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Well , Hello . I'm Bruce Townsend ,

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with the Defense Personnel and Family

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Support Center . Welcome back to

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another one of our fireside chats today .

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I'm going to be speaking with

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Lieutenant Commander George Ferguson

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from the United States Navy Reserve ,

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and we're going to be talking about one

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of the many programs within D P . F . C .

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This one is called the Yellow Ribbon

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Reintegration Program . So good

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afternoon , Lieutenant Commander

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Ferguson . Good afternoon , Bruce . How

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are you ? I am doing really well . So

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there are a lot of programs that

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support the reserve component of the

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United States military , which , as we

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all know , makes up about 40% of the

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total force . And one of those programs

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is the yellow ribbon reintegration

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program or Y R R P really would like

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you to share with our audience exactly

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what the yellow ribbon reintegration

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programme does . Sure . So , yellow

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Ruben , They support seven reserve

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components . All the reserve community

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National Guard Bureau in all of our 50

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states and U . S . Territories , we do

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all stages of deployment . So pre

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deployment , deployment and post

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deployment . It was established in 2000

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and eight with the National Defense

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Authorization Act to assist both

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National Guard and Reserve members ,

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transitioning between military and

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civilian roles in that deployment

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process . And the crucial part of it as

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well is that includes family members ,

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loved ones , dependence , yes , uh ,

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that have to deal with their loved ones

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being deployed as well . Uh , in the in

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the events itself , we try to provide

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resources that are needed myself

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being a reservist . When I started , I

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went to a one day pre deployment event

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and learned all about Tricare Mental

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Well , being preparing the family to

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deploy when I went overseas . The

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Middle East . Uh , I didn't know

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anything really about you , Sarah . We

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met with a JAG officer . He did a lot

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of legal briefings on , you know ,

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preparing a will . Financial literacy ,

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budgeting in the home , uh , the G I .

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Bill . So it's just a wealth of

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different resources that yellow ribbon

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events provide to both service members

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and families . And then , once you get

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back assimilating back into the family ,

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the roles that may change in the family

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when you're gone and how to adapt ,

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trying to have healthy relationships

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and just having a a time of

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rest after you deploy and reintegrating

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into the family is just very beneficial .

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So , George again , this is all really

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interesting , and I'm sure that the

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people who were watching this video or

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finding finding out some things they

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didn't already know . But I'm curious .

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Does Yellow Ribbon the Y Rrp ? Does it

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have partnerships with other support

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programs that exist for the reserve

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component or even the active component ?

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Yeah , absolutely . We we reviled God

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on other other partners . As already

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mentioned , we have each YR p reserve

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component project . They have a project

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manager or program manager and a

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reserve component coordinator . So

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there , on the field , uh , working

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with all their service members and

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families trying to attend to their

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needs , address all the different

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deployments that are going on in the

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different units . Italians , um and so

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we're trying to support them and

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receive any feedback they've yet , uh ,

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we also have event planners , so

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there's there's a lot of logistics to

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this . We have event planners in each

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state , organizing events within each

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service , uh , reserve component .

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Uh , we do event planner training to

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share , educate , promote available

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resources capabilities . The tools to

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ensure methods are standardized across

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all our events . Uh And then we also

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have an after action review that we do

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an annual report and we also partner

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with project Yes , which is part of the

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U S . D . A . But they provide a

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national service programme , engage in

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college students to meet the needs of

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military families . And so , recently ,

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in our online events , we have interns

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with project yes that are active in

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our online events to cater to the needs

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of just 6 to 17 year olds with

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activities leadership , development ,

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resiliency , life skills , Rethinking

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the help cope with the military

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deployment , transitioning in the

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family . And it's also is good for the

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college interns themselves just for

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developing as a as a professional and

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understanding where they want to take

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their careers . To date that we have

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175 projects , Yes , interns

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representing 40 states , D . C . Puerto

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Rico . They're served over 28,800

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military youth at more than 943

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events in 49 states and for

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US territories in Germany . Well ,

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George , that's fascinating . And from

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everything I'm hearing , there are more

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moving parts to the yellow ribbon

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reintegration program that I could

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possibly keep count of everything from

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the support programs you mentioned to .

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You know , college students being

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involved , all the different services

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and all those different events . If I

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or somebody else wanted to learn a

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little bit more about the yellow ribbon

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reintegration program , where would we

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go to do that ? Yeah . So we have

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Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn . Uh ,

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and we have our website . They're all

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accessible off our website , so that's

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probably the easiest . That's w w w dot

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yellow ribbon dot mil . Well , thank

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you . That's That's terrific .

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Lieutenant Commander Ferguson , thank

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you very much for your time . My name

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is Bruce Townsend , with the Defense

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Personnel and Family Support Centre De

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PFC . Saying thank you all for coming

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by today and watching this video , and

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we will see you next time .