Friday, September 13, 2019
What is it?
Army Ready and Resilient (R2) is the Army’s strategy for strengthening individual and unit personal readiness and fostering a culture of trust.
Resilience is an important component of personal readiness and effective leadership. Resilience is the ability to face and cope with adversity, adapt to change, recover, learn and grow from setbacks.
Resilience is the ability to grow and thrive in the face of life’s challenges, and it is an important component of personal readiness and effective leadership.
What are the current and past efforts of the Army?
The Army is improving programs and policies to assist Commanders in strengthening Soldiers and enhancing personal resilience. Increasing protective factors develop resilience; the ability to grow and thrive in the face of life’s challenges.
Suicide Prevention Month, in September of each year, emphasizes the Army’s efforts to promote protective factors to enhance resilience and raise Soldier awareness of the available resources:
What continued efforts does the Army have planned?
The Army is equipping commanders with programs and policies to strengthen Soldiers and enhance personal resilience.
Why is this important to the Army?
Every Soldier is a valued member of the Army team and is critical to the mission accomplishment. Research has shown that promoting resilience, a learned behavior may reduce post-traumatic stress, alcohol abuse, and suicide.
Personal readiness, supported through resilience, is essential for Soldiers to accomplish the Army’s mission today and into the future.
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Resilience is an essential core competency and enables the readiness of our Army and facilitates our ability to accomplish the mission. We must continue to maintain the intensity of effort to reduce deaths by suicide through decisive and engaged leadership.
– Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville