Commander wants a network of caregivers
By TOM ROEDER
THE GAZETTE
December 17, 2007 - 12:00AM
Fort Carson’s top general says his post is ready for the growth ahead and is focusing on caring for soldiers coming home now.
Maj. Gen. Mark Graham, who took command of the post this fall, has set his top priority as building a network of Army and civilian caregivers who can address the needs of soldiers and their families as the post deals with continued wartime deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
With the post expecting 4,000 soldiers back from Iraq combat in the next month, Graham said he recognizes that all of his soldiers will come home changed men and women and that some of them will have what is becoming the signature disease of this war: post-traumatic stress disorder.
“PTSD is like a hurricane,” Graham said. “If you’re in the path, it doesn’t matter who you are, it hits you.”
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