Vilseck unit soon to start PTSD forums

[unhappycamper]

Vilseck unit soon to start PTSD forums
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, February 15, 2008

VILSECK, Germany — Vilseck’s newly formed warrior transition unit will establish a forum for soldiers and spouses to talk about problems associated with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

The unit, known as a WTU, was formed in December and has 59 injured and wounded soldiers assigned to it. Most are from Vilseck’s 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, which deployed to Iraq last summer.

Joint Multinational Training Command chief Brig. Gen. David R. Hogg, who addressed WTU members during a town hall-style meeting Wednesday, said soldiers in the unit have only one mission — to get better.

The PTSD meetings — due to start in the next two weeks — will be for soldiers and spouses, he said.

“Sometimes you think you are the only person with this issue,” he said. “They (PTSD sufferers) can find out they are not the only person and it helps with the healing process.”


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=52496

[aldo]

1. Shooting expectant couples at checkpoints is hard on the soul.

Why don't officers stop giving that order? Noncombatants get killed at checkpoints in war zones all the time. Group therapy won't do anything. I heard DARPA monsters are working on drugs that will dull consciences. I guess they want the soldiers to be just like their officers.