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Alongside its totals for dead and wounded from October's battles for the Kumwha ridges, the Eighth Army in Korea was checking another figure last week: manpower losses caused by mental illness. From just behind the front, Psychiatrist Robert J. Lavin sent in an encouraging report on the 7th Division. Of 250 men who had shambled into his tent during the month, said Captain Lavin, he had been able to send no fewer than 247 back to duty. The great majority went back to combat within four or five days, and most of the others got service...
...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...
...half ashamed, but half hoping that he had something to save him from more front-line duty. Captain Lavin, an ex-sergeant (medical corps), knew the signs. He told Tom: "I used to be an enlisted man myself." But he went on: "There's nothing the matter with you-all you need is rest." Hot food, a hot shower, hot water for shaving and a night under blankets worked wonders. After listening to other men who had had it worse than he had, and another friendly chat with Lavin, Tom went up front again...
...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...
High scoring honors for the day went to Walt Crowley and Joe Lavin of Northeastern and H. C.'s Chet Lakowski with ten apiece. Crowley took the 880 and the mile while his teammate chalked up his points on a first in the high jump a place in the broad, and a show in the low hurdles. Lakowski triumphed in the shot and discus...