Comments on: PFC Dwyer loses Battle with PTSD

By: Pregnancy symptoms

Pregnancy symptoms — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:14:40 +0000

I wish to wish all pregnant women of good mood, easy pregnancy and natural sorts!
Good luck also are happy! Give birth easily and independently! Let not doctors give birth for you, and you!
Also adjust itself on chest feeding of the kid! Read the necessary information!
Be, lovely pregnant mums and expecting posterities of the daddy, are healthy and wise!

By: navydoc04065

navydoc04065 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:10:56 +0000

As a corpsman who has served with the marines on two tours. One being casevac and the other as a QRF corpsman I have seen and done a lot of things, and I too suffer from PTSD. I feel that there are many marines out there that have the mentality of nothings wrong with me, I will be fine. They do not want to be proactive in there mental health and try to self medicate. I feel for the family of this young devil dog and I have had providers who were not the best when it came to treatment for PTSD. The thing for any one is if you don’t feel like you are getting the right treatment GO SOME WHERE ELSE get a second opinion. And if the medical officer will not let you get one then go to his boss. Get the help you need. Simper Fi

By: navydoc04065

navydoc04065 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:10:56 +0000

By: Da_Chief

Da_Chief — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:00:00 +0000

I deleted a comment by “COUNT”, there is “NO PLACE” For insulting folks on this site. If you have a point to make, make it..

D/C

By: BobHandy

BobHandy — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:27:44 +0000

Recently Federal District Judge Samuel Conti decided in the class action lawsuit in which we (Veterans United For Truth and Veterans for Common Sense) were plaintiffs, that the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) was failing in many cases in providing mental health services to returning veterans. Unfortunately he also decided that he did not have jurisdiction at his level to compel changes in the DVA’s procedures.

While we are disappointed with Judge Conti's decision that he lacked jurisdiction, and do not agree that we did not prove the “systemic” nature of these problems, this outcome is far from being all bad. We knew that it was a crap shoot going in, but we were sure that he had the necessary jurisdiction. We also knew that no matter how he decided, the case would most likely end up before the Supreme Court. Of course we had hoped to be defending Judge Conti's decision against an appeal by the DVA; now we will be appealing his decision in the Ninth Circuit.

When we started out, we knew that we were in it for the long haul. We won round one, just by getting the case heard in federal court, since the DVA and the Department of Justice both attempted multiple times to have us disqualified as plaintiffs, and denied that the federal court had any right even to examine DVA procedures and policies..

We lost part of round two. It may be a setback, but it succeeded in large part since Judge Conti’s ruling expressed agreement with much of our complaint. Additionally The DVA has been exposed not only to the Congress, but also to the national and international media, who have stepped up their reporting on the shoddy treatment that the VA has been providing to returning veterans, and to the repeated delay and denial of service by the DVA..

Americas veterans will be forever in the debt of Morrison & Foerster, LLP and Disability Rights Advocates, the two law firms that took on the DVA pro bono.

Bob Handy, HMC USN (Ret)
Chair, Veterans United For Truth. Inc
www.vuft.org
PO Box 4476
Santa Barbara Ca 93140
805 962 9082
805 455 5259 cell