DVIDS – News – Annual tree lighting ceremony delivers musical merriment and festive enjoyable

Jenn DeHaan | Fort Knox News

FORT KNOX, Ky. – Tons of of Fort Knox neighborhood members loved vacation festivities on the 2022 tree lighting ceremony Dec. 1.

Full with dwell Christmas music from one hundredth Army Band and a efficiency by Fort Knox Group Faculties choir members, attendees had been handled to refreshments, the chance for youngsters to jot down and mail letters to Santa, after which go to with Santa following his arrival by firetruck.

Commanding Common of U.S. Army Recruiting Command and Fort Knox Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis did the honors with the assistance of a Fort Knox Household as everybody counted all the way down to the official lighting of the publish tree on the gazebo. Davis additionally supplied his gratitude to everybody who attended.

“It’s definitely an exquisite time to share the vacations with you,” mentioned Davis. “Thanks all on your assist and repair, and let’s at all times keep in mind these deployed. From me and my household, Merry Christmas!”

Through the ceremony, officers introduced the 2022 Vacation Card Contest winners and introduced them with awards. Out of 49 entries, the 5 winners had been as follows:

• Class 1, Army Units: 83rd ARRTC

• Class 2, Fort Knox Civilian Companies: Fort Knox Fireplace Division

• Class 3, Faculties/Kids-Associated Companies: Saint James Catholic College

• Class 4, Off-Submit Civilian Companies: TEAM RWB

• Class 5, Fb Individuals’s Selection Award: USACC

Following the ceremony, greater than 300 Christmas timber had been distributed to service members and their Households by means of the Christmas Spirit Basis’s Bushes for Troops program. That is this system’s seventeenth 12 months donating timber to army Households.