Deployment Transition Center

The U.S. Air Force Deployment Transition Center at Ramstein Air Base, Germany operates a continuing world-class
organization, en-route to redeployers' home station. Operation began in July 2010 as part of the overarching
resiliency education and training program assisting in the transition from deployment to home station.
Vision
To be the DoD’s Center of Excellence for returning warfighters by bridging positive combat and homefront
skillsets
Mission
To provide critical reintegration skills and decompression opportunities for redeployers.
Program Objectives
1. Rest: Provide a safe environment and transition time for redeployers to relax, recover, sleep,
and restore energy before returning to their families and in-garrison missions.
2. Reflect: Facilitate reflection on combat and operational experiences and provide strategies for
integration, including anticipating how to discuss experiences with family members, friends,
and coworkers.
3. Recreate: Provide a range of recreational activities to help service members transition from
a high intensity and control-oriented combat and operational environment to lower intensity
adaptive social interactions.
4. Reintegrate: Provide information and skills for managing combat and operational stress,
recognizing the need for treatment in self and others, as well as facilitating a smooth reintegration
with family and friends.
5. Recapture: Clarify purpose, values and goals by developing a supportive plan for reintegration.
6. Resources: Educate redeployers by providing information and handouts on available base and
community resources.
Priorities
1. Enhance People
2. Build Community
3. Flex and Adapt to Mission Needs
4. Conserve Resources