How to help our service members with PTSD after deployment?
The Army has system in place for soldiers once they return
from deployment. We are required to attend a mandatory 7 days of reintegration
process upon boots back in the United States. In addition to the reintegration
process 90 days after returning from deployment soldiers are required to take
Post Deployment Health Reassessment. The problem is soldiers sometimes are
either too afraid to raise their hands for help, symptoms are delayed, or on
some cases slip through the cracks. Now we do not have the full back ground on
this soldier and the situation until that happens everyone will play the
guessing game.
You’re correct it does take longer than 7 days and a 20
minute survey we take 90 days after returning. There are some really good
systems in place. The problem is like I said before if the soldier does not
speak up in time there just gonna slip through the cracks. Also dont forget
this is not the first time we have had Green on Green incident, it has happen through
the existence of the military.
The only difference is that we live in a time on near-instantaneous world-wide media that has and often exercises the ability to project these situations into a national consciousness that was simply never possible in times past. You can lay money on the fact that these things have been happening ever since the dawn of organized warefare. It's only in the last few decades that it has become a widely visible problem.
Either way, I am sorry to say that it will never go away entirely, no matter what we do.
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