"There was a guy in Darrel's unit that when Darrel got wounded by the roadside bomb, this guy got so freaked out that every time they went out on a mission they left him there playing video games," Dennis said.

Bad to worse? I'm not a fan of using this sort of one off story to show larger trends, but a couple lines later is

Dennis said her son's commanders refused because giving him treatment would be an admission that things weren't going well.

"So they left him there for three months playing video games," Dennis said.

That tells me something else entirely is going on.

HEALTH-US: Sick, Literally, of Fighting in Iraq