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Originally Posted by Anh_Minh
Wouldn't surprise me. I've read that making the PTSD sufferers relive their traumas in a more relaxed settings helped them deal with it. Of course, the articles I read were about video games (FPS, to be precise), where the worst that could happen if they flipped out would be a controller thrown at a TV screen.
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I stand corrected.
You are quite right Anh-Minh, and I am dead wrong, it would seem the US military does in fact use shooting as a means to help treat veterans with PTSD.
From the dreaded FauxNews.
Lt. Cmdr. Rorke Denver, who served with Kyle on SEAL Team 3 in Iraq in 2006, called Kyle a champion of the modern battlefield.
"Everybody was aware in 2006 that something special or something unique with his skill set was developing and starting to grow and then it just carried on until he hung up his guns, at least in an active military capacity, and moved on," Denver said. His book, "Damn Few," about training SEALs, will be released this month.
Denver wasn't surprised that Kyle apparently used a shooting range to help someone with PTSD.
"For us, for warriors, that's a skill set that has become very familiar, very comfortable for us," said Denver, a lieutenant commander in a reserve SEAL team. "So I actually see it as kind of a perfect use of Chris' unique skill set and expertise of which he has very few peers."
Read more:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/03...ixzz2JsGHhtrN]
So now I really want to know why Routh did it. Since he's still alive and the police are talking to him, maybe we'll get an answer.
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In other insanity:
McManus: What's the Afghanistan mission?
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/...6981041.column