RAND Corp: 620,000 vets may have PTSD or brain injury


	RAND Corp: 620,000 vets may have PTSD or brain injury

masbury

4-17-2008 4:25 PM

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military, veterans, iraq, war, healthcare, politics

masbury says:

About half receive care, and half of those only minimally. I wonder if kids who enlist are warned of the likelihood of this happening to them - should be like cancer warnings on cigarettes.

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