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Even mild TBI can be devastating.
Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, problems w/ memory + reasoning.
Once troops come home, they can have trouble driving a car down the street or comprehending their children’s homework.
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Today at Davos, the conference for billionaires + others, Trump dismissed traumatic brain injuries (#TBI) sustained by US soldiers in Iraq as not “serious,” and referred to them as “headaches.”
But here’s the thing — they ARE really, really serious.
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Why do we say that?
Here’s some of @txtianmiller’s reporting from a *literal* decade ago:
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Our reporting ***again, in 2010*** revealed the ways the US government failed to diagnose, treat and even take seriously the condition.
More than that — they even denied soldiers with #TBI purple hearts.
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And yes, it can be treated…
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But not everyone gets access — even still. It continues to destroy the lives of both US troops and civilians.
Don’t believe us? Clock the responses to THIS thread 👇
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(And yes, soldiers now get Purple Hearts for TBIs – the Army acknowledged the severity of so-called invisible wounds.)
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22. sij |
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As you probably know, we’ve continued to report on the military.
We still want to hear from active duty service people (specifically Navy) who have had difficulties treating mental health issues sustained during service.
Confidential form here 👇
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Read all of our reporting on the subject 👇
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And Sign up to get our next military (and other) investigations as soon as they publish 👇
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I have always appreciated your reporting, but this is personal to me. Thank you.
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Confusion. Inability to focus or concentrate. Depression. Migraines. Migraine associated vertigo. Employability problems....
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“Headaches and a couple of other things”. Cover-up. We don’t know how badly these troops were injured and he isn’t going to tell us. He doesn’t want us to know for obvious reasons. Deliberately minimizing it. Were there fatalities? If there were we’ll never know.
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