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If you join the military 20 or 30 years

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ago , you probably don't remember

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hearing the word resilience back then

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the attitude was put it behind you and

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carry on soldier . However things are

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different . Now today's leaders are

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compassionate understanding and ask

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questions in order to do all they can

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to provide a helping hand resiliency .

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Training is so important for soldiers

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and for family members because we're

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we're in an era of proactive warfare

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and a lot of the soldiers growing up

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now haven't learned resilience

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naturally growing up . So teaching

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resilience , the ability to bounce back

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from adversity and mental toughness is

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crucial to being a soldier and a family

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member , especially with what we're

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going through in our generation . From

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the 23rd through 27 January 2012 . The

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indiana Military Academy at camp

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Atterbury conducted the first of its

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kind resilience training program . So

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do we see how character strengths can

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work and challenges ? And he kept it

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together in front of his troops to

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actually perform in indiana was the

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first state to step up and try to pilot

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the five day course . They've taken the

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initiative in it . And this is the

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first ever course we're training about

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50 students and they're learning all of

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the resilience competencies in the next

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five days . I find that I'm dealing

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with service members . Um not just who

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have been deployed , who find

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themselves in crisis situations .

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They're just having issues dealing with

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daily stressors and what resilience is

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teaching is is teaching those those

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techniques on how to deal with those

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daily stressors in order for us to look

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at life in a positive light and move

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forward . So I've already applied some

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of the skills with my family and

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helping it cope with day to day

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situations , as well as a larger

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problems and issues we may have in our

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household , essentially . Resilience is

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a prevention method and it's going to

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help our soldiers and family members

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all around and that's how you turn a

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mountain back into a mole hill . For

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the indiana National Guard . I might

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create reporting from Camp Atterbury in

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central indiana .