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Court Aims to Help Vets with Legal Troubles
Libby Lewis, NPR: Morning Edition
April 29, 2008 · As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan put renewed focus on the issue of veterans’ mental health, a judge in Buffalo, N.Y., has created a special court to assist veterans who wind up in the criminal justice system.
Personnel Costs
George C. Wilson, the National Journal’s CongressDaily
Lawmakers found themselves shouting down a well when they urged the civilian and military picks of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to support a bigger Army and Marine Corps by raising their end strengths permanently.
Now young officers, sergeants and motivated privates will pay the price day after day and night after night of this shortsightedness at the top of the defense establishment.
Fort Drum calls for more psychiatrists to help deal with stresses of Iraq war
Hart Seely, the Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
It’s not every day that a fellow stands up in public and asks for a shrink.
Wednesday, Roger Ambrose said he’d take a dozen.
“We need to get psychiatrists to come to the North Country,” said Ambrose, director of Jefferson County Community Services, a Watertown-based health care agency. “And I’ll tell you, a child psychologist would be just wonderful.”
Ambrose was hardly alone Wednesday. A steady stream of speakers seconded his wish list during a summit of about 100 regional, state and national health care officials, who gathered at Fort Drum to discuss the challenge of healing the wounds — especially the ones not easily visible — that beset some of the U.S. Army’s most combat-weary units.
“There are a lot of us thinking, when this war is over, we can get back to normal,” said Brig. Gen. Michael T. Harrison Sr., deputy commanding general for support of the 10th Mountain Division. “Well, you’re looking at the new normal.”
Stuck on stop-loss
Michelle Tan, Army Times (subscription required)
Army not expected to ease policy before fall 2009
Bush embraces halt in U.S. troop withdrawals
Richard Wolf, USA Today
WASHINGTON — President Bush’s decision Thursday to give his top commander in Iraq “all the time he needs” before proposing any further troop reductions sets up a battle later this month over the next $108 billion funding request and another this fall over the war’s political fallout.
In a 17-minute White House speech, Bush endorsed Gen. David Petraeus’ recommendation to keep U.S. troop levels at about 140,000 after five brigades are withdrawn by this summer.
