US Tour of Duty - Real Intelligence

The federal government has settled a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of an Iraq war veteran who hung himself in his parents’ basement in June 2005 after being turned away by doctors at a Veterans Administration hospital in Massachusetts where he sought help for post-traumatic stress disorder. 

VIDEO: Luis Carlos Montalvan’s battle as an Iraq war veteran is not uncommon. Even so, chances are you haven’t heard about it or about the struggles of many vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care. 

It was a slow, painful awakening to realize last week that I have post-traumatic stress disorder. 

Desperate for treatment to what he believes is post-traumatic stress disorder, Jerry Talton reached out to an unlikely place: Dr. Phil McGraw. 

Officials at Nellis Air Force Base said they don’t have a specific program to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder among active duty troops but focus on awareness and hope that those with PTSD voluntarily seek help through the base’s mental health program. 

When Army Sgt. Ryan Kahlor returned from two combat tours in Iraq last year, he was a walking billboard for virtually every affliction suffered by today’s veterans. 

A decade-long study into posttraumatic stress disorder among combat veterans and their identical twins has yielded critical information on the root causes of this devastating condition.