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Monday, February 4, 2008

PTSD:Eugene "Doc" Cherry brought the war home from Iraq

Eugene "Doc" Cherry brought the war home

VFA News Analysis: February 4, 2008
by Jason Knobloch on Feb 4, 2008
The Chicago Tribune tells the story of Spc. 4 Eugene “Doc” Cherry, an Army medic who served in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division and returned home with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Unfortunately, Cherry’s experiences are ones that VFA has seen many, many times. Cursory exposure to the psychiatrist in the field, long waits for appointments back in America, commanders making it next to impossible for servicemembers with mental injuries to receive help, going AWOL: this is a pattern that affects more and more servicemembers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their numbers will keep growing until the well-intentioned pronouncements about the military treating mental injuries as seriously as it does physical injuries makes its way into the heads of combatant commanders.
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http://www.veteransforamerica.org/2008/02/04/vfa-news-analysis-february-4-2008/

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