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Latest Reports, Information and findings:
"SERVE, SUPPORT, SIMPLIFY" The President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors: http://www.pccww.gov/
FINAL REPORT DRAFT JULY 24 EDIT of The President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors: http://www.pccww.gov/docs/Final/report_July 24.doc
Past Reports by Commissions, Task Forces, and Committees:
2007 Institute of Medicine. PTSD Compensation and Military Service. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11870&page=R1
Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health. http://www.ha.osd.mil/dhb/mhtf/MHTF-Report-Final.pdf
Institute of Medicine: A 21st Century System for Evaluating Veterans for Disability Benefits. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Available at
http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11885
President's Task Force Report: Returning Global War on Terror Heroes. Available at: http://www1.va.gov/taskforce/
Independent Review Group: Rehabilitative Care and Administrative Processes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and National Naval Medical Center.
(aka, the "West and Marsh Commission")
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34140.pdf
Iraq & War-Zone Psychiatric Casualties
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Media Reports and Articles:
Beyond Walter Reed: The Full Tragedy of Lessons Unlearned From Vietnam to Iraq PDF
University of Southern Mississippi
March 13, 2007
Does the widespread reaction to the recent expose at Walter Reed and the neglect of some of our nation’s physically wounded Iraq veterans indicate that our nation has had a wake-up call to what the full impact of war entails—and what is required to address it? As a Vietnam Veteran with a 25-year leadership career with the VA, please forgive my skepticism. The underlying institutional problems go far beyond any benefits from sacking high-ranking officials; cosmetic cover-up and pest control treatment at one military facility; and renewed time-limited Congressional oversight that eventually dissipates.
Vet Looking for Helicopter to Help Iraq Soldiers Recover
Veterans Today
August 11, 2007
The 58-year-old says the adrenaline rush from sky diving was a sort of
catharsis for post-traumatic stress disorder, the aftermath of war for
thousands of Veterans then and now. The Department of Veterans Affairs
reports PTSD affects nearly 18 percent of Iraq war Veterans.
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Author/vet counsels Soldiers on PTSD
Army Times
June 19, 2007
DALLAS — When America’s wounded come back from war, carried off airplanes and shuttled to military hospitals, no one understands better than Allen Clark what they will face in the coming months and years.
Troops’ mental health struggles
Washington Post
June 17, 2007
Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life.
Trauma and the Mind-Body Connection
Psychiatric Times
Phebe Tucker, MD and Elizabeth A. Foote, MD
June 01, 2007
(PTSD) occurs in approximately 8% of adults during their lifetime, with different trauma types associated with varying rates of illness.
Military Psychiatric-Care Overhaul Urged
Washington Post
June 18, 2007
Top officials in the Bush administration and on Capitol Hill said yesterday that the federal government must move quickly to revamp the nation's system for identifying and caring for military personnel with the invisible wounds of mental illness.
Vet group blasts PTSD care
Honolulu Advertiser
June 25, 2007
CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Marines returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder are reluctant to seek help for their condition and when they do, they are sometimes stigmatized by their leaders, a pair of investigators from a national Veterans advocacy group found.
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