Fort Wainwright military base, photographed September 9, 2015. (Loren Holmes/DNA) WASHINGTON — Alaska’s most expensive project on the federal spending bill funds a $99 million gym in Fort Wainwright. The Fort Wainwright Physical Fitness Center annex in Fairbanks will include an indoor track and AstroTurf field that servicemen and their families will be able to […]
Sesame Workshop rolls out self-care content for military families > US Department of Defense > Story
Like many Americans, emotional well-being is something many military families have struggled with since the beginning of the pandemic, according to Sesame Workshop, which has partnered with the Department of Defense to provide information to military families through its websites and free apps. In response, Sesame Workshop has launched new digital resources for military parents […]
Elmo and Friends Help Stressed Military Families
Young Elmo usually plays rock music on his “guitar” while his father plays “drums”, but the father is not there. So he asks his mother Mae to play the drums, but she says she needs to get busy preparing garlic, tomatoes, onions and peppers for dinner. Then she changes her mind and decides to order […]
Elmo and Friends Help Stressed Military Families
Young Elmo usually plays rock music on his “guitar” while his father plays “drums”, but the father is not there. So he asks his mother Mae to play the drums, but she says she needs to get busy preparing garlic, tomatoes, onions and peppers for dinner. Then she changes her mind and decides to order […]
Military Integrated Psychology | Psychology Today Australia
Psychologists have been a vital part of the ship company on aircraft carriers since the 1990s. Source: Arlene Saitzyk, used with permission. Clinical military psychologists essentially practice in two contexts, in a traditional clinical setting (i.e., clinic or hospital) or as part of an operational unit (i.e., as the psychologist assigned to a Marine infantry […]
Military veterans and mild traumatic brain injury
Commentary Anyone who has battled a brain injury knows the frustration of downplaying their injury because they “look good” on the outside. There have been times when I wished I was missing a limb so that medical providers would take me seriously. Unless you’re stuck in the shell of a person you once knew, you’ll […]
More than 20 military bases in Florida show contamination
Over the past century, the use, storage, and inadvertent disposal of toxic substances by the United States military have been the source of enduring environmental hazards. For decades, countless military, dependents and civilians working and living on contaminated military bases were exposed to toxins known to cause debilitating health problems. While the military’s negligent practices […]
Mariséla Taylor’s military service helped shape her future
Mariséla Taylor grew up as an only child in a single-parent family. She lived with her mother and although she was in a relationship with a man she believed to be her father, that connection was never confirmed. She called her grandfather the man who acted as her father at that time. She described her […]
Sesame Workshop Launches New Resources to Support Emotional Well-Being for Military and Caring Families
New Sesame Street content for Military Families, created with support from Amazon Web Services, focuses on self-care strategies and ways to celebrate everyday victories (New York, NY, January 26, 2023) The interruption of the pandemic over the last three years has been challenging for children and caregivers, with additional stressors negatively impacting their emotional well-being. […]
Five Russian men on the run from military service have been living in a South Korean airport for months
Seoul, South Korea CNN — Five Russian men who fled the country following Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been stranded for months at South Korea’s Incheon International Airport after authorities refused to take them in. Three of the men had arrived in October, the other two in November, their lawyer Lee Jong-chan said. […]