GATES/OBAMA PROGRAMS LOWER TOLL
In today’s Washington Post there is an article outlining the present state of Army suicides and a related study on veteran’s disorders. The site is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071603235.html?hpid=sec-health
Here is the same set of issues from an article in today’s New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/health/views/17vets.html?scp=2&sq=veterans&st=nyt
There are some interesting statistics in the article as found by the researchers. For instance, 37% of all vets from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking treatment at D.V.A. clinics and hospitals are being diagnosed with mental health problems and this is higher than DoD expected.
Do you think it could be because these young people were sent to fight a senseless set of multiple wars with frequent and dangerous combat deployments to protect an uninterested and uninvolved American population from a non-existent immediate threat of harm that might come from a clutch of scattered and disunified westeren Asian Bedouins who live more in the 11th Century than in the 21st? Just a thought. I am just thinking out loud here!
CWO3 Tom Barnes, USCG (Ret.)
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