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The men, wearing standard-issue orange, wrote to injured soldiers to thank them for protecting their freedom. Several spoke of the irony. But none dwelled on it. In the regimented life of the medium-security Marion County Jail II, a privately run facility, Thursday’s program offered an hour or more of escape as the inmates wrote cards [...]

By Army Spc. Sophia R. Lopez Camp Victory, Iraq – infoZine – American Forces Press Service – The 10th Mountain Division is rolling out “Financial Peace University,” a 13-week program developed by Dave Ramsey, the best-selling author and commentator on personal finance, specifically for U.S. servicemembers. About 3,000 troops have taken the course each year [...]

By Amanda Kim Stairrett Killeen Daily Herald FORT HOOD – The Army strives for physical fitness in its soldiers, and has begun to focus on mental and spiritual fitness, too. Fort Hood is taking a step toward building the latter with the creation of the Spiritual Fitness Center. “An Army at war needs warriors who [...]

HEIDELBERG, Germany — Three years ago Landstuhl Regional Medical Center developed the Combat and Operational Stress Reaction Staff Resiliency (COSR/SR) program to address the trauma and loss of empathy health care providers face as a result of combat and operational stress. The Army’s new Provider Resilience Training program is designed to further that care. “(Combat [...]

By PAULINE JELINEK WASHINGTON (AP) — The divorce rate among soldiers and Marines increased last year as military marriages suffered continuing stress from America’s two ongoing wars. There were an estimated 10,200 failed marriages in the active duty Army and 3,077 among Marines, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press for the budget year [...]

TONGDUCHON, South Korea (BP)—Lt. Col. David Rogers under­stands the importance of having chaplains in a war zone. He says the three best chaplains he’s ever known served with him in combat. While military chaplains do not carry weapons or drive vehicles used as weaponry, they nevertheless serve alongside the soldiers, witnessing all the horrors of [...]

UIJEONGBU, South Korea (BP)–Chaplain (CPT) Brian Oh believes in giving back. Born in South Korea, Oh spent his childhood and young adult life in Chunju, a small city southwest of Seoul. When Oh’s mother was 13, American missionaries moved to her town and founded a Baptist church, which she began attending and where she prayed [...]

Liberty University Online Academy has initiated an innovative educational program that will provide select Army National Guard recruits with a high school degree. LUOA, which provides online education for grades 3-12, will be providing instruction for recruits who meet the Guard’s eligibility requirements but lack sufficient education. “If you want to enlist in the Guard, [...]