Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq | NEJM

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I was watching a TV program the other night it is called the Navy Seals about a team doing missions, I am not saying what happens on a program is true and I know 95% is made up. But the program was about a former seal team member and he was having a very hard time coping with not being on the team anymore, so he went to VA and like most of us all they want to do is give you more pills, (myself take 14 different pills) so I can relate to what he was going through, but he was injured in a blast that got his seal buddy killed and he stated all of the things related for a TBI and the doctor stated that he could not do anything for him cause he was medically retired and a TBI was not in his records so VA could not treat him, so he went out into the parking lot and killed himself. Now they did say that all veterans are not going to kill themselves and they gave the phone numbers for help. Now this brings up a couple of things. (1) During desert storm I hurt my right shoulder and was put in a sling for over 2 weeks, when I returned to Germany and went on sick call and was looking through my records it the injury was not in them. Luckily for me the PA who treated me in the desert remembered me and put it in the records. (2) Just before the ground war started I had to have a filling fixed went to the Air Force aid station and they fixed it and here again there was no record of it. So in saying all of this how do they keep track now days in a combat zone? Also how does a person get the VA to understand that something happened or 1st aid was given to a soldier while in the combat zone. Last thing is this how do you get VA to check a person for TBI?

With all due respect TBI is more related too, OIF and OEF of todays wars, not a 100 day ground war.
Shield did not have IED, blast yes, but not like the ones hitting us in 2003 and on.

Sorry I see this in Storm and Gulf War grps, talking about VA claims and getting stuff for IED's. I call BS on , as yes we did fight a war, but we all know nothing like the others, now the Oil and shots, and other environmental stuff yes, but things like IED's no, we didn't even know what these kind of things were until 2003. By the way they are not the old mines we have fought all over before, they are nothing like a mine and blast is like no other, and that's why injuries are as bad as we see them. I am a DS/DS vet, and OIF and OEF Afghanistan Vet.