美國. 部署超過43,000不合適對作戰
由 Gregg Zoroya | 超過43,000美國。 隊伍在星期列出了如醫療上不合適對作戰在他們的預定的部署之前對伊拉克或阿富汗，因為無論如何送了2003，五角大樓紀錄展示。
對隊伍的這信賴醫療上找到「non-deployable」是在送了1.6百萬servicemembers到戰區的軍事安置的重音的另一個標誌，戰士擁護團體說的。
「它是一致攪動的後果我們的隊伍」，總統說Bobby研磨器，退伍軍人的為美國。 「他們在家一再被暴露在高強度作戰以不足的時刻在調遣之前休息和癒合」。
non-deployable戰士的數量根據健康醫療人員填好的表格評估在每套軍事設施在servicemember的部署之前。
根據那些統計，醫生找到non-deployable隊伍的數量，在2003年，但誰仍然派遣了到伊拉克或阿富汗從10,854，在2005年下來到5,397在2007年和備份動搖了到9,140。
五角大樓紀錄不列出什麼-或多麼嚴肅-健康問題是，亦不他們是否在部署之前被改正了，一位副主任說邁克爾Kilpatrick，為五角大樓的力量衛生防護和準備節目。
五角大樓職員去年審查10,000個各自的健康記錄確定起因為non-deployable規定值， Kilpatrick說。 同樣理由包括對鏡片的需要，牙齒工作或過敏醫學和很小數量的精神健康案件，他說。
這是這個健康甄別過程使用了的第一場戰爭，五角大樓說。
大多non-deployable servicemembers在軍隊，做着大多數戰鬥在伊拉克和阿富汗。 在5%和7%所有活躍義務之間，為作戰提名的國民自衛隊和儲備戰士每年被發現的醫療上不合適歸結於衛生問題自2003年以來，根據統計今天提供給美國。
單位司令員做出最終決策servicemember是否被送入作戰，雖然醫生能推薦反對部署由於一個醫療問題，金Waldron認為的軍隊女發言人。
「司令員與醫療保健專家協商確定戰士需要的治療是否是可利用的在劇院」， Col.說軍隊 軍隊醫療命令的史蒂文Braverman。
At Fort Carson, Colo., Maj. Gen. Mark Graham ordered an investigation into deployment procedures for a brigade deployed to Iraq late last year. At least 36 soldiers were found medically unfit but were still deployed, Graham told USA TODAY.
For at least seven soldiers, treatment in the war zone was inadequate and the soldiers were sent home, he said, and at least two of them should never have been deployed.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in February, the panel’s chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., asked Army leaders about an e-mail from the surgeon for the Fort Carson brigade that said medically “borderline” soldiers went to war because “we have been having issues reaching deployable strength.”
“That should not be happening,” Army Secretary Pete Geren told the committee. “I can’t tell you that it’s not, but it certainly should not be happening.”
Meanwhile, soldiers with medical problems have also deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan from Fort Drum in New York and Fort Stewart and Fort Benning, both in Georgia, according to Brenda Farrell, who is leading an investigation into the practice for the Government Accountability Office.
A report from that investigation sought by members of the House Armed Services Committee is due in June.
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