From the 'You Can't Make This S**t Up' File: Army Sites PTSD Tx Facility Next to Firing Range

[TygrBright]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/06/03/benning_post_traumatic_stress.html

>>FORT BENNING, Ga. — Army Sgt. Jonathan Strickland sits in his room at noon with the blinds drawn, seeking the sleep that has eluded him since he was knocked out by the blast of a Baghdad car bomb.

Like many of the wounded soldiers living in the newly built "warrior transition" barracks here, the soft-spoken 25-year-old suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. But even as Strickland and his comrades struggle with nightmares, anxiety and flashbacks from their wartime experiences, the sounds of gunfire have followed them here, just outside their windows.<<

Seriously, this sounds like a story from the Onion. It would be to laugh, if it weren't to cry.

Paging Captain Yossarian....

amazedly,
Bright

[BlooInBloo]

1. Oh sheesh.. And this, after they stopped diagnosing PTSD.

[babylonsister]

2. I read this last week. Talk about an appalling lack of foresight. These

barracks are new; they should be moved. This is disgusting to me, too.

[frebrd]

3. That is absolutely goddamned incredible.

I've done two stints in the Army (in the fifties and the seventies). but I wouldn't have thought even they could be that stupid!

:banghead:

[indepat]

4. Add inept and incompetent to corrupt and venal

:D

[windoe]

5. My outrage meter exploded last week

now its just a pile of parts