DATE: March 2, 2020 4:41:03 PM CST

Fort Leonard Wood Soldiers share love of reading

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (March 2, 2020) – Soldiers and family members from Fort Leonard Wood spent their Monday morning reading to elementary students from across the region in participation of Read Across America Day.

Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for children to celebrate reading. Fort Leonard Wood visited 11 schools in total, reading books and interacting with students.

Brig. Gen. Brian Bisacre, U.S. Army Military Police School commandant, and his wife Cyndi, read to four and five year olds March 2 at Williams Elementary School as part of Read Across America Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Staff Sgt. Keddrick Russell, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Chemical Brigade, reads to kindergarteners at Licking Elementary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sgt. 1st Class Jenifer Payne and Staff Sgt. ShandamaRay Donley-Morris from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Chemical Brigade, read to kindergarteners at Licking Elementary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Melonie Quander, wife of Brig. Gen. Mark Quander, U.S. Army Engineer School commandant, reads to 1st Grade students at Thayer Elementary School as part of Read Across America Day March 2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Col. Curt Schroeder, United States Army Military Police School assistant commandant, reads to students at Williams Elementary.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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