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War is rife with opportunities for exposure to traumatic events. They include driving a truck at risk for encountering roadside bombs, patrolling towns and villages, searching homes for enemy combatants, witnessing suicide attacks, being victimized by military sexual assaults and physical assaults, being assigned to graves registration, being involved in accidents causing serious injuries or death, being hit by friendly fire, serving in medical units, killing or injuring someone, seeing someone being killed, injured, or tortured, and being taken hostage.

Hundreds of thousands of war veterans suffer with flashbacks, nightmares, and many other debilitating mental health injuries—the so-called “silent wounds” of combat trauma. Indications are that veterans of the first Persian Gulf War, and more recently, those of Iraq and Afghanistan, are suffering from PTSDto go to college, worked full time at the VA, and non-scholarship Air Force 2-Year ROTC program for prior service military. Commissioned in the Air Force in 1977. Served as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1977 to 1994. Upon retirement I entered retail drugstore management training with Safeway Drugs Stores in California. Retail Sales Management was not my cup of tea, so I applied my former U.S. Civil Service status with the VA to get my foot in the door at the Justice Department, and later Department of the Navy retiring with disability from the Civil Service in 2000. I’ve been with Veterans Today since the site originated. I’m now on the Editorial Board. I was also on the Editorial Board of Our Troops News Ladder another progressive