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Retiree Spotlight
Capt. Cathy Wilson, USN (Ret), always had a love for the military. As a Navy brat whose father and uncle served during World War II, it’s not surprising she joined the military — and married within it, too. After 30 years in the Navy, including posts as commanding officer of Naval Hospital Bremerton, Wash., and of a naval hospital in Kuwait, Wilson planned to enjoy her retirement and take it easy. But her love of the military called her to serve once more. Wilson now is the executive director of the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program (VWWP).
What is the mission of the VWWP? Our prime mission is to create statewide delivery and response systems for veterans [and] members of the National Guard and Reserve and their families who are in need of behavioral health care, primary health care, rehabilitative services, and community support.
Virginia has a joint leadership council that came together and decided this program would be a way to address the needs of our military men and women of any era who need treatment for post-traumatic stress [or] traumatic brain injury and other support services.
What is the VWWP currently working on? [In] case management and care coordination, we link people to their health care benefits, and if we come across a veteran who is in need of service and eligible to enroll in the VA, we assist [him or her] in getting involved with the VA. We’re currently taking a look at all of the veterans who are receiving Medicaid and Medicare to find out if there are veterans who are eligible for VA benefits and may not know it. We also recently published a guidebook about reentry for incarcerated veterans, and we’re really trying to reach out to ... law-enforcement personnel and criminal-justice services, to make sure that they think of treatment along with incarceration. In addition, we’ve held training throughout Virginia on military culture, raising the awareness....
How can MOAA members help? [MOAA members are] out raising funds for us and participating in the educational and community events that we’ve had. Any MOAA members who want to help can get connected through their regional points of contact, which are all listed on the Web.*
— Kenya McCullum
Attention!
Check out these military-related entertainment offerings.
BOOK THE NIGHT SANTA GOT LOST: HOW NORAD SAVED CHRISTMAS (Regnery Publishing, 2012) Each December, NORAD helps children and adults track online Santa’s sleigh during its Christmas Eve flight. Author Michael Keane explores another aspect of NORAD’s yule-tide support when Santa disappears from radar and the armed forces must save Christmas.
FILM ZERO DARK THIRTY (Columbia Pictures, 2012) Director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, 2008) takes movie-goers into the secret world of the U.S. military and intelligence forces’ decade-long hunt for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
BOOK THE U.S. NAVY SEAL SURVIVAL HANDBOOK (Skyhorse Publishing, 2012) The New York Times bestselling authors Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo provide in this “definitive survival resource” techniques in basic camping, hunting, water-finding, signaling, sea survival, and more. MO
*online: Find the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program on the Web at
www.wearevirginiaveterans.org.
28 MILITARY OFFICER DECEMBER 2012
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