This is an issue that matters to real Americans whose children serving our country, have been re-deployed, against Military Medical Boards evaluations. Commanders overide recommendations, deploying non-deployable soldiers at will. My son was finally returned after much battle and assistance from "The Wounded Soldiers Hotline." He needed surgery, which the army refused him, he needed multiple other medical issues resolved, as well as TBI, yet he was deployed. The command mentality, that if you can manipulate the system, hide documented medical results by having paperwork, diapear, that everything is systems go! This is no way to run an army, in my view. At least not a 'strong' army! If my son could push a button, apparently he was "deployable" in the mind of his commander. Disregard, extreme pain issues, sleep loss, and a severed tendon in his knee and hearing loss! This is what is going on today in our military. Our soldiers need a candidate that will protect their needs and then there will be an army of loyal, determined soldiers to serve, rather than soldiers who have lost faith. The loss of faith in your own branch of the military is like losing faith in your parent...it is my hope that one of our democratic candidates will restore this faith. If ever a topic where "Change" needed to occur, this is the topic.So, I ask, what are our canidates going to do about immediate crisis overseas with our soldiers, those with no advocates like this mother here!
Here is the truth to winning this election ....If you want our votes, return our broken soldiers, whose medical papers get "lost", "misplaced", and accused of malingering. Tests for PTS are manipulated and soldiers truly in a fog after combat take more than one year stateside to come out of the fog...test them accurately, so they are not re-deployed before mentally stable! Current procedures regarding troops being deployed are too easily maniplulated by some unscrupulous officers, nco or commanders, who have more of a desire to get ahead in the military regardless the condition of some of our troops being deployed. A review of their medical conditions and interview with each soldier as to the accuracy of his medical documentation or it's being up-to-date is essential if we ever expect to have a strong military or higher retention rates. Soldiers are reluctant to re-enlist, because of these injustices they or their comrades experience. These soldiers, need their future president to speak up for them and prove to them and their familys, the citizens of this fine country, that they will shore up the foundations of our current military and insure that once injured or damaged and broken, they will be provided descent medical care and consideration. It's the honorable thing to do, for honorable men and women who have risked their lives for all of us and put themselves in harms way to serve their country. It is an outrage that this issue isn't brought to light and something done now! Please investigate and bring those needing to be returned to state side and recieve treatment, not be overlooked and forgotten for something far worse to occur to them over there. Not to mention, whole units being put at risk with soldiers that are not totally up to par! What are you going to do Hillary or Barack? Show our people you are candidates of action...make a public stand regarding this issue.
Intense investigations need to be instigated to review soldiers currently serving on the ground in the Middle East. My son who has multiple health issues and being tested for traumatic brain injury due to 3 IED explosions, that should of ended his life was deployed in Sept.07, against Med Board recommendations. He hadn't been physically capable of PT(physical training) for a year after his first Iraq deployment, yet he was deployed again, to simply satisfiy two more boots on the ground. His buddies in his unit are still there and need medical treatment for injuries not addressed during the year after they returned from Iraq. This all gets pushed under carpets by superiors and soldiers have no rights or recourse but to follow orders and board planes, regardless of their readiness. General Casey in todays USA Today, noted the strain the Army is facing...it is the the icing on the cake. Which of our two Democratic candidates, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton will do something about this "TODAY" and publicly address this issue to we parents out here waiting to hear you've called someone in power to have some effect on our soldiers and rescue them from our own inept and disfunctional system operating in todays US military branches. No one wants to speak up and put this out there, but unless we do, our men and woman in the military will continue to be victimized and pushed to unbelievable lengths. I am tired of hearing about "Walter Reed" problems...problems exist in every military hospital on bases with a lack of power or authority given to the hospital's Medical Review Boards! Commanders should not be able to overide their recommendations! What will our potential future candidate do today to intervene and take a stand and show us, the people, what they are truly made of? My vote will go to the candidate of "action", moreso than one of "words." Show us today what your ability to make change really is. I will support you till the end...that is what it takes to win votes! Issues that touch our hearts...our children and our future. Aren't our soldiers' all of these things?
This blog, as other forumns I have addressed this issue is met with much ridicule from current military personel, as they are ingrained in the system that protects them. They are not willing to put their necks on the line and admitt the flaws that have continued to manifest. Human survival is never more apparent as with bringing up dirty laundry in ones own house, but it is never to change if people don't speak up and take a stand. Take a stand for your brother, sister, father, mother, uncle, aunt and cousins who serve this country. If you know something, we need to tell our candidates so change can be ignited, by someone actually able to make a difference. Our soldiers need acknowledgment that their efforts have not gone unappreciated and they deserve all the care available. I might note that during the year of 2006-2007, while my own son attempted repeatedly to get appointments in urology at the army hospital at Fort Campbell, KY., he was put off repeatedly. Researve people had priority of appointments. My son needed vascular surgery. He spent half his time in Iraq in severe pain, and when back in the states, had to wait to be seen. It is no wonder, all his issues were never addressed in the year they had between deployments...something is seriously wrong!
Comments are closed for this post.
