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Major General Gale S. Pollock
Acting Surgeon General
HQDA
5109 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22041-3258

Dear General Pollock:

I am writing to you as a concerned American about the current unacceptable situation in which Army personnel who have
sustained injuries manifest as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, as a result of activities in the combat zones around the world.  It
seems that you and the Army as an institution are not properly acknowledging, diagnosing and treating Army personnel who are
PTSD casualties.  This has been documented in The Nation by Joshua Kors in his articles titled "How Specialist Town Lost His
Benefits" and "Specialist Town Takes His Case To Washington", which I am sure you are familiar with.

General Pollock I view the current practices that you permit to continue, unabated, of misdiagnosing PTSD casualties which leads
to classification of these casualties as Personality Disorders to be at minimum bad judgement and at its worst, morally intolerable.  
I believe that you have lost the passion that you had when you first trained as a medical professional, mistaking cost-containment
and absolute fealty to your superiors who may be directing you to "weed out" PTSD casualties from the roles of the Army.  I believe
and hope that this is a momentary lapse in your recollection of your duty as a medical professional to heal and comfort.

Please consider your prior actions and re mediate them by:

  1. Educating all levels of the Army Medical Corps about PTSD.
  2. Demanding honest and accurate patient evaluations.
  3. Developing a plan and tactics to identify and adequately treat and provide rehabilitation to service members who are PTSD
    casualties, then execute the plan.
  4. Stopping the railroading patriotic American or foreign national service members who have become disabled by PTSD out of
    the service and on to the street.

I am depending upon you to recognize your true duty to your fellow soldiers.

Sincerely,


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