Posted on Sep 13, 2016
I'm headed to Fort Huachuca in about a month and a half. Has anyone had issues getting a sponsor from there?
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I've been on assignment since June. I've contacted my one friend there and he has been helpful, but I still don't have any more information. The Huachuca website takes me to IKN and the links are broken. I've heard you need a sponsor to final out of Fort Hood. Is this true?
Has anyone else had issues with getting sponsors from USAICOE?
Has anyone else had issues with getting sponsors from USAICOE?
Posted 8 y ago
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SFC (Join to see) I am with USAICOE right now, I'll try to find out who is in charge of TASP here.
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Sponsor? Funny! Well, I guess the Army has gotten better about these things since I arrived at Ft. Huachuca, fresh out of AIT and all alone in 1978. I was flown into Tucson, arriving late in the evening, spent the night in a hotel, then caught a bus in the morning. As we drove out of town buildings became fewer and farther between, until there was nothing but open desert. After some time, I finally saw a sign for Hwy. 90/Ft. Huachuca - great, almost there! At that time, Kartchner Cavern hadn't been discovered, none of the current hotels and other amenities were there - we turned off I-10 and there was just 90, heading off in the distance. A few miles down the road we finally passed a sign that said Ft. Huachuca 27 miles (I think that was the distance - somewhere around there) Eventually we got close enough to see signs of civilization, and also the patch was visible on hill behind General's Row. The bus dropped me off at the in-processing station at Whitside Hall. I marched in, presented my orders, and waited... Somebody deciphered the orders, placed some phone calls, and figured out that I wasn't expected. Nobody in my receiving command knew I was coming. They got me processed before a SGM showed up to fetch me back to his office. Next, a SP6 (yes, they still had them back then) showed up, sat on the SGM's desk, and started quizzing me about my training. I was a 74F (Programmer/Analyst at the time, understand that number is now some sort of NBC MOS). He eventually asked if I knew Fortran? No? Well, he told me I'd have to learn it (no problem, that and assembler - fun times!). I ended up spending the rest of my 4 years AD there and think it was a great assignment. Best of luck in yours!
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SFC Joseph Lumpkins
My wife arrived in Sierra Vista as a young girl in 1968 because her dad was stationed there. We ended up getting married in 1993 after I met her a year earlier when I came out to Huachuca for ANCOC and stayed their till I retired in 2015 after my military career and government time at JITC. I saw it grow and remember her telling me stories about how the end of town was th street.
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I was at Fort Huachuca for a few years. I did have a Sponsor prior to arriving and he helped me prior to my arrival as well as during my inprocessing. I was apart of USAICoE.
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