Camp Pendleton claims strides in treating injuries to body and mind
By MARK WALKER - mlwalker@nctimes.com Posted: January 30, 2010
There were a record 52 suicides among the Marine Corps' roughly 202,000 troops in 2009. The Corps recorded 48 suicides in 2008; 33 in 2007 and 25 in 2006.
He says the nightmares from the four roadside bomb attacks in Iraq are easing.
His memory is improving, so long as he uses a pattern to recall where things are. And the pain in his back is getting better.
But Camp Pendleton's Sgt. Kurtis Foster knows his days as a Marine are nearing an end.
"I can't stay in and do the things I wanted to do when I joined," the 24-year-old machine gunner and native of Oakhurst said last week. "I can't go back to the infantry."
Foster is one of nearly 100 Camp Pendleton Marines assigned to the Wounded Warrior Battalion West, established at the base in 2007 to treat troops injured in battle, training or off-base accidents who don't require long-term hospitalization.
Now fully staffed and about to open a major new facility, the battalion primarily treats troops with post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury.
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