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There are one million US combat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, CBS' David Martin told us, and according to the Pentagon's latest mental health survey between one third and one half suffer psychological problems upon their return from the battlefield. NBC's Jim Miklaszewski explained that the most common problems are combat stress and traumatic brain injury. Both Pentagon correspondents covered the report that pointed to two main causes why mentally-ill veterans fail to receive the psychiatric care they require: the stigma "could end their military careers," as Miklaszewski put it; second, "the military just does not have enough mental health professionals," Martin asserted--only 600 in the entire army.
Andrew Tyndall 6/16/07 8:54:09 pm

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