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GLWACH bids farewell to Biever, Pitney assumes command

June 24, 2020

Sam Campbell

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 24, 2020) — Col. Kimberlie Biever relinquished command of the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital to Col. Aaron Pitney at a change of command ceremony June 23 at Nutter Field House.

Brig. Gen. George Appenzeller, Regional Health Command-Central commanding general, was the reviewing officer for the ceremony and presided through a video conference call.

“This ceremony reflects the changes that we have made through the ongoing global pandemic,” he said. “However, the importance of this time-honored tradition has not changed. Honoring these two leaders – the outgoing commander who has served with distinction and the officer who is assuming the mantle of command – is still a sacred part of our Army culture, and that is especially true during these times.”

As is customary, the Medical Department Activity colors were transferred from Biever to Pitney, symbolizing the shift of authority from the outgoing commander to the incoming one.

Biever will serve as the RHC-C’s next chief of staff. Pitney most recently served as the chief of medical readiness at the Office of the Surgeon General.

The ceremony also served as an opportunity for Biever to bid farewell to her Soldiers, and for the team to welcome their new commander, Pitney, who will lead GLWACH in providing care to the installation.

“It is my honor and privilege to stand before you today as the outgoing commander of the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital,” Biever said. “I am so humbled to have had this opportunity to lead such an amazing team. This has definitely been the highlight of my career.”

She said her Soldiers always overcame the challenges they faced as a team, and she referenced some of GLWACH’s achievements during her command.

“Despite our ups and downs, this team always pulls together to make the magic happen,” she said. “Our customer satisfaction rates continued to rise throughout the years, and GLWACH inpatient scores reached the top of the region.”

Biever said she was impressed with the GLWACH team’s dedication to keeping the Army ready to deploy.

“We had several of our providers and our troops go downrange on deployment,” she said. “Every single one of them has emailed back and said they were fully prepared to do their mission because of what they learned at GLWACH. Between the outpatient care that they do, the inpatient care that they do, the experiences they get in the emergency room and what we’re able to provide them in training and simulation … they are fully prepared.”

She also reflected on her team’s ability to surmount hard times through laughter.

“For anyone who’s been around for a bit, we had to take humor in everything that we did because it’s been a little tough,” she said. “If we couldn’t laugh about what was going on, we really might have just sat around and cried.”

She concluded by speaking directly to Pitney and wishing her team a bittersweet farewell.

“Colonel Pitney, the team is a wonderful team, the community is fantastic, and they are all ready for you,” she said. “To my GLWACH teammates, you’ve been the best team any commander could ask for. When I came here, all I could think of was how great this place was and how great the people are, and all I wanted to do was do my best – to take care of the people and leave it better than I found it. I hope I’ve done that for you.”

Pitney expressed humility and gratitude upon assuming the position, and congratulated Biever on a “successful, transformative command.”

“I would like to thank Colonel Biever for her warm welcome to me,” he said. “You have made my transition here very smooth. I know I am taking the reins of an effective, cohesive organization and that is a reflection on your untiring efforts.”

The incoming commander expressed his dedication to GLWACH’s mission and the ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus.

“As we transition today, I assure you that our commitment will not change,” he said. “We are here to ensure the well-being, health and readiness of our Soldiers, our Army, our families and our retirees. We will press forward through the current challenge of COVID-19 and continue to prove that we are a team of teams.”

As Brig. Gen. George Appenzeller, Regional Health Command-Central commanding general, looks on via live stream as reviewing officer, Col. Aaron Pitney (right), incoming General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital commander, salutes the Medical Department Activity colors and they are transferred during the GLWACH change of command ceremony June 23 at Nutter Field House. Outgoing commander, Col. Kimberlie Biever, will next serve as chief of staff at Regional Health Command-Central at Joint Base San Antonio, Texas. (Brian Hill)

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood is a thriving and prosperous installation that has evolved from a small basic training post more than 75 years ago to a premier Army Center of Excellence that trains more than 80,000 military and civilians each year.

Fort Leonard Wood is home to the U.S Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and three U.S. Army schools: the U.S. Army Engineer School; U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear School; and the U.S. Army Military Police School. In addition to training engineer, CBRN and military police specialties for the Army, Fort Leonard Wood also provides gender-integrated in-processing and Basic Combat Training for new Soldiers.

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

Fort Leonard Wood breaks ground on new hospital — Construction on $295 million medical complex set for completion in 2024

June 23, 2020

Matt Decker

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 23, 2020) — U.S. Army officials, legislators and others gathered to break ground June 22 on the new General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital, a $295 million, state-of-the-art, 52-acre hospital complex that, when completed in 2024, will replace the current hospital facility.

“Today is a dream come true for this military community and for the entire region,” said Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, who described the event as a “historic moment for Fort Leonard Wood.”

When completed, the new complex will include a 235,400-square-foot hospital facility along with a 193,000-square-foot clinic, a central utility plant, emergency back-up generators, five-bay ambulance garage, helipad and supporting facilities.

“The new hospital will have all the capabilities of our current facility,” said Col. Kimberlie Biever, GLWACH commander. “It will be more efficient in terms of function, it will be more cost-effective to maintain, and it will be a beautiful facility where people want to work and where our patients will be welcomed in a therapeutic environment. The clinical locations were thoughtfully planned to ensure patients can navigate through the hospital easily and efficiently and receive needed health care. There will be convenient patient parking after the project is complete, and during the period of construction upon relocating to the new facility, GLWACH staff will continue to provide excellent medical care in a kind and compassionate environment.”

Despite recently being ranked No. 1 in outpatient efficiency by U.S. Army Medical Command, the current hospital, built in 1965, is the oldest in the Army system, and has presented several challenges to health-care providers, Biever said.

Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle, the 45th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Medical Command commanding general, praised the current GLWACH command and staff for their response during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, adding that their commitment illustrated the fact that “military readiness and military health care are inextricably linked.”

Likewise, he said, the modernization of the hospital facilities would benefit the missions here.

“The hospital is the same age as I am, and as modernization is always occurring, as medical technology is always occurring, the hospital obviously has been modernized and upgraded,” Dingle said. “However, in order for us to keep pace with the beneficiary population, the care to support the readiness of our Soldiers and family members and civilians, it’s time for us to give them the equipment, the facility, that can support the requirements. So, I believe it’s long overdue. The mission here is a tremendous mission for the Army, because it provides the Army its lifeline. That’s why it’s such an honor to be here to do the groundbreaking.”

Prior to the official ceremonies, Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, director of the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, said the new facility is designed to serve the area for decades to come, just as GLWACH has served the post for more than a half-century.

“It’s important for us to have the right sorts of health care capabilities present on the installation,” Place said. “This particular facility is 55 years old. As you walk through it, it doesn’t look 55 years old, but it is. That speaks to two things: first, the dedication of the facilities team here, maintaining this building to the greatest of their abilities such that it can serve the community. But it also means as technology progresses, and the way that we know things are better positioned and organized and built to serve the health care delivery, sometimes that means a new facility. So, we’re at a tipping point now, where the DoD and the Army are committed to continue to have a hospital here at Fort Leonard Wood. But, it now has to be recapitalized in a way that serves the purpose of delivering health care now in the 2020s.”

One of the key improvements the new facilities will provide is expanded intensive-care capacity, Place said.

“The new hospital, with new designs, will better enable the local community here to care for those who are more critically ill,” he said. “Medicine, particularly in America, is leveraging technology — in particular, virtual health technology — and one of the leading-edge things that leaders here at (GLWACH) have done over the last five or six years is to reach out to other organizations for assistance with monitoring and assistance with the intensive-care unit side. And the relationship has proven that safe care can be delivered in a relatively small community hospital far from other places, and yet still be able to take care of critical-care patients. That’s wrapped into the construction plan for this particular facility to continue to do that.”

Brig. Gen. Pete Helmlinger, commanding general of the Northwestern Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, indicated some of the methods used to plan and build the new facilities are on the cutting edge and being done in collaboration between the Corps of Engineers, the Kansas City, Missouri-based firm JE Dunn Construction, which was awarded the design-build contract for the new hospital in August, in partnership with RLF Architects of Orlando, Florida.

“It truly will be world-class,” Helmlinger said. “Some of the innovative and collaborative methods being used on this project include rendering spaces in virtual reality as a low-cost means to allow hospital and clinic staff to experience spaces and identify issues before construction begins. It also includes the development of off-site physical mock-ups within the hospital and clinic to verify how key spaces will be constructed. Other innovations include the use of building information modeling 4-D to integrate schedule and activities into the three-dimensional model. This is the first project within the Corps of Engineers to require this revolutionary project-delivery tool.”

JE Dunn Construction Midwest Region President Paul Neidlein said up to 4,000 people will be hired by his company and subcontractors to work on the project at various times over the next four years.

“Some of our partners are already making local hires, so you will see local people working on this project,” he said.

Other speakers during the ceremony included Missouri Sens. Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, who provided pre-recorded messages, and U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler.

Earlier in her remarks, Martin said she mentioned the groundbreaking to Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper during his visit to the post June 18.

“I have to tell you that when the Secretary of Defense visited last week, I told him that, if there was one thing that was the center of gravity, it was having an on-post hospital,” she said. “Maintaining our hospital on post is a huge win for the Army and the nation, but more importantly for every person we serve. So, as our 1960s-era hospital gives way to the new facility we’re breaking ground for — I hope when you drive by this construction site, you’ll think about what doesn’t change: our commitment to our people.”

(Editor’s note: GUIDON Managing Editor Brian Hill contributed to this story.)

Officials break ground on the new hospital at Fort Leonard Wood. (Dawn Arden)

Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, director of the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, attended the groundbreaking and said the new hospital will better enable the Fort Leonard Wood community to care for those who are more critically ill. (Brian Hill)

Lt. Gen. Scott Dingle, the 45th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Medical Command commanding general (center), spoke with some of the key individuals involved with making the new hospital possible, including U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler (second from right). (Brian Hill)

Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, described the groundbreaking event for the new hospital as a “historic moment for Fort Leonard Wood.” (Brian Hill)

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

Fort Leonard Wood holds GLWACH groundbreaking ceremony

June 22, 2020

Public Affairs Office

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 22, 2020) — Fort Leonard Wood held an official groundbreaking ceremony at 2 p.m. today for the new General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital. The ceremony was virtual at and can be found at https://www.facebook.com/fortleonardwoodmissouri/videos/946382352481819/.

The construction of the hospital campus is expected to be completed in autumn 2024. The existing hospital will then be demolished.

Renovation of the existing optical fabrication lab and parking improvements are slated to follow.

The new hospital will be located on 52 acres just northeast of the existing hospital. Facilities to be constructed include a 235,400-square-foot hospital, 193,300-square-foot clinic, central utility plant, emergency back-up generators, five-bay ambulance garage, helipad and supporting facilities.

In August 2019, the $295 million design-build contract was awarded to Kansas City, Missouri based firm JE Dunn Construction with RLF Architects of Orlando, Florida — minor supporting construction has already been completed, including site and utility surveys.

Clips included:

Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, Director, Defense Health Agency, talks about the reasoning behind building the new hospital at Fort Leonard Wood:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ms4JPkl2MdUDpNzLUb1sqW5oLrFxiZXX/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/13UatIlLOi-GLXhdplWDJyT-YCdVyU9Dz/view?usp=sharing

Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, Director, Defense Health Agency, speaks about the improvements to services the new hospital will provide the Fort Leonard Wood community.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iPbsKr40ZGv39YCR_kfqGzSIyPT03wKE/view?usp=sharing

Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, Director, Defense Health Agency, talks about the changes in planning brought about by COVID-19.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QUTd53ezsgEm48rTzYvf3TyK7wz56C42/view?usp=sharing

Lt. Gen. Raymond Scott Dingle, U.S. Army Surgeon General, talks about the necessity of building a new hospital:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YHpl3uuW-pNcvKl1Q2Xq40UF6vu_EIkw/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q8-ZLY7WKyZyD2Un9iXjRT91nrUNkSvY/view?usp=sharing

Speech from the ceremony:

Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QUTd53ezsgEm48rTzYvf3TyK7wz56C42/view?usp=sharing

B-roll:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VfHZ8xBAN3rDS2of0kj4NvAc8GB_BkKt/view?usp=sharing

Officials break ground on the new hospital at Fort Leonard Wood.

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

Urban Search and Rescue conducts training course at Fort Leonard Wood

June 19, 2020

Brian Hill

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 19, 2020) — Nine Soldiers from Fort Hood, Texas, are getting vital Urban Search and Rescue training here as the Army continues to find ways to train the force while simultaneously mitigating COVID-19 risks.

Many health and safety issues had to be worked out before Soldiers could travel here for training, to include travel arrangements, housing and classroom spacing requirements and daily health checks for both the students and instructors.

According to Jay Rutherford, Urban Search and Rescue Training Department chief, the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence Directorate of Training and Doctrine was briefed on the mitigation strategy to comply with Defense Department policies and orders from Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general. Approval was granted and the US&R training department will train five courses this year.

“We separated the living conditions in the barracks, we got the classroom set up where they’re all six-feet apart,” he said. “All the mitigation strategies that we presented are in effect right now and working well.”

The Soldiers attending the 38-day Urban Search and Rescue course spent two weeks in quarantine. Their journey here, in a pair of rental vans, was regulated so as only to allow stops for fuel and food, and then only curbside or drive-thru service could be used.

“They provided us everything we need to make sure we’re comfortable. Once we got here, they had everything set up for us,” said Pfc. Magic Dowe, who’s been in the Army just nine months. “They met us at the gate. It was really accommodating – an easy process.”

While attending the course, the Soldiers are learning rescue techniques for a variety of scenarios, including rope, confined space, trench, structural collapse, vehicle and machinery rescue. They’re learning how to tie knots, set up rigging systems and prepare patients for evacuation. Upon successful completion, each Soldier gains college credits and certifications they can use in the civilian world as well as in the Army.

Rutherford said all nine Soldiers passed their first test over what’s called the Common Core, and they have moved into rope rescue training.

Spc. Breanah Brooks said the entire class is working together to study the material.

“Learning the steps to everything is difficult,” she said. “We all get together, though – we work it out.”

Dowe completed Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Leonard Wood five months ago, and he said he’s enjoying a different training experience here this time.

“It’s not your typical knots,” he said. “It’s really great information. It takes time – it’s something that you really have to pay attention to. You do it right and the end goal is to save lives.”

Fort Leonard Wood is the only U.S. Army installation where urban search and rescue courses are taught.

“It really gets hectic after this (class),” Rutherford said, noting that the annual training load for the course is 350 students. “We’ll start picking up again. We have four more classes this year and then we’ll have everything closed out and all the students home before Thanksgiving.”

Staff Sgt. Harry Cruz, a Construction Engineer Supervisor at Fort Hood, Texas, demonstrates the building of a 9:1 compound mechanical advantage system while Kito Perry, an Urban Search and Rescue course training instructor, provides technical assistance. (Photo by Brian Hill)

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

Forney Airfield project provides training, savings and safety

June 19, 2020

Brian Hill

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 19, 2020) — A water hazard near Forney Airfield’s flight line has become an opportunity for Fort Leonard Wood engineer units to train on equipment and save time and money at the same time – all while making the airfield safer.

According to 509th Clearance Company Commander David Hoy, the “mutually beneficial project” allows his unit to gain critical experience on their earth-moving equipment while providing a closer location for another unit, Company A, 554th Engineer Battalion, to place clean fill from a separate on-going concrete-removal project being accomplished on post in conjunction with the Missouri National Guard. The clean fill assists Forney Airfield with the removal of a safety hazard due to the presence of birds and the proximity of the water to the flight path – at the same time, saving money that would’ve otherwise been needed to alleviate the hazard.

“Our operators get to build proficiency and support the Maneuver Support Center of Excellence team as well as safety on the airfield,” Hoy said. “Our operators have a high probability of going to a construction unit later in their career. Because of that, we continue to look for ways to challenge them with similar problem sets they will encounter when they join a construction unit, in addition to their combat skills they constantly train on in our clearance company.”

Airport Manager Dave Robinson sees the project as a win for everyone.

“We’ve got Soldiers getting training,” he said. “It’s always a win-win when – on a training installation – we can assist the trainers. We’re all working together and we’re saving money at the same time.”

Hoy said the airfield management team “floated the idea” to him of filling in the water hazard as a training opportunity after the 509th completed a separate foliage-removal project that earned five commendation and achievement medals from garrison command in February.

The 509th Clearance Company, with help from the 50th Multi Role Bridge Company and the 5th Engineer Battalion’s Survey and Design section, gathered data June 11 on how much fill would be required to completely fill in a water hazard near Forney Airfield. (Photo Credit: Photo by Capt. Cortland Henderson)

Company A, 554th Engineer Battalion dump trucks bring clean fill to a project near Forney Airfield from a separate on-going concrete-removal project being accomplished on post in conjunction with the Missouri National Guard. (Photo Credit: Photo by Brian Hill)

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

Esper conducts re-enlistment ceremony at Fort Leonard Wood

June 18, 2020

Public Affairs Office

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (June 18, 2020) — Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper thanked Soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri today for being a part of the “elite” group of Americans who serve on “the greatest team history has known,” the United States military.

As part of a multi-state trip, Esper, accompanied by Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman Ramón “CZ” Colón-López, visited Fort Leonard Wood to meet with leaders from the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence to discuss the continued growth of the nation’s Soldiers under COVID conditions and to observe basic combat training. He also led a sensing session with service members and conducted a re-enlistment ceremony where 53 Soldiers recommitted their obligation to defend the Constitution of the United States.

“You are heroes in my book,” Esper said to the Soldiers taking part in the re-enlistment ceremony on MSCoE Plaza. “You are a part of that elite 1 percent – that 1 percent of the American population that raises their hand, swears that oath and commits to do everything they can and everything that might be to protect our great country.”

Before Esper administered the Oath of Enlistment, he asked the Soldiers to reflect upon its meaning.

“Our oath is special,” he said. Because, “unlike any other military in the world, we’re not swearing an oath to a king or a queen, to a political party or movement, not even to a parliament or a prime minister.”

By taking the oath, he told the Soldiers that they will promise to protect the Constitution, the nation and will commit “to safeguarding our fellow citizens.”

“We serve an oath to a document, a document that identifies ideas and values that are core to what we are as Americans,” he said. “It says first and foremost that we are a democracy of the people, by the people, for the people.”

Second, he said, the document guarantees Americans liberties and freedoms that are “the hallmark of our great republic.”

“And finally, it gives us all rights, rights that are the envy of the world,” he said. “As you swear that oath, reflect upon those things and know that the ideas and values that that document embodies are ideas and values that instill fear in the minds of our adversaries and hope in the hearts of our friends and allies abroad.”

Esper said he felt honored and privileged to have those Soldiers re-enlist in the U.S. military.

“Today, you will once again be rejoining the greatest military in the world – the military that has defended that document, those rights and values for over 200 years,” he said. “Today, you continue that proud legacy, and I couldn’t have more pride myself and respect for all of you in choosing to do so. I feel honored and privileged to have you on our team, the greatest team history has known.”

One Soldier who took part in the re-enlistment ceremony was Staff Sgt. Maria Ynonan, a drill sergeant with the 3^rd Chemical Brigade who has served in the Army for more than six years. Today, she re-enlisted in the Army for six more and said it was a “great honor” to have Esper conduct the re-enlistment.

Spc. Jesus Roldan with the 5^th Engineer Battalion agreed.

“With the pandemic that is currently going around, and for (the Secretary of Defense) to go out of his way and pretty much re-enlist every single Soldier here (today), it means a lot,” Roldan said.

In addition to the re-enlistment ceremony, Esper met with Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, MSCoE and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, and received overviews on the Harper In-processing Screening Clinic and the 10-week, modified Basic Combat Training – referred to as two-plus-eight due to a built-in initial two-week controlled-monitoring phase – which allows the Army’s newest Soldiers to learn all the same skills, but with COVID-19 mitigation protocols in place. He also observed training at the Physical Endurance Confidence Course. He ended his visit with a sensing session with 14 service members from the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force with diverse backgrounds and experiences to hear their concerns regarding a variety of topics including, readiness and racism in the military.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper conducts mass re-enlistment ceremony at Fort Leonard Wood.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper congratulates Staff Sgt. Maria Ynonan, 3rd Chemical Brigade, after the re-enlistment ceremony.

Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper observes training June 18 at Fort Leonard Wood’s Physical Endurance Confidence Course. Esper , accompanied by Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman Ramón “CZ” Colón-López, visited Fort Leonard Wood to meet with leaders from the U.S. Army Maneuver Support Center of Excellence to discuss the continued growth of the nation’s Soldiers under COVID conditions and to observe basic combat training. He also led a sensing session with service members and conducted a re-enlistment ceremony where 53 Soldiers recommitted their obligation to defend the Constitution of the United States.

To see Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s speech, visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/12EbS6FYKN3eos7yOFLzyzANPERi5DW59/view?usp=sharing.

To see the re-enlistment ceremony conducted by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/10KyLPvCULyW6pditRS-hK5tUrS2W4tVz/view?usp=sharing.

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About Fort Leonard Wood

Fort Leonard Wood also hosts and trains with the largest Marine Corps Detachment and Air Force Squadron on any Army installation as well as a large Navy construction detachment.

More information about Fort Leonard Wood is at: https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php/about/mission

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News and Events

GLWACH bids farewell to Biever, Pitney assumes command

Fort Leonard Wood breaks ground on new hospital — Construction on $295 million medical complex set for completion in 2024

Fort Leonard Wood holds GLWACH groundbreaking ceremony

Urban Search and Rescue conducts training course at Fort Leonard Wood

Forney Airfield project provides training, savings and safety

Esper conducts re-enlistment ceremony at Fort Leonard Wood