By Staff Sgt. Amanda Dick Air Force Public Affairs Agency 9/4/2012 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff, promoted Howard D. Stendahl to the rank of major general Aug. 31 during a ceremony at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling. Stendahl, who was recently appointed as the seventeenth Air Force Chief of Chaplains, now holds the highest rank an Air … [Read more...]
Army, NFL Team Up to Fight Traumatic Brain Injury
By David Vergun Army News Service WEST POINT, N.Y., Aug. 31, 2012 – The Army and the National Football League are working together to improve awareness of traumatic brain injury and increase research into its causes, prevention and treatment. The top leaders of both organizations -- Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell -- met at the … [Read more...]
Obama Orders Better Improvements In Military Mental Health Care
American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2012 – President Barack Obama today signed an executive order that provides increased access to mental health services for service members, military families and veterans. The order, signed as Obama left Washington for a visit to Fort Bliss, Texas, directs the Defense Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and … [Read more...]
Suicide Prevention: A healthy Force is a Ready Force
September 4, 2012 By Kirk Frady, Army Medicine WASHINGTON -- The Army has designated September as Suicide Prevention Month and joins the nation in observing National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 10-14, and World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10. The Army will expand its observance with events occurring during the entire month of September, focusing efforts on total Army … [Read more...]
Warriors Wed While Deployed to Afghanistan
September 1, 2012 BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan Weddings are generally associated with spring and summer, champagne and cake. They are new beginnings and grand celebrations with family and friends, not camouflage uniforms, mortar rounds and danger of hostile fire. However, for one Army couple getting married, the "wedding" was light on champagne and heavy on Army decorum. With … [Read more...]