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Survivor Outreach Services (SOS) is an Army-wide program that provides dedicated and comprehensive support services to survivors of deceased Soldiers. The Objectives are to: (a) Connect and link Survivors to the Army for as long as they desire, (b) Provide enhanced access to all entitled benefits for Survivors, to include assistance with the management of lifelong benefit transition milestones and (c) Leverage non-profit organizations to support Survivors. The SOS Support Coordinator serves as the long-term support advocate for Survivors and is responsible for service delivery. The SOS Financial Counselor provides assistance to Survivors through investment and estate planning education. Mrs. Madhya “Maddie” Husta, SOS Support Coordinator and Mr. Rudy Argüello, SOS Financial Counselor. Maddie grew up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. As a senior in Tegucigalpa High School, she earned an exchange scholarship spending a year as an exchange student in Monterey, California. Upon her return to Honduras, she studied undergraduate and graduate level psychology and became a licensed practitioner. Later in her career, she explored Educational Psychology working in the private school system teaching bilingual students in grade school and high school. Maddie is a Navy wife, married to Pete Husta, the Fourth Fleet Liaison Officer at USSOUTHCOM. Maddie has worked in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility for several years, serving in Honduras, Colombia and Cuba. She comes to us from the Naval Station at Guantánamo Bay, where she supported families of all military branches. Her work in Guantanamo included the Fleet and Family Support Center as the Life Skills Educator teaching
anger and stress management, parenting, couple’s communication, and loss and grief. She was the Cuban Community Assistance Program Manager running the only elder care program in the Department of Defense. In this capacity, she managed a 24/7 service running three assisted living facilities and providing general advocacy for the 44 Cuban families residing aboard the Naval Station. These families are those who chose to remain employed aboard the Naval Station following the 1959 Castro-led revolution. In her free time Maddie enjoys golf, painting, and home renovations. Our new Financial Counselor, Mr. Rudy Alexander Argüello, is a graduate of Florida International University. He brings practical experience in banking, debt collection, loan management, insurance, investment and financial planning. Having worked in many different areas of the private sector financial services industry, he provides comprehensive knowledge and experience to protect, serve and guide families towards financial independence. His professional experience includes work at Mass Mutual Life Insurance, Pratt Financial Group, Nationwide Credit and Wachovia Bank NA. Aside from his work in the financial services industry he has also been extremely active in the community. He provides after school technical and musical direction for high school marching bands and has worked with Spectra, a non-profit drug/sexual awareness organization based at FIU. In his spare time he enjoys writing and performing jazz tunes as a saxophonist. He is a fan of both American Football and Soccer though he prefers to participate rather than be a spectator.