Reservist News

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Wounded Recover Far From Home
(Source: military.com)

Regular Army soldiers usually recuperate at their home bases, with their families living on base or nearby. But as the Army prepared for war - plans in which Reserve and Guard troops figured prominently - it never worked up a policy to allow the part-time soldiers to convalesce near their homes. Guard and Reserve soldiers on medical hold can choose to resign active duty status to return home while recovering, but they lose their military pay if they do. Leaving base also can delay their consideration for permanent disability status.

Lack of Base Camaraderie Can Leave Reserve Families Feeling Isolated
(Source: stripesonline.com)

The home front was a lonely place for Holly Romano when her husband, Anthony, a member of the National Guard in Maine, deployed to Iraq, leaving her with the couple’s two children. No other wife or husband in Sanford, Maine, had bid farewell to a deploying spouse. No other person in town had her worries. No other person in town shared her concerns. That is one of the differences between active-duty troops and members of the National Guard and Reserves, who have been called up for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan in numbers not seen for decades. Guard and Reserve families are left behind, often alone with their thoughts and worries.

Health Care Smoother for Guard Soldiers
(Source: delawareonline.com)

State employees on active duty no longer need to switch doctors.

Guard Families Step Up To The Plate
(Source: idahostatesman.com)

Each company of the Idaho National Guard has at least one corresponding family readiness group headed by volunteers, usually a spouse of a deployed Guard member. The groups, comprised mostly of wives of Guard members but there are some siblings and parents too, help with tasks such as balancing checkbooks and figuring out insurance. If a car breaks down or an air conditioner goes on the fritz, Guard families know all they have to do is call their family support group and help will be on its way.

National Guard Assembles WMD Response Task Forces
(Source: nti.org)

Ten of 12 regional WMD rapid-response task forces have been assembled and fully trained by the U.S. National Guard, a spokesman for the service said yesterday. The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or High-Yield Explosives Enhanced Response Force Packages (CERFP) are assembled from existing National Guard units that have been trained to provide mass casualty, decontamination and medical triage capabilities at a WMD incident site.

Congress OKs Benefits
(Source: thestate.com)

All reservists, guardsmen could buy health insurance under proposal.

Weekend Warriors In Iraq
(Source: military.com)

In recent months, The News Tribune and other news organizations have provided extensive coverage of the Washington reservists and Guard troops serving in Iraq. What emerges is a portrait of astonishing diversity. The diversity encompasses age.

Guard Wants Veterans to Use Services
(Source: zwire.com)

South Dakota troops are returning home and officials with the state department of military and veterans affairs want to make sure they have the tools available to handle readjustment issues.

Connecticut to Pay $1.3M for Guardsmen Mental Health
(Source: newbritainherald.com)

More than $1.3 million in state funding will finance programs to research and aid the mental health of returning National Guardsmen. According to legislative documents, about $530,000 of the funding will be used to support a Yale University study.

Guard Wants Veterans To Use Services
(Source: zwire.com)

Since Sept. 11, 2001, about 3,500 of South Dakota's National Guard members have been deployed to active duty - many of those overseas. Now those troops are returning home and officials with the state department of military and veterans affairs want to make sure they have the tools available to handle readjustment issues.

New Veterans Adjust From Battleground to Workplace
(Source: usatoday.com)

In the largest troop rotation of reserve forces since World War II, tens of thousands of reservists and National Guard members who served Iraq and Afghanistan are returning to civilian jobs - making the transition from the battlefields to the workplace. Returning to work is a radical shift.

Returning to Work
(Source: nmha.org)

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