From a personal point of view, as a padre in the reserves, I've been called on a number of times to do notifications overseas, because I'm the guy who's long in the tooth and who's been around the longest. They look to me when such things have to be done.
In the last few years, I've done a couple of notifications of soldiers who have returned home but had some issues they needed to deal with. I had to go to families and knock on those doors. I would much rather do this and have programs in place and see people get better than visit families, knock on their doors, and tell them that their son or daughter is not coming home. That's why we do this.