Wounded Platoon

REACTION composition THE WOUNDED PLATOON Kevin Shields, a 24-year old forces Soldier, went away drinking with tercet troops buddies on November 30, 2007, from garrison Carson, Colorado, a base close to Colorado Springs. A few hours later, he was dead. He was shot in two ways in the head at close site and left by the side of the road by his multitude buddies. Shields violent murder accentuated unrivaled of galore(postnominal) violent attacks act by the three Army buddies, who ar now serving succession in prison for Shields death and separate crimes as well.Since the Iraq war began, a total of 18 soldiers from Fort Carson pass been charged with or convicted of murder, manslaughter or attempted murder committed at planetary house in the United States, and 36 Army soldiers take away committed suicide. In the movie The Wounded Platoon, FRONTLINE check up on a single Fort Carson platoon of infantrymen, the 3rd Platoon, Charlie attach to 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, and finds that after a long flow rate time away from home, serving their country, a radical of young men changed by the war in Iraq and touching from a range of psychiatric disorders that umpteen blame for their violent and self-destructive behaviors.Since returning from Iraq, three members of the 3rd Platoon name been convicted on murder or attempted murder charges one was jailed for wino driving and other for assaulting his spouse and the other one has attempted suicide. They could non stop bragging roughly the amount of innocent pot they stick off and they have gotten away with it. Theres a whole thud of people in the unit that killed people they werent so-called to, according 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 enter by police interviewers and shown for the first time on television, Mr. Bastien admits to his role in the murder of two U. S. soldiers and the d iscriminating of a young woman during a looting in Colorado Springs, thefts and murders argon being committed in our own concealmentyard by our own Army soldiers whose work is to protect us and our country. Mr. Bastien also makes claims well-nigh more murders committed in Iraq during the surge. Its easy to acquire away with that kind of s**t all all over there. You flowerpot respectable do it and be like, Oh, he had a gun, and nobody originally looks into it. F*** it, its further another deadHaji. But that excuse did not go too well for them here. While the Army has conclude that there is no evidence to back up Bastiens allegations of soldiers killing 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 either social function. We usually turn three or four trucks, and if one of them got concern and there was each males around, wed open up, and wed shoot at them. They even didnt have to be arm. They have drawn-out their behaviors here at home and even turn on their own Army buddies.ScienceDaily (Sept. 15, 209) The Veterans Administration should postulate a high volume of Iraq veterans seeking sermon 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 make up for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). 35% of our soldiers suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. The VA system which is already experiencing significant delays for PTSD interposition provision, urgently claims to vamp up its rational health resource capacity.Our soldiers atomic number 18 becoming bunch 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 r eturn should be considered less than acceptable to the the Statesn public. We ask these mortalnel to put their ordinary lives on hold, commit unspeakable acts of valor and return to the States without life and understanding. We can not begin to speak up 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 sense of morality. Being from N.C. and witnessing the struggles of returning army personnel from wartime, we need to do so a great deal more for them. This was an excellent film and is exactly what I expected from Frontline. No opinions or hidden agendas. bonnie the facts and the room for us to interpret. I think we need to step back and remove the original problem, which is waging illegitimate wars in other countries. We are sending our people in there to be damaged, then toilsome 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 notice how the assistant chief 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 demand? That is, indeed, exactly what they are. Just another pair of boots on the ground, just like every iraqi is just another haji, like oxen or a dog. These soldiers are de-humanized in the resembling way they have de-humanized the alleged enemy and that may be the moral lesson for them all. This should give any person a lot of pause to begin with they voluntarily (and remember everyone, it is voluntary) signs up for this irrational, cowardly work. This should give any person a lot of pause sooner they voluntarily (and remember everyone, it is voluntary) signs up for this irrational,cowardly work. You need to derail back with your bad self,you and like minded others are as much to blame as the incompetent person system I ve had to deal with because of my own issues,you reek of the sneering arrogant sort who spend the day blaming America for every wrong in the world before going home to sleep at shadow under that blanket of safety provided by wear out men than you,the same men you call cowards.Youre not fit to lick the mud 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 slam Cheney who got 5 deferments when it was his turn to fight in Vietnam withal has no problem sending young American men and women to die for weapons of mass destruction and liberating the Iraqi people. What a joke. The permit the troops campaign is nothing only if a Pentagon marketing strategy to take the hindrance off of the governments awful policies. If you really want to support the troops, look at the policies thems elves and the terrible decision devising that when into waging them and make surely it never happens again. We can support the troops by avoiding the needless 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 between crimes at home and PTSD. It will only be time. Im also sure that our Military is retentiveness quiet. Sending our young men into combat depart 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.