NPR - July 10, 2009 · One out of every five U.S. soldiers reports coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury, also known as TBI. Roadside bombs and Humvee wrecks are often to blame.
TBI symptoms can be hard to identify, but Army doctors are finding more cases because of baseline testing that began two years ago. Early detection is helping more soldiers heal instead of suffering in silence.

Six months ago, after a Humvee rollover in Iraq, Staff Sgt. Clifford Lee forgot that he was married and that he had kids. Now he has been cleared to return to duty.

While doctors have gotten better at identifying and treating TBI, they still have trouble figuring out exactly when a soldier is ready to go back to war. But they are working on it, because a combat-tested soldier has become all the more valuable to a force stretched thin across two wars.

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I'm not sure what to say about this except that it is one more reason to bring the troops home and make sure they have adequate health care when they get here.

Peace always.
~Ken