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	Fort Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fort Hood, located halfway between Austin and Waco, is the only 2-division post in the United States, and is the home of III Corps.
		Fort Hood is in three sections, consisting of the main cantonment, West Fort Hood, and North Fort Hood.
		North Forth Hood is bounded by Gatesville to the northwest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fort_Hood (729 words)

	Fort Hood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Hood is a (Click link for more info and facts about census-designated place) census-designated place and (The army of the United States of America; organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare) US Army base located in (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico) Texas.
		Fort Hood is located at 31°7'48" North, 97°46'49" West (31.130072, -97.780260).
		Fort Hood, located halfway between (Click link for more info and facts about Austin) Austin and (A city in east central Texas) Waco, is the only 2-division post in the United States, and is the home of (Click link for more info and facts about III Corps) III Corps.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_hood.htm (900 words)

	Fort Hood History
		Fort Hood was named for the famous Confederate General John Bell Hood, an outstanding leader who gained recognition during the Civil War as the commander of Hood's Texas Brigade.
		Fort Hood made history when it was the first installation selected to privatize post housing under the residential communities initiative.
		Today, Fort Hood is a community of nearly 65,000 soldiers and family members and serves as a home for Headquarters III Corps, the 1st Cavalry Division, 4th Infantry Division, 13th Corps Support Command, 3d Signal Brigade, 89th Military Police Brigade, 504th Military Intelligence Brigade, 21st Cavalry Brigade (Air Combat), and 31st Air Defense Brigade.
	www.hood.army.mil /fthood/history/history_long.htm (3105 words)

	Fort Hood
		Fort Hood is the largest active duty armored post in the United States, and is the only post in the United States that is capable of supporting two full armored divisions.
		The city of Killeen borders Fort Hood to the east and Copperas Cove borders Fort Hood to the west.
		The Army was temporarily stationing this BCT to Fort Hood in FY06 due to operational necessity and to support current operational deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT).
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/fort-hood.htm (1901 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: FORT HOOD
		Fort Hood is located in southwestern Bell and southeastern Coryell counties in Central Texas.
		The primary mission of Fort Hood is to maintain a state of readiness for combat missions, and the dominant activity is the training of the Third Armored Corps.
		Fort Hood is the largest solely federally owned Texas landholding and has taken an initiative in the stewardship of cultural resources on public lands.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/qbf25.html (1111 words)

	statesman.com \| Metro & State \| Fort Hood gets deployment orders for 12,500 troops to Southwest Asia
		FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — More than 12,000 Fort Hood soldiers will be deployed to Southwest Asia, part of a 37,000-strong force being sent to region, officials said Monday.
		It will be Fort Hood's largest deployment to date in President Bush's war on terrorism, involving almost a third of the 42,000 troops regularly assigned to the nation's largest military post.
		Near El Paso, Fort Bliss' 108th and 35th Air Defense Brigades are expected to deploy in support of about 100 pieces of equipment for the new Patriot Advanced Capability 3 missile defense system that were loaded on rail cars Jan. 2 and routed to the Persian Gulf.
	www.angelfire.com /realm2/rogergrott/4th_deploys/austin_statesman_files/austin_statesman.htm (504 words)

	Foundry Networks : Industry Leadership: Customer Base : Fort Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Hood is home to the world's largest Army installation with approximately 48,000 soldiers, 2500 Department of Defense (DoD) civilian personnel and 30,000 network users housed in over 550 wired buildings spread over an area of 365 square miles.
		Fort Hood looked for a next generation backbone network solution that had much better reliability, was simpler to configure, operate and manage while also being easier and less expensive to maintain.
		Fort Hood also wanted to posture their network to meet future performance needs in anticipation of greater bandwidth requirements from their users.
	www.foundrynet.com /leadership/custBase/casestudies/fortHood.html (726 words)

	Fort Hood soldiers killed in Iraq - The Battalion - News
		FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - Three soldiers stationed at Fort Hood were killed over the weekend when their vehicle struck a homemade explosive device near the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, the Defense Department reported Monday.
		Dan Hassett, a Fort Hood spokesman, said Monday that another soldier from the post near Killeen was killed Sunday in a separate incident, but that person's identity has not been released.
		About 20,000 troops from Fort Hood are scheduled to return home from Iraq this spring, while some 20,000 other soldiers from the post are preparing to be deployed.
	www.thebatt.com /news/2004/02/03/News/Fort-Hood.Soldiers.Killed.In.Iraq-595672.shtml (497 words)

	Fort Hood Volunteers
		Meanwhile, athletes from the Fort Hood Tankers basketball and tae kwon do teams shared lunch with area high school students, motivating them to try harder in school and to avoid drugs.
		Paul Funk, commanding general of Fort Hood, decreed that soldiers' "place of duty" during parent-teacher conferences is the schoolhouse.
		Fort Hood 2000 continues to gain believers, not just on post and in the surrounding communities, but throughout the United States.
	www.army.mil /soldiers/may95/p30.html (1183 words)

	Adopt-A-Unit- Fort Hood AUSA Chapter - 2003 © (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Hood is in the midst of “Army Transformation,” the most dramatic restructuring of our Army to be accomplished in the last sixty years.
		We are prepared to support all Fort Hood units, but want to emphasize support for immediately deploying Soldiers and their families.
		Hood and local chambers of commerce, working together, will match civic entities with Fort Hood units (sometimes a platoon; usually a company or battalion).
	www.forthoodausa.org /adopt.html (1072 words)

	Texas - Fort Hood Center for Cooperative Ecological Research
		Established in 1942, Fort Hood occupies over 87,000 ha within the Crosstimbers and Southern Tallgrass Prairie Ecoregion, near the junction with the Edwards Plateau Ecoregion (The Nature Conservancy 1997).
		The Fort Hood landscape typifies this crossroads of ecological regions.
		Fort Hood also provides breeding habitat for two federally listed neotropical migrants, the fl-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus) and the golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chyrsoparia).
	nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/texas/science/art6072.html (206 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Fort Hood
		FORT HOOD, Texas -- Lynndie England -- the US soldier pictured holding a leash attached to a naked Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison in a scandal that prompted global outrage -- was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison and given a dishonorable discharge.
		She was found guilty on Monday by the five-member panel in Fort Hood, Texas, of six counts, which included one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act.
		FORT HOOD, Texas The Army private whose face is tied to prisoner abuse in Iraq is entering the sentencing phase of her trial at Fort Hood, Texas.
	military.surfwax.com /files/Fort_Hood.html (4221 words)

	Fort Hood Solar-powered Parking Lot Project, North of Bldg 10007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The parking area is 1500 ft by 140 ft and did not have any lighting fixtures as part of Fort Hood's lighting reduction policy.
		The model selected for Fort Hood has two solar panels, two gel-cell, 12-volt batteries, a charge/load controller and a 36-watt DC compact fluorescent lamp.
		Since, this was a first for Fort Hood, a few items are mentioned for future projects.
	www.p2pays.org /ref/21/20653.htm (611 words)

	Military Police: Force protection—priority one at Fort Hood
		Because Fort Hood is the largest Army installation in the world, it is a particular challenge to protect.
		Their mission was to assist the Fort Hood military police in its homeland defense mission, thus allowing the 89th to partially return to training on its mission-essential task list.
		The Fort Hood CID special agent in charge and the battalion operations section have been critical players, ensuring that sensitive, real-time criminal intelligence received from numerous sources was disseminated to III Corps's threat-fusion cell.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBW/is_2002_March/ai_86128047 (1375 words)

	ABC News: Bush Again Attends Service at Fort Hood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's an honor to be here at Fort Hood to celebrate Easter with those who wear the nation's uniform." The president will return to Washington on Monday.
		FORT HOOD, Texas Mar 27, 2005 — President Bush attended an Easter service Sunday at Fort Hood where he offered prayers for peace and the well-being of American soldiers and their families.
		For a third straight year, the president made the 50-mile helicopter flight from his ranch in Crawford to mark Christianity's highest holiday at the largest active-duty armored post in the military and one that has contributed thousands of troops to U.S. forces in Iraq.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=618185 (486 words)

	Fort Hood Holds Environmental Sustainability Summit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thomas F. Metz, III Corps commander, said sustainability for Fort Hood is not only the ability to continue with current operations but to position itself for additional missions in the joint arena.
		William Parry, Fort Hood garrison commander, said that just about every possible interest group was in attendance and each would play a role in keeping Fort Hood a sustainable installation.
		Randall Butler, the director of public works for Fort Hood, said while it is a military installation that focuses on training Soldiers for war fighting, the goal is to preserve the environment while accomplishing that mission.
	aec.army.mil /usaec/publicaffairs/update/spr04/spr0421.html (198 words)

	Endangered Species Bulletin: Migratory Bird Conservation at Fort Hood - Texas
		Fort Hood, a major Army training base located on approximately 220,000 acres (88,000 hectares) in central Texas, supports the largest known breeding populations of the endangered fl-capped vireo (Vireo articapillus) and golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia) under any single property management.
		An active cowbird control program at Ft. Hood has reduced the parasitism problem from a documented loss of 92 percent of fl-capped vireo nests in 1988 to less than 20 percent for the past three years, and less than 10 percent for 1997.
		Ft. Hood is using a variety of technologies to monitor the birds, including video cameras, satellite imagery, global positioning systems (GPS), and radio telemetry.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0ASV/is_4_23/ai_54023103 (594 words)

	Families \| Military Families \| Military Program Summery - Fort Bliss and Fort Hood
		Fort Bliss has a puppet show that provides educational programs for children and youth on several topics from child abuse to bicycle safety.
		Fort Bliss Extension Agents are extensively cross trained in programs due to limited staff in all community service areas.
		Staff assistants are at both Fort Bliss and Fort Hood to provide this vital single point of contact service to the military community.
	fcs.tamu.edu /families/military_families/military_program_summary.htm (1353 words)

	USA DENTAC Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fort Hood, one of the largest military installations in the world, is home to III Mobile armored Corps.
		The Fort Hood DENTAC has 6 clinics supporting the needs of America's finest soldiers.
		With a staff of 280 hard working employees, the soldiers assigned to Fort Hood receive the best comprehensive dental care available from dedicated officers, enlisted soldiers, civilians and contract personnel who call Fort Hood their place of duty.
	www.hood-meddac.army.mil /Dentac (235 words)

	Fort Hood on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		FORT HOOD, TEXAS -- Members of A Company of the 124th Signal Battalion participate in early morning physical training in their NBC
		FORT HOOD, TEXAS -- Members of 404th Aviation Support Battalion begin their battalion run at Fort Hood, Texas, today, March 19, 2003.
		FORT HOOD, TEXAS -- Members of 404th Aviation Support Battalion participate in early morning physical training in preparation for their battalion run at Fort Hood, Texas, today, March 19, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FortH1ood.asp (861 words)

	Fort Hood reeling from heavy losses in Iraq - Conflict in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Robert Forrester to speak to reporters outside the main gate at Fort Hood in Texas.
		The 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood, lost eight soldiers this week as fighting intensified in Iraq.
		Unfortunately, the casualties suffered at Fort Hood were just one part of one of the worst weeks for American forces in Iraq since the height of the war a year ago.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/4701740 (715 words)

	Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood Market Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Killeen-Temple-Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), located along I-35 between Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, consists of three counties.
		Temple and Killeen are located in Bell County, while most of Ft. Hood is located in Coryell County.
		Hood, the largest active U.S. Army post in the United States, is adjacent to Killeen.
	recenter.tamu.edu /mreports/KilleenTempleFH.html (123 words)

	Fort Hood News
		Fort Hood's 4th Infantry Division will hold a dedication ceremony for a Battle of the Bulge monument Tuesday.
		Killeen police arrested a Fort Hood soldier and his wife following a confrontation in which a shot was fired Wednesday night.
		Four men, including a Fort Hood soldier, were indicted Wednesday for the murder of an Army officer.
	www.topix.net /city/fort-hood-tx (1122 words)

	Fort Hood Teams with Habitat for Humanity
		Fort Hood, Texas, teamed with Austin Habitat for Humanity to deconstruct 11 family housing units earlier this year.
		Fort Hood considers this a first step in establishing a deconstruction program.
		In the future, Fort Hood plans to increase deconstruction efforts and continue to work with organizations like Austin Habitat for Humanity.
	aec.army.mil /usaec/publicaffairs/update/fall04/fall0419.html (204 words)

	Fire & Emergency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Ft Hood Fire and Emergency Services (FES) provides fire protection, rescue, and medical back-up, for the largest military installation in the United States.
		Ft Hood is located in the hill country of Central Texas and covers an area approximately 340 square miles, (217,377 acres).
		Fort Hood Fire and Emergency Services responds to approximately 4000 emergency calls a year.
	www.dpw.hood.army.mil /HTML/FES/fes_div.asp (169 words)

	Killeen, Texas .NET - Serving Killeen - Fort Hood - Harker Heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The opening of Camp Hood also forced a fundamental change in the nature of the local economy, since the sprawling new military base covered almost half of Killeen's trade area.
		For example, Killeen suffered a severe recession when Camp Hood was all but depopulated after the end of World War II, but when Fort Hood was established as a permanent army base in 1950, the city boomed again.
		Though the cycle of booms and busts continued into the early 1990s, the city continued to grow, as Fort Hood survived periodic cutbacks and transfers.
	www.killeentexas.net /history.shtml (1107 words)

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