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Community Activities Business
Center
Morale, Welfare, and Recreation programs here at Fort Campbell are administered
by the Community Activities Business Center. The director of CABC is Robert (Bob)
Vail. The CABC consists of several diverse divisions: Business Activities, Recreation,
Child and Youth Services, Army Community Services, Army Lodging, Education, and
several others. The purpose of the CABC and of MWR is to provide quality community
activities to our customers that make up the large military community supported
by Fort Campbell.
Community Activities Business
Center
5663 Screaming Eagle Blvd.
270.798.9953
Mission Statement
Our mission is to enhance quality of life and readiness by continually improving
recreational, social, educational, and personal services.
Vision Statement
We envision the CABC as a team dedicated to achieving
total customer satisfaction through empowered and
knowledgeable individuals, resourced and committed
to improving the
quality of life for the total Fort Campbell Community.
About Army MWR
Background
MWR in history started on the battlefields of World War
I, where behind the lines, Salvation Army sisters and
Red Cross volunteers ministered to the needs of soldiers
as the forerunners of today's morale, welfare and recreation
specialists. After the war was over, funding stopped
and morale programs were mothballed. It wasn't until
July 1940 that the Morale Division - later named Special
Services - was established within the Adjutant General's
Office.
Between 1946 and 1955, the core recreation programs
were established and staffed by a combination of active
duty military and civilians. Until the mid - 1980s, active
duty enlisted soldiers and officers held military occupational
specialties in Special Services and were assigned at
every level of command. As those occupational specialties
were discontinued, civilians continued to operate MWR
programs with military oversight.
Special Services underwent much reorganization and had
many names before coming to its present configuration
as morale, welfare and recreation.
MWR Philosophy
Soldiers are entitled to the same quality of life as
is afforded the society they are pledged to defend.
Keeping an Army ready to fight and win takes more than
hard work and training. Soldiers need a balance of
work and play. The CFSC mission is to create and maintain "First
Choice" MWR products and services for America's
Army, essential to a ready, self-reliant force.
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