TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01 - TRADOC - U.S. Army

TRADOC Pam 525-3-7-01Figure 7-1. The Army Family CovenantFuture persistent conflict will increase demands on Soldiers and their families. It is theactions of leaders that have the greatest impact on reducing military and family conflict,improving family satisfaction with military life, and enhancing unit readiness. 165The Soldier, the Family, and Unit ReadinessCurrent trends indicate that Army families in the future will become ever more like theircivilian counterparts. They will represent ethnic and structural diversity and face commonlystressful issues such as finances, child care, and physical and emotional challenges, and haveincreased access to family, spiritual resources, community services, and friends. Also, like theircivilian counterparts, recent societal trends indicate that military families are less tolerant of thedemands of work at the expense of family. 166 Yet, military families remain unique in that theywill continue to face the additional and required challenge of adapting to multiple deploymentsthat bring the stress of family separations, reunions, risk of death or injury, relocations, long workhours, and isolation. Future Army families will be similar to today’s Army families in that theywill likely face a comparable OPTEMPO characterized by frequent deployments andseparations. 167159