Psychiatric Problems Stalk Military
By: Dirk Steele	Published: 12/06/1999
At a time when the military is desperate to fill its thinning ranks, the services are dismissing thousands of young troops each year because of pre-existing psyciatric conditions, statistics indicate. The Military discharged more than 3,100 recruits with psyciatric histories last year, either in boot camp or within the first six months of enlistment. Their problems ranged from attention-deficit disorders to depression to personality disorders. Defense Department commanders say they are concerned by the losses and searching for explanations. "If this is a consistent pattern throughout the services, then we've got a problem of American society or a problem with the way we are recruiting," said Col. David Johnson, command surgeon for the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command near Chicago. Johnson's organization is responsible for screening about 200,000 new recruits who enter all branches of the military. The number of young military personnel with psychiatric problems is troubling for server reasons. The most serious is the potentially volatile mix of unstable people and deadly weapons. However, without better data than they have, military commanders say they can only speculate as to the causeses. Two theories are most prevalent. One suggests a military that increasingly find recruits on the fringes of society. The other pointss to a rise in the medication and treatment of attention-deficit and other behavioral disorders. Why not join the rest of us on the inside and get all of Goofball.com?
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Oh horsefeathers! (0 replies) started by drfunky (12.06.2000 3:53:49 PM EST) Since when is the military interested in recruiting the sane? The majority of the ones I have met are quite unstable, and I'm not just talking about the private, wither. The military has long been accepted as employment for the otherwise unemployable. In other words, if you can't do anything else, you can always join the army and have your "three hots and a cot" daily. In a group of people that are being conditioned to charge into gunfire and face almost certain annihilation, I don't think sanity should be one of the key factors in military recruitment. Let the lessers of society do it -- they're more qualified and have much less to lose than the rest of us. Besides, if the sanity issue was really valid, it would criple our country by either filling our armies with people who know better thereby adding the idiots to an already substandard labor pool, or we would have such a small army so as to be taken over in a weekend, in which case we'd all better get used to the idea of praising Allah several times a day and learn a new language and alphabet. Aside from that, have you seen the idiots in charge?

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GOOD IDEA (0 replies)   started by donut38 (12.06.2000 0:02:46 AM EST) ALL WE NEED IS ANOTHER WACKO WITH A MACHINE GUN PLEASE KEEP ONLY SANE PEOPLE IN AN INSANE JOB

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