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CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - U.S. Army Central Soldiers gathered to learn about the Military Equal Opportunity Program, the Army Suicide Prevention Program, and Master Resiliency Training during an engaging morning training session June 8, here.
USARCENT senior leaders, to include Maj. Gen. Christopher Field, Deputy Commanding General of Operations for U.S. Army Central, also attended, setting the example by investing time into the important training even in a deployed environment.
“The importance of this training is due to the current environment and the Army’s relentless effort to defeat unfair treatment,” said 1st Lt. Daisy Lomeli, executive officer for Fox Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, USARCENT. “It’s important to be resilient in our formations and make sure we take care of our own.”
Sgt. 1st Class Eric Dreher, senior vertical construction noncommissioned officer with the 605th Construction Management Team, presented first and stressed the importance of inclusion in order to foster an environment of equal opportunity within the Army.
Dreher said education, awareness, and bystander intervention are the strongest deterrents of exclusion and bullying in and outside of the work environment.
Chaplain (Maj.) Josh White, Deputy Command Chaplain with U.S. Army Central continued Dreher's message by leading conversations about suicide awareness and sharing his own past struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts.
“It’s uncomfortable to talk about suicide because in American culture we don’t like to talk about death,” said White. “When someone is thinking about suicide they need to tell somebody. In fact, they want to tell somebody.”
He said that asking someone directly if they are thinking about suicide is okay, and it is the correct thing to do. It’s important to be a willing listener and to point people in the right direction to get professional help.
To finish up the morning, Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Cornaby, USARCENT"s forward public affairs noncommissioned officer in charge, gave a Master Resilience Training class on “hunting the good stuff.”
“Hunting the good stuff” means learning to view life with a positive and optimistic perspective, he explained.
“It’s important to be optimistic because it spreads,” said Cornaby. “A lot of times, attitudes are contagious.”
Cornaby emphasized that optimism leads to better health, better sleep, feeling calm, lower depression, greater life satisfaction, improved performance, and better relationships.
All of the leaders guiding the morning of training encouraged the Soldiers to carry away the lessons and discussions from the day to increase their individual readiness and strengthen the bonds across their teams.
| Date Taken: | 06.08.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 06.09.2021 14:58 |
| Story ID: | 398465 |
| Location: | KW |
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