Posted on 07/31/2015 7:16:24 AM PDT by SandRat
FORT HUACHUCA — After more than six decades of being a weekly publication, The Fort Huachuca Scout is not in the racks on this southern Arizona Army Post today, the day it used to come out.
Its demise came about from “a lack of readership and decline in advertising,” Fort Huachuca Public Affairs Officer Angela Camara told the Herald/Review on Wednesday.
The last publication of the paper, with a more than 61-year history, came out July 24, and its entire front page was headlined “FINAL ISSUE.”
Camara said the post paper, “has been part of the installation’s history.”
While the printed paper has ended, meaning a weekly run of 8,200 copies will no longer be held and read, she hastened to say with today’s technologies and the changing gathering habits of people, information will continue to be provided by the post PAO through its Facebook, You Tube and other venues.
The Scout was printed by Aerotech News and Review, a private company based in Lancaster, California, under contract with the U.S. Army to produce the newspaper. Content was prepared weekly — except on Christmas and New Year’s — by the fort Public Affairs Office.
Prior to the establishment of what was initially named The Huachuca Scout, first published on June 18, 1954, there were other post papers, with a variety of names including the Buffalo Bulletin which was a mimeographed news sheet published prior to 1921, Camara wrote in the final issue of The Fort Huachuca Scout.
According to a historical timeline of prior post papers in her article, The Buffalo Bulletin was replaced by The Bullet on May 12, 1921, which was replaced by the Blue Helmet, the nickname of the 93rd Infantry Division, one of two black units which trained on the post during World War II and which was published from Sept. 18, 1942 to March 26, 1943.
In the May/June 1943 timeframe the post paper’s name was changed to The Buffalo, the nickname of the 92nd Infantry Division, the second black combat division trained on the fort which was published through mid-1944.
After that, through part of 1945, the paper’s name changed to Apache Sentinel and when the fort reopened after two short periods of closure after the end of World War II, The Huachuca Scout was published from Feb 22, 1952, to December of that year,
Camara said of the current status of the post paper which has told of the ever-changing history of the fort’s missions and its progression to becoming one of the Army’s premier high-tech installations, in the realms of intelligence, communications and testing, “It’s sad to see it go, but times are changing.”
Online outlets
There are number of online outlets which the public can use to obtain information and query Fort Huachuca.
They include:
• Facebook at www.facebook.com/u.s.armyforthuachuca.
• Twitter at www.twitter.com/Fort_Huachuca.
• YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/commander97.
• UStream at www.ustream.tv/channel/forthuachuca.
Source: Fort Huachuca Public Affairs Office
Learned to ride a bicycle one Christmas afternoon in Fort Huachuca base housing.
Born in Mesa and grew up mostly in Tucson. Love the scrub Sonoran desert. If it was up to me (and it’s not), I’d retire in Sierra Vista.
Aw, just damn!
Well, you’d be welcome! Especially as a FReeper...
It’s hard for many folks to appreciate the beauty of the desert until they experience it. It’s full of amazing things to see and experience. From gorgeous vistas, Western legends such as Tombstone to the mystery of discovering ancient indian ruins and relics. I love Arizona.
Couldn’t agree more.
Another childhood memory from Tucson: sitting on the front yard grass on a cool, clear night, looking up and just being overwhelmed at the millions of stars stretching from horizon to horizon.
There’s a reason for that observatory on Mount Lemon.
(Unfortunately, I’ve read there is now a lot of light pollution from all grown up Tucson and astronomical observation is more difficult.)
That’s too true.
I live here alongside Ft. Huachuca. You see nowhere as many stars from the Sierra Vista side as you do when camping at Parker Canyon Lake on the other side of the mountains.
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