Army Doing Crisis Intervention For Soldiers with PTSD

It is amazing what you can find in articles. They should have done this a long time ago considering crisis intervention teams started because of research begun 40 years ago on Vietnam Veterans with PTSD.

San Antonio Iraq War Veteran Surprises NPR David Green
Texas Public Radio
Eileen Pace
May 13, 2014

Many of us start our day listening to Morning Edition, and we depend on getting the world’s news from Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne, and David Greene.

But when Greene visited Texas Public Radio last week, he found out that often those listeners who are counting on him for the NPR perspective are very far from home.

It was a whirlwind around the TPR studios last week as we prepared for a visit from Greene and "Morning Edition" Executive Producer Tracy Wahl.

Then, to make a great visit from NPR folks even more meaningful, along came Victor Martinez.

This is what happened when Victor came into the office of TPR President Joyce Slocum, where Greene had been invited in for a special meeting.

“Victor, this is David Greene,” Slocum said.

“You’re David Greene?” Martinez said. “I saw you in the bathroom!”

Greene and the others in the room laughed and he said it was a great way to meet.

Martinez is a 26-year veteran who recently returned from Iraq, where he was assigned to the Army’s 785th Combat Operational Stress Control Unit, working crisis intervention with soldiers who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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