YUMA PROVING GROUND, ARIZONA - The Ready and Resilient Campaign is a comprehensive plan to address the needs of the total Army that includes Active, Reserve, National Guard Soldiers, Families, and Army Civilians. This campaign guides the Army's efforts to build and maintain resilience to improve unit readiness and reinforce the Army profession. The success of the campaign depends on commanders and leaders at all levels acting with unity of effort and emphasizing the importance of R2C to sustaining future Army readiness.
"The R2C campaign is important to the Army and YPG because it focuses on building and maintaining resilience among its people," said U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground Commander Col. Randy Murray. "It offers us a method to synchronize and optimize programs, services and training to enhance organizational readiness and fitness."
He went on to say that YPG's goal is to proactively promote a culture that is mentally, physically and spiritually resilient, which is essential to organizational and individual readiness. "This will enhance mission support to the Soldier and nation, and support a healthy family life," he said.
The Ready and Resilient Campaign seeks to inculcate a cultural change in the Army by directly linking personal resilience to overall readiness. The campaign has multiple benefits:
• It changes the way the Army manages, organizes, and coordinates Army programs and services that affect resilience. A Community Health Promotion Council has been formed at YPG and at installations around the nation to coordinate and align efforts to handle complex issues. The purpose of each council is to improve the effectiveness of programs and services to ensure that comprehensive care, including preventive care and treatment, is available to the total force.
• R2C incorporates resilience as a critical component of Soldier and unit readiness by emphasizing the importance of physical, psychological and emotional factors in determining comprehensive fitness, and by promoting a deliberate approach to building and sustaining resilience.
• Emphasizes the responsibility of leaders at every level to build and maintain resilience and improve unit readiness.
• Creates a common understanding of resilience and its benefits, as well as the mindset required to make it an inseparable part of the Army's professional culture.
Numerous support programs and services currently exist for Soldiers, families and civilians, some of which are designed to increase resilience and are preventive in nature, while others focus on providing assistance and support in reaction to a particular incident or challenge. While much good has come from these efforts, they are not fully synchronized and their effectiveness requires further analysis.
According to Murray, the proving ground has a strong, vibrant culture. R2C empowers leaders at all levels, he said, to build a disciplined and professional organization. In addition, he intends to promote R2C through many methods.
"We have established an R2C working group here at YPG consisting of organizational elements from throughout the proving ground," he said. Additionally, we have enlisted the Public Affairs Office to market R2C information through the Outpost and Facebook to get the word out."
YPG has established on-site mobile teams to provide monthly training on Sexual Harassment/Assault and Prevention, the Army Substance Abuse program and establishing a Drug Free Workplace at the Howard, Walker and Kofa cantonment areas.
"We continue to conduct Army mandatory training classes, wellness fairs and offer spiritual support through the chaplain," said Murray. "We also offer numerous team building efforts such as Y-Runs, moonlight bowling, the community softball league, soccer tournaments, fishing trips and tours to San Diego, and much more. These efforts will continue to grow as we evolve and develop this campaign."
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