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Annotated Bibliography based on the research question,

“The Army’s Family Care Plan, is it a necessary policy and program or does it need to be

rescinded?”

Conaton, E.C. (2017). Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) number 1342.22, Military

Family Readiness. Executive Services Directorate. Retrieved from

http://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/

This Instruction manual for Military Family Readiness explains the responsibilities for

the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)), Assistant

Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (ASD(M&RA)), Director,

Transition to Veterans Program Office (TVPO), Assistant Secretary of Defense for

Health Affairs (ASD(HA)), Heads of the DoD Components, and Secretaries of the

Military Departments. These responsibilities are directed by the USD(P&R) DoD

Directive 5124.02, which directs their complete job description and duties of

responsibilities for their positions. The DoDI manual provides Policy requirements for

the DoD Personnel and their families, besides directing the purpose and applicability to

all personnel at all levels of the Defense Department and its affiliates.

Goodman, P. Turner, A. Agazio, J. Throop, M. Padden, D. Greiner, S. et al. (2013). Deployment

of military mothers: Supportive and nonsupportive military programs, processes, and

policies. Military Medicine, 178(7), 729-734. doi:10.7205/MILMED-D-12-00460

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This article gives research finds from women personnel that have deployed with serving

in the military. It discusses a minimal of supportive and non-supportive resources as

described by the persons interviewed for the research. It does talk about the family care

plan as a non-supportive for not facilitating deployments because if the care plan is

incomplete, “in that the information does not provide evidence of a safe and effective

care plan for the children.” (p 731). Some of the participants felt the care plans caused

issue for them since most of them found it hard to find adequate caregivers. They did

believe in the policy and that it is there to serve the Military and the Family members

both equally, which is the care of the children while the units have to deploy or conduct

mission related operations.

O’Keefe, G.B. Odierno, R.T. (2014). Army Command Policy Army Regulation (AR) 600-20.

Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and General USA Chief of Staff,

Headquarters, Department of the Army. Washington, DC. Retrieved from

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/AR.aspx.

The AR 600-20, is the overall Command Policy guidance regulation used for

responsibilities, directions, and instructions on numerous subjects providing guidance and

direction for command policies. Chapter 5, “Other Responsibilities of Command”,

paragraph 5 specifically give detailed instructions on the Family care plans ranging from

the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1 (DCS, G-1) to the individual service member that this AR

covers. It provides the necessary steps, paper work and forms required, time frames to

counsel, and deadlines to process paper work. The AR has guidance for the Commander

and Service members if they find difficulty gathering the required documents and allows
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for extensions to the time frames and deadlines. It explains consequences by way of the

counseling forms if the program is not completed. There is also in formation on how to

check if the Family care plans are current, working properly, and directives on

recertifying the plans in your Unit.

O’Keefe, G.B. Milley, M.A. (2016). Active Duty Enlisted Administrative Separations AR 635-

200. Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and General USA Chief of

Staff, Headquarters, Department of the Army. Washington, DC. Retrieved from

https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/AR.aspx.

AR for Active Duty Enlisted Administrative Separations details the major and majority of

the different types of separations that can be used by Commanders to discharge personnel

from active duty service. Chapter 5 “Separations for Convenience of the Government”,

explains the scope, characterization, description, and who has the authority to request or

sign separations. Family care plans for the most part is covered under section III “Other

Conveniences of the Government Separation Policies”, paragraph 8 “Involuntary

separation due to parenthood”, is a very small paragraph but it gives specific reason and

justification for a Commander to use this chapter as a means to separate a service

member from active duty if “parental obligations interfere with military duties.”. It

provides the process for separations, how to notify the service member of the procedures,

and which chapter and paragraph gives the Commander the authority to process the

separation actions.

Reagan, R. (1987). Executive Order (EO) 12606 The Family. The White House. Retrieved from

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/archives/speeches/1987/090287b.htm
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The EO is the foundation document that made Government departments create and

maintain Family Care Plan Policies, procedures, and regulations. The order took in to

account that families of government agencies needed to be properly cared for in case of

national emergencies and common daily work-related functions of the departments and

agencies supporting the United States government. This order gave Executive and

agencies the power to answer basic questions about families and to make policies in

accordance with all applicable laws. It is the foundation for Department of Defense

Family Care Plan Instructions regulations that all branches of the military had to use to

create their individual policies and procedures.

Rice, C. (2016). Army Family Care Plan Policy. Headquarters, Department of the Army G-1.

Retrieved from

http://dacowits.defense.gov/Portals/48/Documents/General%20Documents/RFI%20Docs/

Dec2016/USA%20RFI%207.pdf?ver=2016-12-04-233103-367

In LTC Rice’s presentation, she gives a basic over view of the policy that commanders at

all levels can use as a briefing tool. This presentation allows commanders at all levels to

give training to their leaders, subordinates, and personnel in their unit that needs to

complete a family care plan. It is the statistics for those who have been separated from

active military service that is the important part of the presentation that I will use as an

example. The presentation also gives the basic guidelines from DoDI 1342-19 and AR

600-20 for commanders to follow and the personnel that will be in the program.

Stanley, C., (2017). DoDI number 1342.19 ch1, Family Care Plans. Executive Services

Directorate. Retrieved from

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http://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodi/

This Instruction manual for Family Care Plans explains the responsibilities for the Under

Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD(P&R)), Assistant Secretary of

Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs (ASD(M&RA)), Heads of the DoD

Components, and Secretaries of the Military Departments with more detail on their

specific instructions. These responsibilities are directed by the USD(P&R) DoD

Directive 1342.22, which directs the duties of responsibilities for their positions. The

DoDI manual provides Policy instructions by establishing policy, assigns responsibilities,

and procedures of care for military family members of single parents, dual-member

couples, married custody or joint custody, or if their primarily responsible of a family

members. Provides applicability to all personnel at all levels of the Defense Department

and its Military subordinate commands, as per enclosure 3 and explicate instructions

under the “POLICY”.