This is a photo of the Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonion, Texas "Airman and Family Readiness Center" where I have an office. I don't spend a lot of time there. To me it is very affirming that I work at a "Readiness Center." While airmen are getting combat ready the folks here, including me, are ensuring that they and their families are ready for the emotional and relational distress of that combat. I don't think I have found a "civilian" counter part to these Centers. We have a lot of different organizations whose missions are to help with our lives each doing a lot of different things. But when I think about being "ready" for what life has for us, I wonder where that place is that readies us for the task? None of them seem to be "the place" such as these centers in the Air Force. We live in a great country where we can know that not only do we send our young men and women into combat, but we do everything we can to ensure that they and their families are ready for the emotional, psychological, financial, and relational distress that goes along with it. You will have to, most often, go to more than one place to get all of this. Thank God our military folks don't have to. Dr. D.
