Fort Carson News

No Suicide, Family Says

Jennifer Wilson, the Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)

Nov. 5–Family members of a missing Fort Carson soldier said Sunday that Colorado Springs police told them that the body pulled Saturday from a local reservoir was that of their relative, Sgt. Shawn Stoddard.

But…

Fort Carson Expands Efforts To Help Traumatized Troops

Tom Roeder, the Gazette (Colorado Springs, CO)  November 3, 2007

Leaders at Fort Carson said Friday they’re expanding community outreach initiatives in a bid to more quickly identify war-related mental illness and family problems in the ranks.

The expansion of the post’s…

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…

Our government doesn’t take care of veterans. Steve Robinson does

The New Republic– Before there was Walter Reed–before the revelations in The Washington Post, before the congressional hearings and presidential commissions and resigning generals–there was Joshua Murphy and his bad dream. In November 2005, Murphy returned home to Wichita Falls,…

Trauma care better, group says

Rocky Mountain News — COLORADO SPRINGS - Fort Carson has taken steps to better help soldiers who return from combat with post-traumatic stress disorder or other mental conditions, though there still is work to be done, members of a veterans’ support…

Fighting the Terror of Battles That Rage in Soldiers’ Heads

COLORADO SPRINGS, May 8 — The nightmares that tormented Sgt. Walter Padilla after returning home from Iraq in 2004 prompted extensive treatment by Army doctors, an honorable discharge from the military and a cocktail of medication to dull his suffering.

Still,…

Vets group stands tall for sick GIs

Denver Post — An Army general said Wednesday that a “Wounded Warrior Transition Brigade” would come soon to Fort Carson. It will help soldiers with post-traumatic stress and brain injuries.

As Brig. Gen. Michael Tucker spoke at Colorado’s Mountain Post, no one…

Fort Carson faces more probes into PTSD cases

Army Times

Kelly Kennedy

May 04, 2007

After several solders came forward claiming they were discharged for personality disorders but diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, officials at Fort Carson, Colo., say statistics show 56 of the 276 soldiers…

Salazar, Allard defend care at Fort Carson

The Pueblo Chieftain

PETER ROPER

May 02, 2007

How Fort Carson deals with soldiers suffering from post-combat stress has spilled back into the Senate this week where nine senators, led by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., have asked for a General Accountability Office…

Congressional delegation to visit Ft. Carson

KOAA TV

May 02, 2007

Veterans for America announced Monday, staffers from nine U.S. Senators’ offices, along with a representative from the Government Accountability Office, will visit Fort Carson in May.

VFA says the visit will give soldiers and their families a…