Psychiatric/ Behavioral Health Nurse Awards

See also: U.S. Navy Behavioral Health Nurse Awards


Captain John Smith distinguished himself in the performance of outstanding service as Superintendent, Medical Combat Stress Control Detachment, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, Bargram Air Field, Afghanistan. Captain Smith provided superb leadership to 13 forward deployed combat stress teams operating across 125,000 square kilometers of highly kinetic battlespace, delivering support to more than 60,000 warfighters at 66 forward operating locations. He provided outstanding management of Detachment operations, including oversight of 250 outside-the-wire missions and management of $155,000 in material assets. As the resource manager, he completed a 100% inventory of TPE and recouped $17,000 in equipment resulting in redistribution of assets to fill critical shortages at Craig Joint Theater Hospital and CSC locations throughout RC-East. He provided oversight, training, and management for his teams as they delivered stress management and resiliency classes to 5,125 personnel, traumatic event interventions to 1,122 service members, 89 commander directed evaluations, 179 special duty evaluations, and 2,200 consultations to unit leaders from squad to division level. Providing patient evaluations and interventions as well as leadership, he was integral to the CSC Detachment's all-time highest performance of 50,000 individual CSC contacts, including 12,000 patient treatment sessions and 35,000 help-in-place contacts supporting service members at the front lines. Captain Smith led from the front, executing 12 leadership battlefield circulation missions, traveling 30 days outside-the-wire and ensuring successful CSC operations, with no staff casualties, to universally high praise from supported task forces and unit commanders. Through his dedication to mission execution the CSC Detachment achieved an exceptional overall treatment success rate of 99% of service members returned to duty, limiting psychiatric losses from theater to the lowest in the OEF area of operations. Captain Smith led his personnel to excellence, with 11 Detachment members recognized as top performers at the Task Force Med-E and 455th Air Expeditionary Wing levels.



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