Since September 11, 2001, nearly 875,000 NG/R troops have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the largest number of NG/R troops to ever deploy to war zones (Scherrer et al., 2014). NG/R spouses have been faced with unique challenges from multiple, lengthy deployments. Studies have documented mental and physical health challenges for NG/R spouses and the lack of access and barriers to adequate medical services (Erbes et al., 2012).…
Nicole Peroni 3AB Current Event 4 In 2009 Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his outpost which sent troops out looking for him, endangering them. He will have to face a court-martial, a judicial court for trying members of the armed services accused of offenses against military law. He is being charged for desertion and endangering of troops.…
During these circumstances sometimes that will happen and the soldiers will get stressed and sometimes get PTSD from this. Most of the time they will not reach home but if they do, it will be very very hard for them to adapt to society again. Sometimes this change can affect someone so much that they will act a lot different than before they left. Occasionally the change can be deadly.…
Mental Illness Mental illnesses are a significant result of war. War veterans are exposed to dangerous environments which, in return, increase the likelihood of of the soldiers experiencing mental illnesses. These mental illnesses may affect the soldier's day to day life due to the symptoms of the mental illness they are suffering with. One mental illness that resulted from war was the Gulf war syndrome.…
Emotional Impact PTSD has a significant emotional impact on returned soldiers; this is amplified with the occurrence of comorbid major depressive disorder (MDD). Ikin, Creamer, Sim, and McKenzie (2010) investigated the prevalence of comorbid PTSD and MDD amongst Australian veterans of the Korean War; 52 percent of PTSD cases were shown to have co-occurring depression. Key features of MDD include, disturbances in appetite, sleep, energy and concentration and overwhelming feelings of worthlessness, guilt and suicidal ideation, several of these overlap with PTSD symptoms (Burton, Westen, & Kowalski, 2012b). Comorbid PTSD and MDD were shown to be associated with a greater reduction in quality of life and greater symptom severity; this increase in intensity is not unexpected considering overlap exists (Ikin et al., 2010). PTSD-MDD comorbidity was also found to be positively associated with a number of military specific factors including decreasing rank, increasing combat severity and deployment during active warfare (Ikin et al., 2010).…
Veterans are Amazing Veterans sacrifice so much for us and our freedom is this beautiful country. Our veterans sacrifice their time with their family, their minds, and their bodies. Our veterans spend months sometimes years away from their families. They miss out on many important events such as; sporting events, graduations, and first words for babies.…
This will help better themselves and benefit their families as well because they will get proper information on how to act upon a certain situation that they later on may encounter. This also benefits families because they will be aware on what specifically is going on with the returning soldier. Upon returning to their communities, soldiers formerly associated with armed forces and groups almost always confront significant community stigma. Much research on the struggles of veterans has focused on exposure to past-war related violent and mental outcomes as stated above, yet no specific work has been made to examine the role that stigma plays in shaping long-term psychosocial adjustment. The role of stigma in the relationship between war-related experiences and psychosocial adjustment, for example depression, anxiety, hostility, and adaptive behaviors.…
Based on these findings, RAND Corporation is only about 30 service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are estimated to experience the least stress disorder or mild traumatic brain injury during deployment that occurred about 32 million in major depression,…
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can effect anyone, even children. There is a great deal of factors that can come into play when attracting PTSD. It can occur from any traumatic incident in one’s life, whether you were the victim or an innocent by standard. A few being combat, sexual assault, or just seeing something gory.…
PTSD is one of the most common problems with soldiers these days. In this paper I will do my best to describe PTSD and certain symptoms and certain ways that one can help make process in their recovery. One in every three recruits will leave the service with at least some case of PTSD whether it be a light case or a heavy cases.…
I understand your position on pre-deployment and redeployment being the most difficult phases of a deployment. There is so much to do and so much families and sometimes the servicemember does not know. There is so much uncertainty; it makes physical planning and psychological adjusting all the more difficult. Also, for family members, the assumption of new roles usually happens during the pre-deployment phase, even though the service member has not yet deployed and still living at home. But, there is so much the service member needs to do to prepare, there are often extended working hours and family time is limited.…
My grandparents and uncle on my mom’s side of the family are retired from the Army and Air Force, and are still physically active, responsible, respectful and still have their unconditional love for their country even though it has been almost 20 years from retiring. My passion and support comes from my grandparents and uncle who are retired military personnel. after listening to all of their fun, discipline and success memories, my retired military family members motivated me to follow in their footsteps. From this motivation and current enrollment at The Marion Military Institute in Marion, Alabama, I have gained more respect, passion, and want for military life. In other words, my family has a strong respect for the military, but know that…
Challenges Faced by Military Spouses Make Them Heroes For many years, military spouses have been the backbone of the family. They are heroes without fame, heroes without costumes. They are the cornerstone in support of the deployed service member and the family members left behind. Some people say that heroes are those who are fighting for our country.…
Military families and children navigate through different types of transitions and changes, such as frequent moves, job reassignments, changing communities and friends, new schools with different classes and possibly different learning styles, and at times moving to different states or even different countries. Another stressors and trauma is war that these families can face. Within these times families can experience times of separation, either in combat situations or non-combat…
Long and extended separation from families, and the stress on family structure as well as, social functioning, was also a contributing factor for marriages to fail. Military marriages are more at risk when couples spend too much time away from each other, and depending on the service members MOS (military occupational specialty), the service member who served multiple deployments, are at a greater risk of divorce than others. In the article "How Deployment Stress Affects Families", Department of Veterans Affairs, claims that not only are families effected by stressors during and after deployment, but they are also effected by the multiple moves to different duty stations. The article also claims that the news of deployment has an emotional effect, as well as, fear and sadness on families, when it is closer for the service member to depart.…