News From the Cause
President Obama/SecVa roundtable with military reporters: (STARS & STRIPES)
August 05, 2009
First of all, I do think there's been a sea change in attitudes around stress disorders since the Vietnam era. I think both DoD and the VA take the issue of PTSD very seriously. One of the best things we can do to reduce incidents of PTSD is to reduce the amount of time in theater without a break. So the steps that we've taken to increase our forces, particularly in the Army and Marines, the authorization I provided to Secretary Gates to advance the increase in forces for our Army so we can end stop loss policy sooner than we otherwise would have been able to do: All of those things will make a difference at reducing. click here to view
