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FORT DRUM, N.Y. - The Army's vice chief of staff is visiting Fort Drum on Tuesday as part of a fact-finding tour looking for ways to reduce an increasing rate of soldier suicides.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky., Feb. 21, 2009 - A tour of the Traumatic Brain Injury Warrior Resiliency and Recovery Center here yesterday made a favorable impression on the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

n April, the 3rd Infantry Division (ID) expanded its use of the Army's battlefield electronic medical recording (EMR) system, Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), to two more garrison aid stations at Fort Stewart, Ga. The 1st Battalion, 64th Armor and 26 Brigade Support Battalion joined the Special Troops Battalion Aid Station at Fort Stewart and the 603rd Aviation Support Battalion at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Ga., as the first group of 21 garrison aid stations led by the 3rd ID to discontinue the use of paper medical records.

The Army's top civilian leader visited Fort Bragg's wounded soldiers Monday, days after a news report that they are being punished three times as often as healthy soldiers on post.

A word on suicide prevention and support programs from Army Maj. Gen. Mark Graham, commander, Division West and Fort Carson, Colo.

Eighteen months ago, Lt. Col. KC Bolton took command of the newly created Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Lewis, where 99 combat-wounded soldiers are recovering from injuries suffered "in theater."

Program at Fort Carson helping soliders with hearing damage.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The first face transplant performed in the United States, one of only four in the world, made headlines in December, and it won't be long before face and hand transplants are performed in the military.

Fort Campbell hired a suicide prevention program manager, the first on a US military installation, to oversee family support and social work programs on the post and organize efforts to help soldiers struggling after multiple deployments.

Representatives from the National Amputee Golf Association this year teamed up with the military to introduce service personnel such as Clark to First Swing, a program designed to involve amputees in golf. First Swing representatives visited Fort Sam Houston recently.

Fort Eustis and other Army bases will soon take steps to prevent suicides by tackling stress and depression.

FORT JACKSON, S.C. - The Army has been dismissing so many overweight applicants that its top recruiter, trying to keep troop numbers up in wartime, is considering starting a slim-down camp to transform chubby trainees into svelte soldiers.

Aug. 03, 2009 - Madigan Army Medical Center officials hope to break ground soon on a center specializing in women's and children's medicine, the largest expansion of the Fort Lewis hospital since 1992.

For years, the Army has treated the stresses related to combat by treating the soldier, but the vision of a Resiliency Campus, which is in the process of becoming a reality, will devote an entire city block on Fort Hood to spiritual fitness, physical wellness and mental health that will not just treat the soldiers, but their entire families.

A survey of soldiers returning from Iraq found that as many as 1 in 4 had some level of hearing damage. A study in the American Journal of Audiology found that soldiers deployed to Iraq from April 2003 to March 2004 were 50 times more likely to suffer acoustic trauma than those who were not deployed. Such statistics have prompted the military to rethink how it handles hearing cases, and Ft. Carson, Colo., is on the front lines of that change.

Injured Veterans of Overseas Service Benefit From Massage, Facial Therapy