Department of Defense Strategy for Resilient and Healthy Defense Communities

The Department of Defense must recruit and retain a strong, healthy, and ready military force. Defense installations are at the core of the Service members’ military experience. They comprise built and natural spaces where our people live, work, train, raise their children, and spend time with their families.

Ensuring that these spaces are safe; appealing to current and prospective Service members, their families, and the civilian workforce; and supportive of their physical, emotional, and cognitive well-being is therefore a national security imperative. It is also the countries moral obligation to the people who defend its Nation.