Posted on 09/02/2019 8:31:45 AM PDT by bgill
Effective this month, a new alert system similar to an Amber or Silver alert will be implemented. However, while an Amber alert is aimed at missing children and a Silver alert is used to aid in the search for missing elderly, this new alert system will benefit Veteran’s as well as their families.
"Its camo alert, which is short for camouflage, which everybody can equate to the military," explains Rio Hondo Police Chief William Bilokury.
According to Bilokury, the Camo alert system will work like Amber and Silver alerts, but it is intended to aid in the search for missing veterans. Specifically those with a mental illnesses, like post-traumatic stress disorder, or a traumatic brain injury.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
bad.
Might as well be called the Texas Red Flag App.
This will be the weapon of choice for every lefty in Texas. Know a veteran who is a neighbor? Make the call...and watch the SWAT fun unfold.
Beta Irish Bob thanks you.
Amber Alert is a stolen child, Silver is usually Alzheimer’s patients. If a Vet has PTSD, he isn’t stolen or doesn’t know his identity, he’s disappeared on purpose. I think the idea is poor, especially with eventual “mission creep”.
Unless you have a TBI and PTSD and know how likely someone is to take their lives or disappear.
Everyone has faith in Texas until something they don’t understand appears. Then it’s a “ref flag” law to find them before they overdose in the hotel of their choice from 24/7 headaches that are not describable by words or 80 hour insomnia or tremors and night terrors and confusion and disorientation or a million other “goodies” that come with brain injury.
I’m not a vet. Have a brain injury. 90 percent of the time PTSD is the lazy diagnosis because 80 percent of TBIs, even quite severe ones will not show up on MRIs and PET scans are too expensive.
But by all means, let’s go peek around the corner for the dreaded “red flag” laws.
Sorry Bgill and tadslos. Ben I saw your comment so I threw you in.
I woke/wake up with particularly horrific headaches and tremors and the idea of going to a cheap hotel with a few bottles of JD and some bottles of xanax or roxys occurred to me Frequently in the early years of the TBI.
Or just going to the #$##ing woods and finding a comfortable area and doing it.
That doesn’t occur to me anymore but I do follow a lot of websites that our brain injured vets appear on and I follow TBI websites and chat sites in general and these guys disappear and end up killing themselves on a tragic scale.
There IS REASON to fear for a 2nd amendment right erosion work around. And you guys are right to be concerned.
It’s just in this case, MY MIND sees a vet unconscious but still alive and if the search is on, they will find him before he passes.
but I was out of line in my first post, and I apologize.
My heart breaks for these guys because my TBI residuals are nothing compared to these guys and I barely make it through some days.
Maybe they’d hate the Texan that found them and “saved” them. I don’t know.
Again, I apologize.
The road to hell is paved with so called good intentions.
Remember the Patriot Act?
Do you trust the government for anything now?
I sure as hell don’t.
Agreed.
Isnt there a happy medium like waiving the 24 hour waiting period for missing vets.
These guys gave their futures for us.
paranoid. (you...)
They “24 hour waiting period” is a myth.
If someone is missing and you fear for them, call.
Is that true everywhere?
that’s important to know. Thanks.
Here’s it’s a 48 hour wait until an adult can be reported missing.
As I said, this could be good or bad. Many things start out good but quickly turn bad.
Yeah you’re right.
Also I forgot my golden rule of not posting until I’m up for a few hours or the bile from my posts drips onto my laptop screen and it’s a son of a gun to get off!
No one likes a Holier than thou poster.
Especially me, ironically.
Have a good one FRiend.
But at the the bottom of the bile (not barrel :) ) is a deep rooted concern for our brain injured vets.
It just came across very badly.
Most good things are used as bad things by the left. This is a bad thing. This is how they get us.
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