{"id":6538,"date":"2008-12-28T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2008-12-28T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T16:56:15","slug":"ptsd-and-kimberly-dozier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6538","title":{"rendered":"PTSD and Kimberly Dozier"},"content":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sent me a link to a Free Republic<\/a> discussion about a CBS article which highlights the Army’s failure to address PTSD issues among the troops effectively. I’m no doctor, I’m an infantryman, so I really have no comments on the PTSD portion of the discussion. However, I have lots to say about the author of the CBS article, Kimberly Dozier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, Ms. Dozier is probably a fairly courageous journalist in that she survived an IED attack in Iraq two years ago and certain members of her team did not. More than likely, she was saved,\u00a0 by members of the military, including doctors and medical professionals. You think she might have learned a bit about the rank structure of the military while she was there.<\/p>\n

In the article<\/a>, she writes about the suicide of First Sergeant Jeff McKinney, who killed himself in front of his troops a year ago last July. In the article, Dozier calls McKinney a “commander”. Really? I’m pretty sure most first sergeants would bristle at the hint that they command their companies. But you discover why Dozier did that a few lines down when she starts jabbing at Army leadership about an unsourced, unsupported incident;<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a rough and tough, sort of macho culture that says none of that soft squishy touchy feely stuff,” said Brigadeer General Loree Sutton, director of the military’s Center for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. “Well, we need to bring the brain out of what has been a black box.”<\/p>\n

But that’s fighting Army tradition.<\/p>\n

Commanders at one army base posted a fake “Hurt Feelings Report” — portraying a crying cartoon face — to mock soldiers seeking help for combat stress.<\/strong> Selections on the form included: “I am a crybaby,” “I want my mommy” and “All of the above.” It was tacked on the barracks bulletin board, next to the sign-up sheet, for the mental health clinic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis mine. Do ya know what I wonder? What Army base? If Dozier was trying to prove a point, that should have been included in the paragraph. And knowing how badly the media likes to throw fingers at the military culture, it makes me think the story is BS because she didn’t name the base.<\/p>\n

On top of that, I seriously doubt any commander would ever instruct his senior NCO advisor to post those notices, nor do I think a senior NCO advisor would allow any commander to make that mistake even if the commander were so inclined. It’s not just a feeling I have, it’s the way things are. Period. No base commander would condone that flyer.<\/p>\n

Dozier called McKinney a “commander” so she could tell that story. If it even happened, it was probably some junior NCO who posted the notice as a joke. It was never intended to be taken seriously – and in Dozier’s telling of the story, all NCOs are commanders, too. So “commanders at one Army base posted” the fake notice. Here’s a screen shot of the alleged notice from the CBS video;<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Hurt Feelings Report<\/a> which has been on the internet for over a year. And the World of Warcraft Hurt Feelings Report<\/a>. It makes me think that some jokester printed it off the internet and just put it on the same bulletin board that a sign-up sheet happened to be on. Unless Ms. Dozier has more information she’d like to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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