Army Builds Child Development Centers

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Army Builds Child Development Centers
Army News Service | J.D. Leipold | February 07, 2008

WASHINGTON - Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth O. Preston told Congress today that 22 new child development centers will be built this year across the Army, adding spaces for more than 15,000 children by September 2009.

In his prepared statement to the House Committee on Appropriations' subcommittee on military quality of life and veterans affairs, Preston also said the Army was about halfway through its largest organization change since World War II.

He addressed the latest in personal and unit equipment for forward-deployed Soldiers; continuous training in improvised explosive device defeat, recruiting/retention efforts, the Army Soldier-Family Action Plan and housing infrastructure and services modernization.

Referring to Army childcare and Youth Services programs as an "immeasurable force multiplier, Preston said the program "continues to be mission essential for our Soldiers and Families to help in reducing the conflict between their responsibilities as parents and their mission as Soldiers."

Preston said 48 percent of deployed Soldiers have children under age 2 and to assist those Soldiers and their Families with childcare costs and spaces, the Army would be constructing more permanent child development.


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