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This is the first 1,000 characters of 4132 words (16.53 pages) in the essay titled effect vietnam had on its veterans It was not until World War I that specific clinical syndromes came to be associated with combat duty. In prior wars, it was assumed that such casualties were merely manifestations of poor discipline and cowardice. However, with the protracted artillery barrages commonplace during The Great War, the concept evolved that the high air pressure of the exploding shells caused actual physiological damage, precipitating the numerous symptoms that were subsequently labeled shell shock. By the end of the war, further evolution accounted for the syndrome being labeled a war neurosis (Glass, 1969).During the early years of World War II, psychiatric casualties had increased some 300 percent when compared with World War I, even though the preinduction psychiatric rejection rate was three to four times higher than World War I (Figley, 1978a). At one point in the war, the number of men being discharged from the service for psychiatric reasons exceeded the total number of men being newly drafted (Tiffany and Allerton, 1967). During the Korean War, the approach to combat stress became even more pragmatic. Due to the work of Albert Glass (1945), individual breakdowns in combat effectiveness were dealt with in a very situational manner. Clinicians provided immediate onsite treatment to affected individuals, always with the expectation that the combatant would return to duty as soon as possible. The results were gratifying. During World War II, 23 percent of the evacuations wer... |
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Keywords: vietnam war, world war i, casualties, world war ii, 300, neurosis, gratifying, surprisingly, subsequently, combat duty, combat stress, combat effectiveness, artillery barrages, clinical syndromes, onsite treatment, shell shock, physiological damage, war experiences, american involvement, rejection rate