You are wrong.
There are hundreds of applications for spaces in TBI units. And many being treated in TBI units. They have many here at Shepherd. They come from soldiers who have been in Iraq. TBI is real and tragic for many. It can cause a complete change in personality, a tendancy toward violent and unpredictable behavior and other major problems.
In previous wars, many TBI soldiers died. We have advance field medicine capabilities that can now save these soldiers. It will require an large increase in specialized TBI therapies. With appropriate therapy, many of these soldiers can enjoy an independent and successful future. Military medicine is advanced and successful. The medics in Iraq save many lives using state of the art technology. This is a good thing, and represents the best that the US has to offer. Stateside medicine hasn’t kept pace and our soldiers are suffering. IMO conservatives should be insisting that our soldiers receive the best care available, including TBI therapies. Liberals are the ones that cover their ears so they don’t have to deal with reality. You sound more like one of them when you say this isn’t really a problem.
How is this different than shell shock, something that has been recognized at least back to WWI?
BTW, I don’t think anyone here is saying our troops should not get treatment for this.
Have you seen someone say that?
A few soldiers have legitimate medical injury and need serious care. But they are just a foot in the door for a new "syndrome" meant to grow to thousands without any medical reality to back it up. Stress ailments in the context of an explosion having occurred anytime in the soldier's service career, are being shoehorned into the same category as men with actual physical head trauma, in a grostesque attempt to get legitimate solicitude for the latter, to extend to make-believe snake oil quackery for the former.
I've seen it half a dozen times before and this is no different. Gulf war syndrome, ADD, AHDD, child molestation nonsense, imaginary cell phone illness, imaginary power line dangers, etc etc ad nauseum. We are living in a nation of raving maniacs with terminal hypochondria.
Plato had it right. If it can be fixed by cutting something off or out, sewing something up, or taking the right medicine one off, then fix it. If it can't be cured, live with it and die or not as it falls out. Babying it won't make anybody immortal.
Are some men hurt by lingering trauma from combat, psychologically rather than biomedically? Sure. And you can't do anything about it, either. So suck it up and move on. Shaking down half the world to babysit grown men, is a scam and quackery.