CLARKSVILLE, TN – Blanchfield Army Group Hospital obtained the 2022 Companions in Training Boots on the Floor Award from the Clarksville-Montgomery County Training Basis and the Clarksville, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce throughout a ceremony, Aug. 30 at Liberty Park.
The inspiration presents the annual Boots on the Floor award to the highest navy unit or veteran group collaborating in this system, which matches native companies and organizations with colleges within the Clarksville-Montgomery County Faculty System. Volunteer teams accomplice with a college to reinforce the training setting by their experience, time, monetary or materials assets.
“The influence that it has within the classroom could be very useful to college students as a result of it offers them an expertise that they wouldn’t get every other means,” stated Principal Evan Stinson, from BACH’s schooling accomplice, Northeast Center Faculty. There are greater than 40 formal partnerships between native colleges and items on Fort Campbell, in response to the set up’s Faculty Liaison Officer, which retains a report of unit partnerships.
“These partnerships are necessary as a result of it bridges the connection between the civilian and navy communities. Fort Campbell items are partnered with colleges throughout submit and the encompassing communities on each the Tennessee and Kentucky sides of the submit.” stated BACH’s former Associate in Training coordinator, Sgt. 1st Class Jamie Hendzel, who lately transferred to a line unit with a hundred and first Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Fight Group.
Hendzel was capable of attend the breakfast and be part of BACH’s new PIE coordinator, Workers Sgt. Sierra Brown, and NEMS Principal in accepting the award. “At present, Fort Campbell has items coaching outdoors the native space for months at a time and when Soldier-volunteers come into the varsity, I’d prefer to suppose it’s like having a chunk of their father or mother and is a welcome sight. Giving again and doing what we are able to within the colleges is only a small gesture that Fort Campbell items can do that basically has a huge impact,” Hendzel added.
The hospital’s partnership with Northeast dates again a minimum of eight years. BACH has supported college students in each educational and extracurricular actions. This yr the workforce has already volunteered at back-to-school evening and resumed one-to-one tutoring classes within the library. As the brand new coordinator, Brown praised Hendzel for constructing the hospital’s PIE program and getting employees concerned.
“This award is predicated on all of the laborious work [Sgt. 1st Class] Hendzel and our BACH members did final yr and we’re are excited to comply with in these footsteps and preserve this custom going,” stated Brown. “We wish to proceed to indicate we’re part of the Northeast workforce.”
