The ‘Troops’ Who Support Our Troops
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April 7, 2017

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wife of a military veteran becomes his caregiver

In 1983, a ground-breaking white paper by then-Chief of Staff of the Army General John A. Wickham Jr. on the importance of increasing support to the Army family put into motion the Army Family Action Plan, or AFAP. General Wickham asserted that a healthy family environment allowed soldiers to more fully concentrate on their mission, so…

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