Army Agrees To Do More For PTSD
CBS News — The Army is making a “dramatic turn” in how it handles soldiers suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a member of a veterans’ group investigating mental health care at Fort Carson said Wednesday.
Following two days of closed-door meetings with commanders and congressional staffers at the post, Steve Robinson, Director of Veterans Affairs for the group Veterans for America, said commanders have agreed to do a better job educating officers about the condition and take steps to amend the records of soldiers who have been wrongly diagnosed. (more…)