There have been stories on the television news on the same issues in the recent past...BD 

First is this news from the St. Louis Dispatch, that the Pentagon has been discharging tens of thousands of combat troops on the pretense that the mental health problems they've developed after serving in Iraq aren't PTSD but rather pre-existing personality disorders.

The pre-existing part is the kicker because it means that the Pentagon, acting like your least favorite HMO, wont pick up the cost of the medical care of these troops after it discharges them. They have kicked out about 22,000 troops who they say have pre-existing personality disorders. I don?t believe that, Missouri Sen. Kit Bond told the newspaper. And when you kick them out, they don?t get the assistance they need, they aren't entitled to DOD or Veterans Administration care for those problems.

Rolling Stone : PFSD: Pentagon Screws-over Soldiers Disorder

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