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Here is an article that caught my eye, and reminds from whence I came. I worked with the Teams and had much higher access to mental health than the rest of the military. The mental health stigma is greater in the military than civilians, but in SpecFor, it is generally less as everyone goes into the see the shrink after a deployment. So there are lots of people coming and going so it doesn't sound that weird to be going into a PDoc or TDoc. At one of my jobs, I worked a command that had over 65% of all Special Forces deaths in the entire military... at one command. I went to so many funerals, and it was very sobering. I knew several that fell. A few others took their own lives, and they were honored just like if they fell in battle, their wounds just took longer to kill them. Once a year on a special anniversary date for the command, the names of every person that was killed as read at a memorial. The command funded for the family to come to the ceremony from anywhere on the planet. Very sad. Also, a foundation would pay off their house and pay for the children's college costs. The teams also deploy with dogs ("hair missiles"), and when they died in battle, they were treated the same with a memorial, name reading and their name etched in stone.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/09/18/mental-health-care-is-the-key-to-keeping-spec-ops-forces-ready-for-the-next-fight/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB:%20Trump:%20There%20are%20many%20options%20short%20of%20war%20with%20Iran&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief
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Good Thursday to you!I've been watching a really long trial on Youtube these last couple of nights and will finish tomorrowHopefully I'll be in the land of nod soon and I hope my peeps are having sweet dreams followed by a great daySending hugs...xo
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Hey all, i know its been quite awhile since i posted on here. Its been a summer all right. Its been something else........... You know how they say not to open the can of worms? Well a few months ago i decided to find out what my due date would have been for my first baby, the one conceived by r***. My baby would have been due on March 4th of 2006. They would be 20 years old. I was R**** on June...
Do you hear any good news about PTSD care for my guys, too?
This is a great article and I hear you to Muji a prison riot would be another horror
The pooches are always great IMHO......xo
A prison riot would be very traumatizing. Many of the inmates know they will never get out so there is nothing to lose in more killing. Hurting the guards would be a great status symbol for them. It is like you are in combat having to watch your back every day.
My city is the poorest city in my state, so volunteer service in the military is higher here than in some others. The factories closed in my area, but the state built a maximum security prison after that. That's why my community college started teaching career courses for corrections officers and my buddies got hired last year when they retired after finishing their 20.
I only have been inside the state maximum security prison once where they worked every day for 20 years. I was hired to translate and mediate for a Salvadoran gang leader from MST-13, a real tough guy. He was causing them lots of trouble, as you can imagine a guy with that kind of gang power could in a prison.
After a couple of visits translating for him, we got the issue resolved. He was under death threats in general population, probably in response to those he himself had made to others. We got him transferred out to another prison elsewhere in the state, and general population calmed down again.
But calm is a relative word. During the time I was in there translating, the place was loud all the time. It was like standing all day next to a jet airplane on the tarmac of an airport. The din from screaming and shouting rage never stopped day or night. That alone would be enough to cause a person PTSD. It sure triggered mine.
And then they went through that 3 day riot on top of that. These guys are not soft in any way, but there's no way they don't have PTSD. Yet here they are, after retirement still preparing future officers at my community college.
Thanks for giving me the chance to sing their praises, Thor. I don't mean to hijack the thread you started. I'm just glad folks who served abroad and serve at home may be getting their due they earned from the government after their service.