Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker defends noncompliance on TBI tests calling it "no better than coin toss"

562,000 troops were tested once, before they left, but not after. Seems that the most important test would be for after deployment but this is the one not being done.

Military fails on brain-test follow-ups

By Gregg Zoroya - USA Today
Posted : Monday Jun 14, 2010 13:33:50 EDT

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has failed to comply with a congressional directive to give all troops tests before and after they serve in combat to measure their thinking abilities and uncover possible brain injuries, military records show.

More than 562,000 tests of troops taken before they deployed have not been re-administered on their return by military health officials, the records show. That means the Pentagon could be missing thousands of cases of brain injury, says Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., who helped write the 2008 order.

"This is a total failure," says Pascrell, co-chairman of the bipartisan Congressional Brain Injury Task Force. "We're failing to find TBI (traumatic brain injury) and post-traumatic stress disorder in an era when the military is trying to find and assist folks who need it."

Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker, the Army surgeon general, and other Army officials say the test is flawed and no better than a "coin flip."
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Military fails on brain-test follow ups