Fifteen months ago Mable Williams said goodbye to her husband. One week ago today, she and the couple's two children welcomed their hero, Master Sergeant Tony Williams, home. Before life can go back to normal for the Williams family, however, Tony Williams must complete an army mandated, 10 day reintegration program. It's a course every redeployed soldier has to go through ,and one Army Chaplain Richard Garvey says gives soldiers and their families the tools in which to reaclimate to life at home.

"They've been away in a more stressful environment, a more dangerous environment then what we experience on the home from and so the Army wants to be proactive instead of reactive in helping our soldiers to reintegrate and have a successful reunion when we get back home with our families," said Major Richard Garvey, Army Chaplin.

The program consists of a series of discussions focused on topics such as suicide awareness and prevention, communication, combat stress and what Garvey calls battle mind training.

"The skills that soldiers use and develop to be successful on the battlefield we look at those skills and how they can transition to become skills they can use on the home front here back with their families again. The stresses of these wars in my opinion it would probably be a little worse in some ways because it's the constant daily threat," said Garvey.

Tony and Mable Williams strongly believe in the lessons the army's reintegration courses convey. But, Tony Williams sees every day the stress a long deployment puts on young soldiers in newer relationships. For them, the process can literally save lives.

"You hear a lot of times kids they be on the phone yelling at their spouse but even if they yell it's not going to solve anything so you know we try to tell them to calm down and talk it out and try to work it out because it's going to be the only way they're going to get through it," said Williams.

Williams is close to completing the reintegration process and moving on with his life in the army. As for is feelings about finally being home?

"I tell you it's just a sense of euphoria, I'll tell you, because you know it's just a weight lifted off."