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The Making of an Army General; the Promotion of Brigadier General Petrenko

Three days ago, Friday, August the 6th, about 300 Soldiers and friends of Colonel Victor Petrenko gathered at the main post Field of Honor at Fort Knox, Kentucky, to witness and celebrate his...

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Graduation from Basic Training, Fort Knox, Kentucky

At 0859 hours the narrator announced;"Ladies and Gentlemen, please take your seats. We will begin the graduation ceremony in one minute." Five hundred friends and family were gathered at Victory...

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Fort Knox Salutes Viet Nam Veterans, part 1

It was the perfect morning for an outdoor, all-Army-post celebration, to honor our American Viet Nam-era veterans, many of whom had still never been thanked, applauded, celebrated, embraced or...

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Come Meet some Viet Nam Veterans, part 2

Yesterday I shared with you the Fort Knox Welcome for our local Viet Nam veterans. Today in Part Two I want you to meet and see up close a few of these veterans who came out to be honored. So with one...

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Part 3, Viet Nam Veterans Honored

OK, so have you seen some great photos so far? Any that reminded you of an awesome Viet Nam Veteran that you know and love? If so, please send them or show them what we have done here at Fort Knox,...

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America's Best Top-Fuel Dragracer Celebrates 10th Army Year!

Ever wanted to accelerate from 0 to 330 mph in 3.8 seconds; flying past the landscape at the pace of 2 football fields per second!!!!? You need to meet National Hot Rod Association's 7 time world...

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Tony Schumacher (the Fastest Man Alive) at my Front Door

I went downstairs to the Bridge Awning and who do you suppose was at my front door, here at my $211 million dollar office? None other than The Fastest Man Alive, Tony Schumacher, known in the National...

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World's Best Chocolate Cake! It's not in the Army's Dining Facility...yet

This one may be my shortest blog ever....but for all you chocolate lovers out there, if you have not YET been to The Cheesecake Factory (an awesome restaurant chain featuring huge platters of...

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E Pluribus Unum, by My Six-Year-Old

A few days ago I came home from working a long, mind-numbing day in the office at Accessions Command and my little 1st grader, Joseph, came over to me as I took my boots off, sitting on the stairwell,...

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Fort Campbell vs. Fort Knox, Kentucky High School Football's "Army Bowl"

High School football has some great rivalries, and Kentucky has one of the great ones. The State of Kentucky is home to two powerful Army Posts: Fort Campbell (home of the 101st Airborne/Air-Assault...

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Blogging in Vegas; Telling the Army Strong Story to the World

I flew into Las Vegas yesterday to attend the BlogWorld & New Media Exposition, one of the best social media conferences in the nation. This morning as I was walking in the hallways of the...

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General David Petraeus in Vegas with Me Today!

Guess who just popped up on our mega-screen in Las Vegas this morning? Of course the visit of a famous four-star general pretty much requires me to be here sitting on the front row of the vast...

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Karen Hughes from Texas at BlogWorld too

Check out Karen Hughes here with me for the BlogWorld Exposition here in Las Vegas. Just a few years ago she was the voice and powerful political insight behind the everday actions of the President of...

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Some Army Hard Work at BlogWorldToday

Check out all this hard work we are doing here in Las Vegas....we are kind of like rock stars here with tons of fans screaming and begging for a cool photo with us! Hard work, but that is what we do. ...

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Army Moms Losing 170 lbs with Mamavation Founder at BlogWorld

How does it feel to be married to an Army Soldier, who rolls out of bed every morning at 05:00 a.m. and is out the door at 05:30 a.m. and doing an intense full-body work-out five days a week from...

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Eagle Court of Honor for my Son; Photos Tomorrow!

Big Eagle Court of Honor last night for my 14-year old son, Andre Elvin Dean II, and hence a BIG deal for the whole Dean Family. He is an Eagle Scout now and joins his older two brothers in that lofty...

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4 EAGLES (Boy Scouts of America) In One Family!

Now for some of those great photos of Andre Elvin Dean II's Eagle Court of Honor I promised. Andre earned his Eagle back in May of 2010 with the Boys Scouts of America Troop 667 out of Brandenburg,...

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WeberShandwick and the US Army Team at BlogWorld 2010

Two weeks ago I was in Las Vegas with our multi-national-award winning WeberShandwick ArmyStrongStories team and we had a great show and bloggers lounge. 1.2 million quality impressions for the Army...

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Harvard's 40-Years of Anti-Army ROTC Rhetoric Unveiled; No Myth

Diane, (Dr. Diane Mazur, an open blog/letter) Just a little stunning to read that you, a professor of law at the University of Florida, could go through 60 years of complex...

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Largest Voter-Shift in National Politics In A Lifetime!

I love it when I see the American people turn out and VOTE in droves. As an American Soldier it gives me great hope for the future of our Republic ("and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation...

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Veterans Day; My Daughter's First Place Essay on Her Texas Hero

Here is the essay that my 12-year old daughter, Liesel, wrote last year about her “Texas Hero”. It won First Place in her Middle School and so she was selected to read her essay over the intercom to...

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An Amish Weekend Get-away; Exploring Wherever the Army Sends Me

One of those remarkable benefits of being on active duty in the US Army is that we are sent all over the world, and in the process we get to discover a million new worlds, most of which are just...

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An Army Thanksgiving Through 7 American Heroes

Thanksgiving is just a few days away. That means that most of the Army will take a nice slow four-day weekend from lunch Wednesday until Monday when we waddle back in to work about 7 pounds heavier,...

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I Was Wrong, It was 8 Pounds, not 7

Last week I forecast that I was going to gain 7 pounds over the Thanksgiving holy days and I was both right and wrong. I gained all 7 pounds I had foreseen, but then I exceeded my expectations and...

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An Army Daughter's Wedding for Louissa

In April 2009 we hosted a wedding reception for our second oldest daughter, Louissa, at our Texas home; Elwood. I thought many of you who read my blogs would love to see a few photos of her wedding...

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