For analysts, combat stress felt far from fight.
By Lolita C. Baldor - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday Mar 11, 2013 7:53:11 EDT
LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. — They may never come face to face with a Taliban insurgent, never dodge a roadside bomb or take fire, but they still may be responsible for taking lives or putting their own colleagues in mortal danger. And now the military has begun to grapple with the mental and emotional strains endured by these Air Force personnel.
I spent two years of this war looking at pictures and reading the reports of the day or so previous' IED events. It wasn't pretty, it was ugly, and now perhaps I can use it as a legal defense.
Color me conflicted on this. There is a danger of making something bigger out of this than it should be. Thinking here of the difference between how the US and Brits on one hand, vice the French and Germans on the other, handled combat stress casualties in WWI. Our approach served, in the end, to reinforce the behavior as it provided both an excuse *and* protection from consequences.
I'm not saying it's wrong to do this - I'm concerned about doing it right.
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Mar 12 2013, 11:05 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..