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  • Airman For Life: Maintaining The Connection After Separation

    Every year, thousands of Airmen come at a crossroads in their military career as they face the realities of retirement, or separation, and anticipate the start of a new beginning. This phase of life is all too familiar for the 8,000 plus Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program veterans, currently

  • Fighting Through the Cure

    When someone is sick and doctors are required to run multiple tests to find out what the illness is, questions arise and the mind wanders. One word that many are scared to hear in a time like that is cancer. Of course, no one wants to be diagnosed with such a savage disease, but is the diagnosis the

  • Transforming Athletes to Ambassadors

    Healing comes in many forms during a person’s journey of recovery. For many warriors enrolled in the Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program, healing can present itself through adaptive sports as a form of rehabilitation. While the adaptive sports journey leads many to compete in a local or

  • Suicide Leaves Bruises: His Name is Brandon

    [Editor's Note: The hard topic of suicide is one that we here at the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program engage in every day. We hope this story will generate conversations and give you insight into the pain and misery a family feels when a loved one commits suicide.]Brandon James Myhre was only 20

  • AFW2 Live Facebook Events 27-30 October

    In 2003, Professor Patricia Kuhl, a co-director of the University of Washington’s Institute of Learning and Brain Sciences, published a study showing that babies were better able to learn new languages when spoken to in-person versus hearing it on a tape recorder. Part of this is due to the ability

  • Connectedness

    The Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) program is reaching more Airmen, and their families, than ever. Events like the Virtual CARE Week are drawing in people for two reasons; great information and the feeling of connectedness, knowing you are not alone. We try to empower warriors and their families

  • Caregiver Connections

    Fostering an environment of connectedness and finding ways to stay connected with each other, during this time of distancing, is something the Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program works towards every day. Not only for our Warriors, but their Caregivers too.AFW2 is a Department of Defense

  • AFW2 Live Facebook Events 19-23 October

    A 2016 article in Psychology Today entitled Connectedness: Are We Really Separate Individuals? addresses different kinds of connectedness, including the “empathic connection” of putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. When someone we know is in pain we “feel” that pain. When they are sad, we feel

  • AFW2 Live Facebook Events 13-16 October

    According to the Mental Health America web site, “71 percent of people surveyed turned to friends or family in times of stress.” These connections are a vital tool for humans as “social animals” to maintain a sense of balance and well-being. In October, the Air Force Wounded Warrior Program

  • Sports Fest Competition

    Everyone has had to change their lifestyle due to the physical distancing happening this year. This includes the Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program, and how they interact with their Warriors and families, to include our sports staff and coaches on how they continue the Warriors training and

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