Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dudley: Ben Akillian, rg, Bill Corey, lf, Bob Hoffman, lg, George Humphroy, o, Joe Sobel, rf. Substitutes: Bob Conte, Joe Hennessey, Herby Lewis, Jack McKenna, Stan Miller...
...medical officers, the U.S. Army Medical Department told why some of the old reliables broke down. The explanation gave some insight into how most soldiers managed to survive the psychological strains of modern combat. Writing in a supplement to the Department's Bulletin, Major Raymond Sobel analyzed the crack-ups of 50 seasoned men who had fought battle after battle without a misstep. The aggregation of symptoms was so similar in each case that Psychiatrist Sobel and his colleagues gave it a name-the "Old Sergeant Syndrome...
...question was not, 'Why did they break?'" explained Major Sobel, "but 'Why did they continue to endure?' " Sobel and his associates found that a five-layer cushion of psychological defenses had protected the old sergeants-and presumably all soldiers who survived long stretches of combat in good mental health -from caving in. As the layers were peeled away, normal combat anxiety eventually turned into psychoneurosis and the old sergeant became a casualty: ¶ "Distant ideals"-a reliance on such intangibles as "the four freedoms," democracy, and the desire for "keeping the enemy out of the United...