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IEDs/Blasts that Kill and Maim
“Artificial Limbs, Real Help.” Minneapolis Star and Tribune, March 26, 2005.
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Traumatic Brain Injury/PTSD/The Invisible Wounds
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That Deadly Sense of Privilege
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Is My Junk All Together?
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INDEX
AARs (After Action Reports), 140, 143, 178
Abrams, Creighton, 195–97, 199
Abuse and Use of Military Power (Howard), 140–41
accountability, contractors and, 97–98
Acute Situation Reaction, 110
Adderall, 126
Advanced Infantry Training, 88
Afghanistan War
air strikes during, 53
injuries of, 148
McMaster on, 141–42
After Action Reports (AARs), 140, 143, 178
age of soldiers, 121–22, 244
Air Mobility Command, 76
Akhromeyev, Sergei, 240
Al Qaeda, 34, 115, 139, 140, 141–42, 176, 177
Alexander the Great, 183, 239
Alspin, Les, 213
Amazons, 210
Ambien, 126
American Psychiatric Association, 113
amputations
during Civil War, 147
large number of, 144
ligatures and, 64
multiple, 243
rates of, 35. see also prosthetics
Anderson, Kent, 225–26
anonymity, effects of, 79–84 passim
antibiotics, 32, 35, 65, 72
anti-depressants, 112, 125–26
Armlite Corporation, 225
armor, 52, 54–55, 66, 67, 73–74, 143. see also body armor
Army Reserves, 199, 214
Atavin, 126
axons, 162–63, 166–67, 168, 170
baseball players, 155
basic training
author at, 19, 20, 22–23
Marines and, 87–88, 180–81, 208
battle fatigue, 107–8
battlefield depression, 109
Berry Plan, 23–24
The Best and the Brightest (Halberstam), 174
Bethesda Naval Hospital, 75, 99
Biden, Joe, 230
Bilmes, Linda, 171
bin Laden, Osama, 34, 141
Blackhawk Down (Bowden), 66
blast injuries, 149–50, 153, 155
blast waves, 95, 128, 134, 136–37, 148–49, 153–54
bleeding lab, 69
blood, whole, 71–72, 93
blood loss
body armor and, 74
death due to, 20, 32–33, 69
evaluation for, 70–71
ligatures and, 64
simulators and, 70
blood substitutes, 148
body armor, 33–35, 53, 74, 91, 236. see also armor
bombs, smart, 52
Boston University Medical School, 129
Bowden, Mark, 66
brain
physiology of, 162–63
shell shock and, 106–7
study of, 129. see also brain injuries; concussions; mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBIs); traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
brain injuries
families of patients with, 132–33
IEDs and, 148–49
intra-cranial pressure and, 130–31
Iraq/Afghan Wars and, 134–37
measuring, 129–30
secrecy surrounding, 135
survival and, 131
treatment of, 131–32
Breaking the Phalanx (Macgregor), 51
Bulge, Battle of The, 46
bullets
Anderson on, 226
importance of, 223
sized of, 219–20
spin and, 227–28
wounds from, 20–21, 63–64
Bunting, Josiah, III, 199–200, 203
Burr, Aaron, 32–33
Bush, George H.W., 196
Bush, George W., 115
Bush Administration, 53–54, 91, 197, 204–5
Camp Leatherneck, 183, 184
Camp Zama, Japan, 17, 27–28, 29–30, 81
CAT (Combat Action Tourniquet), 243
Celexa, 125
Center for PTSD, 119
Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, 128–29
Charles, Emperor, 64
Cheney, Dick, 196
Chernyayev, Anatoly, 241
Chinook, crash of, 60–61. see also helicopters
Chosin Reservoir, 46–47, 103, 223–24
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), 161–62
Citizen Army, 200–201
Civil War, 105–6, 147, 173–74
Clausewitz, Carl von, 74, 201
Cleland, Max, 37–38
Clinton, Bill, 196
clotting factors, 72
Cluett, Bob, 132
codeine, oral, 72
collateral damage, 122–23, 190
combat exhaustion, 108, 110
combat fatigue, 110
combat gauze, 71
Combat Medical Specialty, 69
combat neurosis, 108, 110
concussions, 128–29, 132, 136–37, 154–55. see also brain injuries; mild Traumatic Brain Injuries (mTBIs); post-concussion syndrome; traumatic brain injuries (TBIs)
conferences, medical, 80–81
conscription, 196. see also draft
contractors, 97–98
Corpus Callosum, 163
cowardice, 107. see also fear
Crucible, 88
CT scans, 130, 165, 167–68, 169
Damage Control Surgery, 82–84, 84
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbon), 193
deferments, 13–14, 23–24, 196
dehumanization, 122
dementia, 128, 155–56
Demerol, 72
depression, TBIs and, 135
Desert Storm. see First Persian Gulf War; Iraq War
Dewey, Larry, 113–15, 117, 122, 124, 125
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 113
Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI), 166–67
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), 168–70, 172
disability claims, 170–71
distance medicine. see transcontinental care
Down Ra
nge to Iraq and Back, 134
draft, 13, 85, 195–96, 197
Duerson, Dave, 128–29
economic status, draft and, 14
Effexor, 125
Elavil, 126
Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) test/training, 69, 75
evacuations. see medical evacuation
executions, for cowardice, 107
Explaining Brain Injury, Blast Injury and PTSD to Children and Teens, 134
extensions of service, 24–27
eye injury, 99–100
“Factor 8,” 72
Fallujah, Battles of, 90–95, 219–20
fear, 103–7 passim
Feynman, Richard, 162
First Persian Gulf War
McMaster on, 141
medical evacuations and, 68
PTSD and, 118
success of, 197
women in, 213
First World War. see World War I
flashbacks, 50
“the Fog of War,” 74, 123
football players, 128–29, 132, 155–56
Foreign Legion, 194
Fort Knox, 88
Fort Rucker, 59
Fort Sam Houston, 15, 16–17, 19
Forward Operating Base Geronimo, 183–84, 185
Forward Surgical Teams (FSTs), 75, 99
Freud, Sigmund, 108
Friedman, Matthew, 119–20
FSTs (Forward Surgical Teams), 75, 99
Gadgetry Replacing Strategy, 144
Gallipoli, 221–22
Galloway, Joe, 127
gangs in L.A., 86
Gates, Robert, 135, 229
Genghis Khan, 239
genital wounds, 235–37
George the Third, 160
Geronimo, 183–84, 185
Giap, Vo Nguyen, 49–50
Gibbon, Edward, 193
Giffords, Gabrielle, 152
Gladstone, William, 145
golden hour, 33, 65, 186
The Good Soldiers, 187
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 241
Graham, 41–42
gray matter, 162, 163, 165
guilt, PTSD and, 108–9, 117
Gulf War. see First Persian Gulf War
gunshot wounds, 20–21, 63–64
Hackworth, Colonel, 127
Halberstam, David, 174–75
Haldol, 126
Halfaker, Dawn, 204, 207
Hamburger Hill, 41, 179
Hamilton, Alexander, 32–33
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