DOD pushes new "resilience" program, get ready for more suicides
I live in Florida. If Sarah Palin was home in Alaska, she would have heard me scream from my house! 900 programs based on this were not enough I guess.
What is Ready?
The ability to accomplish assigned tasks or missions through resilience, individual and collective team training, and leadership.
What is Resilient?
The mental, physical, emotional, and behavioral ability to face and cope with adversity, adapt to change, recover, learn and grow from setbacks.
What's Different?
The Ready and Resilient Campaign integrates and synchronizes multiple efforts and programs to improve the readiness and resilience of the Army Family - Soldiers (Active Duty, Reserve, National Guard), Army Civilians and Families. Ready and Resilient creates a holistic, collaborative and coherent enterprise to increase individual and unit readiness and resilience. Ready and Resilient will build upon physical, emotional and psychological resilience in our Soldiers, Families and Civilians so they improve performance to deal with the rigors and challenges of a demanding profession.
Specifically, Ready and Resilient will...
Integrate resilience training as a key part of the Army's professional military education throughout a Soldier's career from induction through separation or retirement.
Synchronize and integrate key Army programs to reduce or eliminate suicide and suicidal ideations; sexual harassment and sexual assault; bullying and hazing; substance abuse; domestic violence; and any stigma or barriers associated with seeking help.
Develop improved methods to provide Leaders and Commanders timely and accurate information and metrics to aid them in better identifying "at risk" and "high-risk" Soldiers, enabling early intervention.
Continue to improve the Integrated Disability Evaluation System (IDES) to shorten processing times and improve the services provided to Soldiers and their Families.
Why Is It Important?
A healthy mind and body are essential to individual and unit readiness
Resilience combines mental, emotional, and physical skills to generate optimal performance (i.e. readiness) - in combat, healing after injury, and in managing work and home life
Resilient individuals are better able to bounce back and overcome adversity by leveraging mental and emotional skills and behavior by seeking out training
Individual resilience can be built, maintained, and strengthened when viewed as an enduring concept and acquired through regular training
This is one of the most ridiculous ideas of therapy I've lived to read. There is no program that is as valuable as a Psycholgist at the V.A. to talk your problems and thoughts over with. PTSD has no cure. Maybe that's why so many times when I wake up I thinl it's 1966. And can recount it like it was yesterday. Just more Hype from Obama to make it yet harder for our brave troops to deal with. Obama needs to serve 3 to 5 tours in a combat zone, and come back with the enourmous deaths he made happen in his head and be fine in an instant upon touching American soil. This resilence program needs to be scraped, like our President so we can once again deal with things through mental health, church, and a supportive family.
Hi Doc, I stay out of politics because none of them are all good or all bad. There are some things Obama did that are good like Agent Orange and PTSD claims Vietnam veterans were being denied for are finally able to get justice. Over 40% of the backlogs are from Vietnam veterans and that is a good thing but no one thought to hire more claims reps to process their claims on top of the new generation. Anyway, this "resilience" crap is tied to congress, Bush and Obama, which forced me to turn into an Independent proving once and for all, neither party is doing right. This program has cost the tax payers billions a year but more, it has cost the lives of veterans and war fighters. None of it had to happen. My book will be online next week and you'll be able to read how much money they don't want to talk about, how many lives and lies along with what can be done to help the men and women we send into combat in our name. Reporters can't even find the time to search the records all available online. If you think you're angry now, this will pop your cork.
This is one of the most ridiculous ideas of therapy I've lived to read. There is no program that is as valuable as a Psycholgist at the V.A. to talk your problems and thoughts over with. PTSD has no cure. Maybe that's why so many times when I wake up I thinl it's 1966. And can recount it like it was yesterday. Just more Hype from Obama to make it yet harder for our brave troops to deal with. Obama needs to serve 3 to 5 tours in a combat zone, and come back with the enourmous deaths he made happen in his head and be fine in an instant upon touching American soil. This resilence program needs to be scraped, like our President so we can once again deal with things through mental health, church, and a supportive family.
ReplyDeleteHi Doc,
ReplyDeleteI stay out of politics because none of them are all good or all bad. There are some things Obama did that are good like Agent Orange and PTSD claims Vietnam veterans were being denied for are finally able to get justice.
Over 40% of the backlogs are from Vietnam veterans and that is a good thing but no one thought to hire more claims reps to process their claims on top of the new generation.
Anyway, this "resilience" crap is tied to congress, Bush and Obama, which forced me to turn into an Independent proving once and for all, neither party is doing right.
This program has cost the tax payers billions a year but more, it has cost the lives of veterans and war fighters. None of it had to happen.
My book will be online next week and you'll be able to read how much money they don't want to talk about, how many lives and lies along with what can be done to help the men and women we send into combat in our name. Reporters can't even find the time to search the records all available online.
If you think you're angry now, this will pop your cork.