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MSNBC: Army program helps ease stress of deployment
Army Reserve's Chattanooga-based 591st Transportation Detachment prepares to implement the new Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program.
All branches of the service have some form of the program, according to Lt. Col. Robin Smith Sr., chief well-being officer for the Army Reserve. The Yellow Ribbon program was launched "to prepare soldiers and their families for mobilization, sustain the families during mobilization and to help with reintegration with their families, communities and employers upon redeployment," he said.
The program began as part of a requirement outlined in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2008 and became even more important as the steep suicide rates were recorded in recent months
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Getting military personnel home safely requires much more than an airplane ride and a cursory post-deployment checkup, says Pat Canerdy, administrator of the Army Reserve's Chattanooga-based 591st Transportation Detachment. It's a lesson officials and families alike have had to learn the hard way throughout the global war on terror, which has led to historic highs in suicide and divorce rates.
Just more than 5 percent of Army suicide victims had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a recent Department of Defense news release, and 17 percent reportedly had problems with substance abuse. Meanwhile, at least 60 percent had relationship problems.
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many reservists and National Guard members, whose military insurance benefits cover only those problems diagnosed within 180 days after returning from combat. Those two groups now comprise about 40 percent of the front-line forces in Iraq and more than half in Afghanistan, the highest percentage for any war in U.S. history.
Video: A “War of a Different Kind” and the Reconstruction of U.S. Reserve Forces - FPRI
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Mr. Duncan is Director of the Institute for Homeland Security Studies, National Defense University. He is former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. He delivered this lecture to FPRI’s conference on the citizen soldier, December 6, 2004.
E-Notes: Toward a New Conception of the Citizen Soldier - FPRI
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Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, by far the largest of the reserve components (RC) and the forces experiencing the greatest difficulties. As of this writing (January, 2005), RC make up some 40 percent of the military in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among the Army dead in OIF, about a quarter have been from reserve components.
Blistering verdict tells Pepsi to pay reservist
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A federal judge ordered PepsiAmericas to
pay $84,000 for shorting the pay of an Army reservist from
Ohio who enlisted after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and
served in Iraq.
DesMoinesRegister.com - Suicide prevention bill named for Iowa soldier
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Rep. Leonard Boswell, a Des Moines Democrat, introduced a bill titled the “Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act.” It would mandate a comprehensive program be set up by the Department of Veterans Affairs to screen and monitor veterans for risk factors for suicide.
keepMEcurrent.com - The Unseen Trauma of War
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With a Vietnam veteran for a father and a World War II prisoner of war for a grandfather, Darrell Caron of Westbrook knows how the horrors of war can affect former soldiers.
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