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08 Aug 06

101st soldiers among victims of war stress - Nashville, Tennessee - Tuesday, 08/08/06 - Tennessean.com

  • I can usually get a visit once a month (at Mountain Home VA Medical Center) for PTSD counseling," Durman said. "The people there are really trying, they are just undermanned. They were understaffed before the war started. It's overwhelming them."
07 Aug 06

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  • many reservists and National Guard members, whose military insurance benefits cover only those problems diagnosed within 180 days after returning from combat. Those two groups now comprise about 40 percent of the front-line forces in Iraq and more than half in Afghanistan, the highest percentage for any war in U.S. history.
01 Aug 06

Army Guard units said not combat ready - Yahoo! News

  • More than two-thirds of the Army National Guard's 34 brigades are not combat ready, mostly because of equipment shortages that will cost up to $21 billion to correct, the top National Guard general said Tuesday.
31 Jul 06

Video: A “War of a Different Kind” and the Reconstruction of U.S. Reserve Forces - FPRI

  • Mr. Duncan is Director of the Institute for Homeland Security Studies, National Defense University. He is former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. He delivered this lecture to FPRI’s conference on the citizen soldier, December 6, 2004.

E-Notes: Toward a New Conception of the Citizen Soldier - FPRI

  • Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, by far the largest of the reserve components (RC) and the forces experiencing the greatest difficulties. As of this writing (January, 2005), RC make up some 40 percent of the military in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Among the Army dead in OIF, about a quarter have been from reserve components.
27 Jul 06

Iraq Vet and NJ Native Tells His Story : Indybay

  • I entered the war full of naïveté, believing that I was a kind of neutral observer and that I would never be faced with having to take someone’s life. But after several near-death experiences I was ready to do whatever I had to do to assure that I made it home alive. A person’s humanity is the first thing to go in combat and it is not something that is easily regained.
09 Jul 06

AOL News - Father Who Sought Revenge in Iraq Is Back Home

  • National Guard member Joe Johnson volunteered to go to Iraq to avenge his son's death. But what he saw there caused a change of heart.
03 Jul 06

Join Us? Testimonies of Iraq War Veterans and Their Families

  • Historians Against the War has just published a 24-page pamphlet: Join Us? Testimonies of Iraq War Veterans and Their Families, edited by Carl Mirra of SUNY College at Old Westbury. A i project of HAW’s Oral History Working Group, it includes testimony from six veterans of the Iraq war, from the mother of a National Guard soldier who died in Iraq and from Army veteran Ann Wright, who resigned from the State Department to protest the Iraq invasion. - mrsilona on 2006-07-03
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