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  • Heath Phillips, a U.S. Navy veteran, and a sexual assault survivor, shares his personal resilience story April 15, 2022, during Resilience Day at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Phillips was one of two guest speakers at the event and spoke about the importance of looking out for one another. (U.S. Space Force photo by Deanna Murano)

    “We need each of you”: SLD 45 hosts Resilience Day

    At some point in life, everyone will face a challenge. All of us will face stress. How we react to those challenges and that stress is key to overcoming adversity and fostering resiliency.
  • Retired Chief Master Sgt. Ruth Urbina, a U.S. Air Force Wounded Warrior program ambassador, shares her battle with post traumatic stress disorder with Airmen July 28, 2021, at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. Urbina served more than two decades in the communications career field. (U.S. Space Force photo by Joshua Conti)

    Wounded warriors share message of resiliency in Florida

    I did not know I got shot,” said the sergeant. “I thought a flare hit my legs.” He was on his second deployment in Afghanistan in July 2011 serving on a combat search and rescue team. His mission was to recover wounded service members. “Going out and getting shot at” was routine, he said, as his unit averaged eight missions a day. On the day a bullet tore through his legs inside an HH 60 Pave Hawk helicopter, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. August O’Niell, 414th Combat Training Squadron Detachment 1 flight chief in charge of ground operations at Davis-Monthan, Air Force Base, Arizona, said his world changed.
  • A graphic displaying ways to stay mentally fit during coronavirus disease 2019.

    Keeping resilient during COVID-19

    Life for service members and their families can feel like a whirlwind at times. Hectic work schedules, deployments, temporary duty assignments, permanent change of stations, maintaining a work/life balance and upholding the standards of the Armed Forces are just a few of the things placed upon military members and their family’s shoulders. Though
  • 1st Lt. Adam Kriete, 307th Air Control Squadron student, and his family spend time with one another at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Oct. 18, 2018, after being displaced from their home at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla. due to Hurricane Michael. In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, the Krietes relied on the Air Force and each other to overcome adversity.

    A port in the storm; the Kriete family’s odyssey from Tyndall AFB to Patrick AFB

    (This story is part one of four of 1st Lt. Adam Kriete, 337th Air Control Squadron student, and his family coming to Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. from Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.)  He thought it would be a Category 2, maybe a Category 3. Hurricane Michael was a Category 4 hurricane, displacing approximately 11,000 people from Tyndall AFB including
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