Table Of Contents DoD contracts with Citibank for travel cards ............................4 ESGR Awards ..........................................................................4 Emergency Medic Simulation ..................................................5 Maj. Gen. Strom Thurmond Award ........................................6 Units Return to States ..............................................................6 NASA LARSS Internship Program ..........................................6 AR Takes Care of Soldier, Family ............................................7 Wear-out Date for Uniform Items..............................................8 Medics Educate Students at Career Fair ................................8 Consultant Teaches Reserve Soldiers about Arab People, Culture ................................................................9 VA Extends Care for Vets to Five Years ................................10 Marriage Retreat ....................................................................10 From Iraq to North Carolina....................................................11 Army Short on Physician Assistants ......................................12 Chaplains Train for PTSD ......................................................12 Recruiter Assist Program in Full Swing ..................................13 Surgeon Pursues Reserve Position........................................13 Boy’s Wish Comes True ........................................................14 Retention Bonuses ................................................................15 Vets, Reservists May See Small-business Aid ......................16 Army Reserve Turns 100........................................................16 100 Years of Constants and Change......................................17 DoD Announces New Reserve Component Deployment Support and Reintegration Office ......................17 Department to Phase Out Full Social Security Numbers on IDs ......................................................18 339th CSH Mobs ....................................................................18 Word from the War ................................................................19 Rock Star Mobs ......................................................................20 Husband, Wife Deploy Together............................................20 345th CSH Heads to Iraq ......................................................21 Rule change widens access to space-A travel ......................22 More Family Support ..............................................................22 Army Salutes Last Doughboy ................................................23 Aurora Unit Mobs....................................................................24 Loan Repayment Update........................................................24 Army Re-checks Soldiers’ Health ..........................................25 Combat Nurse Says Lessons from War Help Her with Work at Home ..........................................26 CAR Seeks Industry Partners ................................................26 Campaign Stars Honor Service in Afghanistan, Iraq ....................................................................27 New Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine to Lead Way in Caring for Wounded ......................27 AARR-M-MMMEEDDCCOOMM RReeccrruuiittiinngg && RReenntteennttiioonn 772277-5-5556633-3-333773377 4 An Army Reserve Medical Command Publication Words from the Wise From the Big Boss... uniform. But you must answer them hon- support your Leadership in making your If I was General estly. You will fool no one but yourself if unit one to be proud of. Strive for self for a Day I would . you do not. Others around you see you for improvement; establish a set of personal that is what you to ask what you are, for what you do. Are you a goals for yourself. When a task needs to be yourself and let me good honest hard working Leader in their done, don't be the one to run and hide, know what your idea is. eyes? Do your Soldiers look to you with stand tall with your fellow Soldiers and take I want to hear from respect and a desire to take on the mission on each and every task as if your unit's you. The “Voice of the knowing that you will demand the most entire future depended on it. The culmina- Soldier” program was from them but will also treat them fairly? tion of all the little things will make you and started here at the Do your Superiors have enough confidence your unit one that is respected and can be Headquarters to solicite ideas from each and in your abilities to allow you to take charge? counted on when the time comes. everyone of you on how to make our Army Now that you have done your self The Key to your success? Look in the Reserve better. assessment, how do you go about taking Mirror and see what is truly looking back at It can be MOS related, general training corrective action to your Leadership style? you; is that a Leader you see? suggestions, leadership develpoment, any- What are the Keys to success? As we all thing. know, we must be technically and tactically Command Sgt. Maj. Roger Schultz, If you believe it can improve the way proficient in our Warrior Tasks and Drills. CSM, AR-MEDCOM we do business, I want to review it. Soldiers respect a Leader who knows what We are all volunteers in the Army. Why he or she is doing. Remember when you From the Chaplain... not help make it even better that the entity looked down at the center of your ACU Now that your kids it is today. shirt? If you saw all kinds of stripes there are in school. What's it Email your suggestions to the “Voice then you are responsible for training and like for them? Do they of the Soldier” Liaisons, mentoring your junior NCOs'. It is your enjoy it? Are they nerv- [email protected]; responsibility to ensure they have the ous or afraid? Let me [email protected]. knowledge and skills to lead our Soldiers. suggest 10 ways you can Remember that your ideas do count Both formal training such as NCOPD and help your children have and can improve they way we operate! on the spot corrections are needed to a great experience in Thank you for your service! ensure our NCO Corps stays strong. Your school this year - and NCOs' need to be able to draw from your for the rest of their educational life! Maj. Gen. James Hasbargen, experience, they need to be able to do their 1. Talk with them about what's going Commanding General job while knowing that you are watching on inside them. Most family experts say that AR-MEDCOM and willing to assist when needed. talking with your children is one of the best Junior NCOs', you touch the Heart and ways to help them prepare for starting From the CSM... Soul of our Army; the Soldier. You are the school, or for going back to school to start Take a Look in the First Line Leader, The Beginning of the a new year. Mirror Chain of Command, The Foundation that 2. Go to their classroom with them. all Leadership is built on. Your Soldiers It's important for our children for us to All we do at Battle look to you for guidance and support. They know where they spend their time. It com- Assembly is sit around; will do great and wonderful things if they forts them and provides stability to know the Soldiers are not get- know that you care enough to stand by that Mom or Dad has been there. ting trained. No one is them. Get the education you need to be 3. Go to school events. Your participa- getting a School quota. successful, draw from the strengths of your tion let's your children know that school is Section NCOER's are chain of command. Demand the most important, meaningful, and normal. It's a not completed. No one from your Soldiers but treat them with good place for them to be. wants to even show up for Battle Assembly respect. Call them before a training event, 4. Tell them stories from your child- anymore because it's to boring. Sound inspect them and their equipment, and hood. Kids love to hear about what their familiar? Does it sound like your unit? ensure they have the tools to be successful. parents did when you were younger. Do it So what are YOU doing about it? Train them, guide them make them better in a fun, interesting manner. Not as part of When was the last time you took a good Soldiers and future Leaders. a lecture. long look in the mirror and gave yourself an OK, for those of you who looked 5. Make yourself vulnerable. Talk honest evaluation? Are you wearing ACU's, down at their ACU shirt and saw something about the fears you had as a child. How you good, now look down at the center of your other then NCO rank, you are not off the felt when various things happened to you. chest. What do you see? Is there some hook. You too play a key role in the suc- 6. Encourage them. Don't berate them type of Sergeant Stripes there? What does cess of your unit. or criticize them for being wimps. They that truly mean to you? Are you just a bet- Officers, I need you to support the need their parents to understand and to ter paid Soldier? OR are you a Leader? Do NCO Corp. Give them good guidance and encourage them. you have what it takes to change things? direction, and then let them do their job. 7. Go to bat for them. Nothing does Can you take responsibility for your actions Mentor them, hold them to standards, fight more for children than for parents to stand or is it easier to blame someone else? Do for the resources needed to train your unit. up for them. To your children, this proves you truly believe in the NCO Creed? Do Weed out the ones that do