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A Fort Campbell-based soldier who went absent without leave because of alleged post-traumatic stress disorder will return to finish his tour in Afghanistan.
"My family doesn't want me to go, but I am not disobeying a command order," Spc. Jeff Hanks, 30, told Kristin M. Hall of The Associated Press. Hanks, right, said his mental health issues date back to a 2008 deployment in Iraq. Last year, he spent six months in Afghanistan, during which he sustained a concussion when a mortar landed near him. Since turning himself in on Nov. 11, 2010, he said he has been treated for nightmares and headaches and was told to get counseling when re-deployed. Hanks told the AP he does not feel his PTSD has been treated adequately.
Hanks, a married father from North Carolina, said he will likely serve another four months in the country to complete his one-year tour. He has committed to serve in the Army another two and a half years. A Fort Campbell spokeswoman told the AP that Hanks is scheduled to re-deploy in the coming days. (Read more)
Hanks was deployed overseas in May 2010 and did not return after a mid-tour leave in October, reports Jake Lowary of The Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn. After turning himself in on Veterans Day, the Army opted to send Hanks for treatment at a facility in Hopkinsville, Ky., rather than send him back to Afghanistan. (Read more)
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Fort Campbell soldier who went AWOL, and says his Kentucky PTSD treatment was inadequate, is set to return to Afghanistan
A Fort Campbell-based soldier who went absent without leave because of alleged post-traumatic stress disorder will return to finish his tour in Afghanistan.
"My family doesn't want me to go, but I am not disobeying a command order," Spc. Jeff Hanks, 30, told Kristin M. Hall of The Associated Press. Hanks, right, said his mental health issues date back to a 2008 deployment in Iraq. Last year, he spent six months in Afghanistan, during which he sustained a concussion when a mortar landed near him. Since turning himself in on Nov. 11, 2010, he said he has been treated for nightmares and headaches and was told to get counseling when re-deployed. Hanks told the AP he does not feel his PTSD has been treated adequately.Hanks, a married father from North Carolina, said he will likely serve another four months in the country to complete his one-year tour. He has committed to serve in the Army another two and a half years. A Fort Campbell spokeswoman told the AP that Hanks is scheduled to re-deploy in the coming days. (Read more)
Hanks was deployed overseas in May 2010 and did not return after a mid-tour leave in October, reports Jake Lowary of The Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn. After turning himself in on Veterans Day, the Army opted to send Hanks for treatment at a facility in Hopkinsville, Ky., rather than send him back to Afghanistan. (Read more)
- Fort Campbell Works To Address Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Common Ailment Of Afghanistan-iraq Veterans
Research shows almost 14 percent of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afganistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and as an estimated 2 million veterans are coming home, Fort Campbell has quickly acted by reaching out to the medical...
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan disproportionately affect rural areas, which provide more than the average number of recruits. The soldiers who make it home alive come back changed, with traumatic brain damage, post-traumatic stress syndrome or other...
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Dr. Andrea Yancey, a vascular surgeon from Louisville, has completed two weeks of volunteer service treating wounded American soldiers transported from Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S. Army?s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. ?I now have a...
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Doctors at Fort Campbell are using a mock battlefield to assess whether or not soldiers who have suffered a traumatic brain injury are ready to return to combat. The clinic has been recognized by the Department of Defense as a national model....
- Learn. Connect. Share. Ptsd Treatment Can Help.
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