A battle shows how US military grapples with troops in trauma
forces in Afghanistan, the men of Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron,mont blanc, 61st Cavalry are still fighting in and with their memories.
They cannot forget Oct. 3, 2009. On that day,michael kors canada, 300 insurgents attacked two outposts in eastern Afghanistan manned by 72 soldiers,salvatore ferragamo outlet, sparking a 12 hour fight. soldiers were dead. Three days later, the outposts were closed.
Like so many of their comrades, they suffer from mental trauma. Nearly 20 percent of the 1.6 million troops who had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan reported symptoms of post traumatic stress or major depression, according to a 2008 study by Rand Corp.
Only slightly more than half of those sought treatment. So more and more, the army is bringing treatment to them whether they ask for it or not.
After Oct. 3,thenorthface, most of the 18 men in Bravo troop part of the Army's 4th Brigade Combat Team from Fort Carson, Colo. met with counselors. Some went voluntarily,hollister sale, others under orders. Ty Carter,burberry sunglasses, the hardest time is at night.
When he closes his eyes,mk handbags outlet clearance, gunshots from months ago echo through his head. He sees a wounded soldier dragging himself through the dirt on his forearms, shouting for help.
Only it isn't a nightmare Carter doesn't sleep deeply enough in Afghanistan to dream. It's a memory of the excruciating 45 minutes when Carter had to watch that crawling man and do nothing,new balance 574, under strict orders from his superior officer.
Carter replays it over and over in his mind: Shrapnel hits Spc. Stephan Mace as he runs to a nearby building. Another soldier is also hit and killed immediately, going down like a spinning top. Mace, injured and unable to walk, crawls to his fallen comrade and shouts for help.
Carter 30 feet (9 meters) away hears the cries. Under orders,vans shoes outlet, he cannot go.
"You're no good to Mace if you're dead," the officer says.
Carter knows that sergeant probably saved his life. But even now, he feels the anger that welled up in him.
"It felt like nails in the stomach and acid on the brain,rayban.com," he says. "You have no idea what it feels like to watch a good man lie there in total pain, suffering. I knew that I could help him,nike air max, I knew I could make it to him. But the answer, even after arguing, was still NO."
When Carter finally got the OK,lancel, he scooped Mace up and carried him to the aid station. To no avail Mace died that night.
Carter,prada, a towering 30 year old from Northern California, says he couldn't keep his hands from shaking for days. He had trouble controlling his anger. A military psychologist and an Army chaplain suggested sleep aids, so he went on Ambien.
For weeks,p90x3 workout, he refused to talk with anyone. He skipped a mandatory group counseling session. He started wearing sunglasses inside the brightly lit mess hall so no one would bother him,hogan outlet online, and no one would see when his eyes welled up.
His platoon leader,ugg boots, Sgt. Jonathan Hill, ordered him into a private counseling session.
"He grabbed me and said,occhiali da sole ray ban, 'You of all people are going to go down there,hollister france,'" Carter says. "Which he was totally right to do, because I was done. I couldn't hold any emotions in. I was a walking zombie."
Carter struggled in Afghanistan with the knowledge that setting up life again in the United States would be difficult. While home on leave, he carried around a copy of his statement about the attack so he wouldn't have to talk about it. Every time he told the story,louis vuitton outlet stores, he felt all the energy was sucked from him for a day and a half.
"Just sitting in a bar listening to people talk causes me to clench my hands," he says. "So much stress over who is seeing who,borse gucci, or the traffic,michael kors watch, or how a server got someone's coffee wrong. Guys causing fights over someone looking at their girlfriend wrong. Useless!"Hill,converse all star sito ufficiale, the sergeant, has encouraged his soldiers to meet with psychologist Katie Kopp. He himself has met with her once a week in the months following the attack.
Kopp has taught him to write his emotions down in a journal. The first few times,abercrombie and fitch, he found himself writing about fellow soldiers with such anger and force that he nearly broke his pencil.
Hill is haunted by the memory of seeing another soldier die and knowing that but for a few minutes, it would have been him. When he talks about what happened,insanity workout reviews, his voice is calm,reebok kamikaze, but he smokes cigarettes ceaselessly. The 38 year old doesn't remove his sunglasses, and his hands fold and unfold nervously as if they have a troubled life of their own.
Hundreds of militants with ammunition slung over their tunics were running down a dirt road toward the base. Mortar rounds hit every 15 seconds, and the smell of gunpowder hung heavy in the damp air. Hill felt bullets hit in front of his face and behind his head.
Another soldier, Sgt. Joshua Kirk, ran into a building first, while Hill stopped to grab some ammunition.

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