Wounded Platoon

answer PAPER THE WOUNDED PLATOON Kevin Shields, a 24-year old military Soldier, went out potable with three multitude buddies on November 30, 2007, from Fort Carson, atomic number 27, a base dummy up to Colorado Springs. A few hours later, he was dead. He was shot twice in the head at close range and left by the side of the road by his army buddies. Shields violent take remote accentuated maven of m any(prenominal) violent attacks perpetrateted by the three Army buddies, who ar now serving time in prison for Shields death and other crimes as well.Since the Iraq war began, a total of 18 soldiers from Fort Carson birth been charged with or convicted of mar, manslaughter or act murder committed at home in the United States, and 36 Army soldiers throw away committed suicide. In the movie The Wounded Platoon, FRONTLINE investigate a single Fort Carson platoon of infantry workforce, the 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, and finds that after a long period time away from home, serving their country, a class of young workforce changed by the war in Iraq and suffering from a range of psychiatric disorders that many institutionalise for their violent and self-destructive behaviors.Since return from Iraq, three members of the 3rd Platoon have been convicted on murder or attempted murder charges one was jailed for drunk driving and a nonher for assaulting his teammate and the other one has attempted suicide. They could not stop bragging somewhat the amount of innocent plurality they have murdered and they have gotten away with it. Theres a whole bunch of people in the unit that killed people they werent supposed to, concord to Bruce Bastien, who, along with Louis Bressler and Kenny Eastridge, is now serving time for the murder of Kevin Shields.In a stunning confession recorded by police interviewers and sh stimulate for the setoff time on television, Mr. Bastien admits to his role in the murder of two U. S. soldiers and the exquisite of a young woman during a robbery in Colorado Springs, thefts and murders ar being committed in our own justtocksyard by our own Army soldiers whose work is to protect us and our country. Mr. Bastien also makes claims about to a greater extent murders committed in Iraq during the surge. Its easy to name away with that kind of s**t over on that point. You can just do it and be similar, Oh, he had a gun, and nobody really looks into it. F*** it, its just another deadHaji. besides that excuse did not go too well for them here. While the Army has concluded that there is no evidence to back up Bastiens allegations of soldiers putting to death innocent Iraqis, PBS, Fontline also speaks with platoon member Jose Barco, who makes a similar claim. We were pretty trigger-happy, he says of the soldiers time in Iraq. Wed open up on anyaffair. We usually rolled three or four trucks, and if one of them got hit and there was any males around, wed open up, and wed shoot at them. They even didnt have to be arm. They have extended their behaviors here at home and even turned on their own Army buddies.ScienceDaily (Sept. 15, 209) The Veterans Administration should expect a high chroma of Iraq veterans seeking treatment of post traumatic stress disorder, with researchers anticipating that the rate among armed forces will be as high as 35%, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). 35% of our soldiers suffer from PTSD. The VA outline which is already experiencing significant delays for PTSD treatment provision, urgently needs to coquette up its mental health resource capacity.Our soldiers are becoming weed murderers abroad and at home. Is it PTSD, boredom or just because they can get away with it? Anything less than manditory PTSD therapy upon return should be considered less than welcome to the American publi c. We ask these soulnel to put their ordinary lives on hold, commit unspeakable acts of valor and return to America without support and understanding. We can not begin to imagine the horrors these people have witnessed or experienced. With manitory treatment by psychotherapists, the stigma would be removed and maybe they would have a regained champion of morality. Being from N.C. and witnessing the struggles of returning military personnel from wartime, we need to do so much more for them. This was an excellent film and is exactly what I judge from Frontline. No opinions or hidden agendas. Just the facts and the room for us to interpret. I think we need to step back and remove the original problem, which is waging banned wars in other countries. We are sending our people in there to be damaged, then trying to fix them, most of the time so they can become functional enough to go back on a deployment and do violence upon others and be re-traumatized. That is insanity.Did you notic e how the assistant headspring of staff to the army talks about the soldiers as though they are products or commodities to be shipped to the front based on supply and penury? That is, indeed, exactly what they are. Just another pair of boots on the ground, just standardised any iraqi is just another haji, like cattle or a dog. These soldiers are de-humanized in the same way they have de-humanized the supposed enemy and that may be the moral lesson for them all. This should give any person a lot of go bad before they voluntarily (and remember everyone, it is voluntary) signs up for this irrational, cowardly work. This should give any person a lot of pause before they voluntarily (and remember everyone, it is voluntary) signs up for this irrational,cowardly work. You need to jump back with your bad self,you and like minded others are as much to blame as the incompetent system Ive had to deal with because of my own issues,you reek of the supercilious arrogant sort who spend th e day blaming America for every injure in the world before going home to sleep at night under that blanket of safety provided by better men than you,the same men you call cowards.Youre not fit to lick the colly off any of my brothers boots What blanket of safety did the War in Iraq provide for anyone? It was and is a complete disaster that has cost us over 4,000 soldiers lives and $1 trillion to US taxpayers. It was waged based on lies by chicken hawks, men like Dick Cheney who got 5 deferments when it was his turn to fight in Vietnam yet has no problem sending young American men and women to die for weapons of visual sense destruction and liberating the Iraqi people. What a joke. The support the soldiers campaign is nothing but a Pentagon marketing strategy to take the onus off of the governments awful policies. If you really want to support the troops, look at the policies themselves and the terrible ratiocination making that when into waging them and make sure it never hap pens again. We can support the troops by avoiding the complimentary deaths of 4,000 soldiers and the countless wounded. Thats real patriotism, saving American lives from needless death.Im sure many Americans are scared of the same thing happening to their soldiers coming home in their hometown who are now in Afghanistan. So far our media has not really made any connections amid crimes at home and PTSD. It will only be time. Im also sure that our Military is keeping quiet. Sending our young men into combat result to PTSD, Madness, and violence backhome. The VA will ne er have enough resources to take care of the broken minds and bodies that wars have created.