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Helping Kids Cope With Deployment – Webinar

Posted on April 26, 2012 by jtozer

Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury will host its next webinar, “Children of Deployed Parents: Health Care Provider Strategies for Enhancing Coping Skills,” Today, April 26, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. (EDT). Since the onset …
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Delayed Diagnosis

Posted on March 31, 2012 by jtozer

Posted by Robyn Mincher, DCoE Strategic Communications From www.dcoe.health.mil Sometimes we encounter frustrations in our daily routine—an important package delivered late or being struck in traffic come to mind. For Samuel Console, a retired Pennsylvania Army National Guard lieutenant, lateness was more …
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Operation Virginia – Security From Start to Finish

Posted on December 23, 2011 by jtozer

Video by Third Army/U.S. Army Central PAO Operations continue. The Third Army/ARCENT provides security from start to finish as soldiers draw down out of Iraq. They are part of an escort team. A typical mission entails getting prepared at Camp Virginia …
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Last Unit Out of Iraq Passes Through the Khabari-Crossing

Posted on December 22, 2011 by jtozer

Video by the 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) Public Affairs The Khabari-Crossing has been the gateway for the passage of troops, equipment, and supplies, between Iraq and Kuwait during Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as Operation New Dawn. Now, as the last …
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Episode #115: Weekly News Roundup for Dec. 16

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Ian Graham

In “This Week in the DoD” for Dec. 16: The war in Iraq has officially come to a close. Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced the completion of America’s military mission there and took part in a ceremony to …
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