"We're soldiers caring for our own," said Lt. Col. Gary Travis, the unit commander at Fort Knox.
Fort Knox improves treatments
BOOSTS DISCHARGE PREPARATION, AID FOR WOUNDED
By Bruce Schreiner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT KNOX --Staff Sgt. Gerald Gonzalez has seen plenty of changes in a special unit for wounded soldiers since arriving at Fort Knox last summer with injuries from a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Barracks at the Army post in Central Kentucky are being renovated for soldiers placed in the "warrior transition unit." Staffing has been beefed up to help soldiers heal. And an assistance center geared toward the wounded troops and their families has opened.
"It's a lot better now," said Gonzalez, who suffers from a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder since being wounded last May while helping escort a military convoy.
Still, he said, Army efforts to specially tend to the wounded soldiers remain "a work in progress."
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There is a lot of change in the Army. They care wounded soldiers. They do a lot of change.
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aaron133
Knox Leon
They are doing more now than they have done but there is a lot more work to do. The suicide rate and attempted suicide rate has gone up every year. There is no need to have more die after combat than during it. When this happens, it is our fault we allowed it.
ReplyDeleteWe need to do a lot more but this is a good start. What's being done at Fort Knox gives me more hope we will get there.