ABSTRACT
This final section is, in many ways, a product of the first two. These eight chapters demonstrate that postoperational combat stress injuries can be managed both through prevention and training programs prior to combat, effective stress reduction methods during operations, and especially the desensitization program immediately following to long after combat exposure. The first chapter provides an overview of the history of units responsible for preventing and mitigating combat stress injuries “down range” or in the combat zone itself. It is written by two U.S. Army captains in the off-hours while serving in Iraq doing what they describe in their chapter.
