Dod Pulls Pd

[Berta]

http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfDEC07/nf122207-1.htm

Their estimates seem impossible -wonder if they will re-post the article.

[john999]

Berta

It is just the military still trying to justify discharging sick vets under the PD diagnosis. I know how this works and it is a rotten thing to do to a vet who is having emotional problems. I would not trust the DOD as far as I could throw them. Now that this Iraq thing seems to be slowing down they are going to want to get rid of all those PTSD victims and do it cheaply. In the waning days of Vietnam they did not even try to treat the drug addicted vets but kicked them out under PD. They send them to countries where drugs are so abundant like the Golden Triangle. The young troops get addicted through ignorance and then get kicked out with bad paper. It happened so often in Vietnam. Afghanistan is going to be the next big fiasco with opium and heroin being grown to excess in that country. The dope will find its way to the American bases. It will flow in cheaply and in quanity and the military will try and cover it up. If you admit to drug abuse you get a PD diagnosis.

[Pete53]

Looks like a blueprint for a cover up to me

[Ricky]

If I were any of the troops that have been courts-martialed, I would scream PD and blame it on the military for letting me in then sending me into a situation that they new mentally unstabled people were not to be placed in. Maybe their defense attorneys will pick up on this quickly. jmho

[yoggie2]

Man this suck! all those young men, like my self like other will walk the earth feeling gloom and doom not knowing why they just can't fix it or it go away with time. The government should feel shame. Set these soldiers out like that, the worse thing in the world is someone in that state of mind with a weapon thats train to kill and no direction, benefits is just part of the problem. I swear it looks like the military is the luckiest in the world in a population as large as ours and pick so many with personally disorders. Tell you the truth I think I liked it better when PTSD wasn't a house hold name....RC

[Ron II]

http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfDEC07/nf122207-1.htm

Their estimates seem impossible -wonder if they will re-post the article.

I know that many soldiers were discharged during Desert Storm for "personality disorder" as an expeditious mechanism to get rid of soldiers who were involved in misconduct and/or insubordination.

Not everyone (or even the majority)who receives a discharge for a personality disorder is suffering from PTSD. Just my humble opinion...

[Ricky]

not saying they all or the majority have PTSD. However, I do not feel they have a personality disorder either. I see civilians almost daily that do have personality disorders and about 90 percent of them are really messed up and you can spot that they have problems from a mile away. Now, if these young guys and gals all had PD then the doc's at the reception must have been really dumb. Even if you were allowed to just sit by and watch the pre-entrance medical exams you would be able to identify them. Now with that said what the hell does this say for our military. Do not get me wrong, I love my Army and will defend her to the end. However, it just ain't right if the military is letting these guys and gals enlist with such a disease. Good God, do you know how much money is spent on them just for the training received to get them to their first duty station? not to mention training received at their units, then to get them ready to deploy etc....... Now a majority of the guys and gals they are talking about are reserve and national guards. However, the same holds true for them. Their entire career is is spent training year round with this and that. If you were a decision maker would you allow one to sign on with a PD?

Now some people were just not cut out to be in the military. They do not suffer from a personality disorder - maybe an adjustment order or something like that if there is such a thing. They are not bad kids, just that the strict displine of the military makes them rebell etc... however, once again this is and would be spotted very early on most likely in basic as basic attempts to mentally strip you and rebuild you. So if they fall into this category does this mean that the service is saying yep they ain't gonna make it but lets use them for a deployment or two and then kick them to the curb. Now if the military is using this as a hurry up and get rid of them discharge it is more wrong that two boys making whoppie in the back of a 55 Chevy (I did not say that did I?) as it casts a wrong picture of guys and gals suffering from PTSD.

Bottom line is that something is seriously wrong here - something that needs a closer look. And as I said in my below post if I were a whoppi da doo defense attorny I would be watching this close and throw it back at them at the trial. jmho

Edited December 27, 2007 by Ricky