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After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, many communi-ties became isolated due to fl ooding from the storm. As a result, many citizens desperately needed basic

living staples such as food, water, fuel and medical supplies.Soldiers assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Ar-

mored Division, came through with help.In particular, Maj. Gema Robles, executive offi cer, CAB, 1st

AD, and a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and helicopter crews from the CAB, took the time to help the community of Barrio San Lorenzo, a small town struggling to make ends meet.

“Every time I talked to those folks, they were getting more and more help,” Robles said. “It was comforting to land three times in the same place, to connect with people and be able to provide for some of their needs, and also to see them having the means (themselves).”

Others joked that she adopted the village, she said. But Ro-bles saw it as a chance to get people affected by the storm the help they desperately needed.

“Things are getting better,” Robles said. “I saw the improve-ment over six or seven days in this small town. That really put me at ease. Things are moving in the right direction.”

Soldiers assigned to the CAB are doing their part in support-ing relief efforts in Puerto Rico.

The unit aided the Department of Defense’s mission on the island through supporting U.S. Army North, FEMA and fi rst responders.

“We do a lot of things on behalf of the United States at large, but this one hits close to home,” Robles said. “I think anybody would jump at the chance to just go do whatever. I could be shoveling dirt, as long as I was here helping with something, it’s worth it.”

The CAB’s mission is focused on delivering food and water to disaster survivors, providing medi-cal evacuation support, assessing terrain and route viability and dis-tributing resources with emergency services to isolated communities throughout the island.

“The sheer joy in their faces and their eyes that you can see, regard-less of the language you’re speak-ing, is defi nitely a telling sign of how grateful they are in receiving the supplies,” said Chief Warrant Offi cer 4 Ryan Dechent, a CH-47 Chinook pilot assigned to the unit. “That’s equally felt by the aircrews and all the personnel we take with us to help distribute and get supplies in the hands of the people.”

The CAB has been working hand-in-hand with FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, a Marine aviation unit, and Army National Guard units from New York, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico.

Together, they have distributed approximately 474,130 pounds of water, 169,710 pounds of food and 4,155 pounds of medical supplies to those affected by Hurricane Maria through their joint effort.

“We did similar missions for (Hurricane) Harvey, but we’ve done a lot more here,” Robles said, “primarily because of the need and because of the saturation of a bunch of other assets over there versus what’s over here. Here it’s what comes through boat and by air, so there’s a more limited pool of assets to help the region.”

The CAB deployed to Puerto Rico between Sept. 26 and Oct. 11, bringing in UH-60 Black Hawk and CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The mission was an opportunity to help those who need it most, Dech-ent said.

“It’s very gratifying,” Dechent said. “It’s a needed mission. We love the opportunity to be able to provide assistance and help out. We’ve performed similar support missions in Houston, but having an

opportunity to help the remote areas here and seeing and inter-acting with the local population has been an experience.”

Robles, who was raised in the Rio Piedras neighborhood of San Juan, had the chance to check in on her family who stayed in Puerto Rico during the storm. She viewed the mission as a chance to give back to her former home.

“The opportunity to come back to your homeland and to check on your folks and be able to help your countrymen in the same place where you grew up brings peace of mind,” Robles said. “There’s also a sense of helping the commonwealth and my hometown, which is an honor.”

1st AD Combat Aviation Brigade provides aid to Puerto RicoSTORY BY SGT. THOMAS CALVERT | 24TH PRESS CAMP HEADQUARTERS | PHOTOS BY CAPT. TYSON FRIAR | CAB, 1ST AD PUBLIC AFFAIRS

(From top)Soldiers assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division, and agents with the San Juan Federal Bureau of Investigation, unload a CH-47 Chinook helicop-ter’s supply of food and water from FEMA to the residents of Utuado, Puerto Rico, Oct. 18, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Pfc. Angel Vega, right, from Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico, and assigned to the CAB, 1st AD, hands an agent with the San Juan FBI water as they unload a CH-47 Chinook helicopter’s supply of food and water from FEMA to the residents of Utuado, Puerto Rico, Oct. 18, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Soldiers assigned to the CAB, 1st AD, and agents with the San Juan FBI, unload the CH-47 Chinook helicopter’s supply of food and water from FEMA to the residents of Utuado, Puerto Rico.

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1st AD Combat Aviation Brigade provides aid to Puerto Rico| PHOTOS BY CAPT. TYSON FRIAR | CAB, 1ST AD PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Spc. William Gordon, a CH-47 Chinook crew chief from Virginia Beach, Va., and assigned to the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Ar-mored Division, passes water to a resident of Utuado, Puerto Rico, Oct. 18, following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

“THE SHEER JOY IN THEIR FACES AND THEIR EYES THAT YOU CAN SEE ... IS DEFINITE-LY A TELLING SIGN OF HOW GRATEFUL THEY ARE IN RECEIVING THE SUPPLIES.” - Chief Warrant Offi cer 4

Ryan Dechent

A UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 501st Aviation Regiment, Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Armored Division, fl ies over San Juan, Puerto Rico, Oct. 18, while heading to Utuado to de-liver food and water from FEMA to its residents, fol-lowing the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

By Jonathan LeBlancFort Bliss Bugle Staff

MCGREGOR RANGE, N.M. – Soldiers assigned to the 504th Combat Sustainment Company, 142nd Combat Sustainment Bat-talion, 1st Armored Division Sustainment Brigade, spent the day here Friday qualify-ing on the M4 carbine.

The Soldiers became profi cient on their weapons for upcoming training at the Na-tional Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., and for future deployments.

Although a requirement, the Soldiers also enjoyed stepping away from the normal work routine to get some hands-on training with their basic Soldiering skills.

Second Lt. Jacob Melendez, a platoon leader assigned to the 504th CSC, 142nd CSB, 1st AD Sust. Bde., said the training not only keeps the Soldiers ready for training and deployments, but also allows noncom-missioned offi cers to mentor them and use the experience they have gained.

The hands-on training allows Soldiers and leaders to stay sharp with their skills.

“The leaders get to troubleshoot any is-sues the Soldiers are having with zeroing their weapons, in addition to making neces-sary adjustments that will allow the Soldiers to hit the targets with more accuracy,” Me-lendez said.

Melendez said he only wishes the Soldiers could train more.

“I understand that we are support and not on the front lines, but I do believe that ev-ery Soldier should be more familiarized and continue to be consistent so they don’t be-come complacent,” Melendez said.

At least one Soldier also used the train-ing to gain skills above and beyond the M4 qualifi cation.

Pfc. Aliyah Avery, an ammunition stock control and accounting specialist assigned to the 504th CSC, 142nd CSB, 1st AD Sust. Bde., trained to help leadership give com-mands from the range tower. This is a criti-cal part of the weapons training as it applies safety standards for everyone out there.

“I give the Soldiers all the commands of when they need to go down the range to check their targets, when to lock and load their weapons, when to fi re and to cease fi re,” Avery said.

142nd CSB stays ready with M4 qualifi cation

Jonathan LeBlanc / Fort Bliss Bugle StaffA Soldier makes the necessary adjustments to his M4 carbine to zero the weapon for qualifi cation at McGregor Range, N.M., Oct. 20.

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Have you ever had so much anx-iety about a situation you have be-come stuck and unable to focus or take purposeful action? Have you seen this happen to someone else? The skill of “Put It In Perspec-tive” allows us to stop catastrophic thinking and lower anxiety so we can accurately assess a situation and deal with it.

When we waste critical energy ruminating about the potential worst-case outcomes of a situation, we call it catastrophic thinking. Another way to look at this type of thinking is “making a moun-tain out of a molehill” or “making a Himalaya out of a mountain.” Catastrophizing is detrimental to taking purposeful action because it creates high levels of anxiety, de-creases focus and increases help-lessness.

Potential triggers of catastrophic thinking are ambiguous situations, when something we value highly is at stake, being run-down or de-pleted or if we already fear the sit-uation. Modern technology creates

more opportunities for ambiguous information to cross our paths. For example, a text message from a signifi cant other saying, “We need to talk,” or an email from your fi rst sergeant that says, “Meet me in my offi ce at 1700,” could be interpret-ed many ways.

“Downward spiral” is one style of catastrophic thinking. Down-ward spiral is when an activating event occurs and our brain starts to

tell us a story that gets increasingly negative and improbable, causing us to get more and more anxious. Our brain is like a “runaway train” with these worst case thoughts. The second style of catastrophic thinking is “scattershot,” which is when we start thinking about many disconnected, catastrophic events. We utilize the analogy of a shotgun blast because the shot is scattered as are our worst-case thoughts

about the activating event. The fi -nal style of catastrophic thinking is “circling,” which is when our thoughts about two or three poten-tially negative outcomes repeat. The thoughts do not get more neg-ative, but block purposeful action.

There are fi ve chronological steps to using PIIP:

Step 1: Describe the activating event, and jot down the four Ws – who, what, when and where. We

want to be objective in this step and put down just the facts about the activating event.

Step 2: Capture all the worst-case thoughts. In this step, we want to make sure we exhaust all our worst-case thoughts about the activating event.

Step 3: Generate best-case thoughts. This might be diffi cult for some, but generating best-case thoughts elicits a jolt of positive emotion to lower our anxiety just enough so we can identify most likely outcomes.

Step 4: Identify the most likely outcomes. In this step we want to identify two or three most likely outcomes, our most likely emo-tions, and how others involved in the situation might be feeling so we can anticipate how to deal with it.

Step 5: Develop a plan to deal with the most likely outcomes. In this step we want to develop a plan for what we identifi ed in Step 4.

By using the skill of Put It In Perspective we are able to halt catastrophic thinking and create a mindset that allows us to identify the most likely outcomes of a situ-ation and develop a plan for those outcomes. We can use PIIP by ourselves or as an empathy tool to help others we see catastrophizing.

Put situations in perspective to reduce anxiety

By Jonathan LeBlancFort Bliss Bugle Staff

Fort Bliss National Cemetery will be one of six national cemeteries that will offer weekend cremation burial services the fi rst Saturday ev-ery month, beginning Saturday.

The fi ve other national cemeteries offering this pilot program for weekend burial services are Florida National Cemetery, Jefferson Bar-racks National Cemetery, Fort Snelling Na-tional Cemetery, Riverside National Cemetery and Calverton National Cemetery, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

James Porter, director, Fort Bliss National Cemetery, said he and others who work at the cemetery pride themselves on improving ac-cess to burial benefi ts while meeting individu-al needs of families.

An annual customer satisfactory survey in-dicated the need for extended services, Porter said.

“We want Veterans and their families to choose VA,” Porter said. “Our burial services should be convenient for families, loved ones, funeral homes and community members.”

The VA operates 135 national cemeteries and 33 Soldiers’ lots and monument sites in 40 states and Puerto Rico, according to a press release.

Fort Bliss will continue taking requests for weekend burial services for religious purpos-es.

The scheduling offi ce is open seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Central Stan-dard Time. Those who would like to schedule a Saturday service should call the national scheduling offi ce at 1-800-535-1117.

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Abigail Meyer / File photoFamily, friends and loved ones visited graves at the Fort Bliss National Cemetery here following the Memorial Day ceremony May 30, 2016.

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By David VergunArmy News Service

WASHINGTON – Gen. Robert B. Abrams recalled once being awakened at 2 a.m. on a Friday. It was the early 1980s then, and he was a young lieutenant stationed in a cavalry squad-ron in West Germany.

It was a unit alert that had woken him from his sleep, he recalled. Back then, those alerts could come at any time, completely unan-nounced. And when they came, Soldiers in area bars would need to report to their units, in what-ever state they were in, within two hours.

Abrams, commander, U.S. Army Forces Command, spoke in October at the Association of the U.S. Army’s Annual Meeting and Expo-sition.

Once Soldiers were assembled, he said, they had four hours to get all their gear and ammuni-tion loaded on trucks and tanks, and move out to their tactical assembly areas. They had to be ready to cross the border into East Germany, if called to do so.

“Everyone had a sense of urgency and knew what was at stake,” he said, remembering his early days in the Army.

The Army needs to regain that same sense of urgency today, he said, but “we’re not there yet in our Army.”

However, the mindset is beginning to shift, he said. “That’s the direction the Army is now taking.”

Improved trainingAbrams pointed to a number of readiness in-

dicators, including training, which he said has improved over the last couple of years.

Recently, the Army has shifted its training fo-cus to a “decisive-action training environment that’s very robust,” he said.

The DATE training environment includes training with both conventional and non-con-ventional forces in all domains during every combat training center, or CTC rotation, he said.

Leading up to the CTC rotation, units have also improved their home-station training, he said, adding that there’s been a 300 percent in-crease in company-level, live-fire exercises at home station over the last two years.

Even aviation units at the platoon and com-pany levels are now participating in live-fire ex-ercises, something not widely seen since before the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said.

Non-deployable Soldiers“We’ve made huge progress over the last

couple of years in reducing the number of non-deployable (Soldiers),” Abrams said, adding that it’s still the number one readiness challenge facing the Army today.

Some units have 7 or 8 percent non-deploy-able Soldiers, he said, so there’s still some work to do to shrink those numbers.

Abrams attributed improvements in reduc-ing the number of non-deployable Soldiers to several factors, including the fielding this year of the commander’s Medical Readiness Dash-board. That computerized medical update al-lows company and battalion commanders to better understand and deal with the medical sta-tus of their Soldiers.

Improved physical training is another area the general credited with reducing injuries and elevating fitness levels. He gave a shout-out to a pilot program now underway that is incorporat-ing a new Soldier readiness test involving four brigades from FORSCOM that are evaluating “all five measurements of fitness.”

The Army is moving away from an “industri-al-age medical system,” to one that’s more like the type used for professional athletes that gives Soldiers the care they need “at their point of im-pact and at the point of injury,” he noted.

The importance of care is so important be-cause “muscular-skeletal injuries continue to impact Soldiers,” he said.

Improved equipmentTwelve of the Army’s 25 brigade combat

teams have to date received their complete au-thorized stockage lists, Abrams said, and U.S. Army Materiel Command is working on equip-ping the rest. ASLs consist of such things as re-pair parts, fuel and construction material kept at each BCT distribution center.

To ensure the equipment is sufficient and where it needs to be, Abrams said FORSCOM conducts monthly logistics and aviation readi-ness reviews.

The biggest struggle in equipping the force right now, he said, is getting spare parts to where they are needed in a timely manner. Cur-rently, he said, the wait time is about five times what it should be.

A big part of increasing readiness, Abrams said, involves adequate and predictable funding from Congress.

“Continuing resolutions crush us at the unit level,” he said. “We are unable on a monthly basis to adequately plan to support training and requisition repair parts for our fleet at a tempo we are training.”

Abrams admitted that the Army doesn’t have an adequate narrative about readiness to pres-ent to lawmakers. “We in the military intuitively know what readiness means but have been un-able to articulate it to the public. Everybody wants a ready force but we have a hard time describing it.”

Gen. Abrams: Soldiers must regain readiness mindset

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