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    Support our troops: Part three: The battles being fought on the home front
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    It's an issue that still frustrates Colin McGregor, a former RAF Tornado pilot who left the military in 2007. "There's undoubtedly a need for them now. You can understand why in the past they disappeared but I remember before I left the air force seeing an unbelievable number of guys coming back from Afghanistan with horrendous injuries, and the NHS are not equipped to deal with it." Another healthcare area where many feel support is lacking is for the treatment of psychological disorders, particularly combat-related post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Full Article at The Scotsman
    There's undoubtedly a need for them now. You can understand why in the past they disappeared but I remember before I left the air force seeing an unbelievable number of guys coming back from Afghanistan with horrendous injuries, and the NHS are not equipped to deal with it.
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
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Support our troops: Part three: The battles being fought on the home front
  1. Things are pretty tight but they're pretty tight at every department of state and pretty tight for the nation as a whole. Would we like to see a better slice of the resources? Of course we would. But support for soldiers is not just about the department of state, there are also many charities that get i...
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  2. There's a motivation to do what is going to be seen to be good in the public domain. We've got a potential election looming so you've got to wonder where the support is being motivated from.
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  3. It ruined my life, basically ... In 2003 I was medically discharged from the military with a war pension and spent the next two years trying to access some sort of help for PTSD through every avenue available in the NHS. I got no help at all.
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  4. We are jolly busy at the moment
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  5. You only have to look back over the last six months, with the backtracking on the disastrous compensation scheme and, most recently, the turnaround on the cuts to the Territorial Army, to see that where the government is being driven by financial requirements, the public will rise up against it and ther...
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  6. We are constantly looking at what more we can do as a government ... We've looked across Whitehall at how every department interacts with veterans – whether it's mental health issues, housing, school places or whatever, and looked across the board at ways we can improve support to our veterans.
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  7. These chickens have come very much home to roost of late ... They were short-termist; essentially it was, 'It will save money now, all these military hospitals are half-empty'. Well, they were half-empty because they were there for a crisis, not when it's plain sailing. We are now paying a price for thi...
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  8. Cross-government support to our armed forces, their families and veterans
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago
  9. We have introduced a series of initiatives
    SOURCE: The Scotsman 2 weeks ago

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