The stereotypical man in a suit, writing on a pad of paper, nodding and mumbling "uh huh" and "go on" is no longer the way of therapy or therapists. When walking into the office of Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare in Lakewood, one is...
Book helps with post-deployment reintegration
Sometimes it is hard to access help or even ask for it, especially when it comes to matters like PTSD and post-deployment reintegration. Luckily, Greater Lakes Mental Healthcare in Lakewood is trying to help those individuals by distributing...
Heroes Program Helps Families Travel
Families of wounded warriors already are benefitting from a program that started last month to make it easier for them to travel with their loved ones for medical treatment. The Defense Department and Fisher House Foundation have teamed up to...
Taking Stress Out of Reintegration
The Defense Department is working to "fundamentally transform" the nation's understanding of the invisible wounds of war, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has said, and nowhere is that more apparent than at the Defense Centers of Excellence for...
Post-traumatic growth: thriving despite the scars
Chaplain (Capt.) Jonathan Entrekin envisions a time when it becomes the norm for people to work past their traumas, past accepting their "new normals," and into a place in which they grow from their experiences in new ways- a...
What NOT to Send a Soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan
FROM BOOTS ON THE GROUND... Prohibited items that will be confiscated Please do NOT send the following items to a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan. Packages are scanned and these items WILL be confiscated: Alcohol and alcohol-production...
The following are magazine style guides to enrich your life here in the South Sound. ...
Pour yourself a coffee and explore the world of housing information on and off Joint Base...
Every Thursday, we send JBLM Spouses magazine onto the world wide web to inform our single...
Looking for a job? Leaving the service? Are you a spouse? Scroll through this...
Journalist J.M. Simpson embedded with Soldiers, Airmen and Coasties for the Mangudai Leadership...
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Are tobacco products, liquids(energy drinks) and stuff like that able to be sent overseas to troops or not? I have seen it said some places that...
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