Military Reintegration Training
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 CONCEPT OF REINTEGRATION TRAINING
CJT Military Reintegration Training covers all core subject
areas of the DCS Contingency Plan. The vision behind MRT is
far more than simply a “check the box” program,
but a means and method to realizing solutions for acute, significant
post-deployment needs.
Army families face recurring long
deployments. Learning to manage the emotional landscape of
deployment and reunion is within the reach of the Army family
but rarely through personal experience alone. By merging personal
experience with the curriculum of MRT, soldiers and families
are provided a set of power tools in their emotional “toolbox”
with which to meet the challenges of future deployments. The
benefit to retention is obvious.
CJT Military Reintegration Training is not a one-size-fits-all
approach, but focuses on target groups. In a system that can
be fiercely impersonal, it is important to put soldiers where
they can receive help from a source that sees them as individuals.
Classes of 30 or fewer in size allow for optimal group interaction.
It demonstrates how serious we are to reach them with the
tools they need for an intense time of personal transition.
The greatest strength of CJT Military Reintegration Training
is our instructors. We sought talented, professional instructors.
But we insisted on something more: professionals possessing
a deep passion for the personal experience of
the soldier and soldier families. Our success
in finding such individuals was a combination of good fortune
and an in-depth interview process that emphasized their relationship
with soldiers or military communities. The common factor in
was a significant, sustained and personal level of association
with military life. Soldiers train constantly. It would be
ineffective to put instructors in front of soldiers who were
merely teaching “one more class.” Our MRT instructors
have demonstrated a consistent ability to engage, encourage
and energize Tropic Lightning soldiers and family members.
It is absolutely critical to our success that instructors
are not members of the Army or in
any way part of the military chain of command. Any reintegration
program that puts “green-suiters” in front of
such classes will go without perhaps the strongest feature
such a program has to offer: complete freedom for the soldier
to respond to the material with candor and without fear of
any type of reprisal or effect on their career for being honest,
or processing with integrity their experience while in the
combat zone. Again and again soldiers report “feeling
safe” and being able “to really talk” about
the full range of their feelings and experiences while deployed
to combat. This is the strongest argument for making the case
that reintegration programs are best “contracted out”
rather than being tasked to any military personnel that might
ordinarily be assigned to conduct high priority military training.
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS FOR CJT MILITARY
REINTEGRATION TRAINING
POI (Program of Instruction)
A1- Stress on and off the Battle Field: This course is designed to discuss readjustments and changes
in behaviors that accompany duty in a war zone. Soldiers also
learn stress reduction and relaxation techniques through guided
imagery. Required for ALL soldiers
M1- Marriage Communication: This
course looks at communication, conflict, and how to preserve
a healthy marriage through forgiveness and commitment.
Required for all married soldiers.
M3 - Communicating With Your Children: This course is designed to help parents who may face challenges
communicating with their children after the return of a parent
from a deployment. Required for Married with children
E5- Coming Home: Anger Management Workshop: This course allows soldiers to identify and lessen any challenges
and effects of anger prior to and after deployment. Required
for all soldiers.
S1- Single Parent Reintegration Workshop: This course helps single parents through the minefields of
relating to the children and dealing with the challenges w
hen returning to their children after a deployment.
Required for all single parents.
S2- Single Soldier Reintegration Workshop: This course involves the process of change: ourselves,
others – friends, relatives, coworkers. This workshop
reassures us change is normal and helps us readjust.
Required for all single soldiers.
S3- Money Management Workshop: This course is designed to explain potential financial
issues that may be encountered after returning from deployment.
Required for all soldiers.
D1 – Divorce Recovery Workshop: designed to help soldiers who are coming home to a divorce
in progress, or have been met with divorce papers. Focuses
on issues with the children, communication between parents
during the divorce, and effects of divorce upon children.
Required for divorcing soldiers.
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