Family members of service personnel with polytraumatic injuries face a wide range of challenges. Research has shown that family member adaptation and adjustment to the caregiver role has a significant impact on the well-being of the person with the injuries. The Veterans Health Administration is rapidly developing services to meet the needs of severely injured service personnel and their family members. The purpose of the present study was to test the feasibility of a method of assessment to identify the needs of individual family members of service personnel and veterans receiving inpatient rehabilitation services at the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center (PRC) located within the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. Family member needs and emotional distress levels were quantitatively assessed. Qualitative data was collected with the intent of gaining a better understanding of the needs of families of individuals with severe injury from within a military cultural context. Results of this study suggest emotional distress levels of family members of persons receiving treatment on the PRC are not clinically significant. Study participants report overwhelming satisfaction with the program of care offered to patients and family members on the PRC. Furthermore, results of this study suggest that family members benefited from participating in the study. A strength-based family care pathway that utilizes an individual assessment of family needs is proposed and recommended for use with family members of individuals enrolled in the Veterans Health Administration polytrauma network services.

Thesis (M.A.(Sociology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022 / The purpose of the study was to explore the impacts of military deployment on the nuclear families of military members of the South African National Defence Force. Qualitative, exploratory research was conducted to determine the impacts of military deployment on the nuclear families of the SANDF. Data were collected through qualitative interviews. A purposive sampling technique was used wherein six families were sampled to explore the impacts of deployment on families with a member previously deployed to foreign missions by the South African National Defence Force. Inductive qualitative content data analysis was performed to analyse data. The study highlighted the areas of potential effects that deployment had before and after deployment of a service member as well as the daily lived experiences of the family during deployment of a family member. The study found that the increase in the changes in the composition of the family structure during deployment; continuous communication was very vital during deployment and the beneficial impacts of deployment. Most military families did not experience dire challenges during deployment but were normal challenges most civilian families experience. Instead, the military families developed resilience during the deployment period. / National Research Foundation (NRF)

Approved for public release; distribution in unlimited. / The Military Housing Privatization Initiative (MHPI) represents a dramatic revision in the construction and maintenance of military housing. Since its inception in 1996, the number of projects has grown exponentially and the learning process has been continuous and steep. This thesis researches the effectiveness of the methods in place at the Department of Defense and Service levels to document, share, and, above all, learn from past experiences. This analysis reviews the cumulative documented lessons from all Services and compares it to the lessons learned within the first jointly partnered privatization project at the Presidio of Monterey (POM) and Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. This research showed at least six lessons previously documented within the lessons learned system, which were relearned at the POM/NPS project. Given this data, the lessons learned program is a partial success but overall has a positive impact on the MHPI. The current lessons learned program improves each new privatization project ensuring it does not experience all of the same lessons from previous projects. Only a few lessons seem to slip through the cracks and are repeated even after documentation and distribution. / Captain, United States Army

[pt] Realizou-se um estudo do Exército Brasileiro sob a perspectiva das transformações institucionais que têm se operado no seu interior nas últimas três décadas e do trabalho de conservação de valores que a Instituição Militar vem implementando no sentido de preservar seu ethos e sua identidade. A primeira parte trata da transformação como um valor, sendo analisada a família do militar como um fator que tem promovido transformações profundas na Instituição. Foi observado o fato de que a família, ao mesmo tempo em que é parte do público interno do Exército, também integra as demais instituições da sociedade mais ampla, sendo por elas influenciada. Em virtude desta posição, a família tem levado para dentro da Instituição novas ideias em transformação que pululam no mundo social exterior ao campo militar. O universo pesquisado foi o dos oficiais formados pela Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras – AMAN. Foram analisadas influências que, advindas da sociedade mais ampla, são exercidas sobre o oficial de AMAN pela via da sua família desde a sua formação, como cadete, já na escolha da Arma, e outras que interferem na qualidade do desenvolvimento da carreira que, ao ser paulatinamente modificada, promove, por sua vez, transformações na própria Instituição. Observou-se, assim, que a família militar tem realizado a interface do Exército com a sociedade mais ampla. A segunda parte trata do valor da transformação por meio do movimento de conservação empreendido pelo Exército Brasileiro no sentido de preservar suas características consideradas essenciais. Analisou-se a forma como os oficiais de AMAN se veem em face da sociedade mais ampla e os conceitos que, segundo eles, compõem o ethos militar: a tradição e a autoridade, e como estes conceitos se manifestam dentro do campo militar. Por fim, a terceira parte se constitui na síntese das duas anteriores. Discorre sobre a trajetória institucional do Exército em face dos movimentos de transformação e de conservação que configuram seu ambiente social, interno e externo; como se construiu sociologicamente em instituição e os desafios que têm sido enfrentados nestes dias de transformações galopantes. / [en] It was made an study about Brazilian Army under the perspective of institutional transformations were operated in its interior in last three decades and about que work of conservation of values what the Military Institution implemented with the goal of preserving its ethos and its identity. The first part talks about the transformation as a value, the military family has been analysed as a factor that promoted deep transformations in Institution. It was observed the fact that the family, at the same time it is part of the internal public of the Army, it also integrates the others institutions of broad society, so being influenced by them. Consequently, family conducts inside to the Institution new transformation ideas that are in the outside of military field. The sample analysed was the group of officers graduated by Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (Military Academy of Agulhas Negras) – AMAN. Influences were analysed that, coming from the broad society, were exercised over AMAN officer through his family since his formation as a cadet, as also in his combat arm choice, and others that interfere in the quality of the development of his carreer that, being progressively modified, promotes transformations in Institution itself. It was observed that, so, the family of the military has the role of an interface between Army and broad society. The second part shows the importance of the transformation through the conservation movement undertaken by the Brazilian Army for preserving its characteristics considered essential. It was analysed the way like the AMAN officers see themselves besides broad society and the concepts that, like they consider, composed the military ethos: the tradition and the authority, and how these concepts happen inside military field. The third part presents a synthesis of the two lately itens. It presents the institutional way of the Army besides the movements of transformation and conservation that realize its social environment, internal or external; how it constitutes itself sociologicaly as an institution and its challenges that were faced in these days of fast transformations.