Fort Hood Soldier Restoration Unit named Army’s finest

The Fort Hood Soldier Restoration Unit was lately chosen as the perfect SRU within the Army at an annual awards occasion, in accordance with a service launch.

The SRU was introduced the title on Dec. 9 on the Army Restoration Care Program Senior Management Summit at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

“This can be a token representing what our SRU has accomplished, and it’s no small feat to be the perfect SRU within the Army. It’s not one thing that we take calmly,” Col. Daniel Moore, commander of the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Heart at Ford Hood, mentioned within the launch. “Caring for our wounded warriors and returning them to obligation or helping them on to the subsequent part of their lives is completely yeoman’s work.”

Previously designated as Warrior Transition Units, the Army introduced in November 2019 the restructuring of the care program, which offers medical therapy and administrative assist to unwell and injured service members, to its present type as Soldier Restoration Units.

The latest win for Fort Hood comes after it was named because the runner-up for the award in 2021, the discharge mentioned, though a number of of the unit’s members did take residence first place prizes that 12 months, together with for SRU platoon sergeant, squad chief, transition coordinator, Army restoration care coordinator and chaplain of the 12 months. Lots of them repeated these first-place accomplishments once more this 12 months.

Comprised of civilian, active-duty and reserve troopers, the Fort Hood SRU is one among 15 such models nationwide. It was activated in 2007 and has since served greater than 55,000 troopers in restoration throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and central Texas areas.

Sgt. 1st Class Cheryl Mancill is among the many service members the Fort Hood program has assisted, in accordance with one other Army launch. After breaking each of her legs in a bike accident in July 2020, Mancill arrived on the Fort Hood SRU in March 2021, the place she started to deal with her traumatic harm by means of an aquatics program.

“They’re wonderful,” she mentioned. “All of us have one thing that wants (fixing), so we’re all handled accordingly (on the SRU). It’s not simply, ‘Hey, you’re simply one other soldier.’ And I adore it. If I don’t know what I would like, they attempt to determine it out.”

Conscious they had been up for the award once more, management within the Fort Hood unit took steps to be extra aggressive for the highest prize, together with conducting in-person interviews to pick employees members for the unit.

“We need to make sure that we get the best personnel in these positions, as a result of they maintain lots of people,” 1st Sgt. Patricia Pierson of Headquarters Firm SRU mentioned within the launch. “They should be resilient, mentally and bodily robust, and ready to have their very own work and residential life steadiness.”

“Caring for these troopers is just not a small job,” Pierson added. “You’re taking on their sickness, their harm and serving to their households. At any second, you will get a name to be on the highway or on the emergency room.”