47 CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait - U.S. Army Central Soldiers gathered to learn about the Military Equal Opportunity Program, the Army Suicide Prevention Program, and Master Resiliency Training during an engaging morning training session June 8, here.
USARCENT senior leaders, to include Maj. Gen. Christopher Field, Deputy Commanding General of Operations for U.S. Army Central, also attended, setting the example by investing time into the important training even in a deployed environment.
“The importance of this training is due to the current environment and the Army’s relentless effort to defeat unfair treatment,” said 1st Lt. Daisy Lomeli, executive officer for Fox Company, Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, USARCENT. “It’s important to be resilient in our formations and make sure we take care of our own.”
44 CAMP ARIFJAN, KUWAIT Thanks to the generous time, money and talent of the nonprofit organization, Hearts to Heroes, Soldiers at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, are able to learn and play the guitar while on deployment.
Hearts to Heroes is an organization that donates guitars and other stringed instruments to deployed troops.
With the help of a few skilled luthiers, people who make and repair stringed instruments, Hearts to Heroes is able to build and fix donated guitars that then get sent to overseas Soldiers for free.
“If it were not for them, we wouldn t be able to do the guitar program,” said Myra Foskey, CEO of Hearts to Heroes. “They help us out so much.”