Soft Spots A Marines Memoir Of Combat And Post...

Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-traumatic stress disorder It all began in 2003 when President Bush declared war on Iraq. He declared that, â€Å"Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force† (Bush). Unfortunately, the war in Iraq became one of the longest and most controversial wars fought by America. Thanks to the sacrifices of the men and women in uniform, the mission ended in 2011. However, this war still lives in the hearts of those that fought for the lives of others. In Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-traumatic stress disorder, Author, Sargent Clint Van Winkle is one of those men that fought and is still fighting his own mental battle of the pass war. Despite all the uncertainties of whether the war was worth fighting for or not, Sargent Van Winkle favored the War against Terror, because he enjoyed the life of combat, being a Marine and the brotherhood that came along with survival. Merely, at the age of 18 Clint Van Winkle enlisted in the military. From tha t day when Winkle earned the right to call himself a Marine, he took place in an extremely proud heritage, one that will remain a part of him forever. By the age of 25 he increase his ranking to a sergeant that commanded a section of amphibious assault vehicles; one of initial invasion forces that invaded Iraq. He was trained to follow orders, forced to survive, and made a pact to protect the guy to the right and to the left of him.Show MoreRelatedPtsd4841 Words   |  20 PagesProtocol At Oceanside Trauma, we take pride in our modified Trauma and Drug Use Intake Form (TDUIF) which will be administered to all of our potential clients (Beall, Larry, 2001). We have found that comorbid issues are highly correlated with most Stress issues, especially our military veterans and believe it’s in our clients’ best interests if we administer an intake protocol that addresses this before we proceed any further. It should be noted that if the client’s answers reflect potential comorbid