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NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The director of the Air National Guard joined with other senior military and elected officials to discuss military deployments, programs and policies that affect the children of active duty, Guard and Reserve service members here July 23.
"The challenges that we have as a military spread across the entire United States of America, into those rural communities, of two or three-thousand sometimes," said Air Force Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III. "I look forward to working on those challenges with all of our great volunteers here.”
The general was part of a senior officers’ panel with leaders from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard before more than 1,000 conferees at the Military Child Education coalition.
Service leaders spoke about their services' challenges and support of dependent children faced with deployments, financial constraints and learning values among others.
Wyatt highlighted his granddaughter's experience during one of his son's two Army Guard combat deployments, as an example of the challenges National Guard children face.
He described Guard children "resilient" in coping with their parents’ service.
"[They] will one day be the leaders of this country," Wyatt said. "I think all of us are here, because we share the desire to educate those children so that they can become leaders."
The general pointed out that Guardmembers and their families serve and work in communities that can often have little to no experience dealing with military children.
"So the challenge is not just educating the child, the parents and the employers, but educating the educators to the challenges that our children face," he said.
Officials cited the there are at least two million dependent children of U.S. service members.
Officials and conferees representing all military components joined with educators and family support volunteers from active duty, Guard and Reserve communities and discussed childcare, youth support, family programs, combat wounded families and other topics.
| Date Taken: | 07.23.2010 |
| Date Posted: | 07.26.2010 16:08 |
| Story ID: | 53417 |
| Location: | NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND, US |
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