Press Release 17-126 FLW United soccer players bound for Defenders Cup and Club will represent post at San Antonio tourney

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – Twenty-one members of the Fort Leonard Wood United Soccer Club are either on the road or in the air today, bound for San Antonio, Texas, where they will represent the post in the annual Defender’s Cup Soccer Tournament, scheduled for Friday through Monday near Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

This will be the third consecutive year the Fort Leonard Wood club has made the journey. But this year, players have put in more practice time, faced more opponents and gained more experience in the run-up to the tournament than ever before. The club’s head coach, Jeff Cornuet, said he wanted his players to experience one thing: “More competition.”

Press Release 17-125 Community honors Navy veteran

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – It was standing room only at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery – Fort Leonard Wood Aug. 24 as service members from all branches joined community members to pay their final respects to an unaccompanied veteran who most had never met.

Chief Petty Officer Arthur “Bill” Craft joined the United Stated Navy after graduating high school in 1958. Craft was a Vietnam veteran and retired after devoting more than 20 years of service to his country.

Press Release 17-124 Fort Leonard Wood commanding general joins elementary students for eclipse

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – Students marched out to the playground with their eyes on their shoes as they had been instructed to not look up until they had taken their seats and put on their viewing glasses.

Once students had taken their seats, it was all eyes to the sky at Fort Leonard Wood’s Partridge Elementary School for Monday’s solar eclipse.

Maj. Gen. Kent Savre, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general; his wife, Mary Beth; and Command Sgt. Maj. Jon Stanley, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood command sergeant major, joined students and staff for the celestial event.