How to help our service members with PTSD after deployment?

I hate to say it, but there is literally nothing we can do to completely eliminate incidents like this, to include soldier suicides, domestic violence directly related to post-deployment issues, and more.  The systems in place are valuable, and go a long way towards limiting said incidents.  But at the end of the day, people will always slip through the cracks, either by their own inability or unwillingness to recognize their issue and/or seek help, or due to the negligence of leaders and trained healthcare providers. 

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.

It may be true that we cannot totally eliminate incidents but my recent experiences seeking help with VA and their sorry excuse for mental healthcare has opened my eyes. The appointments are a month apart, the resident doctors are overworked and don't have the time to really do more than write an Rx and when you have an emergency the phone systems are useless. It is broken the way it is and needs a serious overhaul.

its getting better,but will take time.the people in washington dc are f- it up.i go to coatesville va the people there really care,the doctor i got dr kerr is really good and cares about us vets with ptsd hold on it will get better

I agree with you on that. But the DOD have to set up incentives for those who are or have been affected by Combat to seek treatment.