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[Devildoc]

Knowing what I do and have seen, I'd put in for a PH resulting from a TBI. No judgement on those who aren't, but that's a legit injury and you have a "gift" that will keep on giving for the rest of your lives. We don't have enough data as yet to know where you and by extension your families will be over that TBI in 5, 10, 20 years.

Something else to consider, if not for yourselves, but in general: metrics. Some data nerd will look at PH numbers, TBI numbers, all of the numbers, and correlate TBIs resulting in PH's and whatnot. Those numbers will go into a study at some point and by not self-reporting you're unintentionally skewing the data.

One outsider's perspective. No more, no less.

If I wasn't 20+ years removed from it with a paper trail vanishing by the year, yeah, maybe.

RE: studies, it's a thing, and 'they' are still trying to get a handle on it. Unlike a gunshot would or IED injury which is binary (you have it, or you do not) TBI is on a spectrum and the mechanisms of injury are on a spectrum and the sequalae are on a spectrum. It's a hard thing to put into numbers just because of the sheer number of variables. I do not envy the researchers.

 

[Box]

When I was retiring from active duty - 2016/2017 - the discussion came up at the mTBI clinic while I was doing retirement prep. The process that was described could easily be characterized as complex and time consuming considering there were multiple events, various time frames, and little to no actual documentation of "invisible" blast injuries. There is probably more folks that are impacted by service related mTBI's than you could shake a stick at. I'd also imagine that an effort to "identify" all of the legitimate PH worthy mTBI claims would damn near overwhelm the system considering how quick people are to take advantage of an already imperfect system.

It is one of those things that might never see "clean" statistics considering how many folks there are that just aren't interested in going through the "headache" of formalizing the documentation and recognition. Couple that with how many folks are just straight up full of shit and seeking some path to more click on their 'VetBro' Ewetoob channel and you have a mess of a research challenge.

You are dead on with the gigantic challenge that researchers have ahead of them trying to make sense of the "real" statistics. I do not envy the researchers at all. You have to love what you do to become immersed in this kind of research.

 

[Muppet]

I cracked my dome piece on Sicily DZ in 95 (loss of consciousness and vomiting for a day), also fractured my left ankle/tib that required reconstruction.

Do I qualify for a PH? Cause the only thing I received from that was a case of moderate to severe retardism and minor OCD.

 

[Marauder06]

I cracked my dome piece on Sicily DZ in 95 (loss of consciousness and vomiting for a day), also fractured my left ankle/tib that required reconstruction.

Do I qualify for a PH? Cause the only thing I received from that was a case of moderate to severe retardism and minor OCD.

Sounds like pre-existing conditions to me. 0%.

;)

 

[Muppet]

Sounds like pre-existing conditions to me. 0%.

;)

Fair enough....










Wise ass!

:)

 

[Topkick]

I cracked my dome piece on Sicily DZ in 95 (loss of consciousness and vomiting for a day), also fractured my left ankle/tib that required reconstruction.

Do I qualify for a PH? Cause the only thing I received from that was a case of moderate to severe retardism and minor OCD.

Rub some dirt on it. Move out and draw fire!

 

[AWP]

Do I qualify for a PH? Cause the only thing I received from that was a case of moderate to severe retardism and minor OCD.

Welcome to the forum. Please use the search function because those guidelines were already posted.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Cause the only thing I received from that was a case of moderate to severe retardism and minor OCD

No shit? I thought that's what became of us as soon as we flipped the internal "I'm a fuckhead" switches while putting our BDU's on.

 

[digrar]

And Blithe survived. Retired as an E-8 having made the Army a career. I wonder why they wrote him dirty like that as it dishonors him and his service.

No malice involved apparently, just rumour mill amongst the Easy Company old and bold taken on face value by Ambrose. He probably should have done a bit more research.

 

[ThunderHorse]

No malice involved apparently, just rumour mill amongst the Easy Company old and bold taken on face value by Ambrose. He probably should have done a bit more research.

The books were later corrected, however, HBO never edited the show. Didn't even add something to the credits.

 

[digrar]

Which is poor.

 

[The Quartermaster]

No malice involved apparently, just rumour mill amongst the Easy Company old and bold taken on face value by Ambrose. He probably should have done a bit more research.

We asked Wild Bill when they came out to visit us and help with reintegration after OIF1, he gave a face that gave us the vibe that he was not happy either. Also of note, he was really missing his brother seeing 1AD patches on everyone of us.

 

[Kraut783]

No malice involved apparently, just rumour mill amongst the Easy Company old and bold taken on face value by Ambrose. He probably should have done a bit more research.

Good interview about Blithe.

Major Dick Winters on Albert Blithe SURVIVING World War II​

 

[AWP]

Band of Brothers had some stuff go on behind the scenes. We need to remember it was based on a book by Stephen Ambrose who took liberties with his CV and subject material. There were some axes to grind among Easy Company survivors and those were ground in the book and series. Pay attention to who keeps appearing in both, Ambrose limited who he interviewed while plenty of survivors were still alive. Why would he do that?

Food for thought.

 

[Devildoc]

Band of Brothers had some stuff go on behind the scenes. We need to remember it was based on a book by Stephen Ambrose who took liberties with his CV and subject material. There were some axes to grind among Easy Company survivors and those were ground in the book and series. Pay attention to who keeps appearing in both, Ambrose limited who he interviewed while plenty of survivors were still alive. Why would he do that?

Food for thought.

I read an interview that Ambrose was enamored with Winters and allowed Winters to narrate a good bit. If that's true it plays out in the series and how the vets reacted to it.