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Army implementing Virtual Family Readiness Group

Aug- 9-2005 » Filed Under: General Military

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By Margaret McKenzie, Army News Service

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Army News Service, Aug. 8, 2005) -- The Army will start a program on the World Wide Web Oct. 1 to support and improve how information is passed to families when Soldiers are deployed.

“The virtual Family Readiness Group is designed to replicate the major components of FRGs but in a virtual context,” said Jay M. Burcham, chief of Deployment and Mobilization Readiness Division for the Family Programs Directorate at the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center, Alexandria, Va.

“This Web System is not just a Web site. Soldiers down range in Iraq, Korea or wherever they are deployed will be able to communicate with families around the world by logging into this system. The virtual Family Readiness Group Web system will use technology to move today’s FRGs into the 21st Century to meet the demands of the Army’s Expeditionary Force.” [...]


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