Click Here to Read: Combat Generation: Bloodless Trauma: Miilitary reckons with the mental wounds of war by Greg Jaffe in The Washington Post on July 18, 2010. Also included on this page are several videos by Whitney Shefte.
Staff Sgt. James Ownbey, a Marine who served in Iraq as an explosive ordnance disposal technician in 2007, and two other deployments, now suffers from a traumatic brain injury (TBI), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and numerous physical ailments. Ownbey and his wife, Sandy, recently bought a home in Hedgesville, W.Va., and he often commutes with her more than two hours each way to attend appointments at the Natinal Naval Hospital in Bethesda.