Added On January 18, 2010
A South Florida woman is pulled from a collapsed supermarket in Haiti, after five days beneath the rubble. WFOR reports
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
PTSD study seeks to locate, help women veterans
Study seeks to locate, help women veterans: Post-traumatic stress disorder is its focus [Albuquerque Journal, N.M.]
Jan. 18--An unintended consequence of allowing women in the U.S. military to serve in combat has led a local psychologist to launch a four-year, $1 million research project centered on women with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
The bad news is that about 22 percent of female veterans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan develop PTSD, compared with 15 percent of combat veterans in general.
Even worse, said Diane T. Castillo, a psychologist with the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System, between 80 percent and 90 percent of the women veterans being treated at the local VA clinic list sexual trauma as the source of their PTSD. That's 10 times higher than the number of women who attribute their PTSD to combat trauma alone. About 20 percent report sexual trauma and at least one other source of trauma as causes of their PTSD.
With more than 20 years of research and a renewed, war-induced focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, medical practitioners are in near unanimous agreement about how to best treat the debilitating effects of PTSD.
The focus now, Castillo said, is finding the most efficient way of providing proven PTSD treatments to the burgeoning number of soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Castillo, coordinator for the Women's Stress Disorder Treatment Team at the New Mexico VA Health Care System, an adjunct assistant professor in UNM's Psychiatry Department and an associate professor in UNM's Psychology Department, has been treating PTSD patients for more than 20 years.
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Study seeks to locate, help women veterans
Jan. 18--An unintended consequence of allowing women in the U.S. military to serve in combat has led a local psychologist to launch a four-year, $1 million research project centered on women with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
The bad news is that about 22 percent of female veterans serving in Iraq and Afghanistan develop PTSD, compared with 15 percent of combat veterans in general.
Even worse, said Diane T. Castillo, a psychologist with the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System, between 80 percent and 90 percent of the women veterans being treated at the local VA clinic list sexual trauma as the source of their PTSD. That's 10 times higher than the number of women who attribute their PTSD to combat trauma alone. About 20 percent report sexual trauma and at least one other source of trauma as causes of their PTSD.
With more than 20 years of research and a renewed, war-induced focus on posttraumatic stress disorder, medical practitioners are in near unanimous agreement about how to best treat the debilitating effects of PTSD.
The focus now, Castillo said, is finding the most efficient way of providing proven PTSD treatments to the burgeoning number of soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Castillo, coordinator for the Women's Stress Disorder Treatment Team at the New Mexico VA Health Care System, an adjunct assistant professor in UNM's Psychiatry Department and an associate professor in UNM's Psychology Department, has been treating PTSD patients for more than 20 years.
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Study seeks to locate, help women veterans
US soldier returns to Haiti to help, finds family
US soldier returns to Haiti to help, finds family
By KEVIN MAURER
The Associated Press
Monday, January 18, 2010; 12:00 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Junior Florestal left Haiti when he was 13 for a better life in the United States. He long promised to return, but it took an earthquake to bring him back.
"I'd always wanted to come," the 33-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant said Sunday. "But I didn't want to come in this way."
Florestal is one of at least three Haitian-American paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division helping get sorely needed food, water and supplies to survivors of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that shattered this capital city last Tuesday. His unit learned it would leave the following day, giving Florestal hope he could both bring aid and track down dozens of relatives living in Port-au-Prince and in villages surrounding the capital.
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US soldier returns to Haiti to help, finds family
By KEVIN MAURER
The Associated Press
Monday, January 18, 2010; 12:00 PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Junior Florestal left Haiti when he was 13 for a better life in the United States. He long promised to return, but it took an earthquake to bring him back.
"I'd always wanted to come," the 33-year-old U.S. Army staff sergeant said Sunday. "But I didn't want to come in this way."
Florestal is one of at least three Haitian-American paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division helping get sorely needed food, water and supplies to survivors of the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that shattered this capital city last Tuesday. His unit learned it would leave the following day, giving Florestal hope he could both bring aid and track down dozens of relatives living in Port-au-Prince and in villages surrounding the capital.
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US soldier returns to Haiti to help, finds family
Retired U.S. Army communications specialist was in Haiti when quake hit
Haiti Quake Survivor: From Heaven to Hell and Back
Mary Winter
Copy Editor
Posted:
01/18/10
Filed Under:Woman Up, Haiti
Fernand Sajous starred this week in his own version of "The Road," a movie about a father-and-son's terrifying travels through a post-apocalyptic world. But two big differences: Sajous' hellish odyssey took place in Haiti, not Hollywood, and no scriptwriters were needed to beef up the story line.
Sajous, a 56-year-old retired U.S. Army communications specialist, was driving home from the airport in Port- au-Prince around 4:50 p.m. Tuesday when the crushing earthquake hit. The next 60 hours was a nightmarish, 200-mile road trip from the north side of the island to the south that he survived thanks to providence, luck, military training, his 2008 Isuzu pickup truck and his 9mm pistol.
"I just want to cry, but I can't even cry," Sajous told his daughter Thursday. In the previous 48 hours, he had pulled his mother from under the rubble of her home in a destroyed neighborhood in Port-au-Prince and had seen the quake's toll on his 45-year-old sister: a broken leg and a severe burn covering 60 percent of her face. Those traumas -- along with the astounding number of corpses and desperate people in the streets, the thugs Sajous had no doubt would kill him to get his truck, and the smell of decaying flesh -- shook Sajous to the core. He was exhausted and possibly in shock.
From Heaven to Hell and Back
Mary Winter
Copy Editor
Posted:
01/18/10
Filed Under:Woman Up, Haiti
Fernand Sajous starred this week in his own version of "The Road," a movie about a father-and-son's terrifying travels through a post-apocalyptic world. But two big differences: Sajous' hellish odyssey took place in Haiti, not Hollywood, and no scriptwriters were needed to beef up the story line.
Sajous, a 56-year-old retired U.S. Army communications specialist, was driving home from the airport in Port- au-Prince around 4:50 p.m. Tuesday when the crushing earthquake hit. The next 60 hours was a nightmarish, 200-mile road trip from the north side of the island to the south that he survived thanks to providence, luck, military training, his 2008 Isuzu pickup truck and his 9mm pistol.
"I just want to cry, but I can't even cry," Sajous told his daughter Thursday. In the previous 48 hours, he had pulled his mother from under the rubble of her home in a destroyed neighborhood in Port-au-Prince and had seen the quake's toll on his 45-year-old sister: a broken leg and a severe burn covering 60 percent of her face. Those traumas -- along with the astounding number of corpses and desperate people in the streets, the thugs Sajous had no doubt would kill him to get his truck, and the smell of decaying flesh -- shook Sajous to the core. He was exhausted and possibly in shock.
From Heaven to Hell and Back
Floridians welcomed to Texas by freezing temperatures
Florida Army National Guard Soldiers from the 2-124th Inf. Regt., arrive at Fort Hood Jan. 6. The 2-124th is part of the 53rd Inf. BCT from Florida that will train at North Fort Hood for the next two months. Chaplain candidate John Olagbemi (foreground) and Sgt. Maj. Ralph Hernandez, from the Hood Mobilization Brigade, welcome the Soldiers as they arrive at Robert Gray Army Airfield. Gloria Harris, Hood Mobilization Brigade
Floridians welcomed to Texas by freezing temperatures, mobilization brigade
By Gloria Harris, Hood Mobilization Brigade
January 14, 2010 News
Approximately 2,600 Florida Army National Guard Soldiers are at Fort Hood training for their upcoming deployment to Iraq and Kuwait.
The 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team arrived in waves as Texas temperatures plummeted last week. The first group, about 600 Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 124th Infantry Regiment from South Florida, stepped off airplanes Tuesday at Robert Gray Army Airfield. They were immediately followed by the 2nd Battalion, 124th Inf. Regt. from Central Florida; the 1st Battalion, 153rd Cavalry Regiment from the Florida Panhandle; the 2nd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery Regiment from Lakeland, Florida; and the 53rd Brigade Support Battalion, 53rd Special Troops Battalion and Headquarters and Headquarters Company.
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