Assignment: “Separating the War From the Warrior” 6411-wk2

DISCUSSION 2: COMBAT TRAUMA, SOCW 6411 WK1-2 1

DISCUSSION 2: COMBAT TRAUMA, SOCW 6411 WK1-2

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Introduction

The military personnel and veterans from military service and missions are faced with a lot of difficulties of distress in returning to their civilian life. Such personnel may have undergone lots of trauma during their service for their countries and thus may have depression, anxiety, or even PTSD once they get back home. Additionally, apart from these mental and physical health worries, they may also face difficulties in adapting back into the roles they had before. This discussion paper points out types of trauma experienced by combat veterans and explain why some are more affected by traumatic experiences than others. However, some of the personnel have been exposed to adverse inhuman situations in war scenes which have led them to think of themselves as fundamentally different to civilians while others in the overseas, who are required to risk their lives for the country, maybe faced with bitterness resentment. Such experience affects their mental health and focuses on normal civilian life.

Two types of trauma that combat veterans may experience 

First of all, I figured it was defeat and disappointment. A popular myth among veterans is that they will emerge from active duty leaps and bounds ahead of their civilian peers. One of the many advantages veterans have is the ability to be anything needed to accomplish the task. However, many vets do not know how to determine the expertise of the hiring manager (Nassiri, 2019).

The second thing I thought was the health effects like Agent Orange. The repercussions of wartime actions in Vietnam are still felt, more than four decades later, as the deceased of those brave men and women are fighting health issues related to a frightening ghost of the past of their ancestors: Agent Orange (Ruibin, Weiss, & Coll, 2013).

The most widely used herbicide was Agent Orange, which contained the deadly chemical dioxin. It was later proven to cause serious health problems, including cancer, congenital disabilities, rashes, and severe psychological and neurological issues, with the Vietnamese people as well as with returning U.S. soldiers and their families (Ruibin, Weiss, & Coll, 2013).

Additionally, veterans suffer PTSD after combat whereby their traumatic experiences are not continuous since they serve through rotations. In other words, soldiers find a chance to get out of the combat zone once another unit replaces theirs.

Explain why some combat veterans are more affected by trauma than others.

Veterans who are more affected by trauma than others look into their childhood physical abuse experiences such as bullying or pre-Vietnam psychiatric disorder other than PTSD were a significant contributor to the onset of PTSD. Age also seemed to play an important role: men or women under 25 were seven times more likely than older men or women to develop PTSD when they entered the war. Soldiers who caused damage to civilians or prisoners of war were much more likely to develop PTSD (Dick, 2014).

Reference

Dick, G. (2014). Social work practice with Veterans. Washington, DC: NASW Press.

Nassiri, J. M. (2019). 5 Things No One Tells You About Getting Out Of The Military. Retrieved November 28, 2019, from https://taskandpurpose.com/5-things-veterans-dont-know-getting-civilian-job.

Ruibin, A., Weiss, E.L., & Coll, J.E. (2013). Handbook of military social work. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.