Marine Corps Readiness Briefing

1
16 Oct 08
HELPING WOUNDED WARRIORS AND THEIR FAMILIES
National Marine Corps Council
2
WWR Program Foundation

• Personal Touch
• Focus Marine, Sailor, Family
• Caring and Concerned Leadership
• Not a process personal relationship
• Marine Corps Service Culture
• Esprit de Corps
• Marines Taking Care of Marines
• Marines for Life
• Strong support from Bureau of Medicine Surgery

3
Wounded Warrior Regiment

• Established Apr 07 Marine Corps Base Quantico
  VA
• 2 Battalions East / West Coast
• 22 Subordinate Elements
• (Patient Affairs Teams, WW Companies, VA
  Liaison)
• Tracking 10.5K Marines
• Annual operating budget 17M
• Current MILCON projects 64M
• Call Center on line Jan 08
• Completed 27,652 outreach calls
• Received 2,806 incoming

Organization
LtCol Martin WWBN West Camp Pendleton
LtCol Siebenthal WWBN East Camp Lejeune
Mississippi River
4
Single Command with Strategic Reach
WWR services the Total Force Active Duty /
Reserve / Retired / Former Marines
Quantico
Landstuhl
Camp Lejeune
Camp Pendleton
Okinawa
Guam
Hawaii
Level of Effort Current (Mil Civ)
212 Contractor Support 66 Future Total
361

120 Hometown Links (not shown)

186 I I Staffs (not shown)
Slide 4
5
Past Challenges / Solutions

• Personnel Accountability
• Marine Corps Wounded, Ill, Injured Tracking
  System
• Supporting Marines Families Outside of Military
  Treatment Facilities
• Regiment Staff Transitioned and Former Marine
  Population
• Battalion and Elements Active Duty and Reserve
• Marine Liaison Officers assigned to all 4 VA
  Poly-trauma Rehabilitation Centers
• Marine Corps elements nation-wide (Tiger Teams,
  District Injured Support Cells, Hometown Links,
  Inspector- Instructor Staffs)
• Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society visiting nurses

6
Past Challenges / Solutions

• Seamless Transition USMC to Community
• Reciprocal liaison officers at VA HQ and WWR
• Job Transition Cell (Dept of Labor Reps)
• Mentoring Programs
• Careers in Media
• Continued Government Service Opportunities
• Retain in service (expanded permanent limited
  duty program)
• 41 Marines continue to serve despite disability
• Transition to National Security Personnel System
  positions
• House of Representatives WW Hiring Program
• 17 available full time positions with
  Congressional Staffs

7
Past Challenges / Solutions

• Address Psychological Health Stigma
• CMC video message to Marine Corps
• WWR mental health cell
• WW Battalion Marines healing together
• Combat Operational Stress Control
• Operational Stress Control and Readiness (OSCAR)
• Project FOCUS
• Readiness Group International
• Long Range Planning / Measuring Effectiveness
• Future Initiative and Transformation Team (FITT)
• Assessment Cell

8
Past Challenges / Solutions

• Supporting Former Marines (OEF/OIF wounded)
• Wounded Warrior Call Center Outreach
• Contacted 6,405 OEF/OIF wounded
• Contacted 523 Personnel Retrieval and Processing
  Company Marines and 1,494 disability retired
  Marines
• Mental health screening and referral
• Post-service education opportunities
• Dartmouth College NH / University of Idaho /
  etc.
• Marine for Life Program support
• Family Support
• Improved Casualty Notification Process and
  Support
• Family Readiness Officers
• Family Member Employment Assistance Program
• WWR Family Support Plan

9
Current / Future Initiatives

• Non-profit Financial Support (Injured Marine
  Semper Fi Fund / Marine Corps Law Enforcement
  Foundation / Bob Woodruff Foundation / etc.)
• Community Reintegration
• Hometown Command Control
• Retirees
• Veterans Service Organizations / Non-profit
  Engagements
• Support Specialized Medical Treatment
• Facial reconstructive surgery (Operation Mend)
• Alternative TBI therapy
• Hyper-baric treatment
• Bio-feedback
• Strategic Communication
• Sustain support message for Americas Heroes

10
Questions?
11
Severe Stress Reactions
Marines
Source Defense Medical Epidemiology Database
(DMED)
12
Warrior Care Month
13
Wounded Care Month
14
Warrior Care Month

• Objective Warrior Care Month will be a
  month-long DoD-wide coordinated tactical effort
  to educate the military and to increase awareness
  of DoDs Warrior Care programs and resources.
• Focus Programs, initiatives, and support that
  DoD promises our military through the phases of
  recovery, rehabilitation, and reintegration that
  are integral to the livelihood of our wounded,
  ill and injured service members, and their
  families.

15
Audience

• Primary "Raising Awareness The first priority
  of Warrior Care Month is to reach out and inform
  our military, military families, and veterans
  about the many programs and resources within DoD
  and the Department of Veterans Affairs (as
  appropriate) that are available through the
  Services as well as at the DoD/VA level.
• Secondary To increase awareness of Warrior Care
  issues and programs external to DOD

16
Overview

• DoD-wide Steering Committee to execute Warrior
  Care Month
• All events, reports, and press generated through
  Warrior Care Month will be highlighted on a
  dedicated DoD website www.warriorcare.mil
• Three phases of the continuum of care
• Recovery (acute care),
• Rehabilitation (long-term care),
• Reintegration (community involvement in the care
  of Wounded Warriors).
• Each of the different tactics of Warrior Care
  Month will highlight Marine Corps DoD programs
  and the on-going initiatives to improve care,
  enabling DoD to convey the highly complex system
  and the three phases of care in one succinct
  message.

17
Program Elements

• Recovery To highlight the how we are reacting
  to and developing new methods to save lives on
  the battlefield, as well as provide substantive
  care from point of injury to increase recovery
  rates.
• Rehabilitation To demonstrate the different
  methods used to provide care for different types
  of injuries, the different resources available,
  and how DOD is looking to exceed expectations
  and streamline processes.
• Reintegration To highlight how Marine Corps is
  setting the example in Warrior Care transition.

18
Out Reach

• ALMAR, DOD and Navy / Marine Corps News, DOD
  publications, Base News Papers, Public Service
  Announcements and New Media (blogs)
• New Wounded Warrior Website
• http//www.woundedwarriorregiment.org
• Feature articles, Human Interest stories, Program
  updates Regimental Success
• America supports You
• http//www.americasupportsyou.mil/

19
External Website
20
How

• ALMAR Addressing Wounded Warrior Call Center
• Mission of the Wounded Warrior Regiment Wounded
  Warrior Regiment
• Wounded Warrior Battalion-East
• Wounded Warrior Battalion-West
• Patient Affairs Team
• Wounded Warrior Operations Center
• Wounded Warrior Call Center
• District Injured Support Cells
• Charitable Organization Cell
• Center Marine Corps Wounded, Ill and Injured
  Tracking System Future
• Assessment Cell
• Job Transition Cell
• Tiger Team
• USMC Liaisons at VA Poly Trauma Rehabilitation
  Centers
• House of Representatives Wounded Warrior hiring
  program

21
How

• Wounded Warrior Job Fair
• TSGLI
• 2008 Navy Surgeon General's Award
• Human interest/Feature stories
• Marine Corps Charitable Organization Events
  past and upcoming.
• Marine Corps Birthday Ball
• Huntsville for Heroes, Huntsville, Al 7-12 Nov
  
• Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Gala-Stand up for
  Heroes, NYC 4-6 Nov

22
Goal

• WE MUST ENSURE THAT MARINES, CIVILIAN MARINES,
  AND FAMILY MEMBERS ARE CONTINUALLY AWARE OF THE
  SERVICES OFFERED BY THE WWR AND MORE
  SPECIFICALLY, THE WWR CALL CENTER.
• WHEN WOUNDED, ILL AND INJURED MARINES AND THEIR
  FAMILIES NEED HELP, THEY ONLY NEED TO REMEMBER
  ONE NUMBER 1-877-4USMCWW

23
Warrior Care Month
24
(No Transcript)
25
Severe Stress Reactions
Marines
Source Defense Medical Epidemiology Database
(DMED)
Slide 25