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STAND-TO! Edition: Wednesday, August 11 2010
Today's Focus:
Comprehensive Transition Plan
Senior Leaders are Saying
I had no idea that $1 million dollars was so heavy.
- Michael Rautio, lottery winner
What They're Saying
I think that the easiest way to transfer from being an NCO to a leader is for one, you have to be humble. In the grand scheme of life, you're not better than anybody else. Yes, you're a higher rank. You've probably been in longer than your troops. But to really be a leader, you have to take the needs of your Soldiers before the needs of yourself. Once your troops figure out that you're there for them and not the other way around, that's when you become a leader. That's when they give you the respect.
- Army Sgt. 1st Class Chris Edwards, a wounded warrior, chose to remain on active duty to continue to lead Soldiers at U.S. Army Garrison Baumholder, Germany
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INFORMATION YOU CAN USE
A Culture of Engagement
- Community Covenant
- Army Live
- Bloggers Roundtable
- Bilateral exercise strengthens bonds between Indian, U.S. Soldiers (The U.S. Army)
- U.S. Army Africa Command team visit peacekeeping training sites in Rwanda, Burundi (The U.S. Army)
- Working for water: Humanitarian need sparks Soldiers' cool solution during hot situation (The U.S. Army)
- Transition team validates future Iraqi army trainers (The U.S. Army)
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h3December 2009/h3- Dec. 16 to Jan. 25: 65th Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge
- Dec. 12: Army Navy Game
- Dec. 24: STAND-TO! edition will not be published
- Dec. 25: Christmas Holiday
- Dec. 31: STAND-TO! edition will not be published
Professional Writing
Today's Focus
The Comprehensive Transition Plan (CTP) is a personal goal setting process being implemented for wounded, ill, and injured Soldiers who are assigned to one of the Army's Warrior Transition Units (WTUs) or Community-Based WTUs (CBWTUs). The CTP provides a focused, goal-oriented roadmap for recovery and transition that speeds healing and sets the Soldier and Family up for future success after the clinical aspects of the rehabilitation are complete. Established individually by each Soldier and Family with the full support of the WTU leadership and health care providers, the CTP helps the Soldier and Family take ownership of the recovery and transition process to achieve a future that they themselves define-not one defined by the injury or illness.
h4What has the Army done?/h4The U.S. Army Medical Command has established policy guidance for the implementation of the CTP, and has directed that Soldiers assigned or attached to a WTU will begin their CTP within the first 30 days of assignment. Each CTP should include all dimensions of the Soldier's life: health, profession, military, education, personal, spiritual and family. The Soldier is supported by the chain of command, including the squad leader, the nurse case manager, the primary care physician, and the unit's occupational therapy and social worker staff. Together they establish realistic goals and milestones that reflect the Soldier's aspirations and abilities. While support from the chain of command is critical, the policy stresses that the CTP is the Soldier's plan, and that Soldiers are accountable for meeting their goals.
h4What is planned for the future?/h4The Warrior Transition Command (WTC), the Army's proponent headquarters for Warrior Care and Transition, is in the process of standardizing and optimizing the implementation of the CTP for WTUs and CBWTUs. The command is working on an automated, Web-based platform for the CTP process, and is staffing force structure changes to add personnel to WTU headquarters to manage the CTP administrative requirements. A family support module is also being incorporated into the CTP design to address the specific needs of families and caregivers.
h4Why is it important to the Army?/h4The CTP helps motivate wounded, ill and injured Soldiers and their families take ownership of their recovery process by charting a course of personal goals that culminates in a successful transition-either back to duty or into the civilian community as a proud veteran.
h4Resources:/h4STAND-TO! NEWS
OVERSEAS OPERATIONS
- Obama considering scaled-down Afghan war plan (The Washington Post)
- McCain urges more troops for Afghanistan (Boston Globe)
- Makeshift bombs spread beyond Afghanistan, Iraq (The New York Times)
- Battle against IEDs spreads from Iraq to Afghanistan (NPR)
- Attack in Afghan capital illustrates Taliban's reach (The New York Times)
- U.S. speeds aid to Pakistan to fight Taliban (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)
- Pakistan presses its assault (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Doubts abound among people of S. Waziristan (The Washington Post)
OF INTEREST
- President signs bill repealing Defense personnel system (Government Executive)
- Obama honors 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan (NPR)
- Low visibility blamed for helicopter crash (DefenseLink)
- IG: Combat-zone tax rules lead to errors (Army Times)
- Brother of Afghan leader is said to be on C.I.A. payroll (The New York Times)
- Pentagon to offer Swine Flu vaccine to terror suspects (Miami Herald)
- First lady shows support for veterans in NYC (Army Times)
- Studying past gives veterans a future (Augusta Chronicle)
- Military families get night of Disney magic (Fayetteville Observer)
WORLD VIEW
- Afghanistan counts cost of deadliest assault on U.N. in fifty years (London Daily Telegraph)
- Iran ready to co-operate on nuclear programme, says Ahmadinejad (The Guardian)
- U.N staff killed in Kabul attack (BBC)
- President Barack Obama's review could affect troop levels in Helmand (London Daily Telegraph)
- Pakistan army targets Uzbek base (BBC)
- Taliban denies Peshawar blast role (Al Jazeera)
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