🌱 How a Fort Hood brigade got pulled into a NATO troop fight

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Fort Hood brigade got pulled into a NATO troop fight
• Vietnam veteran recalls service and time stationed at Fort Hood

Today's riddle: Which is faster, heat or cold? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 98 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Monday: Shifting clouds and sun, temps: high: 96, low: 75.
• Tuesday: Warm with variable clouds, with a high of 97 and low of 76 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Hegseth Prepared a Bombshell Plan to Cut Troops in Europe. Then It Got Nixed (tovima.com) — Fort Hood figures into a major defense debate as a planned nine-month rotation of an armored brigade from the post to Poland was abruptly canceled by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The move, later walked back at higher levels, is part of a broader struggle inside Washington over how many U.S. troops should remain in Europe. Lawmakers from both parties are pushing back against rapid cuts.
   

• Salt of the Earth, pride of a nation (thefencepost.com) — A Vietnam veteran who later served at Fort Hood reflects on how his time in combat and at the post shaped his life before returning to ranching in Nebraska. From helicopter missions to coping with trauma, he credits hard work, family, and the land with helping him heal. His story ties national history to one soldier’s personal journey.
   

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Thursday July 9

• KISD Business Connections Group Meeting
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Sunday July 5

• Watermelon Wine Glassware Set Workshop! →
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  Copperas Cove ISD Copperas Cove, TX 76522
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  Painting with a Twist, 716 Indian Trail Ste 220, Harker Heights
  12:00 pm
• KISD Business Connections Group Meeting
  Harker Heights H S Harker Heights, TX 76548
  2:00 pm
• Auxiliary Meeting →
  City of Morgan’s Point Resort Mic and Garrett Hill Event Center - 60 Morgan's Point Boulevard Morgan's Point Resort TX 76513
  6:00 pm

Friday July 10

• MPR Coffee with Council Member →
  City of Morgan’s Point Resort Mary Ruth Briggs Library - City Hall 8 Morgan's Point Blvd. Morgan's Point Resort TX 76513
  8:00 am
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Sunday July 12

• Administrative Summit (Whole Area)
  Copperas Cove ISD Copperas Cove, TX 76522
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🗞 Nearby News

Killeen

• Killeen and surrounding area celebrate America's 250th (kdhnews.com)
• Chaparral High and other KISD school honored for the performing arts (kdhnews.com)
• What we gain when we choose partnership (kdhnews.com)

Copperas Cove

• Army CID raids 4 smoke shops in Killeen, Copperas Cove (kdhnews.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Heat, you can catch cold!! (Thank you Michael S. for sending it in!)
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