[Mountain Troll]

First time poster, so forgive me if it's not quite right. The real problem I think is that soldiers are social creatures. From the first day of Basic, they live and work as a team. I don't see any team building in these Warrior Transition Units, just individual soldiers against the cadre. Of course they're not doing well.

[unkus]

Good first post. Thank you. Our wounded warriors deserve only the very best and I recommend people get involved in the Wounded Warrior Project.

I’d definately get other sources. The New York Slimes is to be taken with a huge dose of salt.

The situation at Fort carson, if even partially accurate, is unacceptable.

Thank you for your service Mountain Troll.

[redpoll]

Thanks for posting this. I’m 54 years old, so it’s nice to get a preview of my old age health care will be like under socialized Obamacare.

[GeronL]

warehoused?

wait until ObamaCare gives us 40-bed wards

[Engineer_Soldier]

I’m stationed here at Fort Carson. I always tell folks in the outside that if they ever want to know what socialized health care looks like (coming soon after they bankrupt the industry over the next couple of years), then they need to come and witness military health care. In order to see a doctor, a soldier first has to see a medic (equal to an EMT-P in the outside world), then they get sent (if the medic doesn’t try being doctor first) to a P.A. (physician’s assistant). If the P.A. wants, and it usually ends at his/her office, then they can refer you to a doctor. Finally, days after the condition began, you might see a doctor. Otherwise, you can go sit in the E.R. for hours upon hours after work hours. If you go, and check in, it becomes your place of duty and you can’t leave until they clear you. Then the E.R. doctor will prescribe you “vitamin M” (that’s what we call Motrin because military docs prescribe it for everything) to get you by until the next day and then refer you back to square one, your medic’s aid station.

God forbid if you get cancer and need care.....thank God I’ve never had cancer, but I’ve seen another go through the process from my unit.

[neodad]

Just getting them ready for their VA experience...

[MuttTheHoople]

I remember going through Basic Training, surprised the Drill Sergeants cared more about our health and well-being than the base doctors (looking back, the Drills had more on the line with getting and keeping a recruit healthy, while the doctors didn't need any malingerers hanging out at Sick Bay).

I hope the care the soldiers get when coming home from Combat is better. At the bottom of all this, don't forget the military is, at the bottom of it all, an agency of the government. This kind of health care is what we'll be getting once Obamacare goes into effect in 2014.

[ASOC]

It’s all Bammy’s fault.