ptsd Yahoo Article On Distressed Soldiers

[68mustang]

The following article on the military keeping distressed soldiers in combat sites came out on Yahoo. If it is too political just delete. Having known many PTSD sufferers it is sad that this is being done.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_fea_afghan_combat_stress

[john999]

I do remember spending the last few months of my time in the Army after getting back from Vietnam helping to in-process recruits at Ft Lenardwood. I had access to their records and many of these guys did not even finish the 5th grade and yet were considered smart enough to be soldiers. How can people that can't even read or write in 20th century America be good soldiers? I said it before, but I think half of my fellow recruits at Ft Benning were petty criminals and were there because some judge had given them the choice of the Army or jail. What the army did was just draft hordes of guys and sort them out in basic. I do remember my induction physical. I don't even think we had a blood test. They just looked us over like you would look over cattle heading for the slaughter house. That is the difference between a draft army and a volunteer army. Waivers....we don't need no stinking waivers. I sort of support the draft. We were all treated like dog crap. I think there should be a univeral draft for both sexes. Sons and daughters of billionaires and slum kids get to rub shoulders. They never will again once they are out of the service. The only classless society in America is basic training in the army.