Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline
800-273-TALK (8255) and press 1
Para obtener asistencia en español durante las 24 horas, llame al 1-888-628-9454
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/Veterans/ResourceLocator.aspx

National Suicide Prevention Hotline
800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
Para obtener asistencia en español durante las 24 horas, llame al 1-888-628-9454
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help/

U.S Army Wounded Soldier & Family Hotline
800-984-8523
wsfsupport@conus.army.mil
 
Military Severely Injured Center
800-774-1361
http://www.militaryhomefront.dod.mil/portal/page/itc/MHF/MHF_HOME_1?
section_id=20.40.500.393.0.0.0.0.0
Deployment Health Clinical Center
800-796-9699
http://www.pdhealth.mil/downloads/Lets_Talk.pdf

Navy Safe Harbor-Severely Injured Support
877-746-8563
http://www.npc.navy.mil/CommandSupport/SafeHarbor/
safeharbor@navy.mil
 
Military One Source
800-342-9647
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A Different Kind of Courage:  Safeguarding and Enhancing Your Psychological Health is a new educational video depicting how service members and their families may be affected by combat and deployment stress.
Featuring interviews with military mental health experts and chaplains, as well as personal stories by service and family members, the video explores issues of concern [...]

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MTV True Life: I Have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This hour-long MTV documentary will chronicle the lives of three young veterans of the Iraq War who have Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.  It will follow them for approximately five months as they attempt to treat or live with the disorder.
We will film and tell these stories with the utmost [...]

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President Signs New GI Bill
President Bush signed legislation ushering in a new era in GI Bill benefits. Bush praised the bill for including a provision that permits transfer unused benefits to spouses and children. More
Deal of the Week: Special Offer
An organized life at a very low price. Buy the BlackBerry 8700c for only $49.99 w/ [...]

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Berlin-born Jeffrey Jamaleldine wanted to do something about terrorism in the world and so he joined the US Army to fight in Iraq. Now he’s back in Bavaria, his face nearly destroyed by a bullet — but he’s still convinced that it is his calling to fight for peace. more…

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Combat-related Injury and Rehabilitation Pay (CIP) is special compensation paid to servicemembers during rehabilitation from wounds, injuries, and illness incurred in a combat operation or combat zone. CIP provides eligible servicemembers the opportunity to adjust to the future reduction of pay they were getting in the combat zone prior to being evacuated for medical treatment.
CIP [...]

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Basic Facts

§ TSGLI was established by an Act of Congress in 2005 to provide financial relief to traumatically injured Soldiers and their Families.
§ TSGLI helps traumatically injured Soldiers and their Families with a one-time per event, lump-sum payment between $25,000 and $100,000 per traumatic event.
§ Money paid through TSGLI could be used to allow a [...]

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here are some photos… the band was great… my camera went dead after a while and guess who forgot to take some spare batteries? duh !

more here

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sorry for not posting this weekend - I have been busy organizing our next event….  well, we are all set (I hope) - the band is a go and we finally managed to secure a ROOM !! The event will kick off on February 16th at 18:00 at the Ramstein Community Center. Lets Rock !!

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There will be no news posts today - I will be off to Ramstein AFB to host our fund raiser cook off - I took the day off to hopefully cover some of our expenses for our Valentines and Easter events for the wounded at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany…
more on what we do…  http://darkblueworld.info/silverstarfamilies.germany/ [...]

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