New guidelines allow troops who've recovered from traumatic stress disorders to redeploy

[Phrogman]

Very confusing article from the Stars and Stripes, but this is the lead paragraph:


WASHINGTON — Troops with bipolar and psychotic disorders cannot deploy into Iraq or Afghanistan but those recovering from traumatic stress disorders still can, under new defense guidelines released this week.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=41293&archive=true

[Debau2005]

1. It seems the logic is

they already have PTSD, so what difference will one more tour make! WTF!

[applegrove]

5. We can only hope that the meds they are on ..protect them from more damage.

That could be the case.

[lonestarnot]

2. S.N.A.F.U.

[JohnnyLib2]

3. Yup, that says it all.

And the fall out will be even worse than now.

[salin]

4. shameful.

guess preparing for bush's escalation requires further scr*w*ng over those who have already been seriously damaged by bush's war.