Air Force spouse testifies on military families with special needs

Witnesses testify before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel in Washington, D.C., June 21, 2012. From the left are Dr. Karen Guice, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs and principal deputy director of the TRICARE Management Activity; Dr. Rebecca Posante, the deputy director of the Department of Defense Office of Community Support for Military Families with Special Needs; Dr. Vera Tait, the associate executive director of the Department of Community and Specialty Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics; Jeremy Hilton, a military spouse, veteran and military family advocate; Dr. Geraldine Dawson, the chief science officer for Autism Speaks and a professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and John O'Brien, the director of healthcare and insurance with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Hilton, who is a stay-at-home parent and married to Lt. Col. Renae Hilton, is the Military Spouse of the Year for 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash)