PTSD Support: PTSD given mis-diagnosis by military - [helping to reduce the cost for VA treatment and care-(RN)] (Army Times ~ May 04, 2007)
After several solders came forward claiming they were discharged for personality disorders but diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, officials at Fort Carson, Colo., say statistics show 56 of the 276 soldiers discharged with personally disorders in fact had PTSD. But officials say those PTSD cases were mild to moderate and the soldiers were discharged because of personality disorder issues. Fort Carson soldiers have accused Army officials of everything from deploying them to Iraq with brain injuries to punishing them for behavior related to their combat injuries.
But officials say those PTSD cases were mild to moderate and the soldiers were discharged because of personality disorder issues.
Fort Carson soldiers have accused Army officials of everything from deploying them to Iraq with brain injuries to punishing them for behavior related to their combat injuries.
This is what war does: you go and break another country and in the process twist and break your own people that you enlist to do the job, and then when you bring them back you just discard them and leave them to fend for themselves. Woo hoo.
Support your troops - don't have any! Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
As for the impact of distressed soldiers upon civil society, I think you'll find that polticians don't live there either. Although we dumb schmucks imagine that, in a democracy, we employ polticians; their attitude is very different. They are above us and we are merely pawns in their games to be gamed and misled, but otherwise keep quiet. keep to the Fen Causeway
In this, Irael is worth emulating, but i think most people would prefer their militaries weren't involved in the sort of politically expedient aggressions the West seems to increasingly favour these days. After all, it's a hard sell to say your son died "so's X could get elected" or "Y could get a milllion euro dividend bonus" keep to the Fen Causeway
