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Vol. 62, No. 29
                                                                                                                                                     July 24, 2015

Published in the interest of Fort Huachuca personnel and their Families. Online @ www.aerotechnews.com/forthuachuca/ or via smartphone.

Chapel keeps kids busy                                         ACS celebrates 50th                                           Backpacks, pencils
with Bible activities ...                                      birthday of serving                                           signal start of school
(6A)                                                           Soldiers, Families ...                                        ...
                                                               (10-11A)                                                      (1B)

FINAL ISSUE
Scout newspaper prints final edition after more than 61 years
                                             come e Fort Huachuca Scout to the         at large.                                   the Bu alo Bulletin, which was pub-
By Angela Camara                             family of activities here at              PAO also o ers video news                   lished by the 10th Cavalry Regiment.
Public Affairs Officer                       Fort Huachu-                              broadcast services on the Com-
                                                                                                                                         e Bulletin was started on May 5,
                           Times are         ca,” said then-                           manders Access Channel (Cox                                     1920 as a small ve-
                           changing. Gone    Post Com-                                 Cable channel 97), including
                           are the days      mander, Emil                              the Fort Report and locally                 page, mim-
                           when a kid        Lenzner, on June                          produced public service an-                 eographed news sheet. Its cir-
                           stood on the      18, 1954 when                                         nouncements. Public service     culation expanded from 200 to 1200,
                           corner waving     he christened e                                       announcements for release       including a mailing list of over 200. On
                           the newspaper     Fort Huachuca                                         to external radio stations,     May 12, 1921 the Bu alo Bulletin was
                           and crying out    Scout newspaper.                                      including AAFES and             discontinued and e Bullet, published
                           the latest head-  “A newspaper has                                         DECA, are produced in        by the 25th Infantry Regiment, took its
                           line. Gone are    become an essential                                      our local audio suite in     place. e Bullet was likely published at
                           the days when     activity wherever U.S.                                   Building 21115               the regimental headquarters in Nogales,
news could wait until the presses had n-     troops are stationed. It                                 All of our locally pro-      Arizona, until the entire regiment was
ished rolling.                               is an important source                                   duced news coverage
Today news is instantaneous. We are          of information and                                       items are available on                            moved to Fort Hua-
checking our smart phones, tablets and       entertainment for all                                    a variety of addition-                            chuca around 1941.
computers via Wi-Fi for the latest head-     who read it. I entrust its                               al online platforms,
lines. News travels from coast to coast      editors with the respon-                  including Facebook (www.                                               e Fort was also
in mere nanoseconds. And so perhaps          sibility of maintaining       the         facebook.com/u.s.armyforthuachuca),                             home to the 93rd Blue
comes the time to bid farewell to some of    highest standards of accuracy, fairness   Pinterest (www.pinterest.com/forthu-                            Helmet newspaper of
our old friends, like the newspaper.         and good taste.”                          achuca/), UStream (www.ustream.tv/                             the 93rd Infantry Divi-
      e Fort Huachuca Scout newspa-          Today, however, e Fort                    channel/forthuachu-                   ca),                     sion from Sept. 18, 1942
per has been keeping the Fort                Huachuca Scout newspaper                  Twitter (www.twitter.com/                                      to march 26, 1943. is
Huachuca and, dare                           will cease publication of a               Fort_Huachuca), Vimeo                                         unite newspaper was fol-
I say, Sierra Vista                          hard-copy newspaper. e                    ( w w w. v i m e o . c o m / f o r -                          lowed by e Bu alo, a
communities in-                              Public A airs O ce (PAO)                  thuachuca/videos), Flickr                                    newspaper of the 92nd
formed and telling                           remains committed to our                  (www. ickr.com/photos/                                       Infantry Division printed
the Army story for                           mission to “inspire trust                 us_army_fort_huachu-                                         here from May/June 1943
more than 61 years.                          in the American public by                 ca/) and YouTube (www.                                      through mid-1944. e
In the course of that                        telling the Army and Fort                 youtube.com/user/com-                                       Bu alo was published at
time the newspaper                           Huachuca story with pro-                  mander97).                                  other locations prior to and a er being
has uctuated back and                        fessionalism, passion and                 For public a airs                           published at Fort Huachuca.
forth from a broadsheet                                        pride.”                 assistance and to co-
to a tabloid publication                                       We will continue to     ordinate news cover-                                              See SCOUT, Page 3A
employing Soldier, Civil-                                      provide command in-     age of Fort events, call
ian and contract report-                                       formation news cover-   520.533.1850.
ers. (See their memories                     age of Fort Huachuca events and           e Fort Huachuca Scout is the
of working on e Scout          on Page       Soldier activities through news articles  h in a series of troop newspapers
2A.)                                         and photographs posted to www.army.       which have been published in the area.
“It is with great pleasure that I wel-       mil/huachuca and shared with the Army     e earliest known Post newspaper was
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