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Check your Public Radio station now, times do vary for the show "Fresh Air."

Journalists Document Military Mental Health Failings

Listen to this story... (at link)

Fresh Air from WHYY, March 12, 2007 · Journalists Lisa Chedekel and Matthew Kauffman of The Hartford Courant have been awarded the George Polk Award for their series from May on flaws in the military's mental health system: Mentally Unfit, Forced to Fight.

Their reporting found that troops sent on deployment are, for the most part, not getting mental health evaluations, even though they are mandated by Congress.

Chedekel and Kauffman reported that the military is relying on psychotropic medications to keep service members in combat, and that soldiers with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are being sent back into battle for multiple tours of duty.

<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7852300>

It'll be on at three on NPR out of Biloxi. I seldom miss my Fresh Air. (or Click and Clack.) Love them boys.

Front page of the Sun-Herald out of Gulfport yesterday.

Ill-equipped, stretched to the limit,
Mississippi Guard my go back to Iraq
READY OR NOT

"Conservative" leadership and mental acumen is just overwhelming.

...so I have a great respect for them for that alone.

Here's the links to the story:

<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/16879989.htm>

<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/>

and the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. We live close to the state line so I like to keep up with news on both sides of the border. Both papers did outstanding jobs relative to the hurricane coverage. The S-H is just a tad conservative but they are very fair in their ltte policy. They print wackos from the left and right. I recall the big snowstorm in Atlanta 14 years ago this week. I was stationed at NAS at the time.

...or here it is again: <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7852300>

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