MSIJOC

Servicemembers and veterans severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan have inspired two new initiatives to help them and their families through difficult times. The first is a call center, with its title and phone number hard to memorize but worth the effort: the Military Severely Injured Joint Support Operations Center (MSIJOC) with "care managers" standing by at 1 888-774-1361 (24/7 Family Support). In addition Military.com has partnered with the MSIJOC to provide an online career center for severely injured servicemembers at http://www.military.com/support. A second initiative is traumatic injury insurance for the military. By Dec. 1, it will provide from $25,000 to $100,000 in financial help to service members or veterans injured severely. The payments will be retroactive, to Oct. 7, 2001, to cover members severely wounded
in Afghanistan or Iraq. More details can be found at http://www.military.com/Opinions/0,,Philpott_060105,00.html