward their next position. The enemy returned fire at Alpha as Bravo......
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 05.07.2014
FORT HOOD, Texas – For some people reading provides an outlet for intellectual development. It is a way to learn something new, brush up on history or release stress through fantasy and fiction. For Shannel Gitchel, a patron of the Casey Memorial Library at Fort Hood, the library provides her family with a source of entertainment and intellectual development. “The library provides a......
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 04.12.2014
The sun’s rays barely made it above the horizon as people carefully placed items to be sold on the tables and tarps. The air was still moist and cool as hand-written price tags were affixed to treasures that were long hidden with other everyday household goods. People from on and off post began trickling in; some of them were looking for collector’s items, others came for the low priced......
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.20.2014
Sweat dripped down the faces of Sgt. Joshua Mubarak and Spc. Mathew Boyle as they ran carrying an injured soldier in a litter. They could feel their hearts pounding as they made their way to the tower. As soon as they got in position another explosion was heard. Mubarak grabbed an M9 and started firing at his target....
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.10.2014
The U.S. has the second highest adult obesity rates out of developed nations and physically active jobs currently make up only about 25 percent of the nation’s workforce, making any physical activity a person can do in their spare time more important. These statistics, from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and American Heart Association respectively, coupled......
Story by Sgt. Samuel Northrup | 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 03.02.2014
Ice-cold rain pelted his skin from the cloudy skies above as he ran. He could feel his heart pounding as he breathed heavily. The feeling in his face and fingers was gone; everything was beginning to feel numb. He continued to push forward, mile after mile....
