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Base Preparing for Redeployments

Apr- 4-2010 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT , 4/2 SBCT , 5/2 SBCT

FOB Tacoma - ｻ Madigan prepares for returning Strykers

Three Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker brigades are returning home from war this year, and Madigan Army Medical Center will temporarily expand its behavioral-health staff and implement new screening programs to deal with the mental-health issues of deployment.

Hospital staff will be paying particular attention to 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, which has lost 35 soldiers and seen frequent combat since it deployed to southern Afghanistan last July.

Piggybacking off post-deployment programs already in place, Madigan officials will collect additional behavioral-health information and screen them again shortly after they return home.


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