Post by Callico on Jul 13th, 2008 at 3:49pm
Went to a Marine Corps briefing for family members yesterday concerning the return of 2/24 from Iraq. They will be coming home a bit early due to the stabilizing situation in Iraq (contrary to what you hear on the news). Rob will be home the last week in August.
It was an interesting briefing given by a psychologist who works with trauma situations for the NTSB, and the military. She deals with the adaptation to trauma and trauma situations, teaching those in the situation how do deal with the stresses and with the families of those in the situations to know how to deal with them after they return home. I found it interesting that she said the Marines coming back from this deployment would probably have a difficult time dealing with it due to the LACK of conflict. They train so hard to deal with combat type situations that when they have nothing to do it is harder for them to deal with (albeit much easier on US!) She is an Air Force officer's wife, and made the comment that the Marines have a much harder time with this type of deployment than the other branches of the service because they have much more of a spearhead mentality, and have a hard time to deal with inactivity. Not so much that they want to fight as they want to be busy doing something productive all the time.
Below is a pic of Rob (ont he left) with his Major, and his new "toy" that he drives the Major around in. It is called an MRAP, Mine Resistant Armored Personnel carrier, a new unit used to defeat IEDs.
Jerry
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It was an interesting briefing given by a psychologist who works with trauma situations for the NTSB, and the military. She deals with the adaptation to trauma and trauma situations, teaching those in the situation how do deal with the stresses and with the families of those in the situations to know how to deal with them after they return home. I found it interesting that she said the Marines coming back from this deployment would probably have a difficult time dealing with it due to the LACK of conflict. They train so hard to deal with combat type situations that when they have nothing to do it is harder for them to deal with (albeit much easier on US!) She is an Air Force officer's wife, and made the comment that the Marines have a much harder time with this type of deployment than the other branches of the service because they have much more of a spearhead mentality, and have a hard time to deal with inactivity. Not so much that they want to fight as they want to be busy doing something productive all the time.
Below is a pic of Rob (ont he left) with his Major, and his new "toy" that he drives the Major around in. It is called an MRAP, Mine Resistant Armored Personnel carrier, a new unit used to defeat IEDs.
Jerry
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