One military military family near Fort Bragg says they are facing difficult challenges caring for a child with autism due to policy changes in Tricare, a program operated by the Defense Health Agency.
Service Reflections is an easy-to-complete self-interview, located on your TWS Profile Page, which enables you to remember key people and events from your military service and the impact they made on your life.
As a young man, I had no father figure in my life. My father passed away at the early age of 37 (I was 7 at the time). As I was entering my teenage years, my mother dated a retired Air Force Colonel who got me thinking about joining the military.
My uncles all served in WWII and Korea; I was proud to follow in their footsteps and do my part. They served in all branches in WWII, and my choice was the Army.
Monte Powell, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma and the physical security specialist at Combined Arms Training Center (CATC) Camp Fuji, shares his story as a prior commissioned officer now working as a physical security specialist on CATC Camp Fuji.
Service Reflections is an easy-to-complete self-interview, located on your TWS Profile Page, which enables you to remember key people and events from your military service and the impact they made on your life.
For those reading my posts: It was never my intent for anyone to read my postings. They were born from my need to ramble based on one of my counselors at the Vet center, reminding me that if we tell the story enough times, the emotions leave us.
I had been an "Associate Degree" RN since 1971 and was finishing my Bachelor's degree in 1989 when the Navy sent me literature about the shortage of nurses in the Navy.
I am sure that in many ways my background is no different than hundreds of thousands of other folks who grew up in our great country during the years of the depression and survived the horrors of World War II.
