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		<title>&#8220;Three Minutes Out&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Nathan Strohm, a logistician, has deployed four times in support of the global war on terror: to Uzbekistan for most of 2003, to Iraq for most of 2005, and twice to Afghanistan – first from February 2007 to April 2008 with the 82nd Airborne Division, and then for a second time with the 82nd from August 2009 to August 2010. In this April interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he discusses his toughest day on his most recent deployment, where he served as a forward support company commander for 4th Brigade, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment. Excerpts: You come in and it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Wow! We&#8217;ve been into Afghanistan for seven and eight years and this is all that has been done.&#8221;… They knew all of the areas that were of concern but as is the case in Afghanistan, we don&#8217;t know if this was actually being placed that day, or two or three days earlier when they had taken this route the last time, or if it had been there the whole time and it had just gotten uncovered enough under the sand that the IED was actually able to be executed. They ran over the backside of a basically where a wadis went into a canal, that type of thing, on the backside of that as you are kind of going down into the canal piece itself. There was a pressure-plate IED. The lead vehicle was struck. It was an M1151 because we didn&#8217;t have enough armored vehicles to have everybody have an Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles or an military All-Terrain Vehicle (MATV), which is a much safer vehicle with a &#8216;V’&#8217; hull. The squad leader was the vehicle truck commander for that one. Basically the front half all the way to his seat and just between where the front door and back door was on his side, that whole front quarter of the HMMWV was blown completely off. He was basically killed instantly but he died of wounds on the scene.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90463&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>War Story</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/war-story/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/101122-a-lj685-002.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>Treating PTSD and TBI…Ethically</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elspeth Cameron Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of posts on the ethical issues associated with treating post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. These are the two so-called &#8220;signature wounds&#8221; of our post 9/11 wars. Unlike physical trauma, they can take years to surface. They&#8217;re also not as easy to diagnose as typical war wounds. Treating them is going to become a bigger challenge as the wars wind down and the 2.5 million young men and women who served in them come home. By ethical issues, I mean areas where there are no clear right and wrong answers. There are often competing priorities, depending on whose viewpoint you look through. By definition, military medical personnel serve two—or more—masters: &#8211; There is the care of the service member. &#8211; There are the needs of the military. &#8211; There are the needs of the United States, including national security, the Congress and the taxpayer. And physicians have the Hippocratic oath. Medical ethics normally focus on four principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-maleficence. In simple terms, they mean: the right of the individual to make his or her own decisions; equal resources for all; do good for your patient; and do no harm. These same principles should be applied to military medical ethics. Tomes have been devoted to discussion these principles, and it is perhaps dangerous to try develop a reasoned discussion in a post, or a series of posts. But although military physicians discuss these topics constantly, there is less discussion in the public space. There are at least four ethical areas I would like to ponder: &#8211; Whether to maintain someone in the battlefield or return them home. &#8211; Whether to retain a service member on duty in the military, vs. recommending a medical board (medical discharge). &#8211; Confidentiality, and/or what command needs to know. &#8211; Disability and compensation issues, if diagnosed with PTSD. These are all highly-charged issues. But I think they need an open, national discussion. I hope to do that here, in the next few posts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=90123&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making All Our Troops Bulletproof</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/22/making-all-our-troops-bulletproof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rep. Niki Tsongas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoot, move, communicate. This was the clear, succinct analysis given by an Army major when asked to describe the key components of a military mission. In three words, the major illustrated the reality of modern war theatres &#8212; one in which a soldier’s safety and success relies as much on mobility as it does on strength. Clearly-drawn front lines have become a thing of the past, due to complex locations with ubiquitous enemy threats. In places like Afghanistan, the line is barely visible at all. Constant and pervasive danger makes agile movement a high priority for all soldiers, whether they are assigned directly to combat or not. It is surprising then that one of a soldier’s most basic and necessary pieces of equipment – body armor – can sometimes work in direct contradiction to that basic need. Several years ago during a House Armed Services Committee hearing, I asked a young sergeant if he were ever tempted to take off his protective gear. He hesitated and glanced sheepishly at the general sitting nearby before giving a confident reply: “Yes, ma’am.” He explained the armor was cumbersome, heavy and that sometimes it was just easier to maneuver without it. A visit to Afghanistan amplified the sergeant’s concerns. There, I met with a colonel who heaved off his armor and, rubbing his sore knees, spoke of the burden the gear’s weight put on his joints. Soldiers deployed to Afghanistan are outfitted with body armor that weighs as much as 40 pounds. When combined with the gear that troops must carry in the field, the total weight our soldiers carry can exceed 120 pounds. It can lead to long term muscular skeletal injuries and an elevated risk that armor may be removed in the field. Lightened body armor, which the military has made progress on, would mean increased safety and reduced risk for soldiers like the sergeant and the colonel. But for the major, the task of shoot, move, communicate is made even more difficult by the fact that the armor does not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89912&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soldiers Write…About War, and a Woman</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/22/soldiers-writeabout-war-and-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nation.time.com/?p=89890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in awhile a war book – actually written by a soldier – grabs you and won’t let go. The latest is The Yellow Birds, by Iraq war vet Kevin Powers. Nate Rawlings interviewed him here on Battleland more than a month ago, and over the weekend Parade magazine featured Powers, and his book, on its cover. There&#8217;s a special treat that comes from stumbling upon a soldier who can write well. It&#8217;s almost as surprising as finding a reporter who can do the same. Over the weekend there were two worth noting. One surfaced in Saturday&#8217;s Washington Post, in a letter to the editor, of all places. Army 1st Lieutenant Adam Swartzbaugh wrote from Jaghatu, Afghanistan, to take issue with Greg Jaffe&#8217;s article (highlighted on Battleland here) about the boredom and missionlessness U.S. Army troops feel as the war winds down: I feel it necessary to speak on behalf of the soldiers I serve with…Whether we are winning a war is irrelevant in my platoon. What do my men and I consider a successful mission? It is when we have done something, anything, to further protect the lives of our soldiers, period. Insofar as we are able to do this, my men will continue pushing themselves further and deeper in every dimension of the physical, psychological and spiritual — to the very limits of war, and to the end of life. Sunday&#8217;s New York Times featured a soldier in Afghanistan in – of all places – the paper&#8217;s Modern Love column. Women generally write for this weekly take on the trials and tribulations of the heart, but this week Army Specialist Kevin Farrell put words to paper. He wrote, as many soldiers have, about a woman back home, and their on-again, off-again relationship: The time came for me to leave, and I left. When I got to mobilization training, I figured something out. I realized that everyone belongs somewhere. Beautiful young girls who love fashion belong in New York City, at parties and bars, having fun and meeting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89890&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Kayak</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/10/my-kayak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Morrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I type this I am sitting in the San Diego airport preparing to head home to Dallas. The TAPS weekend seminar is over and I am filled with a powerful sense of faith.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88480&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Suicide</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/suicide-2/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/806134301.jpg?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>The Start of the Suicide Story</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/09/the-start-of-the-suicide-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elspeth Cameron Ritchie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was nine years ago -- Columbus Day, 2003 -- that the first significant story on the suicides of the post-9/11 wars appeared above the fold in USA Today. Reporter Gregg Zoroya had called me that summer, when I was doing a fellowship at the Uniformed Services University at the Health Sciences. He asked about five suicides in Iraq over the summer and fall of 2003, a few months after we invaded.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88246&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Combat, Up Close</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/09/combat-up-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two things are striking about this just-posted three-and-a-half minute video of a firefight in Afghanistan’s Kunar province last April:

-- Just how unseen the enemy is.

-- Just how unconnected Private 1st Class Red Daniels of the Army’s 4th Infantry Division is.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88213&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Afghanistan</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/afghanistan-2/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Afghan Police Kill a U.S. Special Operations Captain &#8220;To Make a Statement&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/08/afghan-police-kill-a-u-s-special-operations-captain-to-make-a-statement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Greg Escobar served as an operations officer in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, training Afghan police in Kunar province for the first half of his deployment, and Afghan troops in Paktika province for the second half. He is a glass-half-empty kind of guy, as he makes clear in this July interview recently posted by the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Yet he believes his final mission – training Afghan troops to defend their border with Pakistan and keep terrorists out &#8212; remains &#8220;doable.&#8221; Excerpts: In my opinion, pre-deployment training was a bit lacking. The things we focused on were language training and cultural awareness training. Although very important, the language that we were trained on was not the language for the area that we were deploying into, so it was a waste of time… We were trained in Dari, which is in my opinion what the United States is pushing on the country as a national language, which is why we were taught it, versus what the people along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border are speaking, which is multiple languages, primarily Pashtu… Cultural training, a lot of the cultural trainers, although they had a background from Afghanistan, it had been some years since they had been there. The female cultural awareness trainer left Afghanistan when she was three or four years old and spent the remainder of time in California. The stories from a child in Afghanistan are probably very different from the experience as an adult…My assumption is that she does not remember what happened while she was in Afghanistan, and was probably telling second or third-hand experiences from relatives… Cultural training, and I don&#8217;t know that you can do any more than get a good interpreter or translator, and that&#8217;s all the cultural training you need. It&#8217;s more interpersonal skills and communication skills that make that effective. Regardless of what you do or what you say, it&#8217;s going to go through an intermediary, and that intermediary is the one that defines if you&#8217;re culturally acceptable or not<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88128&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Refuse to Give Up&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leslie McCaddon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I am tired of suicide. I ache in my bones and muscles and soul for all the suffering that continues to occur. I am tired of learning about people who reached out for help, sometimes screaming for help, and they were dismissed by the military. I am tired of hearing widows who not only blame themselves unfairly, but are also blamed by the military (in writing) as the trigger for their husband&#8217;s suicide. I am tired of an endless problem that seems to have no clear solution. My heart breaks for each of us. The moms, dads, siblings, widows and children. If we aren&#8217;t asking why any more (and many of us have learned to stop asking that question) we are asking what can we do? Today, I am tried and frustrated that the number of suicides keeps going up and more and more families are in need of support from TAPS. I don&#8217;t have the solution. But, I refuse to give up. We all have to refuse to give up. Saturday one of the presenters, Franklin Cook &#8212; who is a suicide survivor himself &#8212; said: &#8220;You can survive anything if you keep showing up.&#8221; And so, though at times today I was tempted to retreat to my room to process my fatigue and frustration, I kept showing up. And I will keep showing up until the path is clearer on what we can do to help our men and women in the military, and their families. In the meantime, I&#8217;m going to process my grief (and too many others) the best way that I can. As TAPS says, I will Remember the love, Celebrate the life and Share the journey. Thank you for sharing this journey with me for a while. I hope that together we can make it really count. Leslie McCaddon of Massachusetts was one of two widows Time featured in its July cover story on the surge in Army suicides. Her husband, Dr. Michael McCaddon, an Army captain, died in March.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88046&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That&#8217;s What Friends Are For…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Morrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday night was our &#8220;family dinner&#8221; at our suicide-survivors&#8217; conference in San Diego.TAPS provided us with fried chicken (I was one happy Texan!) and several other comfort foods. We sat at tables with friends both new and old and everyone had the same precious look on their faces- exhausted yet grateful. I was feeling tired, emotionally stretched, excited, comforted, and thrilled to hear our key note speaker Marine Corps Sergeant Major Brian Battaglia, the senior enlisted adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that role, his mission is to keep the nation&#8217;s top military officer &#8212; Army General Martin Dempsey &#8212; keenly aware of how the nation&#8217;s young men and women in uniform are faring and feeling. It&#8217;s a vital job after &#8212; as of Sunday &#8212; 11 straight years of war. I first met Sergeant Major Battaglia in June at the Department of Defense-VA suicide prevention conference. He sat in the front row during our panel of survivors&#8217; stories, and served as a grounding force for me while I poured my heart out. I had no idea who he was, but was compelled to go thank him for giving me an encouraging smile when I struggled to grasp words. I soon learned that he played a very important role within our military, specifically working on suicide prevention. So, you can imagine my delight when I found out he would be speaking at the TAPS Suicide Survivor Seminar. Saturday night, Sergeant Major Battagia spoke to our gathering of survivors, and encouraged us to continue sharing our stories. He honored our loved ones and affirmed what I, too, believe: they all died heroes. He spoke of the love and support we all now have in TAPS and of his personal appreciation and awe of such a passionate and precious organization. Lastly, he addressed the fiercest survivors among us, the children. As a teacher, I was so incredibly moved by what came next. Sergeant Major Battaglia invited the children to come to the stage. He told them that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88060&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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