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DoDLive Bloggers Roundtable: Navy Seeks to Reduce Sailors’ Stress

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By Ian Graham

People complain about stress daily, and treatment for stress has become a large industry within the mental health field. But few know stress as well as servicemembers, who routinely face long workdays, intense physical activity and high operational tempo – not to mention the risks of being deployed to a war zone.

U.S. Navy Capt. Lori A. Laraway, coordinator of the U.S. Navy’s Operational Stress Control (OSC) Program and U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Bonnie R. Chavez, Navy’s Behavioral Health Program Manager Navy Suicide Prevention and OSC policies, spoke to bloggers during a DoDLive Blogger’s Roundtable Dec. 10 about the mental health issues sailors face and how the Navy works to prevent and remedy them.

To listen to the audio from the roundtable, click here.

To read the transcript from the roundtable, click here.

To read the article, visit Defense.gov, click here.

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  • http://www.sleepytales.comandwww.storysaga.com Barry Healan

    As a veteran of the U.S.Navy I am glad to see that this issue is being addressed. Now as a civilian I am doing my part to help the sailors and their families to cope with deployments as well. I’ve created a free website, , to provide a way for sailors to upload video of themselves telling a story to their kids so that while they are deployed their kids can cope better with that separation.
    I’ve also kept the sailors in mind who do not have kids, and given them a place to tell stories, as a way to show everyone back home what being deployed is like. Also free, that site is .
    I’ve put a lot of my own time, money, and effort into these sites because I understand the effects of deployment first hand. Please visit them and be sure to tell others about them. Awareness of these sites is critical to morale, and the only way I can keep them afloat is by visiting a sponsor (an ad) on the site. Go Navy!

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    The only African-American ace of World War II, and a former Tuskegee Airman, went on to have a career in the Air Force, as well as success in the business world.

    Lee A. Archer joined the Army in 1941 with high hopes of becoming a pilot, but was initially denied because of his race. When the Army’s policy changed about a year later, Archer was accepted to the training program for black aviators at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama.

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