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“A bird like this saved my life,” shouted Col. Kent Solheim, commander of the 165th Infantry Brigade. He was shouting to a group of trainees as they were washed in a flash of dead grass and rotor wash as two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters were touching down mere feet away.

Surprise tornadoes hit the installation early morning on Oct. 19. Trainee barracks were hit hardest where two trainees were killed and about 30 others were injured. A tornado then struck the on-post housing area where three more were injured and one was killed. While the scenario is fake, the possibility of a tornado striking the installation is not.

Forty-four active duty and Reserve Soldiers, civilians and their spouses set out to run, walk and hike 10 miles along Fort Jackson’s Dixie Road Oct. 16.

C.C. Pinckney Elementary School students joined hundreds of other Department of Defense Education Activity students for a virtual visit with Dr. Jane Goodall.

At 53, Ashby never thought she would become one of more than 19,000 adults annually to call the National Domestic Violence Hotline to report domestic violence and seek help before being shot.

Soldiers graduate from Basic Combat Training and various schools across Fort Jackson, South Carolina, almost every week. It’s not every day that a Family will see two Soldiers graduate back-to-back.

For many Soldiers and their Families, the social media platform TikTok is entertaining and a chance to team up with friends and family members to get creative and make a short video and share with the platforms 1 billion users.

People are the Army’s number one priority. Soldiers and Department of Defense Civilians, had their voices heard during a series of Your Voice Matters listening sessions Sept. 20 through 21 at the Soldier Support Institute.