Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last has a policy that seems to satisfy both the generals' cries for manpower and psychiatrists' pleas for enlightened treatment of battlefront emotional cases. The policy began to emerge early in World War II. The Army swung away from the practice of treating every case of "combat fatigue" like a hot potato, sending the soldier back to rear-area hospitals, and often to a medical discharge which helped to make him a psychiatric case for life. The new idea was that most war neuroses do not originate in childhood fears but in a normal, understandable fear of being...
...front after insufficient psychiatric care, and they were being separated too long from their own units. Yet there was real progress in the fact that a psychiatrist was assigned to nearly every division; in the later stages of World War II about 60% of psychiatric cases went back to combat, while 30% more were fit for some kind of military duty...
...doctrine, now well polished and better balanced, into practice. Every man is treated as close to the front as possible. He spends a minimum of time away from his own unit. He must never be encouraged to think that his upset may help him to escape from combat. On the contrary, he is told that he has just "had a bit too much," and should be back in there pitching in a day or two. Treatment centers bear no resemblance to hospitals, look like front-line units with tents and chow lines...
...time-honored symptoms of "shell shock" and "combat fatigue" a new complication has been added: "rotation fever." Tom, 19, a draftee from the Midwest, was checking off on a pocket calendar the days before he would go home. Then the Communists struck. Tom was not hurt, but he got sick. He vomited, ached all over and shook like a leaf. He was soon passed back to Psychiatrist Lavin of the 7th Division...
Captain Lavin sums up the Army's current policy in crisp G.I. language: "Nobody is going to chicken out if I can help it." Roughly four-fifths of Korea's psychiatric cases now go back promptly to combat. Nearly all the rest get forward duty in service companies. And the system works: of the men returned to duty after up-forward psychiatric care, only 10% have to come back for more...