How Can the Military Increase the Care of Soldiers

Are we facing a massive mental health problem with are returning military from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? What is the military doing to treat service members who are returning from wars and suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Not much, the military is all about giving the returning service member a bunch of pills and sending them on their way. On average a returning soldier gets about one hour of therapy per month and to complicate matters more they do not see the same mental health professional every time they go for counseling. This is sub-standard form the care that a civillia would receive under the same conditions. This information was gathered from the Veterans for America.

Now that we know that PTSD goes severely untreated by the military what kind of trouble have the returning soldiers gotten into after returning to the states and being discharged from the military? The New York Times published a article Across America, Deadly Echoes of Foreign Battles on January 13, 2008. 121 returning soldiers have been charged with killing someone and three-quarters of these soldiers were still in the military at the time of the killing over 50% involved guns, and the rest were stabbings, beating , triangulations and bath tub drownings. Another 25 faced murder, manslaughter or homicide charges for fatal car crashes resulting from drunken, reckless or suicidal driving.