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Afghanistan

02/12/2013

Logisticians of the Army Materiel Command hold a briefing about retrograde in Zabul province

FORWARD OPERATING BASE APACHE, AFGHANISTAN (Feb. 12, 2013) - Eight representatives of the Army Materiel Command held a briefing to discuss retrograde and reset operations in Zabul province, Feb. 8, at Forward Operating Base Apache, Afghanistan.

02/12/2013

Kandahar Regional Medical Hospital hosts medical shura

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Feb. 12, 2013) - Afghan National Army medical professionals from across the region met at the Kandahar Regional Medical Hospital, Feb. 10, to share their knowledge with one another as well as to gauge the current state...

02/12/2013

Airmen and Afghan well mission

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (Feb. 12, 2013) - U.S. airmen and local Afghan elders gathered around a broken water well in the heart of a small village outside of Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. Together they traded ideas on how to fix the pump and br...

Warrior Care

02/13/2013

DoD training helps care coordinators ‘put the pieces together’

  For the past two years, LCDR Brian Hower has worked closely with Recovery Care Coordinators in his role as the Chief of Community Outreach with the U.S. Special Operation Command’s Care Coalition. But there was still a lot he...

02/04/2013

DoD and VA continue to improve online access to benefits information

The Department of Veterans Affairs recently released the following information about new functionality that has been added to the online eBenefits portal. The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense (DoD) just released improvements to the functio...

01/22/2013

Caring for the Caregiver; the Heroes’ Hero.

  A message from John R. Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Warrior Care Policy Caregivers are a growing, yet unrecognized, community within our nation’s military population, and like the wounded, ill or injured Service member t...