What is in place regarding Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome? What types of employment is available for them? How comfortable could one be if some of them were policeman, prison guard, postal worker, nurse, teacher, soldier, ploitician,or doctor?
How would these soldiers react to a society that is ill-equiped for the emotional trauma experienced during their tour of duty?
How would a society well equip itself to deal with these matters?
What businesses wil be created as a result of well eqippng the society to deal with these soldiers and possibly their familes? In what ways would this be a profitible investment?
2007-01-24 17:54:38 · 5 answers · asked by LeBlanc 6 in Social Science ➔ Economics
I don't agree with Zoom Zoom's idea that we're soldiers and as such we can take it. A young Hondurian child wandered into what he thought was a pile of food sitting on the ground. His only goal was to get food. Unbeknownst to him, it was a smoldering pile of deep coals beneath as he ventured into the pile that was simply covered by dust as we were coming back from Hondo. The child was about 8-10 y/o and suffered 1-2-3 degree burns requiring an immediate eschorotomy (slicing the skin so as the swelling begins, it would not turn into a natural tourniqet.) I think about him today after 21 years of service. I applaud many who attack the administration and not the soldier. That in and of it's self is one major help for many returning back from combat.
2007-01-25 02:14:06 · answer #1 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is in place regarding Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome?
- Veterans hospital, military hospital, regular hospital.......
What types of employment is available for them?
- The same that would have been available to them and a few moer had they not left
How comfortable could one be if some of them were policeman, prison guard, postal worker, nurse, teacher, soldier, ploitician,or doctor?
- Hopefully they gained valuable and useful experiene..hence we should be more comfortable
How would these soldiers react to a society that is ill-equiped for the emotional trauma experienced during their tour of duty?
- They are soldiers not accountant. They knew what they were getting into.
How would a society well equip itself to deal with these matters?
- Society is already well equiped that any other society in the world
What businesses wil be created as a result of well eqippng the society to deal with these soldiers and possibly their familes?
- There is nothing to deal with. They are soldiers who wnet on a mission and comin back. its not like they went to some distant planet and brining a virus with them.
In what ways would this be a profitible investment?
- Why would you want to profit at the expense of the soldiers???
2007-01-25 02:41:27 · answer #2 · answered by zoomzoom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because different military people come home at different times, I am sure that the VA hospital, psychologists, people to debrief them, etc. are always ready.
Our country has been in so many wars and conflicts that I am certain the soldiers would be checked out really well before returning to their civil servant, etc. jobs.
PTSD is now common everywhere, so the military is certainly the most prepared place to help these returning soldiers.
Society has always managed to equip itself after every war, police action, etc.
Perhaps more social service agencies would open up for the military and their families.
I don't know if any of this would be profitable--who cares--people just want their loved-ones home safely!!!
That's an awful lot of questions--is this a homework assignment?
2007-01-25 02:08:32 · answer #3 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question...as far as I can see, nothing in the way of doing more or opening more V.A. hospitals or outreach centers. I saw a report the other day about waiting lists for amputee's to get artificial limbs...Just outrageous to actually make a Vet wait for such a thing. They already seem to be suffering from problems and they are not home yet, from what I have seen on a few news reports.
The lessons of Vietnam and Korea are lost today, even the previous Gulf War, Vets came home with mysterious sickness's...most probably due to expose to a host of chemicals blended together without thought to interactions or safety....Sunscreens, Mosquito repellent, and God knows what else. Not to mention the emotional trama that we have not time to assess yet.
As to jobs they are going to be fit for and how they will handle the rigors of daily life is at best a quess. If we use Vietnam as the model, we can predict, broken marriages, alcholism and drug addiction, nightmares, feelings of being alone and misunderstood. One could go on and on, we should be putting the effort forward now and not later to connect with them and start a process to equip them for the feelings and problems they will eventually experience..and not wait for disaster and a march on Washington to get help for injured and sick Vets.
2007-01-25 02:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by facefind 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn good question. I hope that someone was thinking about all of that before it all started but sadly I suspect not...
2007-01-25 02:00:45 · answer #5 · answered by megalomaniac 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋