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ARMY GIVES BAD DISCHARGES TO THOUSANDS OF PTSD VETS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
It all begain as a Bush era program, promoted by Dr. Sally Satel, the famed "PTSD denialist" putting
thousands of soldiers at risk and pushing hundreds to suicide. Thousands of veterans lost all benefits, GI
Bill, medical care and more through Army discharge scam, part of Neo-con "cost saving program"
How did it work? Simple. A very large percentage of combat vets with PTSD are problem drinkers, self
medicating in the only way they can and, in the process, getting worse and worse. Redeployments of
soldiers needing treatment only adds to the problem. When vets with severe PTSD demonstrate severe
symtoms, including alcohol abuse, they are put in short and unproven "quit" programs with an extremely
high failure rate. This is all part of a game, one invented to trap soldiers and cut costs.
Step 2 in the game, the Army "orders" the soldier not to drink, knowing the order itself is absurd. Real
treatment for PTSD is denied. When the soldier drinks, and they always do, the soldier is arrested, jailed
and charged, now get this, with disobeying a direct order, Article 34 and disrespect to an officer or
non-com.
Sometimes even more charges are piled on. In the end, the deal is the same. Leave the army with
nothing but years of honorable service now labeled as "dishonorable" or "bad conduct" and face civilian
life crushed and abandoned by the country you risked your life to serve.
The Army learned the game from the VA. The VA denied PTSD diagnoses to Vietnam veterans who
drank or used alcohol, claiming they couldn't be diagnosed. Problem is, almost all PTSD vets use alcohol
or drugs as self medication. End result, tens of thousands of Vietnam vets were denied diagnosis,
treatment and compensation for decades with thousand dying as a result.
The basis of the Army policy is the Dr. Sally Satel "theory" that PTSD does not exist and all vets are
fakers. Her beliefs, fringe "neo-con medicine" comes from a theory that soldiers and veterans are part of
a non-productive social class that taxes a nations economic health as soon as they leave a combat zone.
The end analysis supports the supposition that a disabled veteran and an illegal alien on welfare
contribute exactly the same to the overall welfare of society.
Vets are leeches. If Darwin meant for illegal aliens to survive, they would have been born in the United
States, or as in the case of our warriors, they would have sought an occupation less dangerous, stressful
and likely to bring about personal harm. Soldiers, through choosing to serve, prove themselves unworthy
of survival in a society of the fittest. In some ways, this is a powerful arguement for Social Darwinism and
Eugenics.
By that standard, our chickenhawks in Congress should dominate the food chain for a million years.
However, from a standpoint of loyalty, patriotism and support of our military forces during wartime, the
concept sucks bigtime. Thank heavens nobody knows about this, not the Veterans Service
Organizations, the ACLU, the Obama Administration or our officer corps of Service Academy graduates.
You have to admire the game. The Army has a cure for anything. Will they start walking up to amputees
and ordering them to grow new limbs? "Soldier, regrow that hand immediately or we will put you in
Leavenworth."
Sound funny?Picture yourself, as one of thousands of vets with bad discharges. Picture yourself unable
to get a defense or post office job. Picture yourself with no GI bill, no home loan, no PTSD treatment, no
disability compensation, no insurance for your family, no education benefits for your children.
Picture what you did to earn this punishment. You fought for your country.
Picture the people who did this to you. They were bureaucrats, fatasses, accountants, paperpushers in
the Pentagon who blackmailed you into signing everything away or spending years on administrative hold
awaiting court martial for being sick.
How long will it take the Obama administration to find these vets, not really vets, since, no matter how
much combat they saw or how much they served, they are no longer vets. They signed that away. You
can't be a vet with a bad discharge. Nice game, huh?
Will the VA start searching for them, finding how many are living under bridges, how many are
unemployed and how many are dead? I don't remember Secretary Shensiki mentioning that one.
Did Secretary Gates mention that he was going to offer a blanket review of all bad discharges to make
sure the military didn't create a sick game to victimize our troops? Are they being contacted, brought in,
getting legal help and medical evaluations?
What are we doing to undo this criminal misconduct on the part of the Department of Defense? Maybe, if
we wait long enough, they will all give up or die. It has always worked well in the past, why give up a
successful approach that has served so well in the past.
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By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER
It all begain as a Bush era program, promoted by Dr. Sally Satel, the famed "PTSD denialist" putting
thousands of soldiers at risk and pushing hundreds to suicide. Thousands of veterans lost all benefits, GI
Bill, medical care and more through Army discharge scam, part of Neo-con "cost saving program"
How did it work? Simple. A very large percentage of combat vets with PTSD are problem drinkers, self
medicating in the only way they can and, in the process, getting worse and worse. Redeployments of
soldiers needing treatment only adds to the problem. When vets with severe PTSD demonstrate severe
symtoms, including alcohol abuse, they are put in short and unproven "quit" programs with an extremely
high failure rate. This is all part of a game, one invented to trap soldiers and cut costs.
Step 2 in the game, the Army "orders" the soldier not to drink, knowing the order itself is absurd. Real
treatment for PTSD is denied. When the soldier drinks, and they always do, the soldier is arrested, jailed
and charged, now get this, with disobeying a direct order, Article 34 and disrespect to an officer or
non-com.
Sometimes even more charges are piled on. In the end, the deal is the same. Leave the army with
nothing but years of honorable service now labeled as "dishonorable" or "bad conduct" and face civilian
life crushed and abandoned by the country you risked your life to serve.
The Army learned the game from the VA. The VA denied PTSD diagnoses to Vietnam veterans who
drank or used alcohol, claiming they couldn't be diagnosed. Problem is, almost all PTSD vets use alcohol
or drugs as self medication. End result, tens of thousands of Vietnam vets were denied diagnosis,
treatment and compensation for decades with thousand dying as a result.
The basis of the Army policy is the Dr. Sally Satel "theory" that PTSD does not exist and all vets are
fakers. Her beliefs, fringe "neo-con medicine" comes from a theory that soldiers and veterans are part of
a non-productive social class that taxes a nations economic health as soon as they leave a combat zone.
The end analysis supports the supposition that a disabled veteran and an illegal alien on welfare
contribute exactly the same to the overall welfare of society.
Vets are leeches. If Darwin meant for illegal aliens to survive, they would have been born in the United
States, or as in the case of our warriors, they would have sought an occupation less dangerous, stressful
and likely to bring about personal harm. Soldiers, through choosing to serve, prove themselves unworthy
of survival in a society of the fittest. In some ways, this is a powerful arguement for Social Darwinism and
Eugenics.
By that standard, our chickenhawks in Congress should dominate the food chain for a million years.
However, from a standpoint of loyalty, patriotism and support of our military forces during wartime, the
concept sucks bigtime. Thank heavens nobody knows about this, not the Veterans Service
Organizations, the ACLU, the Obama Administration or our officer corps of Service Academy graduates.
You have to admire the game. The Army has a cure for anything. Will they start walking up to amputees
and ordering them to grow new limbs? "Soldier, regrow that hand immediately or we will put you in
Leavenworth."
Sound funny?Picture yourself, as one of thousands of vets with bad discharges. Picture yourself unable
to get a defense or post office job. Picture yourself with no GI bill, no home loan, no PTSD treatment, no
disability compensation, no insurance for your family, no education benefits for your children.
Picture what you did to earn this punishment. You fought for your country.
Picture the people who did this to you. They were bureaucrats, fatasses, accountants, paperpushers in
the Pentagon who blackmailed you into signing everything away or spending years on administrative hold
awaiting court martial for being sick.
How long will it take the Obama administration to find these vets, not really vets, since, no matter how
much combat they saw or how much they served, they are no longer vets. They signed that away. You
can't be a vet with a bad discharge. Nice game, huh?
Will the VA start searching for them, finding how many are living under bridges, how many are
unemployed and how many are dead? I don't remember Secretary Shensiki mentioning that one.
Did Secretary Gates mention that he was going to offer a blanket review of all bad discharges to make
sure the military didn't create a sick game to victimize our troops? Are they being contacted, brought in,
getting legal help and medical evaluations?
What are we doing to undo this criminal misconduct on the part of the Department of Defense? Maybe, if
we wait long enough, they will all give up or die. It has always worked well in the past, why give up a
successful approach that has served so well in the past.
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