Military Struggles With Response To PTSD
Dec. 26, 2008 CBS Evening News: Beneath A Brave Solider’s Suicide, Cracks In the Mental Health System
The Pentagon says 1 in 5 service members who come home from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress.
Some find their experiences too much to bear. There were 115 military suicides last year, and 93 through just August of this year.
The biggest obstacle to getting those numbers down may be the military culture itself, reports CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier.
First Sergeant Jeff McKinney was a model soldier, a newlywed, and a new father.
Now, his family says, he’s a casualty of war. Two wars really: the war in Iraq, where he served honorably, and the war within the military over how to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
“He needed help and nobody helped him,” Chrissy McKinney said. “And that’s the reason why he died.”
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If traveling, which I will be again, this weekend and New Years Day, and have your laptop with you, or have down time and just around at home, you might want to catch past episodes of the on line series ‘In Their Boots’. Wether you’ve watch the weekly episodes or didn’t know about it, you will find the series very informative.
Each week an episode of In Their Boots webcasts right here on the website.
Click any webcast below to see the full archived recording of the show.
Ain’t it?
/sarcasm off…
Thanks for the link. This series serves as a great answer to all the hype, action movies that serve as two hour long recruiting commercials, the propagation of the lie that war is a game, and the complete media blackout on it’s very real effects.