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    'Tis the Season!

    en-usDecember 10, 2020
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    About this Episode

     The holiday season is in full swing at Fort Hood! First, we lit up the Central Texas sky with a 50-foot Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, sit down with the post's rabbi about holiday stress (not to mention Dec. 10 is the start of Hanukkah!), meet Charlie and Chelsea Plimpton, two biologists from the Fort Hood AIM Team who tell us about their annual Christmas Bird Count, and close it out with some holiday tunes from the "Christmas with the Cav" concert. Kelvin still fills in for some interview segments, but Brianna is back in the studio this week.

    The crew:
    - Dave Larsen, Fort Hood Public Affairs
    - SFC Kelvin Ringold, 13th Expeditionary Sustainment Command
    - SGT Melissa Lessard, 504th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade
    - SPC Brianna Doo, 1st Cavalry Division Band

    Guests:
    - Chaplain (Capt.) Dovid Egert, 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade
    - Charlie & Chelsea Plimpton, Fort Hood Adaptive and Integrative Management Team

    Music provided with expressed written permission by the following artists:

    Will Courtney (http://www.willcourtneymusic.com)

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