How did the Pentagon deal with PTSD in Vietnam War veterans and how are they handling it now?

They didn't treat it enough in the Vietnam era, if at all. I think it was still called 'shell shock' even then. Most of the PTSD was miscatagorized or untreated. On top of the length of the conflict, (remember, we were never officially at war with Vietnam), and the span that veterans came back home, as well as things that developed much later in the Veteran's life. We simply did not have the funding for PTSD back then.

Now we are helping to classify potential 'not yet diagnosed' cases during the time when Veterans are returning or have returned from the Persian Gulf . There's more funding for treatment and study today.

The whole of American society turned its backs on the returning veterans of Vietnam.

It was a time of deep shame for the USA in the way everyone treated those poor traumatised young men and women who had gone and done what they were asked to do but who had been crucified by television correspondants and middle class liberals.

i think of he suffered as a POW, yet his sympathies are for himself on my own. needless to say, he has voted against GI reward, yet regardless of his wealth, collects his very own. he's from a military elite kin, and has no camaraderie with the enlisted.