Monkeyman
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Mon Mar-12-07 08:36 PM
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VA's Mental Health Report & Gen. Kiley Resigns |
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Run time: 03:51
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcsm6z09UU8
Posted on YouTube: March 13, 2007
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Posted on DU: March 13, 2007
By DU Member: Monkeyman
Views on DU: 689 | This is only going to get worse Brothers and Sisters We Need to Bring them Home and Treat them Now
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Mon Mar-12-07 09:23 PM
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Monkeyman
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Mon Mar-12-07 09:28 PM
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2. There is a hell of allot of stories out there |
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Bush, DOD , VA should and must face the people some time on this
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Mon Mar-12-07 10:10 PM
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but these people haven't face up to anything since Tet of '68, and me and you or at least me I'm 60 yrs old and on my last leg of this journey, and the more of us (Nam Vets) that die the less the VA has to face up to,,,,,
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Mon Mar-12-07 10:14 PM
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Mon Mar-12-07 11:15 PM
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5. Fresh Air report on misuse of psychotropic drugs on soldiers in Iraq/Afghanistan |
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Interviews sometimes resulting in suicidal/homocidal side effects. I couldn't get the link to work but it was on NPR's "Fresh Air" today (that's Monday).
Journalists Document Military Mental-Health Failings
Web Resources Courant.com - Mentally Unfit Soldiers Fresh Air from WHYY, March 12, 2007 · Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant have been awarded the George Polk Award for their series from May on flaws in the military's mental health system: Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight.
Their reporting found that troops sent on deployment are, for the most part, not getting mental health evaluations, even though they are mandated by Congress.
Chedekel and Kauffman reported that the military is relying on psychotropic medications to keep service members in combat, and that soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are being sent back into battle for multiple tours of duty.
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Mon Mar-12-07 11:25 PM
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6. They did a great report |
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Tue Mar-13-07 08:57 AM
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Just go to Podcasts > NPR > Fresh Air. It's the last podcast listed.
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