Reintegration Bootcamp

[Deleted member 43454]

I think there should be a 2 to 3 month long sort of bootcamp upon getting out available to all veterans regardless if chaptered or not if we're to truly help those returning. It would have guys in platoon size elements provided with lodging and classes required to pass in order to graduate.

Instead of training to kill this would be training classes on how to let the past go and focus in the present moment. Any questions and problems could be addressed and the camaraderie would be established. I don't think any pills should be offered and it should be highly encouraged each one be sober during.

Would involve nature hikes with ruck sacks, camping, and w/e else.
It sounds like a great idea to me but I know the funding for such a thing would not be from Uncle Sam although it very well should be.

 

[vikingr24]

After WWII there camps set up for returning vets. The cause was Mrs. Roosevelt's feeling that mostly the Rangers were not civilized enough to come home yet. So they set up camps for them (led to others). The Rangers, of course, resented being held up from returning home but some appreciated the so-called rest camps. Returning airman who flew in the German raids, who saw extremely high amounts of casualties, were also detained, usually assigned easy work in the AAF fields. Lackland was one of them as was Midland, Texas.
Psychiatrists were called in to assess and help. Not much was known about PTSD and still considered (as it is now in many circcles) a pussy's disease.
I could have benefited a lot from that idea of a quiet separation. I have stated a statistics before that when asked what place would help them settle down and feel safe and less anxious, ptsd patients will answer a quiet campsite, with all the rigging, a fish pole, tackle too, a rifle and pistol for protection from snakes and predators. Near a lake and mountain. Warm coat and sturdy boots and plenty of socks and underwear. Let me sit by the fire and let it bleed. Just let me bleed and I will be OK. I have a wound you cannot see. It bleeds blood you cannot see. So let me bleed.

 

[Ed B]

There has been a few attempts at this, just not successfully yet. Unfortunately, none of the pilot programs were based in any real science. Then, of course, even when they were available, the unit leadership would either wave it, or just ignore it. Then somebody came a long and said, hey, this doesn't work. Kind of like buying a can of oil, putting it in the passenger seat, and then saying it does not help the transmission.

 

[Deleted member 43454]

@vikingr24 - That's awesome I did not know about that. An I agree completely.