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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 years, 4 months agoOverwhelmed by the number of soldiers returning from war with mental problems, the Army is planning to hire at least 25 percent more psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
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TechnologyExpert
June 14, 2007, 11:09 p.m.A contract finalized this week but not yet announced calls for spending $33 million to add about 200 mental health professionals to help soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health needs, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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gamahuche
June 15, 2007, 12:47 a.m."Meanwhile, the White House has backed away from earlier threats to veto a spending bill containing $4 billion more than President Bush sought for veterans' health care.
Just last month, White House budget director Rob Portman pledged that Bush would veto bills from Congress that would break through Bush's budget caps."
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foksipayne
June 15, 2007, 1:02 a.m.It's about time they realize that sending someone into hell and back is dangerous to their mental health!
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gamahuche
June 15, 2007, 1:19 a.m.THE ABOVE IS A SPAM MESSAGE. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK!
Unbelievable cynicism to use this thread for such a selfish purpose.
I've just checked this "member's" participation and it consists SOLELY of 1 message to many threads, each of which contains the same link.
If someone knows how to get him/her banned that would seem like a good idea!
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MikeReardon
June 15, 2007, 2:58 a.m.Long wars always leave the military with political issues that everyone else wants to leave behind. The troops in the military are all committed to those still in the field. These problems are going to be returned to military bases back home and into the cities. They will need to gain the political skills to keep medical support for these extended problems as a political issues that can not be forgotten. The center of many new House and Senate candidates will be committed to those still in the field. Get ready.
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MntnWllm
June 15, 2007, 8:08 a.m.A friend from work recently said Bon Voyage to his son (24 yr old brave strong & skilled- I've known since he was a baby)...who is going BACK to Iraq...Marine Medic...because he fears for his comrades' saftey. I know I personally have been so worried everyday about this young man that it is driving ME to distraction, and I am only on the outer fringe. I hope we give the support deserved and needed to the Iraq participants and their families. No - more than hope...I DEMAND...as citizens, should we accept anything less?
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worthlesswhiteman
June 15, 2007, 8:53 a.m.I hope G.W. goes and sees one. He is insane and treats the armed service personnel as if they are trash. Meanwhile he invites the latinos over the boarder to fill the place of the trash he just put out.
Are you offended by my saying that the armed service personnel are trash? You shouldn't be because this is reality. Those poor kids were sent over there without adequate equipment (e.g., bullet proof vests, etc.) Is that not how you would treat trash?
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Lamalas
June 15, 2007, 8:59 a.m.I think that's hope has gone for US soldier, their familly and Iraq citizen long time ago.
The war is "finish" for more than 2 years and US Soldier and innocent citizen still continue to die avery day.
Since last week the count up to 3500 US solidiers who were killed in Iraq and very much more innocent citizens too.
What a shame that the war cause much more innocents victims than the 9/11 did...
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evelyna
June 15, 2007, 8:59 a.m.They send them over without adequate equipment because they want them to be killed. If they return they are a liability.
The gov. must pay their medical until they die, college and retirement benefits.
The gov. wants everyone putting money into the system not taking out.
Plenty of money to ****** away on the politicans who are really the biggest drain of all, not an asset.
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vor
June 15, 2007, 10:29 a.m.We see the 3,500 figure and we hear the comments from the Right about how low this figure is in relation to other death counts. Yet tens of thousands of soldiers are surviving this war with wounds that will never heal, mental and physical.
To change the subject slightly we recently had a soldier from my hometown who was killed in Iraq. At first it was hostile fire. Then it was non-hostile fire. Does that mean friendly fire? No. Then it was non-duty, non hostile fire. Then we learned it was a head wound. In other words the kid shot himself in the head. But the army still does not say this. His death is decribed simply as a non-hostile incident. I couldn't help wondering how his family must have felt.
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NicholasDonovan
June 15, 2007, 12:10 p.m.Actually this should have been done years ago. As a student physician and a combat veteran, I can say there is a challenge in adapting to a society for which your job may or may not have a direct equivalent (i.e., infantry platoon, special ops personnel etc.)
Often, there is little if any transitional time and it's hard as hell to get into a civilian mode of thinking.
Those of my fellow combat veterans will attest, besides the PTSD, you build up a rage and resentment toward both systems.
You have resentment toward the civilian system that seems hopelessly undisciplined and unorganized and resentment toward the military for not preparing you for the difference.
You feel guilty that you made it back and your friends did not and it compounds everything else.
Anyone who doubts the huge number of homeless vets, (of which I have been one) need only go to Virginia or DC and look at all of our homeless vets.
Some thanks they get from the Washington Bureaucrats.
Cheers,
Nick
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Shirtless
June 15, 2007, 12:15 p.m.Look at the bright side. Apparently, the Army is no longer following the General Patton approach to mental illness.
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Gotitright
June 15, 2007, 4:50 p.m.I can safely say that the vast majority of men and women that serve our country do not do so in order to become the poster victoms for liberals. They may need help, but they don't need your help and unlike you they love this country. This blog has more pitty for the scum we are fighting. We addressed Abu Garab and a long time ago you losers!
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hsaleem
June 15, 2007, 5:35 p.m.Finally there is something for the poor people fighting for nothing but Mr. B's oil companies.
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bubba2
June 15, 2007, 10:38 p.m."The number of (mental health workers) that was adequate for a peacetime military is not adequate for a nation that's been at war ..."
Duh ... it only took them FOUR years to figure that out?
The way our government is treating our veterans, the people who have risked their lives to serve this country - and especially in Iraq - is scandalous, immoral, and unconscionable.
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Brimstone33
June 16, 2007, 8:41 a.m."At the time that the war began, I don't think anybody anticipated how long it would be going on,"
You think she actually said that with a straight face?
PTSD is becoming the Gulf War Syndrome of this decade. Not saying that it does not exist or that there are not soldiers who need help with it. I'm saying that there are a whole lot of guys who are gonna jump on this band wagon just cause they can. And clog up the system for those who do need treatment.
"OF COURSE I have PTSD...I was in Operation Iraqi Freedom!!!"
Eric Berne calls this game "Wooden Leg" in his classic "Games People Play".
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