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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA friend told me this, info she's received from her husband, who was in the Army:
'If you're found to have ANY mental illness, ANY, you are immediately taken away from weapons and put on desk duty. It's a known fact in the Army. I can't speak for any other branch, but he told me that was fact.'
doc03
(35,346 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)care while on active duty used to be a strike against your career--for getting things like security clearances, for example. Edit to add: they do screen pretty hard now for PTSD, so it may have changed for the better recently--hope so.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)UTUSN
(70,710 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)weapons? Maybe in some cases and some places, but good lord there is a HELL of a lot of PTSD and mental health issues with soldiers in the field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Dale_Green#Steven_Dale_Green
elleng
(130,974 posts)Don't know.
moondust
(19,993 posts)who took his clothes off while our company was out at the rifle range! Buck naked in early Spring, still pretty cool out! He was taken away and spent a few weeks on office duty while they processed his discharge. That was quite a few years ago.
Weird stuff can happen.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Drag the bottom of the barrel. And gave them guns.