Grief Corps(Military Casualty Affairs - Military has a shortage)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22962-2003Sep3.html

At 8 a.m. one recent Thursday, Army Capt. Rita Winborne, head of the Casualty and Mortuary Affairs office at Fort Myer, optimistically lays out 40 black three-ring training binders in her classroom. They are for her monthly two-hour course for personnel willing to deal with the families of the military's dead.

It's not a popular class. By the 9 a.m. start time, four people have come.

More troops are dying in Iraq and more families are requesting funerals at Fort Myer than Winborne's 10-person staff can handle. The shortage in the Army's bereavement corps is so acute that her department has started actively recruiting new casualty notification officers and casualty assistance officers -- CNOs and CAOs, the men and women who do some of the grimmest work of war, unheralded and far from the battlefields.

[kainah]

1. How depressing is THAT article?

Maybe * could spend some of his lifelong volunteer hours helping out with the Grief Corps.

[Ouabache]

2. What shortage, let Bu$h handle the house calls for this

He said he was the one who would have to hug their mothers and widows, and orphans. He just had a 35 day vacation. He needs to get out there notifyin' and huggin' 'em.


Step to it Junior.

[SharonAnn]

3. Yup, he made it clear that he's the

Chief Mother-Hugger in Charge. Let him do his job.

[Tellurian]

4. This jpg says it all!

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please spam it around!

[pfitz59]

5. I was a Navy Casulty Calls Officer for 3 years.

Luckily never had to do the duty. My predecessor did, for 3 sailors. It was a nightmare! I imagine being an apologist for Shrub makes the job even worse!