I saw this whole segment on the world evening news.Unbelievable what I was watching.
Heres a short write-up of the segment.
Im sure others have seen the whole segment on tv.
Just shows you how fuked up this administration is.
They claim there short staffed,so drugging them up and redeploying them is there only option.
Just another reason to give the GOP the Boot.
Hate to think what McCain would do with this:scared
Mentally Unstable Soldiers Redeployed to Iraq
Stretched Thin, Army Puts Some Vulnerable Soldiers Back on the Frontlines
By BOB WOODRUFF, JAMES HILL and JAIME HENNESSEY
Oct. 23, 2008
Two weeks before his second deployment to Iraq last September, Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger broke down.
Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger, who was redeployed to Iraq, with his wife, Christine. More than 600,000 Americans have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Courtesy Michael DeVlieger )"At first, I thought it was something that everybody experienced," DeVlieger told ABC's Bob Woodruff, "and just through time and perseverance I guess it would pass." It didn't pass.
After an 11-day hospitalization, DeVlieger was given a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, three psychiatric prescriptions -- and deployment orders.
"Eighteen hours after he got out of the hospital, he deployed to Iraq," DeVlieger's wife, Christine DeVlieger, recalled. He left for Iraq despite Pentagon policy requiring that service members establish three months of "stability without significant symptoms" before deploying.
"I was a ticking time bomb," Michael DeVlieger said.
Watch "World News" Tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for the full report
Citing privacy, officials at DeVlieger's base in Fort Campbell, Ky., declined to comment except to say there was a combat stress unit assigned to DeVlieger's base in Iraq.
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Heres a short write-up of the segment.
Im sure others have seen the whole segment on tv.
Just shows you how fuked up this administration is.
They claim there short staffed,so drugging them up and redeploying them is there only option.
Just another reason to give the GOP the Boot.
Hate to think what McCain would do with this:scared
Mentally Unstable Soldiers Redeployed to Iraq
Stretched Thin, Army Puts Some Vulnerable Soldiers Back on the Frontlines
By BOB WOODRUFF, JAMES HILL and JAIME HENNESSEY
Oct. 23, 2008
Two weeks before his second deployment to Iraq last September, Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger broke down.
Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger, who was redeployed to Iraq, with his wife, Christine. More than 600,000 Americans have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Courtesy Michael DeVlieger )"At first, I thought it was something that everybody experienced," DeVlieger told ABC's Bob Woodruff, "and just through time and perseverance I guess it would pass." It didn't pass.
After an 11-day hospitalization, DeVlieger was given a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, three psychiatric prescriptions -- and deployment orders.
"Eighteen hours after he got out of the hospital, he deployed to Iraq," DeVlieger's wife, Christine DeVlieger, recalled. He left for Iraq despite Pentagon policy requiring that service members establish three months of "stability without significant symptoms" before deploying.
"I was a ticking time bomb," Michael DeVlieger said.
Watch "World News" Tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET for the full report
Citing privacy, officials at DeVlieger's base in Fort Campbell, Ky., declined to comment except to say there was a combat stress unit assigned to DeVlieger's base in Iraq.
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