Army disability retirement system improving

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Army disability retirement system improving
By Kelly Kennedy - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jan 13, 2008 14:16:45 EST

When Lt. Col. Chip Pierce served as troop commander at Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii, he said he was “frustrated” by some of the issues he saw his injured soldiers face as they made their way through the bureaucracy of the Army’s military disability retirement system.

“At Tripler, we didn’t have the same volume as Walter Reed , so we didn’t have the same level of problems,” he said. “But nearly every problem they had, we had a little of it.”

In some cases, he didn’t know where to turn to solve a problem, he said. And he “wasn’t satisfied” with the troops’ living quarters.

So when the Army offered Pierce the opportunity to lead its new Warrior Transition Unit, a brigade designed specifically to address the administrative needs of injured soldiers, “I couldn’t get here fast enough,” Pierce said.

That was last spring. Already, he said, he’s seen progress.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/01/army_disability_080113w/



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