Resilience Training in a Population of Deployed Personnel Walter Carr Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland Devvon Bradley William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas Alan D. Ogle 66th Training Squadron, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas Stephanie E. Eonta Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland Bryan L. Pyle Fleet/Family Support Center, Ft. Meade, Maryland Patcho Santiago Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences The U.S. military has developed prophylactic interventions to mitigate effects from stress. The project reported is a first of its kind descriptive assessment of the delivery of resilience training in a deployed environment. The Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and an inventory of stress, morale, performance, and use of specific behaviors were administered before and after resilience training was implemented for all person- nel assigned to a military facility in Afghanistan. There was a small positive relation between resilient thinking and self-reported morale, but, despite the training, both resilient thinking and morale were observed to decline across the deployment period. This descriptive effort can provide some baseline for commanders’ expectations in implementation of resilience training. Keywords: resilience, military, training, deployment It should be expected that deployed military environments place normal healthy persons in stressful circumstances, including combat as well as a host of other conditions related to deployment (Hoge et al., 2004, 2002; Hosek, Kavanagh, & Miller, 2006). Deployment- related stress has been associated with an in- crease in negative outcomes, especially follow- ing deployment and when military personnel return to the homefront (Hoge et al., 2004). There are, however, individual differences in such outcomes, and factors that account for those individual differences are the subject of much investigation. Recently, there has been significant interest in identifying characteristics of individuals resilient to stressors such as those encountered on a military deployment, and in- stilling those characteristics in all deployed ser- Walter Carr, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland; Devvon Bradley, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas; Alan D. Ogle, 66th Training Squadron, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, Texas; Stephanie E. Eonta, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland; Bryan L. Pyle, Fleet/Family Support Center, Ft. Meade, Maryland; Patcho Santiago, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, Department of Defense, nor the U.S. Government. LCDR Carr, LTC Bradley, Maj Ogle, LT Pyle, and LCDR Santiago are military service members. This work was prepared as part of their official duties. Title 17 U.S.C. §105 provides that “Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Govern- ment.” Title 17 U.S.C. §101 defines a U.S. Government work as a work prepared by a military service member or employee of the U.S. Government as part of that person’s official duties. Correspondence concerning this article should be ad- dressed to Walter Carr, Psychiatry & Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Ave- nue, Silver Spring, MD 20910. E-mail: walter.s.carr .mil@mail.mil This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. Military Psychology In the public domain 2013, Vol. 25, No. 2, 148 –155 DOI: 10.1037/h0094956 148