Wounded U.S. troops find sympathetic ear (Landstuhl, Germany)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.iht.com/articles/117135.html

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Since the war began, the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, as the hospital is known, has treated 7,714 soldiers, 937 of them for combat injuries. They arrive at the nearby Ramstein Air Base on military transport planes, round the clock, at a rate of more than 30 a day.

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The days are long and grinding, with setbacks like the death on Thursday of one of the soldiers from the helicopter, Sergeant Paul Fisher.

A National Guardsman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Fisher, 39, had been transferred to a German hospital near Saarbrücken because his wounds were especially grave.

Only three other soldiers from Iraq have died while in Germany, a statistic of which people here are quietly proud.

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For Cornum, the toughest battle is bureaucratic: she needs more doctors and nurses.

While the army and air force have assigned 340 doctors, nurses, technicians and chaplains from reserve units to augment the medical staff of 1,800, their tours run out in February.

"You can't work people 60 hours a week forever," she said.

[Hobarticus]

1. Even non-combatants are getting the shaft...

God bless 'em, regardless.

[Don_G]

2. Everyone Is Getting The Shaft Under Dimbo

I wonder if the Pentagon has thought about replacements yet?

[this_side_up]

3. Since outsourcing is

the current fad, why can't (or won't) the Pentagon/VA
outsource the vets medical care?

Both in Europe and here at home - Ft Stewart GA
and the base in Kentucky and any others that are not
equipped to deal with the injured.

The ones already back here, why can't their medical
care be outsourced to their private doctor/hospital/therapists
and surgeons?

[Donna Zen]

4. Outsourcing

As in send them to China and India?

Bad joke, yes, but not as bad as what is happening to people under bush. For christ sake, these are wounded human beings. People who are suffering while some whisle ass plays with decks of Saddam cards, and yammers "bring 'em on."

Even god cannot forgive the masters of war.

[leetrisck]

5. Cornum was a POW in the first Gulf War

I admire her greatly. Saw her interviewed the other day about the wounded.