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IWAKUNI, Japan - Marine Corps Family Team Building aboard Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, provides a quarterly class called New Level of Readiness: Caring for Your Wounded Warrior for spouses.
The purpose of this class is to provide basic information on what is considered to be a wounded warrior and how each service member may be handled, according to Alexandra Patrocino, a life skills trainer with MCFTB.
“This class is intended to be presented to the spouses of service members,” said Ben Singleton, the MCFTB Director. “The class will inform spouses of what the process is for being notified that their service members has been wounded, is ill or has been injured.”
Not many military spouses are aware of what would happen in the case that their spouse was wounded or is ill.
“As a military spouse, it is our responsibility to have a basic knowledge about certain topics no matter how uncomfortable we are in addressing it,” said Patrocino.
Being unaware of an injury or illness affecting one’s spouse can create unnecessary anxiety, according to Singleton.
The class informs spouses of everything they need to know which will avoid unnecessary worry.
According to Patrocino, the class talks about the things that spouses and service members might deal with in the immediate following of a wound, illness, or injury.
“Through this class the spouses will know what the notification process is, the support systems in place to assist and the recovery steps,” said Patrocino. “An illness or injury can occur at any time and any place, so this means an illness or injury can occur even when the service member is not deployed or in a combat zone.”
Patrocino said the most important thing a spouse can do for their wounded warrior is make sure he or she focuses on recovery, “so that requires us to, as the saying goes, ‘hold down the fort’.”
All the classes MCFTB provide can be found in the monthly Preview Magazine under Marine Corps Family Team Building, Marine Corps Community Services Iwakuni’s website and MCFTB’s Facebook.
The next class is scheduled for late May.
For more information contact the MCFTB at 253-3754.
| Date Taken: | 02.10.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 02.11.2015 01:26 |
| Story ID: | 154169 |
| Location: | IWAKUNI, YAMAGUCHI, JP |
| Hometown: | WINSTON SALEM, NC, US |
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