August 2009 Special Report: Families 

"I was assaulted about a year before" her second deployment to Iraq. The attack occurred shortly after she had returned from that first deployment. "I was going to counseling," but she was worried that when the deployment orders arrived about losing "my entire support system."

The year-old McCormick Veterans Program "empowers citizens to take care" of our returning service members and provides local organizations with funds to assist.

For father-son duo and West Lafayette, Ind., residents, Chief Warrant Officer Dennis Huston and Sgt. Robert Huston, working with their fellow troopers is like working with family; but they like to keep their work relationship professional.

"I am seeing a force under immense strain and this concerns me greatly," Sheila Casey, the wife of the chief of staff, told a key Senate subcommittee. "These indicators include cases of domestic violence, child neglect, as well increases in suicides, alcohol abuse and cases of post-traumatic stress."

AUSA Family Programs will host three Military Family Forums at this year’s Association of the United States Army’s Annual Meeting and Exposition Monday.

While the new administration is embracing "green" technologies and alternative energy resources, the Army has been exploring energy initiatives with a program that began in 2005 that targets milestones set for 2015.

Around the country, ‘communities of support’ are coming together to construct new houses for wounded warriors and their families.

In 2006 when a cavalry unit was returning to Fort Bliss, Texas, following its deployment to Iraq, John Fortunato, a clinical psychologist with the Community Mental Health Program, discovered 75 soldiers who were suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).