Tejas!
Hello Friends and Acquaintances,
I have accepted another newspaper position for the third time in 15 months. Starting Aug. 28 I will be the newest member of a three-person military reporting staff at the Killeen Daily Herald (www.kdhnews.com) in Killeen, Texas. I flew down several weeks ago for interviews.
Killeen is next to Fort Hood, the biggest military installation (in population) in the world. Fort Hood is the only post home to two Army Divisions (1st Cavalry and 4th Infantry) and III Corps. To give you an idea of size, Fort Riley has one division (1st Infantry, as of Aug. 1) and its population is about 28,000. Junction City has about 19,000 citizens. Fort Hood's population sits at nearly 65,000 and Killeen is at almost 100,000. I'll cover the 1st Cav Division and III Corps. The military editor is amazing and promised if I gave her two years, I've have the clips to get any job I wanted.
Killeen and Fort Hood are halfway between Austin and Waco (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=&city=killeen&state=tx&zipcode=v). They're about an hour away from Austin, two hours from Dallas and from Houston.
The Killeen Daily Herald is a 20,000 daily and 26,000 Sunday publication. It also publishes the Fort Hood Herald, a weekly
competitor to the on-post, military newspaper. The Herald prints and distributes 30,000 free issues of its military edition a week. Most of my stories (primarily features) will go in the weekly. The issue-oriented stories will go in the daily so I'll work for a daily and a weekly. The Herald was named the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Class AA Newspaper of the Year for 2006.
So for all of you who don't know or care about all the above journalism and military jargon, I could've summed it up for you at the beginning of this email but I didn't. Here it is now: Job in Texas. Leaving in two weeks. Army. Big.
For those of you who like interesting trivia, Killeen was the site of the 1991 Luby's massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_massacre).
I'm in the process of hiring a moving truck (All expenses paid!) and finding an apartment that accepts the cutest kittens … EVER! I'll let y'all (I'm going to have to start practicing this one.) know when I get a mailing address. Also, if you're interested in a 10-hour U-Haul drive with a free flight back to Kansas, let me know. If you're at Fort Hood, look me up.
Thank goodness I won't have to capitalize "soldier" anymore,
AKS
I have accepted another newspaper position for the third time in 15 months. Starting Aug. 28 I will be the newest member of a three-person military reporting staff at the Killeen Daily Herald (www.kdhnews.com) in Killeen, Texas. I flew down several weeks ago for interviews.
Killeen is next to Fort Hood, the biggest military installation (in population) in the world. Fort Hood is the only post home to two Army Divisions (1st Cavalry and 4th Infantry) and III Corps. To give you an idea of size, Fort Riley has one division (1st Infantry, as of Aug. 1) and its population is about 28,000. Junction City has about 19,000 citizens. Fort Hood's population sits at nearly 65,000 and Killeen is at almost 100,000. I'll cover the 1st Cav Division and III Corps. The military editor is amazing and promised if I gave her two years, I've have the clips to get any job I wanted.
Killeen and Fort Hood are halfway between Austin and Waco (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=&city=killeen&state=tx&zipcode=v). They're about an hour away from Austin, two hours from Dallas and from Houston.
The Killeen Daily Herald is a 20,000 daily and 26,000 Sunday publication. It also publishes the Fort Hood Herald, a weekly
competitor to the on-post, military newspaper. The Herald prints and distributes 30,000 free issues of its military edition a week. Most of my stories (primarily features) will go in the weekly. The issue-oriented stories will go in the daily so I'll work for a daily and a weekly. The Herald was named the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Class AA Newspaper of the Year for 2006.
So for all of you who don't know or care about all the above journalism and military jargon, I could've summed it up for you at the beginning of this email but I didn't. Here it is now: Job in Texas. Leaving in two weeks. Army. Big.
For those of you who like interesting trivia, Killeen was the site of the 1991 Luby's massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_massacre).
I'm in the process of hiring a moving truck (All expenses paid!) and finding an apartment that accepts the cutest kittens … EVER! I'll let y'all (I'm going to have to start practicing this one.) know when I get a mailing address. Also, if you're interested in a 10-hour U-Haul drive with a free flight back to Kansas, let me know. If you're at Fort Hood, look me up.
Thank goodness I won't have to capitalize "soldier" anymore,
AKS
posted by The University Daily Kansan at 1:38 PM
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Oh man, our little AKS is growing up and leaving home.
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