Word: 785th
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...unit torn apart by mortar fire. "I can't erase that picture," he says. "It's something I cannot take anymore." Some stressed-out troops can't control their rage. "They don't know who the bad guy is," says Anthony Pantlitz, a chaplain with the Army's 785th Combat Stress Company, "so they hate everybody...
...institution, the military tries to tend to what Major David Rabb of the 785th calls "the wounds that don't bleed." The military has mobilized mental-health units of psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, chaplains and nurses just behind the front lines. As the fighting has intensified over the past year, their number has increased. The goal, says Rabb, is "to let troops know they're not going crazy because they have some emotional and physical and psychological aftereffects of the traumatic events that they witnessed...
Although that kind of support is resisted by many in the military who fear being stigmatized, it is gaining acceptance amid the tribulations of service in Iraq. Lieut. Troy Fiesel, a social worker with the 785th outfit, says the response has been "more than I expected. There have been guys I thought would never in 100 years, say, 'Hey, I need help.' We're seeing guys like this all the time...
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