Blog Posts tagged with "Medical Readiness"

Garmisch is known for its skiing and leisure options but little do most people know that in the lower conference rooms of the Edelweisse Lodge and Resort Quality of Life (QoL) issues are being battled out. I did not know what was in store for me when I was selected to attend the QoL 2010 conference. I knew the meaning of the term quality of life but I did not know how concerned military officials were with it. Much to my amazement, military officials seriously care about issues affecting our service members and their families.

We spent our first few hours of the conference listening to high ranking officials talking about the impact we were going to make by attending this conference and representing the heart and soul of the EUCOM family. We then spent several hours behind closed doors in small work groups trying to determine our top ten issues; it was not an easy task by any means. We had an infinity wall system covered in sticky notes that voiced issues we felt were important. By the end of our day we had boiled down almost 200 issues down to the top ten we wanted to represent our group.

The second day started with a feeling of anticipation. Our group was eager to hear the news of the top two issues selected from our top 10 that the steering committee wanted us to focus on. We were ecstatic when we heard the news that we were covering two issues that were near and dear to our hearts. We worked hard to find supporting information and statistics that would further our concerns and push our issues. We took full advantage of the subject matter experts and our facilitator. They were a wealth of knowledge and helped us to prepare our issue papers for the top two issues.

I look forward to what the future holds for this conference. It has been an amazing adventure. I cannot wait to see the results of our top issues and the impact they will have. I highly recommend this conference to leaders, service members and family members. I love the fact that it is not a single service conference. We are truly thinking purple in our actions. The fighting force of family members, civilians and service members banding together to improve the Quality of Life for our EUCOM family is amazing.

Christina Maxwell
Family Readiness Support Assistant
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Landstuhl, Germany