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Allegations that military brass improperly downgraded the diagnoses of soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder forced the ouster of a top Army commander, and now the soldiers are getting a new chance.
The US Army Medical Command and the Western Regional Medical Command are investigating questions about whether bureaucratic red tape and a possible effort to save taxpayer money have have kept veterans from getting the correct diagnoses.
Until those questions are resolved, Col. Dallas Homas has been administratively removed from his post as commander of the Madigan Healthcare System.
Army Spec. Jared Enger served two tours of duty in Iraq. It was during the second tour that he began to have nightmares about the things he'd seen.
"Images (would) pop up of dead bodies," Enger said. "We would find a lot of people that were tortured and executed, and so you'd find a lot of mutilated, dead bodies."
