Army’s Warrior Transition Command says get families involved too

1-star urges WTUs to involve families more
By Joe Gould - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 4, 2012

The chief of the Army’s Warrior Transition Command says warrior transition units must do better to keep family members involved in soldiers’ care.

“We suggest that family be involved, but the implementation piece on the ground … that’s problematic,” said Brig. Gen. Darryl Williams, the commander of Warrior Transition Command and assistant Army surgeon general for warrior care and transition.

Sometimes that’s a challenge because soldiers opt to exclude their families.

“There are families where the service member, the [recovering warrior] says, ‘I don’t want you contacting my family,’ and that is a huge challenge when there is an active nonparticipation,” said Lt. Col. Danny Dudek, the former commander of the Warrior Transition Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
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