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# Air Force Wounded Warrior

Your recent newslink to the Wired story about Air Force blogging protocols explains why there are no photos of wounded warriors posted here!

... I discovered this while searching for pertinent links, to include for this post:

Future Friedman: A place for healing war wounds?

Excerpt: After all, what should be more important than proper treatment for our wounded warriors who have patriotically served, even if some of these battles were fought for misguided reasons?

http://www.unknownnews.net/#13JB1128

Trauma in the wrong lane?

http://www.idahostatesman.com/letters/story/193885.html

A question for mental health awareness week

I recently read in the war-blogs about soldiers returning from overseas, who have had a bit of an adjustment on our highways. Apparently, in battle zones, any vehicle in motion is perceived as threat and it’s hard to get over this. Military troops are trained to swerve over into the other lane, as they travel underneath bridges in conflict zones. In this way, they are more likely to avoid something bad dropped onto their vehicles, when they come out of the other side of the tunnel in an unanticipated lane.

Evidently, from what I gather from our armed forces blogs, this survival routine has been brought back to the States, resulting in several crashes and / or narrow escapes in L.A. area tunnels. I wondered if any of the professionals out there in the Idaho mental health community have heard about this unfortunate phenomenon.

http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/10/12/opinion/letters/122433_96.txt