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Veterans

captain queeg

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1. Traumatic brain injury is pretty common nowadays

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Sep 19, 2021, 03:43 PM

Sep 2021

Not s many killed due to all the armor, but being inside a vehicle that gets hit by an IED rattles the brain. I know a veteran who had been involved in 4 blasts. He wasn't a combat soldier, he was a medic. To talk to him you wouldn't really think there was anything wrong with him but he had a partial disability. I don't know the long term effects and I don't think the army really does either.

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30,177 Military Members Have Died by Suicide since 9/11. Why? [View all] douglas9 Sep 2021 OP

Traumatic brain injury is pretty common nowadays captain queeg Sep 2021 #1

Maybe this? NQAS Sep 2021 #2

Thank you, douglas9! Anon-C Sep 2021 #3

I was a civilian employee for the army. They had mandatory anti suicide training annually captain queeg Sep 2021 #4

Here is a good article DashOneBravo Oct 2021 #5