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Richard Blumenthal: “As you know, Active Duty members of the military who may suffer emotional or mental diseases, some of them emanating…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2016
As you know, Active Duty members of the military who may suffer emotional or mental diseases, some of them emanating from combat, post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, sometimes are given bad conduct discharges or less than honorable discharges, bad paper, and then through a tragic irony are deprived of medical care to treat the very injury that causes their discharge under less than honorable conditions.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal discusses the impact of bad discharges on mental health care access.

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