General Military Information

ADAPTING THE ARMY'S TRAINING AND LEADER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR FUTURE CHALLENGES (summary and full report ~ scroll down), James C. Crowley, Michael G. Shanley, Jeff Rothenberg and Jerry M. Sollinger, the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Copyright © 2013 RAND Corporation.

ANNOUNCING THE U.S. NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY, posted by Valerie Jarrett, The White House Blog, The White House, Washington, DC: December 19, 2011. See the National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security.

BASE GUIDES (browse by service, location or name), Military.com.

CHILDREN COPING WITH DEPLOYMENT, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, Washington, DC: June 9, 2010; updated June 21, 2011.

CLARIFICATION THAT SECTION 1062 OF THE IKE SKELTON NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011 DOES NOT CHANGE CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR ASSESSING PATIENT RISK OF HARM TO SELF OR OTHERS, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC: July 22, 2011. See the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act.

COPING WHEN A FAMILY MEMBER HAS BEEN CALLED TO WAR, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, Washington, DC: July 5, 2007; updated June 22, 2011.

DEMOGRAPHICS ~ PROFILE OF THE MILITARY COMMUNITY, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC.

2010 Report

2009 Report

THE DIFFICULT TRANSITION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN LIFE, Rich Morin, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC: December 8, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Pew Research Center.

EVALUATING FEMALE ENGAGEMENT TEAM EFFECTIVENESS IN AFGHANISTAN, Anna C. Coll, Honors Thesis Collection, Wellesley College Digital Scholarship and Archive, Wellesley, MA: April 2012.

FINDING COMMON GROUND: A TOOLKIT FOR COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING MILITARY FAMILIES, National Military Family Association, Alexandria, VA. Copyright © 2011 National Military Family Association.

HANDBOOK FOR FAMILY & FRIENDS OF SERVICE MEMBERS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER DEPLOYMENT, Defense Centers of Excellence For Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury, Arlington, VA and Silver Spring, MD: October 2010.

HELPING SOMEONE YOU SUSEPCT IS IN A CRISIS ~ DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (podcast transcript), Military HOMEFRONT. See list of other podcasts.

HOUSE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2013, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC: March 4, 2013.

HOW DEPLOYMENT STRESS AFFECTS FAMILIES, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, Washington, DC: October 6, 2009; updated October 21, 2010.

HOW IS DEPLOYMENT TO IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN AFFECTING U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS AND THEIR FAMILIES? ~ AN OVERVIEW OF EARLY RAND RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC, James Hosek, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Copyright © 2011 RAND Corporation.

IMPACT OF DOMESTIC ABUSE ON CHILDREN (podcast transcript), Military HOMEFRONT. See list of other podcasts.

IMPACT OF PARENTAL COMBAT DEPLOYMENT ON CHILDREN, SPOUSES AND SERVICE MEMBERS: ASSESSMENT TO GUIDE INTERVENTION, Patricia Lester, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, 2009.

IMPACT ON TROOPS AND FAMILIES, excerpted from 2004 National Network to End Domestic Violence Annual Conference, Connie Sponsler-Garcia, Battered Women’s Justice Project and Debby Tucker, National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, 2004.

INFORMATIONAL GUIDE ON NON-REGULAR RETIREMENT, Army National Guard, Washington, DC: April 15, 2009.

IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN IMPACT REPORT, Veterans For Common Sense, Washington, DC: January 2012. Copyright © 2012 Veterans For Common Sense.

LOSING THE BATTLE ~ THE CHALLENGE OF MILITARY SUICIDE, Margaret C. Harrell and Nancy Berglass, Center for a New American Security, Washington, DC: October 2011. Copyright © 2011 Center for a New American Security.

MARRIAGE & DEPLOYMENT ~ Health Tips from Army Medicine, 2004.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERAN AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES: FY2013 APPROPRIATIONS, Daniel H. Else, Christine Scott and Sidath Viranga Panangala, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC: December 14, 2012.

MILITARY DIVORCES: MAINTAINING BENEFITS, HOW TO AVOID MALPRACTICE, excerpted from Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

MILITARY FAMILIES: ACCESS TO CARE FOR ACTIVE DUTY, NATIONAL GUARD, RESERVE, VETERANS, THEIR FAMILIES, AND THOSE CLOSE TO THEM (webcast), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Washington, DC: May 2011.

MILITARY FAMILIES: HOW COURTS AND COMMUNITIES CAN OFFER SUPPORT (podcast), Center for Court Innovation, New York, NY, in collaboration with the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Reno, NV: July 2011.

MILITARY MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPY ~ POLICIES AND PRACTICES, Colonel Anthony L. Cox and Commander Brenda Gearhart, Army Medicine, Washington, DC: November 19, 2011.

Military Recruiting: DOD and Services Need Better Data to Enhance Visibility over Recruiter IrregulariTIes, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC: August 2006.

THE MILITARY-CIVILIAN GAP ~ WAR AND SACRIFICE IN THE POST 9/11 ERA, Pew Research Center, Washington, DC: October 5, 2011. Copyright © 2011 Pew Research Center.

NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR FY 2014, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), U.S. Department of Defense, Alexandria, VA: May 2013.

NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION SUMMIT – WHEN PARENTS DEPLOY: UNDERSTANDING THE EXPERIENCES OF MILITARY CHILDREN AND SPOUSES ~ SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS, National Military Family Association, Alexandria, VA. Copyright © 2011 National Military Family Association.

NEW MULTIMEDIA TOOLKIT AIMS TO HELP FAMILIES COPE DURING ALL PHASES OF DEPLOYMENT, The DCoE Blog, Defense Centers of Excellence For Psychological Health & Traumatic Brain Injury, Arlington, VA: November 16, 2010. See Vulcan Productions Teams with Defense Centers of Excellence, Unveils A Handbook for Family & Friends of Service Members.

PROMOTING RELATIONSHIP HEALTH AND FAMILY WELLNESS, MilitaryOneSource, downloaded October 5, 2012.

ReLIGIOUS SUPPORT, Headquarters, Department of the Army, Washington, DC: October 2012.

RePORT TO CONGRESS ON THE REVIEW OF LAWS, POLICIES AND REGULATIONS RESTRICTING THE SERVICE OF FEMALE MEMBERS IN THE u.S. ARMED FORCES, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: February 2012.

ReSHAPING THE ARMY'S ACTIVE AND RESERVE COMPONENTS, Michael L. Hansen, Celeste Ward Gventer, John D. Winkler and Kristy N. Kamarck, RAND National Defense Research Institute, Santa Monica, CA. Copyright © 2011 the RAND Corporation.

ReTuRNING FROM WAR ZONE GUIDES, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, Washington, DC.

A Guide for Families of Military Personnel

A Guide for Military Personnel (scroll down)

Reunion and Post Deployment Homecoming Tips, National Military Family Association, Alexandria, VA.

SAFETY PLANNING ~ DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (podcast transcript), Military HOMEFRONT. See list of other podcasts.

SERVICE WOMEN'S ACTION NETWORK (SWAN) ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE PENDING RELEASE OF NEW DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REPORT ON WOMEN IN COMBAT, Service Women's Action Network, New York, NY: February 8, 2012.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' CIVIL RELIEF ACT OF 1940, U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC: December 19, 2003.

STATE CHILD CUSTODY LAWS RELATED TO MOBILIZATION / DEPLOYMENT OF SM PARENTS, based upon the work of Lt. Col. George D. McHugh; modified and updated by Christine Church, July 10, 2011.

STRENGTHENING OUR MILITARY FAMILIES ~ MEETING AMERICA'S COMMITMENT, President of the United States, Washington, DC: January 2011.

SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES TO DOD 7000.14-R, VOLUME 7B, CHAPTER 59 "VICTIMS OF ABUSE ~ RETIREMENT ELIGIBLE MEMBERS", U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: May 2012.

SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES TO DOD 7000.14-R, VOLUME 7B, CHAPTER 60 "VICTIMS OF ABUSE ~ NONRETIREMENT ELIGIBLE MEMBERS" (TRANSITIONAL COMPENSATION), U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: February 2010.

SUMMARY OF MILITARY BENEFITS, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, VA.

TITLE 10 ~ ARMED FORCES, U.S. CODE, U.S. Government Printing Office Access, Washington, DC.

"TOTAL FORCE" U.S. ARMED FORCES, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC.

TRANSITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR ABUSED DEPENDENTS, U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC: May 23, 1995; updated January 16, 1997.

U.S. Military Officer Rank Insignia, U.S. Department of Defense.

U.S. PERIODS OF WAR AND DATES OF CURRENT CONFLICTS, Barbara Salazar Torreon, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC: December 29, 2011.

Welcome Home: A Guide to a Healthy Family Reunion, American Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services, Falls Church, VA: April 1996. Copyright © 1996 The National American Red Cross.

WHAT HAS CHANGED – UNDERSTANDING STRESS: A GUIDE FOR MILITARY FAMILIES, Witness Justice, Frederick, MD: 2009.

WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A MILITARY SPOUSE (graphic), compiled by the fans of MilitaryOneClick, 2013.

WOMEN IN COMBAT: ISSUES FOR CONGRESS, David F. Burrelli, Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC: November 8, 2011.

WOMEN IN THE MILITARY: ACTIVE DUTY AND VETERANS (scroll down to webinar archived sessions), Cynthia Rasmussen, The Impact of Trauma on Women and Girls Across the Lifespan Series, Office on Women's Health and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Washington, DC: May 26, 2011.

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