The Army is looking to improve the resiliency of its soldiers through a new program, said Gen. George Casey, Army chief of staff. The new program is to be introduced at two bases in October and phased in gradually throughout the service.... Read more here

I recently “met” Chaplain Tim Meier by phone (see excerpt of an interview with him). As we talked about his experiences serving in Iraq, I asked him what the hardest part of his deployment had been. He told me that he had been the first chaplain to arrive at the scene of the clinic shootings in mid-May. He shared with me how this was the hardest thing he had to face in his nearly one year in Iraq.... Read more here