DHA Leaders Attend Warrior Games, Discuss Agency’s Mission

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DHA Leaders Attend Warrior Games, Discuss Agency’s Mission

By Army Sgt. 1st Class Tyrone C. Marshall Jr.
DoD News, Defense Media Activity

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 30, 2014 – Defense Health Agency senior leaders attended the Sept. 28 opening ceremony of the 2014 Warrior Games here yesterday and discussed their organization’s overall mission.

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The general said it was “exciting” to attend the Warrior Games, along with his senior enlisted advisor, as many of the competitors were treated by “our young corpsmen and medics” on the battlefield.

“As you know, our advances in combat casualty care forward and our en route care has allowed these soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, our coalition forces and our civilians to come safely back home to their husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters,” Robb said.

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Robb described the Warrior Games as the other “bookend,” opposite the tactical combat casualty care that injured service members receive on the battlefield.

“Within 24 hours they can be waking up at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center or they can be waking up at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, and the first time they wake up … their husband or wife, their mother or father, their son or their daughter, are holding their hands,” he said. “Now that’s the way you heal. And what you see in the [Warrior Games opening ceremony] audience, there is that same family unit that’s continuing that healing process to allow these folks to be great citizens. It’s just awesome to watch these folks.”

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1. And an excuse for the military-industrial complex to exist

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=123291

Winnefeld: Military’s Public-Private Partnerships Yield Benefits

By Nick Simeone
DoD News, Defense Media Activity

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2014 – The military’s many partnerships with the private sector have yielded benefits in everything from responding to world crises, maintaining an advanced technological industrial base, to helping care for wounded warriors, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today.

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“The rewards we in the military find range from new technologies that enhance our ability to defend the nation to better ways to help populations in need, to taking better care of our own people,” Winnefeld said, mentioning in particular the medical and technological breakthroughs that have led to advances in prosthetics and new treatments for traumatic brain injury for wounded warriors.

“We’re often postured to get to an area quickly, but other organizations usually have much greater knowledge of local needs and have greater capacity to provide necessary aid. In these situations, partnerships are absolutely vital,” Winnefeld explained, citing as an example the U.S. military’s role in a whole-of-government U.S. response currently underway in Liberia to help contain the outbreak of Ebola.
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