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Base supports Triple Ribbon Awareness

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  • By Wayne Crenshaw
  • 78 ABW/PA
ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. --  The Health and Wellness Center is recognizing October as Triple Ribbon Awareness Month. October is known nationwide as the awareness month for three key health issues - drug abuse, breast cancer, and domestic violence. The HAWC is planning events to raise awareness here of all three issues. Several events are planned for Oct. 15.

The day begins with a balloon release and 5-kilometer walk at the HAWC at 7:30 a.m. It will be followed by a health fair at the Fitness Center Annex in Bldg. 301 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and a self-defense class at the main fitness center from 4-5 p.m.

The events are an Integrated Delivery System effort to raise awareness and collaboration between various base agencies, to include the IDS Committee, several 78th Medical Group flights and the 78th Force Support Squadron.

Along with several community organizations, the HAWC is also sponsoring the 16th Annual Pink Picnic on Oct. 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Museum of Aviation's Century of Flight hangar. The guest speaker is artist Mark Ballard, and tickets can be purchased for $10 at the HAWC.

The picnic is to raise awareness of breast cancer, which is second only to skin cancer as the most prevalent cancer in women. In 2006, the most recent year in which Center for Disease Control statistics are available, 191,410 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,820 died from the disease.