The Army is pledging 1.4 billion dollars to support and aid soldiers' families, in a ceremony to be held at Ft. Benning on Wednesday.
Calling it an “Army Family Covenant,” the assistance will be used to bolster free child-care hours for spouses of deployed soldiers, offer free youth sports programs, build new on-post child-care centers, barracks and other facilities.
Senior Ft. Benning officials will take part in the ceremony, along with post garrison commander, Col. Keith Lovejoy. Lovejoy says of the program:
"...we’re putting money toward programs that will truly impact families, because the Army now recognizes, now fully understands that this is an overall readiness issue. The Army understands the impact the family here has on the mission over there.”Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey announced the program earlier this month, and said that such ceremonies will be held at other army facilities.
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