And it is....the same story every day in the newspaper and on the internet. The only thing that changes is the names. How many soldiers is it going to take to be discharged with so-called pre-existing personality discharges before we can put a stop to it? The public doesn't have a clue until it's in the media. These cases aren't known about unless someone decides to go to the press. It's sad that it comes to that. The leaders of our children won't take care of their own without being shamed into it. You would think after a while, they would learn, but they don't. What makes them so hard and callous that they don't care about their own? Steadfast and Loyal. The only thing they are steadfast about is culling out the soldiers who need their help. The only loyalty they have is to the system, not to the soldier who has their back. It's the same thing every day. Different name, different unit, different military post, it isn't changing.
I'm tired. I'm tired of reading these stories every day. I'm tired of writing my Congressmen only to get a letter back thanking me for contacting them, thanking me for my family's service in the military. Letting me know for the umpteenth time that he is one of the fewer than one-third of members of Congress to have served on active duty. Yes, Mrs. Constituent, I support the passage of .....this legislation will provide....blah, blah, blah. I will be closely monitoring the progress of this legislation....
I don't want him to monitor the progress. I want someone who will push for it to get passed and sent to the President to sign into law! There is too much at stake to allow all the bills involving our military and our veterans to just let them sit there. I want results.
Is it so much to ask that they simply pass two bills to stop the discharge of members of the Armed Forces for personality disorder? I really don't think it is.
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A PD discharge is the military's way to get around paying any beneifits...PTSD ands TBI are real conditions and need to be addressed to the fullest..for those of you that don't know what that stands for , then google it...lol
You go girl!!! Congress needs to do something now..
Hi, I think it is much more than just personality disorder discharges that needs to be addressed, the whole system with reference to how the military is treating PTSD & the mental health needs of our military needs to be addressed immediately. One of the problems is the stigma of mental health; this is a very real issue, a big problem within the military. Automatically when any of our military step forward to say they need help they are automatically branded as a coward, they can forget about their military career, no matter how long they have been in the svc. It does not matter. The military has said over & over again, I lost count of how many times I have heard this, we are making changes, we are changing the way we handle cases of PTSD. Not all branches of the service or bases are changing the way that they handle our “wounded warriors” they are still going by the “Patton “theory!
I have yet to hear of one person who has stepped forward to get help & still have a military career. We as a country need to step forward to push for legislation, to hold people accountable for this epidemic, if they are not going to listen to what we are saying, and then we need to take them out of office. There should be no excuses why we can take care of our people our country has sent to war! We need action & we need it now, not tomorrow, but, now. Do you remember Jonathan Schulze? I certainly do!
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