WayOfTheBern

Is it any wonder that the U.S. armed forces can’t meet recruitment goals? They break you body and soul and then kick you to the curb so they don’t have to pay for ongoing medical care.

Instead, in case after case, the military treated the crews’ combat injuries as routine psychiatric disorders, if they treated them at all. Troops were told they had attention deficit disorder or depression. Many were given potent psychotropic drugs that made it hard to function and failed to provide much relief.

Others who started acting strangely after the deployments were simply dismissed as problems, punished for misconduct and forced out of the military in punitive ways that cut them off from the veterans’ health care benefits that they now desperately need.