Go easy on x-service men or not???

[A Century United]

Ah, see there's a difference between Squaddies and people with fully fledged mental disorders... Otherwise you'll just have any old **** in Colchester or Aldershot who got drunk and committed a crime say they're suffering from PTSD and get off with lenience.

But I don't think that there is any doubt that quite a few squaddies are suffering from genuine mental disorders caused by their service. The real question is why aren't the MOD (with one civil servant for every two squaddies) doing enough to identify those who have a genuine problem?

 

[Pubey]

But I don't think that there is any doubt that quite a few squaddies are suffering from genuine mental disorders caused by their service. The real question is why aren't the MOD (with one civil servant for every two squaddies) doing enough to identify those who have a genuine problem?

1. Cos it costs money
2. Cos the forces are trained not to fuss, and just get on with it. As with all men, they're less likely to get down to the doctors/ occy health worker etc. Often it's a run in with the law that might see them enter mental health services.

Being a squaddy shouldn't be a factor when sentencing, my view is that they are highly trained to control violence and to remain rational when under extreme pressure. However more support should be offered when they enter civvy street

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I vote yes, but only for officers.

 

[Thorpe Groyney]

A system that takes into account the crime and also the circumstances surrounding the crime. If any ex-servicemen are committing crime, as a direct (or even indirect) result of behavioural fluctuations after inevitably awful experiences of war, that should certainly be taken into account.

 

[Firestorm]

A system that takes into account the crime and also the circumstances surrounding the crime. If any ex-servicemen are committing crime, as a direct (or even indirect) result of behavioural fluctuations after inevitably awful experiences of war, that should certainly be taken into account.

But when someone commits a crime and people brings up their trauma of , say , an abusive childhood there are storms of protets abound hand wringing liberals etc...

As long as all the severely traumatised are treated equally , I don't think its an issue.