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Show 11TI M S Feb. 16, 2012 Airmen and their families to see benefit from landmark settlement American Forces Press Service W ASHINGTON — Service members and their families are among the Americans who will benefit from a "landmark" $25 billion foreclosure settlement between the government and banks, federal and state officials said Feb 10. The federal government and 49 state attorneys general reached the agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage lenders to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses. This agreement includes substantial financial compensation for military homeowners — above and beyond the $25 billion — and sets up significant new protections for troops and their families for the future, officials told 7 SNOW FOUND reporters during a conference call on Friday. "On my travels to military communities across the country during the past year, I have repeatedly heard about the devastating impact of the housing crisis on military homeowners," said Holly Petraeus, assistant director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Servicemember Affairs. "I have spoken out about the unique challenges to service members caught in this current housing crisis, and I am pleased that this settlement addresses those challenges." Petraeus, alongside Tom Perez, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division, and Delaware State Attorney See BENEFIT I page 11 Hill's severe weather threats and their correct responses BY SENIOR AIRMAN JEFFEREY CARLSON 75th Operations Support Squadron S evere weather can be one of the biggest threats to an installation, with potential to destroy equipment and property on a large scale and even result in death. Planning for severe weather threats is everyone's responsibility. Everyone must know how to respond individually and how their organization will respond when threatening weather approaches. Severe weather responses start with a forecast from the base meteorologists. They issue warnings to base agencies who then pass those warnings throughout their organizations. Each organization has a tailored response to different weather threats. For example, the Child Development Center will respond much differently to a heavy snow storm than will Civil Engineering. Engage your leadership for questions on what your unit's severe weather response actions See WEATHER I page 9 ALEX R. LLOYD/U.S. Air Force Heidi Orellana holds Sarah as Andy Orellana, 00-ALC/GHSE, prepares to launch them down the hill at the Hubbard Memorial Golf Course on Feb. 11 at the Chill on the Hill event. For more see page 9. 748th SCMG, others pitch in to Homes for Our Troops project U.S. Army Cpl. Isaac Jensen, a combat medic on his first deployment, lost both of his legs and suffered a severe arm injury including irreversible nerve damage to his left arm on Nov. 9, 2008, when two one-hundred pound bombs detonated within close range in Malalah, Iraq. Jensen suffered a compound fracture of his wrist but using one hand, managed to place tourniquets on the soldier closest to him and administer morphine. Nonprofit, volunteers frame up house for Wounded Warrior and his family in West Point BY STAFF SGT. ERIC BURKS 2nd Combat Camera Squadron W EST POINT, Utah — For most Americans, the contents of a refrigerator don't usually have an immediate impact on our lives. While what lies inside may ultimately have an impact on our waistline or our health, those are gradual changes that develop over long periods of time. But for U.S. Army Cpl. Isaac Jensen, a refrig- AIRMAN 1ST CLASS ALLEN STOKES/U.S. Air Force Military and civilian volunteers and construction workers work together to put up a wall of a new house in West Point, Utah, on Feb. 10. They worked together at the Home for Our Troops event to build a house for a disabled veteran. erator in a house near Malalah, Iraq, contained something that would change his life in an instant — two one-hundred pound bombs. Jensen, then a combat medic from 2-8 Field Artillery, Charlie Battery, out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska, was searching the home on Nov. 9, 2008, with two other Soldiers when one opened the refrigerator. The blast that followed shook the house and seriously injured all three Soldiers. Despite his own injuries — two mangled legs and nerve damage to his left arm — Jensen was able to render aid to the other Soldiers before ap- plying tourniquets to three of his own limbs. Jensen was evacuated by Black Hawk helicopter, and received treatment for his injuries first at Joint Base Balad, then Landstuhl, Germany, and eventually Walter Reed Army Medical Center. "I remember lying in the hospital bed thinking, I've got a family ... my wife Bethany and my son James," said Jensen. "I've got them and I'm worried, what am I going to do? How am I going to provide for them?" See VISIT I page 6 |