Army Seeks to Beef up Mind's Defenses

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Army Seeks to Beef up Mind's Defenses
December 10, 2009
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

With the war in Afghanistan now in its ninth year, Iraq in its seventh, and troops facing additional deployments to one or both theaters, the Pentagon continues to wrestle with the signs of stress in both servicemembers and their families.

Suicide and divorce rates are high, and both impact the military broadly, affecting morale and mission capability.

The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program was established just over a year ago to do for troops’ psychological and emotional health what physical training does for their bodies – make them stronger and more resilient.

Call it “Kevlar for the mind.”

“We recognize that just as people come into the Army with a wide spectrum of physical fitness -- for example experience with firearms – they come in with a wide spectrum of decision-making abilities, coping skills, communications skills, and insight really into how and what things effect how they feel, how they think, and then how they perform,” Brig. Gen. Rhonda Cornum, director for the CSF program, told Military.com during a recent interview with military bloggers.


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