Soldiers' brain injuries from blasts in Afghanistan take a toll
The brain injury toll on troops continues to manifest and escalate. This is not new news. Remember that better protective gear in recent wars means soldiers are staying alive after what would otherwise have been fatal injuries in previous wars. This, in turn, leads to survival with brain injury.
The Daily News from New York wrote this about the tragedy.
Afghanistan - It's the signature injury of the war, and the medics at this base just south of Kabul have seen their fair share of it.
It's estimated that 20% of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury, or TBI, caused by the impact of improvised explosive devices.
The medics of the upstate Fort Drum-based 10th Mountain Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team have seen an increase in TBI cases in the past eight months here.
