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Fort Hood Ground Zero for Innovative Mental Health Training
ABC News -- ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York: Fort Hood where 13 soldiers were killed and 30 more shot by a fellow soldier yesterday is at the forefront of an Army experiment to combat the emotional assault of war on soldiers. Major Nidal Malki Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had treated soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unleashed his own frustration and fear of an upcoming deployment to Iraq in a hail of bullets at Fort Hood one of only two Army bases participating in a newly launched program to train soldiers in emotional resiliency. Opened just last month, the Fort Hood Resiliency Campus is the Armys first such facility. It stretches across a city block on the 340-square mile base, complete with such resort-like...
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11.23.09 - Updated 6:36pm ET
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