The USO of Wisconsin is pleased to announce the third year of a special partnership with the Milwaukee Brewers and Brewers Community Foundation, Inc. and a program designed to honor active military personnel and their families at Miller Park. Beginning with the April 5, 2010 game and continuing through the September 26, 2010 game – a total of 81 games – pitcher Jeff Suppan, in partnership with the Milwaukee Brewers and Brewers Community Foundation Inc., will donate four excellent Field Level seats behind Home Plate for use by active military and their families. In 2008, these seats were specially outfitted with camouflage colors as a tribute to our service men and women and they have come to be known as the “Soup‟s Troops” seats. mailto:soups@usowisconsin.org

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A program of North Central Area Health Education Center in partnership with Northcentral Technical College. 

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Cynthia Rasmussen, RN, MSN, CANP, PN, Director Psychological Health, and Sexual Assault Response Coordinator will provide an overview of service member/veteran and family reintegration issues with the goal of informing communities, families, service members, employers, and health care providers of ways to support and assist in reintegration. She will describe differences between warrior skills and home skills together with a review of Combat Operational Stress Reaction, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury and other Behavioral Health issues. 

LTC Rasmussen is an Adult Nurse Practitioner currently serving in the Army Reserve as a Mental Health Nurse in her fifth year, mobilized to support the Global War on Terrorism. 

She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Nursing from Marquette University. She has represented the Department of Veterans’ Affairs at the National Polytrauma Convention, testified before the Senate Committee on Veteran’s affairs, and presented at numerous military and civilian organizations throughout the country.

Join us to learn more about the challenges people face who have served in the military as they return home.

Thursday, March 18, 2010
12:30 to 3:00 pm (registration check-in starts at 11:45)
at Northcentral Technical College

Room E101, Main Building
1000 W. Campus Dr., Wausau, WI
Cost is $35 for General Registration

$20 for Students with ID

Military Veterans are invited to attend at NO COST as our honored guests.
.2 CEU (2 hours) of UW-Extension Continuing Education Units will be awarded on request for full participation.

 To register and for program information go to, https://www.ahecmanager.org/nahec/CurrentEvents.asp.

 For additional assistance contact Bobbie Kolehouse at bkolehouse@nahec-wi.org or 715.340.9111.

 Homecoming: Understanding Emotional and Physical Issues of Veteran Reintegration  is a presentation of the North Central Wisconsin Area Health Education Center, affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, in partnership with Northcentral Technical College.

In May of 2010, Vietnam Veterans and their families are invited to a special Welcome Home celebration at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. The big event will include several days of concerts and reunions, and exhibits including The Moving Wall™.

During the showcase event at Lambeau Field on May 22 we will remember those who did not return from combat with music, readings, and a preview of the Wisconsin Public Television documentary, Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories.

The intention of the event is to provide Vietnam veterans with the Welcome Home that which was denied them 40 years ago. In this effort, Wisconsin Public Television, the Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Department of Veterans Affairs became partners in the Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories Project. But for the effort to create the event called LZ Lambeau, the partners are joined by the Green Bay Packers, the City of Green Bay, the State of Wisconsin, several of Wisconsin’s Indian Nations, and a growing group of veterans’ organizations.

Designed by the veterans and veterans service organizations, Wisconsin’s Vietnam War veterans and Vietnam Era veterans, and all their families, are invited to a weekend of activities that will include a motorcycle ride across the state from La Crosse to Green Bay, concerts, The Moving Wall™ exhibit, Vietnam War military exhibits, photo exhibits, vehicle and helicopter displays, and social get-togethers.

The Welcome Home Weekend will culminate with the veterans and their families filling Lambeau Field for an official Memorial Ceremony for their fallen colleagues. This presentation will feature music and spoken word performances, and screenings of excerpts from the Wisconsin Vietnam War Stories documentary on the Tundravision.

A special outreach effort is underway to encourage the participation of the families of the more than 1,200 Wisconsinites who did not return from the war, and the families of those returned veterans who did not live long enough to be welcomed home.

This event, certain to attract nation-wide attention, is a chance for our veterans to finally be able to take public pride in their service, and to receive the appreciation and recognition they deserve.