Fort Hood Silver Chapter Year End Review 2009 Warrant Officer ...

Fort Hood Silver Chapter Year End Review 2009
Warrant Officer Work Shop
Fort Hood “Silver Chapter” hosted the Mid Southern Region first annual Warrant Officer Work Shop.
Over 200 Warrant Officers attended for the day-long event which included guest speakers from the III
CORPS Commander LG Rick Lynch, CSM Neil Ciotola, regarded senior warrant officers from WOCC, and
various component mangers with the focus on the Warrant Officer community as a whole (CW5 Elder,
CW5 Martin, CW5 Thomas, CWO (R.) Spelios
Other distinguished guest from the surrounding local communities included Mayor Ed Mullen (Harker
Heights and Mayor Timothy Hancock (Killeen) who gave an official Proclamation of 21 August 2009 as
“Warrant Officer Day”
LG Lynch , guest speak at Ft Hood Warrant Officer Work Shop, escorted by Chapter President CW4
Nicole Woodyard

Memorial Dedication
The Fort Hood “Silver Chapter “dedicated the first Warrant Officer memorial in the Central Texas State
Veterans Cemetery located in Killeen, August 2009. The event took place with full military honor with
the III CORPS color guard and bugler rendering “TAPS”. CW0 ( R ) Wayne Hamilton took on this task and
with tremendous efforts and various donation throughout the community, was able to complete the
memorial are spearheaded the dedication ceremony. Retired COL Schannep gave the invocation,
CW4(R.) Shaw presented a wreath of red rose. Also in attendance were members from the “Silver”
Chapter, Patriot Guard Riders.
III CORPS Color Guard
CW5(R.) Habhab, CW(R.) Gately, CW5(R.) Starnes, WO1 Johnson, CW2 Hays (VP), CW4 Woodyard
(President), CW3 Stewart, CW5(R.) Hays, CW3 Davis (Mid Southern Reg Dir), CW4 Spiher, CW(R.)
Hamilton, CW4(R.) Shaw

Disable Veterans Family Day BBQ
The Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter hosted a Family Day BBQ for the Disable Veterans Chapter 22. Over 300
Veterans and family members attended.
CW(R.) Hanks, VP CW2 Hays, CW4 Betancourt (Son Tony Jr.), CW(R.) Hamilton, President CW4
Woodyard, CW4 Hunter (Son and Father–in-law), CW2 Gooding and DAV 22 Members.

Retirement Home BINGO Day
The Fort Hood “Silver Chapter” hosted a BINGO day for the local retirement home. This event was open
to all family and community members to participate. The chapter gives a monthly monetary donation to
support this event for the residents, but felt that our time could be more valuable during the holiday
season. We also sponsored the ANGLE TREE for the holidays which allowed for about 30 residents to
receive additional Christmas present “anonymously”.
BINGO games.
Chapter members assist the residents during the
\ CW4 Lamar Singletary calls
BINGO numbers

Antonia Betancourt (Jr) CW4 Betancourt, CW4 Singletary, CWR Hamilton, CW4 McCoy, CW4 Hunter,
WO1 Tolbert, CW4 Woodyard, Nestle’ Woodyard, DeVaughn Woodyard

Community Service Trash Off
The Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter conducted its quarterly Trash Off in Dec 2009, coordinated by CW(R.)
Herb Gately, continuing the uninterrupted 15- year trend of the “Don’t Mess with Texas” campaign. The
stretch of highway is a little over 2 miles long and the volunteers and family members meet on a cold,
rainy Saturday afternoon to “Get ‘Er Done”. Hot chocolate and coffee was donated by the local Coffee
Beanery to support the event
Herb Gately giving Safety Briefing

2010
WOW! Warrant Officer Women’s Mentorship Lunch
CW4 Nicole E. Woodyard (915E) , President of the Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter and CW3 Sheleana Stewart
(920B), Memorabilia Chairperson hosted a Mentorship luncheon for the Female Warrant Officers in the
Fort Hood community.
CW4 Woodyard states, “This was
necessary. It gave the senior
Warrants and opportunity to
create a foundation, provide
guidance and direct mentorship,
while opening a line of
communication and availability
to the junior Warrant Officers.
Simultaneously, the junior
Warrants were able to ask
specific questions about officership
and professional
development and it created a
network that can now only be
strengthened.”

We were able to interact with (Female) Warrant Officers that we may not have otherwise had the
opportunity to meet with. The diversity in ranks, time-in-service, and MOS’s only proved the validity of
why this small demographic of Soldiers was vital to bond (Female Warrant Officers make up less than 9%
of the Active Army Warrant Officer Population. The Warrant Officers that attended the Mentorship
Luncheon ranged from W01-CW4, MOS Series 915E, 890A, 920A&B, 948B, 140E, 882A.
Top: Cotton , Rahming, Tisby, Gibbs, Stewart, Jules, Wallace, Williams, Bottom: Bartley, Woodyard,
Smith, Williams, Ellingson, Taylor

Warrant Officer Recruiting Week & The Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter
CW4 Melissa L. Farmer and CW4 Nicole E. Woodyard joined forces during Fort Hood’s Recruiting Week.
The two teamed up to provide a holistic experience for potential Warrant Officer.
CW4 Farmer and her team gave the formal
briefing to potential candidates while CW4 Woodyard set up a WO Packet Review Workshop to link a
Warrant Officer as a mentor as the NCO’s completed the application process. This duo kept the
momentum up and motivation for future Warrant Officers.
CW4 Farmer was also the guest speaker during the United
States Army Warrant Officer Association Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter monthly meeting and gave insights
to the updates and changes so the Warrants in the field can stay current on the recruiting standards.

The Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter
conducted a Packet Review workshop and provided one-on-one interaction with potential
candidates ready to submit for the next board. Part of this team included WO1 Fleary, CW
Goode, CW3 Stewart and CW4 Spiher.

Flapjack Fundraiser
Applebee’s (Killen and Copperas Cove, Texas) hosted two fundraiser to support the Fort Hood
“Silver” Chapter. CW3( R) John Hanks orchestrated the “All you can eat Flapjacks Breakfast”
with a minimal fee to the establishment to generated funds f or the Chapter to continue to
support it community projects.
C(CW4 Volunteers took turns on the serving line and
dining room police (CW4 Spiher, CW3 Cadena, WO1 Gwynn, WO1 Wallace).

( (COL Bosley & CW4 Woodyard)
The event was support by the entire community to include COL Bosley from the 407 th AFSB, Ft.
Hood, fellow Warrant Officers and Family members.
Cadena, Jim, Gwynn, Stewart, Spiher, Woodyard, Wallace, Gibson, Strothers, Tolbert, Gatley,
Kent, Hays, Murray, Stapleford, Howell, Hamilton,

June 2010 Golf Scramble Fund Raiser
Annual Fundraiser: Golf Scramble. This event received tremendous support from the local
community and friends of the Fort Hood “Silver” Chapter .

The National Vice President, CWO( R) Pete Hill and Chapter President CW4 Nicole Woodyard
gave opening remarks for the days events. 18 teams signed up to play at the Course at Clear
Creek, Fort Hood Texas.

First Place winners Team Kyrish,