{"id":28818,"date":"2012-02-21T04:41:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28818"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T10:00:03","slug":"colonel-relieved-over-ptsd-under-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28818","title":{"rendered":"Colonel relieved over PTSD &#8220;under reporting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='560' height='315' seamless='seamless' src='http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Army-colonel-removed-from-post-amid-concerns-over-ptsd-diagnosis-139789993.html?embed' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dallas Homas M.D., an Army Colonel who&#8217;s the head of JBLM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madigan_Army_Medical_Center\">Madigan Army Medical Center<\/a>, has been relived after concerns arose  of &#8220;under reporting&#8221; of PTSD among soldiers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Army-colonel-removed-from-post-amid-concerns-over-ptsd-diagnosis-139789993.html?tab=video&#038;c=y\">Initial coverage by local ABC affiliate KOMO News<\/a> claims that the Army&#8217;s Medical Command has determined soldiers were essentially having their PTSD swept under the carpet in order to reduce PTSD diagnosis and save money. Much of the focus was the result of my old Congressmen, Norm Dicks-(D), <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/health\/2017486092_madiganfolo12m.html\">voicing concern<\/a> that Madigan chose to close a PTSD clinic. Two things immediately occurred to me.<\/p>\n<p>First off it would seem that KOMO, who seems to go out of their way to find the lowest of the low in order to generate sensational quotes they can place next to sympathetic descriptions, has enlisted the help of yet another communist activist, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uR_WPHrTDFI\">Chanan Su\u00e1rez<\/a>. Su\u00e1rez, at least, is merely a member of the Seattle Chapter of the Trotskyite International Socialist Organization and generic IVAW goon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28256\">The last time JBLM was generating controversy in the news<\/a> the producers at KOMO slithered all the way to the bottom of the heap and enlisted the help of the Stalinists of International ANSWER and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Way to get out the true feelings of the veteran&#8217;s community on the PTSD issue, KOMO. <\/p>\n<p>Tangentially, the other Navy guy they found to stump for the evils of military medicine is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themurraystatenews.com\/2011\/09\/09\/soldiers-sacrifice-to-serve-country\/\">Adam Horton<\/a>. Horton, who is either a former aviation electrician on the EA-6B Prowler according to a profile piece, just recently &#8220;won&#8221; his own PTSD claim. On the other hand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/adam-horton\/3b\/221\/39b\">his LinkedIn profile<\/a> says he got out as an Aircrew Survival Equipmentman 2nd Class. I don&#8217;t always speak Navy that well so maybe my confusion is simply a matter of failing to translate.<\/p>\n<p>The disgusting tendency of local Seattle media to distort the views of the veteran community aside, the second thing to occur to me is that this is probably an old and largely resolved issue that&#8217;s catching up to the command staff only now. I never worked in the medical field in the military and I never filed for PTSD but it seemed to be fairly common knowledge among Marines during my time that the flood of disability requests hitting the Navy&#8217;s desk during the height of the Iraq War was causing medical to &#8220;tighten their belt&#8221; when it came to claims. Whether there was an active conspiracy to short PTSD claims, a consensus that standards needed to be reevaluated to ensure funds were available for the highest priority claims or it was all the habitual scuttlebutt of perpetually paranoid Marines, is out of my lane. I&#8217;m sure some readers have their own, more qualified, perspectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Homas M.D., an Army Colonel who&#8217;s the head of JBLM&#8217;s Madigan Army Medical Center, has &hellip; <a title=\"Colonel relieved over PTSD &#8220;under reporting&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28818\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colonel relieved over PTSD &#8220;under reporting&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}