Big deployment questions answered in small groups

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Big deployment questions answered in small groups
By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, February 6, 2008

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — It wasn’t a typical workday afternoon inside Company C’s barracks. The mood was relaxed, with barbecue on the menu as spouses mingled about. One couple even brought along the family dog.

For a couple of hours, the job for families of the 1st Battalion, 35th Armored Regiment’s Company C was making sure their personal affairs are in order before soldiers deploy to Iraq this spring.

The event, a personal-readiness consultation, represents a new effort by Baumholder’s Army Community Services staff, which is meeting one-on-one with soldiers to discuss pre-deployment issues.

“We’re here to talk about anything that can be a distraction for a soldier downrange,” said Dan Furlano, a deployment specialist at Baumholder’s ACS.

In the past, such matters were handled in larger group settings, Furlano said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52242

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1. ...wow, I went to high school at Baumholder!

I feel for these soldiers and their families ...