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In the past decade, U.S. military families have experienced extreme stress, as U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have experienced extended and repeated deployments. As a result, U.S. policymakers and Department of Defense leadership have placed an emphasis on family readiness for deployment and other military-related stressors. However, family readiness is not a well-understood construct. The Deployment Life Study was designed to provide a deeper understanding of family readiness and to address the sources of readiness among military families. It is a longitudinal study of military families over the course of a full deployment cycle--predeployment, during deployment, and postdeployment. Over the course of three years, the study will follow 2,724 families from each service and component, interviewing service members, their spouses, and one child between the ages of 11 and 17 in each family (if applicable) every four months. Baseline data are weighted to be representative of married service members who were eligible to deploy sometime between June 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012. This report describes the Deployment Life Study theoretical model; the content of the baseline assessment; the design and procedures associated with data collection, sampling and recruiting procedures; and the baseline sample of military families.

Families of military personnel --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Research --- Military families --- Families --- Soldiers --- Longitudinal studies.

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Veterans --- Families of military personnel --- Mental health services --- Military families --- Families --- Soldiers --- Combat veterans --- Ex-military personnel --- Ex-service men --- Military veterans --- Returning veterans --- Vets (Veterans) --- War veterans --- Armed Forces --- Retired military personnel

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"This final overarching report in a series documents research and recommendations RAND offered to the Air Force to help strengthen the development of a new office responsible for monitoring and promoting resilience among Air Force Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. Efforts to boost resilience have become an important military response to suicide and other markers of distress and poor health. The report reviews the concepts and measures of resilience, resilience factors, hardiness and flourishing. It describes how resilience and the military's Total Force Fitness concepts are related. The report brings together highlights from the eight companion reports on each Total Force Fitness domain and characterizes types of Air Force data that could be used to track resilience."-- Provided on the publisher's website.

Families of military personnel --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Military life. --- United States. --- Airmen --- Mental health. --- Health and hygiene. --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force)

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This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force family members. It examines the relationship between physical fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that address work-related physical fitness and health-related physical fitness. Supporting or increasing the levels of physical fitness identified in this report may facilitate resilience and can protect Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families from the negative effects of stress. The report also reviews interventions designed to promote physical fitness applicable at the individual, unit, family, and community levels.

Resilience (Personality trait) --- Families of military personnel --- Physical fitness --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects. --- United States. --- Airmen --- Civilian employees --- Military families --- Families --- Soldiers --- Human resilience --- Resiliency (Personality trait) --- Personality --- AF (Air force) --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF (Air force)

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This report examines the relationship between medical fitness and resilience, using key constructs found in the scientific literature that address preventive care, presence and management of injuries and chronic conditions, and health care access.

Families of military personnel -- Health and hygiene -- United States. --- Medicine, Military -- United States. --- Resilience (Personality trait) -- Case studies. --- United States. Air Force -- Airmen -- Health and hygiene. --- United States. Air Force -- Civilian employees -- Health and hygiene. --- Medicine, Military --- Families of military personnel --- Resilience (Personality trait) --- Occupational Groups --- Behavioral Symptoms --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Health --- Psychophysiology --- Medicine --- Human Activities --- Health Occupations --- Population Characteristics --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Behavior --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Persons --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health Care --- Named Groups --- Military Medicine --- Resilience, Psychological --- Military Personnel --- Physical Fitness --- Stress, Psychological --- Social Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Military & Naval Medicine --- Psychology --- Health and hygiene --- Case studies --- Medical care --- United States. --- Airmen --- Health and hygiene. --- Medical care. --- Civilian employees --- Human resilience --- Resiliency (Personality trait) --- Military families --- AF --- Air Force (U.S.) --- U.S.A.F. --- United States Air Force --- US Air Force --- USAF --- Personality --- Families --- Soldiers --- AF (Air force) --- U.S.A.F. (Air force) --- USAF (Air force)