Martin Luther King - Fort Sam Houston - U.S. Army

JANUARY 13, 2011News BriefsMartin Luther King Jr. ObservanceAn observance will be held today from11:30-noon in the Brooke Army MedicalCenter medical mall. Call 916-7365 forinformation. The San Antonio MLKmarch will take place Monday at 10a.m. from the MLK Academy toPittman-Sullivan Park in downtown SanAntonio. Visit http://www.sanantonio.gov/mlk/ for information.Wound/Ostomy Clinic MovingThe wound/ostomy clinic at BrookeArmy Medical Center will move fromthe hospital’s seventh floor west to thesecond floor of the hospital’s medicalmall in the general surgery clinic area.The wound/ostomy clinic will be closedtoday for the move to transitionalspace. Services and appointments willresume at the new location Jan. 14.Call 916-3334.BAMC Outpatient Burn ClinicNew LocationThe burn center outpatient clinic atBrooke Army Medical Center is locatedin the BAMC Annex (formerly C LotTrailer No. 15), east of the hospital’smedical mall entrance. Space is limitedinside the new facility; patients areencouraged to bring only one immediatefamily member when they come forappointments. Clinic hours areMonday-Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Call916-9116.BAMC Allergy Clinic New LocationThe Brooke Army Medical Center Allergyand Immunization Clinic has moved toD Lot Clinic T4A, located outside theBAMC Women’s Health Clinic, followthe sidewalk to the elevated walkway.Clinic T4A previously was designatedTrailer 17. The clinic is open forappointments Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m.to 3:45 p.m. Allergy shots and immunizationsare not provided onWednesday and Friday afternoons. Forinformation, call 916-3011. To book anappointment, call 916-9900.Pass and I.D. Operation MovingThe 502nd Security Forces Squadronwill move the main Pass and I.D. office(Vehicle Registration) operations fromBuilding 367 to Building 260, locatedat the southeast corner of Wilson andN. New Braunfels Avenue. The movewill take place Tuesday andWednesday; there will be limitedSee NEWS P4NEWS LEADERMLK Day of Service: Make a differenceBy Lt. Gen. Guy C. Swan IIICommanding General,Army NorthBy Brig. Gen. Leonard A. PatrickCommander, 502nd Air BaseWing/Joint Base San AntonioThere’s a good chanceyou’ve been hearingabout the new installationsecurity technology gettingtested throughoutJoint Base San Antonio.At least, I hope you havebeen getting the word.This technology is newto Joint Base San Antonio,but it has been in operationat many other installationsin the United States andaround the world for severalyears. It’s called the DefenseBiometric IdentificationSystem or DBIDS.This is a Department ofDefense owned and operatedsystem developed as aforce protection tool, andwe are required to use it tomanage personnel identityand access onto our installations.We want to ensurepeople entering our installationsare who they saythey are.At the core of this systemis a personal databasewhich, at present, mesheswith the Defense EligibilityOn Jan. 17, our greatnation celebrates the lifeof Dr. Martin LutherKing Jr. and a nationalday of community serviceto honor his legacy.Dr. King once said,“Life’s most persistentand urgent question is:‘What are you doing for others?’“This year, I challengeall of you here at Fort SamHouston to answer that questionby coming together toserve our neighbors and community.This yearwill mark the25th anniversaryof thisday as a federalholidayand is theonly federalholidayobserved as anational dayof service –it’s a “day on, not a day off.”The MLK Day of Service is away to transform Rev. Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.’s lifeand teachings into communityaction that aims to help solveLt. Gen. Guy C. Swan IIIReportingSystem.Everyonewho needsroutineaccess toJoint BaseSan Antonioinstallationswill berequired toregistertheir currentDOD IDcards at one of the manysites available on Lacklandand Randolph Air ForceBases and Fort SamHouston. I’ve included a listof those locations at the endof this article.People required to registerinclude military members,civilian workers, contractors,dependents over 16years old and retirees.When retirees register theirID cards, they will see nochanges in access privileges.A benefit of DBIDS inJBSA is once you’re registeredon one installation,you are automatically registeredon all JBSA installations,because we share acommon database. In thesome of our social problems.The MLK Day of Service isthe perfect time for you toanswer Dr. King’s challenge todo something for others. Yourservice may meet a tangibleneed, or it may meet a need ofthe spirit.Dr. King devoted his life toadvancing equality, social justiceand opportunity for all.He set big goals, focusedrelentlessly on results andachieved historic change.Today, we need to foster anew generation to take actionto solve problems in our community– get out there andmake a difference!long-term (still under development),once you’re inDBIDS, you’ll be registeredfor access to every DODinstallation worldwide.The process is simple.Take your ID card to theregistration site, where itwill be scanned into the datarepository. Your credentialsare authenticated at thispoint. You’ll then have yourfingerprints taken electronically.The whole processtakes about five minutes.During the DBIDS phaseinprocess, guards at thegates will use handheld biometricscanners which willbe run over the bar-code onthe back of your ID card.This will verify the authenticityof your credentials atour access points. Many lostand unauthorized IDs havebeen discovered throughoutthe country thanks to thissystem.Lackland and Randolphare currently operationallytesting the system intermittentlyat the base gates, soyou may encounter a backupfrom time-to-time as theprocess is refined. I ask thatyou be patient and haveSA MLK March infoPAGE 3For thoseattending SanAntonio’sMartin LutherKing, Jr.CommemorativeMarch Monday,the following information hasbeen made available from Sgt.1st Class Melanie Locklear,Installation and Army NorthEqual Opportunity Advisor.“For the last two years, buseshave not been available fromthe City of San Antonio due tofunding. To car pool/follow to St.Philips College, we will meet atEmbrace the DBIDS process, register as soon as possibleBrig. Gen.Leonard A.Patrickyour ID card ready.Fort Sam Houston hascompleted DBIDS installationand is conducting DODID card registration.Eventually, this system willsave time since the handheldscanners can verify anID in an instant.You may initially viewthe DBIDS registration andverification process as aninconvenience, but peoplewho would attempt to enterour installations with nefariousintent will stop at nothingto fake or steal an ID.Because biometricscreening includes physicalattributes unique to an individualand non-physicalattributes, security breachesare far less likely. Thatultimately serves to protectour installation assets, mostnotably our workers andyour families.I’d encourage you toembrace the DBIDS processand register as soon as possible,because when the systemis fully implemented innine months or so, yourroutine entry to our JointBase San Antonio installationswill depend on it.See MLK INFO P16Fort SamHouston registrationsites:Building 367(In/OutProcessing),Building 1290(recruit area)and Building260, near the502nd MissionSupport GroupInspectorGeneral officeLackland AFBregistrationsites:Visitor ControlCenter, Building2196 andMilitaryPersonnelSection, Building5616, Room 109Randolph AFBregistrationsites:Visitor ControlCenter, Building1032 andMilitaryPersonnelSection,Building 399