The main idea of this article is that the government wants to find more useful ways of helping PTSD patients. They need to reexamine the resources and methods used in the operation of helping the patients.
What's helpful about this information is that they use non-consisting methods that do not help soldiers, but drastically reverses the level of care needed towards that specific personnel.
This article helps my research in a way because it show's the positive and negatives of certain Army Medical Centers. For instance, Madigan Army Medical Center located on Fort Louis are finding more effective ways of helping PTSD.
AGENCY GROUP, 0. (n.d). ARMY LOOKS TO ENSURE CONSISTENT PTSD DIAGNOSIS. FDCH Regulatory Intelligence Database.
What's important in this article is that the government is finding useless ways of helping patients of PTSD. They need to ensure and provide the medical care these soldiers deserve. They are not a labrat, they are human beings.
The methods they abide by are no longer applicable. Forensic psychiatry, which is a prevention of mental illnesses, is a method they use. Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho stated this way of diagnosing PTSD was not used in across "Army Medicine".
The following article helps my research because not only is my research about how to help PTSD, but about how the government is failing to do something about it. They need to find more efficient and effective ways of helping PTSD.
"Army Generals Speak out about Their PTSD." YouTube. YouTube, 09 Mar. 2009. Web. 03 Apr. 2012.
The main point of this short interview is how even U.S. Army Generals are open into talking about their problems with PTSD. Their main focus is helping other soldiers speak too, about their problems dealing with PTSD.
This short clip teaches how PTSD can effect anyone, even U.S. Army Generals. Brigadier General Gary S. Patton explain's how one soldier was shot in the torso. While Patton was treating the soldier, he died in his hands. As for Ham, a suicide bomber blew up in a mess tent, killing twenty-two soldiers, sailors and civilians. The reason being for why they talk about their problem is they're hoping other fellow soldiers too will come out behind the shadows and talk about them suffering from PTSD.
Emery, E. Robert. Post-traumatic stress disorder. (2012). In Encyclopedia Britannica.
This article states the general reasoning of PTSD and the social interaction of those suffering from PTSD and those who aren't. The article explains PTSD, but it does not explain how the government is funding clinics helping the patients. It reveals how the government doesn't care as much as they say they do.
Although this article lacks on what we can do to slow down PTSD, it does give great information on how it can be preventable. Learning that animals play a role in preventing PTSD is amazing. An example is petting a dog. It activates hormones in your brain, causing a reaction to give you a positive feeling. This simple activity helps patients, but the government is not too concerned with this.
I believe this will help my research because it gives general the aspects of PTSD. I need to advance my research about PTSD, knowing what little or large affects it may have on soldiers.
JAY LINDSAY - Associated, P. (2012). Mass. Iraq vet with PTSD finds new life at sea. AP Top News Package.
This article specifically states how fellow soldiers suffering from PTSD were looking for jobs while diagnosed with PTSD. A captain of the boat Iron Lady needed men that had both endurance and discipline. Soldiers looking for jobs and a captain looking for disciplined men meant happiness for the both. The captain clearly states, "My motives were both selfish, in that I wanted a good reliable, strong crew member, but also to do some good for some people that had done so much for us, put their lives on the line for us".
Reading through the article, it gave a positive description of how people helped soldiers with PTSD, if it was a act of selfishness or not. While reading this article, I didn't think the captain was being selfish at all. He understood the concept of PTSD. It was a win-win situation for the marines, and the captain himself. The soldiers were finding a way to deal with PTSD, while the captain had a reliable and well fit fishing crew.
The information within this article would be helpful towards my research because it gives details on how many soldiers have become jobless due to PTSD. They find ways of getting jobs, while under PTSD. Their lives are hard enough, we shouldn't be making it harder. I needed to find an effective and a more efficient way of what soldiers to do get by each day, and this is how they do it.
Kellogg, Laurie. The Memory of You. LK, 2012. Print.
The book The Memory of You is about an prisoner of war captured during the Vietnam War. Six years later, he is reclaimed but during the gruesome years of torture, he has lost his memory. He doesn't recall anything before joining the Military. The Military informs Lieutenant Matthew Foster that he has a wife but he does not remember anything. But the thing is, his love back home is getting married and the military is soon to inform Abby that he is alive and coming back home.
In this book, I believe biased is being shown through Matthew's shoes. In the back of our heads, we want Matthew to find his love that he lost during the time of warfare. Even though Abby has moved on and found someone else, we believe that "love" will guide them back together and that there will be a happy ending.
"Lewis McChord Base Has History of Troubles." Interview by Melissa Block. Audio blog post. NPR. 13 Mar. 2012. Web.
This blog is about a U.S. Soldier killing sixteen villagers due to PTSD. He was sent to Lewis McChord Base for further treatment, but could not help him. The Army Sergeant walked at least one mile from his base, door after door searching and killing at least sixteen villagers, nine of them children.
The radio cast about this specific topic doesn't really have any sort of being bias. It is simply summarising and explaining what could be the cause of why this Staff Sergeant went on this killing spree, if it
was intentional or not.
Restrepo. Dir. Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger. Perf. The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team. Outpost Films, 2010. DVD.
Restrepo, the documentary about one platoon heading into the Korengal Valley. This film deals with PTSD because the documentary itself is named after a fallen medic, Private First Class Juan "Doc" Restrepo. The soldiers deal with hard labour, fallen comrades, and gunfights daily. The pain these soldiers go through is unbelievable, knowing now that they will have to live with this their whole life.
The following film does show some sort of evidence of being bias. One scene from the documentary shows that the soldiers killed a cow because it was trapped in barbed wire, making no choice but to end its life to let it suffer. Because we are Americans, my opinion towards this is that we really don't care about the villagers in Afghanistan, we only care about our soldiers fighting over sea's, letting them do what they want to do thinking its right but also wrong.
The documentary, Restrepo, will help forward my research in PTSD because of the fact that they literally went through hell. Two friendlies deceased, knowing in the back of their mind that they could have saved them will be some chain reaction into setting off PTSD.
Saving Private Ryan. Dir. Steven Spielberg. Prod. Steven Spielberg. By Robert Rodat. Perf. Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, and Tom Sizemore. DreamWorks Pictures, 1998. DVD
This film is based off of the Normandy invasion during World War II. Captain John H. Miller(Tom Hanks) and his platoon is ordered by Army Chief of Staff to locate one of the four brothers who are still fighting the war and bring him back home. All three of Private James Ryan's brothers are KIA, along with their mother who shall be receiving all three letters of their death on the same day.
In my opinion, Saving Private Ryan doesn't show that much bias. We do in the movie root for the Americans into finding Private James Ryan, but we aren't into favoring one individual group or comparing the U.S. Army to the German Army.
My research is involves this movie because I believe James Ryan suffered some sort of PTSD towards the beginning and ending of the film. The opening credits of the film, James Ryan visits the grave of Captain John H. Miller. Following that, the film went to a flashback of 1944, The invasion of Normandy, France. At the end of the film, it goes back to present day, as the last memory was of Captain H. Miller dying.
Tupper, Benjamin. Greetings from Afghanistan, Send More Ammo: Dispatches from Taliban Country. New York: NAL Caliber, 2010. Print.
This book explains the real life adventure in Afghanistan of ETT(Embedded Training Team) Captain Benjamin Tupper. Tupper originally posted up each chapter daily as a blog on the Internet, but eventually grouped these blogs into one whole book. Greetings from Afghanistan shows the courage of the National Guard ETT life in Afghanistan, showing their commitment to the United States. These brave soldiers are doing what it takes to survive each day, doing their jobs.
In my opinion, this book shows an extreme amount of being bias but as well as not showing any. To Captain Tupper, he respects the Afghan people. The book gives a stereotype of the Afghan people, thinking they are all part of the Taliban, giving us the idea back in the states that they are bad. We root for the American forces overseas but we also have to reconsider thinking about the people of Afghanistan. They too are human, giving them the same edge as us Americans. We typically choose the side of the Americans because we are simply are Americans.
Greetings from Afghanistan: Send more Ammo helps my research improve because this book is based off of real events happening to the soldiers overseas. The book itself even has a chapter of PTSD, understanding what events that flash back into Tupper's life.
Wakefield, P. (n.d). PTSD Doubly Disabling for Female Vets. Human Rights: Journal Of The Section Of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 35(2), 19.
This article is addressing that females are suffering worst from PTSD, and that risk is being doubled. Female active duty personnel are adopting PTSD not only from warfare, but from rape. Rape not from the Taliban, but the soldiers fighting beside them. There are only FOUR clinics that help women suffering from PTSD. In September of 2001 there were 177,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan females serving in the Military, now there are only 27,000. PTSD is a big impact on female soldiers.
Although this article talk's about females obtaining PTSD, it gives a false step into talking about how we can help the females other then sending them to clinics for medical help. I became frustrated when I heard how the females are suffering from PTSD not from warfare, quota "Almost a third of female veterans have reported having been sexually assaulted or raped while on active duty; many more experienced serious sexual harassment." The article states that females are sent to PTSD clinics, but it does not say how those who sexually assaulted female military personnel are dealt with. I was frustrated knowing this had happened.
The article itself will be helpful for my research because it gives an understanding of how little we see PTSD in female soldiers and how easy it is to suffer from it. Women deserve and need equal access to the Veterans Affairs.
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