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Monday, 25 February 2008

General: Army still facing Warrior

Transition Unit challenges

Tucker lauds progress but says more ‘hard thinking’ necessary

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Nearly a year ago, Col. Robert P. White was catching up on old times with his old boss, Brig. Gen. Mike Tucker, when the phone rang.  White was in a pre-command course at Fort Knox, Ky., where Tucker was serving as deputy commanding general.

“I’m sitting there having a beer with him and he gets a call. He walks out of the room and comes back in and his face, his jaw just dropped,” White told a group of 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division commanders.

On the phone was the chief staff of the Army, who had a special assignment, one that would place Tucker in the eye of the storm. Revelations about shoddy outpatient care at Walter Reed Medical Center had just burst into the national consciousness. Tucker’s task was to make things right.

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Fort Eustis WTU PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 25 February 2008

Helping wounded warriors to heal

The Newport News Army post is part of a new program.

FORT EUSTIS - — It was April 10, 2007, just before 6 p.m. in Iraq.  Army Spc. Joshua Napier, a Gloucester native on his first trip to the nearly 5-year-old war zone, stood on top of a bomb bunker repairing its roof.

The 22-year-old, now at Fort Eustis with the wounded- warrior transition unit, was proud to be deployed as an infantryman with the North Carolina-based 82nd Airborne Division.

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Fort Jackson WTU PDF Print E-mail
Monday, 25 February 2008

Healing the mind, body, heart, spirit 

COLUMBIA — Every morning, hundreds of soldiers at the U.S. Army's Fort Jackson scramble out of their barracks and file into formation for another day of boot camp. It's a predawn ritual that has played out here since World War I.

Nearby, in the shadow of Moncrief Army Community Hospital, a smaller group of soldiers assembles near a row of temporary buildings. Some hobble on crutches or canes. Some cradle wounded hands. Others struggle with wounds you can't see. None of these soldiers shoot rifles, dig foxholes or train for war. For now, their mission is singular: Heal.

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