Blog Posts tagged with "medical screening"

This is my first time attending a Quality of Life (QoL) Conference, but what an opportunity it has been for me. This conference has enabled me to express so many morale issues that affect my location. As a secondary effect, I was able to interact with members of other services and align my issues with these sister services to create a joint or “purple” problem.

I want to express how excited I am that one of our focus group’s top two issues has been addressed which currently affects me, my family and so many others across the force. Attention has been brought to the poor medical screening process for family members with special needs prior to a PCS. All too often families with special needs are going to locations where medical treatment facilities are not capable of supporting them.

This is a service wide problem where families are slipping through the cracks. This issue being addressed has given me, personally, a ray of hope for an improvement process where families will be adequately cared for based on the capabilities provided from each location.

Air Force Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Cole
Volkel Air Base, Netherlands