In case you missed it: medical reservists changed by war
Last year about 450 members of the 399th Combat Support Hospital, a Massachusetts-based Army Reserve battalion made up of citizen soldiers who normally serve a weekend every month, was mobilized for a year of full-time duty in Iraq. The medics often came under mortar and rocket fire as they treated more than 30,000 US and Iraqi forces, contractors, civilians, and detainees.
The 399th (including Rebecca Scheible, left, a nurse at the VA Hospital in West Roxbury) returned home Oct. 1. Three months later, the soldiers are resuming civilian jobs, reconnecting with loved ones, and returning to something like their state-side routines.
But some have had difficulty readjusting to life after fire, Anna Badkhen reports in the Sunday Globe.
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Elizabeth Cooney covers health for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She
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